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Douglas A. Wolf publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Douglas A. Wolf sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 139 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Douglas A. Wolf D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Douglas A. Wolf sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Douglas A. Wolf is affiliated with Syracuse University in the United States. Their research spans multiple topics within the social sciences and health professions, focusing on areas such as health disparities and outcomes, employment and welfare studies, global health care issues, retirement, disability, and employment, migration, aging, and tourism studies, insurance, mortality, demography, risk management, and intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving.

The main fields of study covered in their work include social sciences and health professions, with particular emphasis on subfields like general health professions, demography, health, economics and econometrics, and clinical psychology.

Douglas A. Wolf has published research in several academic venues, frequently contributing to:

  • The Gerontologist
  • Environmental Science Advances
  • Journal of Health and Social Behavior
  • American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Milbank Quarterly

Some of the recent papers by Douglas A. Wolf include:

  • "The Changing Demography of Late-Life Family Caregiving: A Research Agenda to Understand Future Care Networks for an Aging U.S. Population" (2023, The Gerontologist)
  • "U.S. State Preemption Laws and Working-Age Mortality" (2022, American Journal of Preventive Medicine)
  • "Effects of US state preemption laws on infant mortality" (2021, Preventive Medicine)
  • "End-of-Life Planning Depends on Socio-Economic and Racial Background: Evidence from the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS)" (2021, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
  • "Paid Leave Mandates and Care for Older Parents" (2024, Milbank Quarterly)

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, indicating ongoing research relationships with:

  • Jennifer Karas Montez
  • Shannon M. Monnat
  • Emily Wiemers
  • Xue Zhang
  • Emily M. Agree

Best Publications

  • Married women's allocation of time to employment and care of elderly parents

    Douglas A. Wolf;Beth J. Soldo

  • Functionally Relevant Thresholds of Quadriceps Femoris Strength

    Lori L. Ploutz-Snyder;Todd Manini;Robert J. Ploutz-Snyder;Douglas A. Wolf

  • Household composition choices of older unmarried women.

    Douglas A. Wolf;Beth J. Soldo

  • Living arrangements among older people: an overview of trends in Europe and the USA

    C Tomassini;K Glaser;D A Wolf;M I Broese van Groenou

  • The Division of Family Labor: Care for Elderly Parents

    Douglas A. Wolf;Vicki Freedman;Beth J. Soldo

  • Selection of Children To Provide Care: The Effect of Earlier Parental Transfers

    John C. Henretta;Martha S. Hill;Wei Li;Beth J. Soldo

  • Family, households, and care arrangements of frail older women: A structural analysis

    Beth J. Soldo;Douglas A. Wolf;Emily M. Agree

  • The Duration of Welfare Spells

    June A. O'Neill;Laurie J. Bassi;Douglas A. Wolf

  • Time? money? both? the allocation of resources to older Parents

    Kenneth A. Couch;Mary C. Daly;Douglas A. Wolf

  • Caregiver Stress and Noncaregiver Stress: Exploring the Pathways of Psychiatric Morbidity

    Anna A. Amirkhanyan;Douglas A. Wolf

  • New methods for analyzing active life expectancy

    Sarah B. Laditka;Douglas A. Wolf

  • Child care subsidies and the employment of welfare recipients.

    Marcia K. Meyers;Theresa Heintze;Douglas A. Wolf

  • Parental Housing Assistance and Parent-Child Proximity in Italy

    Cecilia Tomassini;Douglas A. Wolf;Alessandro Rosina

  • Parent Care and the Stress Process: Findings From Panel Data

    Anna A. Amirkhanyan;Douglas A. Wolf

  • Reconsidering Substitution in Long-Term Care: When Does Assistive Technology Take the Place of Personal Care?

    Emily M. Agree;Vicki A. Freedman;Jennifer C. Cornman;Douglas A. Wolf

  • Validation of New Measures of Disability and Functioning in the National Health and Aging Trends Study

    Vicki A. Freedman;Judith D. Kasper;Jennifer C. Cornman;Emily M. Agree

  • Disability-Free Life Expectancy Over 30 Years: A Growing Female Disadvantage in the US Population

    Vicki A. Freedman;Douglas A. Wolf;Brenda C. Spillman

  • Effective Tax Rates and Guarantees in the AFDC Program, 1967-1982

    Thomas Fraker;Robert Moffitt;Douglas Wolf

  • Kin availability and the living arrangements of older women

    Douglas A. Wolf

  • The underclass: definition and measurement.

    Ronald B. Mincy;Isabel V. Sawhill;Douglas A. Wolf

Frequent Co-Authors

Vicki A. Freedman
Vicki A. Freedman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John Yinger
John Yinger Syracuse University
Emily M. Agree
Emily M. Agree Johns Hopkins University
Timothy M. Smeeding
Timothy M. Smeeding University of Wisconsin–Madison
James N. Laditka
James N. Laditka University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jennifer Karas Montez
Jennifer Karas Montez Syracuse University
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Douglas Holtz-Eakin American Action Forum
Thomas M. Gill
Thomas M. Gill Yale University
Robert B. Wallace
Robert B. Wallace University of Iowa
Emily Grundy
Emily Grundy University of Essex

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