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41
Citations
11303
World Ranking
4908
National Ranking
2327

Glenn Firebaugh 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 Glenn Firebaugh sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 106 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Glenn Firebaugh 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 Glenn Firebaugh sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 41 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Glenn Firebaugh is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and conducts research primarily focused on medicine, health professions, and social sciences. Their work encompasses several subfields including public health, environmental and occupational health, pharmacy, physiology, demography, and general health. This range reflects an interdisciplinary approach to studying health-related issues.

Their recent publications cover topics such as obesity, physical activity, diet, smoking behavior and cessation, health disparities and outcomes, insurance, mortality, demography, risk management, and global health care issues. These topics illustrate a concentration on factors influencing population health and health equity.

Notable papers authored or co-authored by Firebaugh include:

  • Seasonal Variability in Weight Gain Among Children: A Closer Examination of the Interaction Effects, 2021, American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Hispanic-White Differences in Lifespan Variability in the United States, 2020, UNC Libraries

Frequent collaborators in Glenn Firebaugh's research include Francesco Acciai, Joseph T. Lariscy, Claudia Nau, and Robert A. Hummer. The presence of these co-authors suggests a collaborative research environment crossing various areas within health and demographic studies.

Firebaugh's work has been published in venues such as the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and UNC Libraries. These publication venues are linked to health sciences and social science research dissemination.

Best Publications

  • Measures of Multigroup Segregation

    Sean F. Reardon;Glenn Firebaugh

  • The New Geography of Global Income Inequality

    Glenn Firebaugh

  • A Rule for Inferring Individual-Level Relationships from Aggregate Data

    Glenn Firebaugh

  • Empirics of world income inequality

    Glenn Firebaugh

  • Growth Effects of Foreign and Domestic Investment

    Glenn A. Firebaugh

  • Does Economic Growth Benefit the Masses? Growth, Dependence, and Welfare in the Third World

    Glenn Firebaugh;Frank D. Beck

  • Analyzing repeated surveys

    Glenn Firebaugh

  • Beyond the Census Tract: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Segregation at Multiple Geographic Scales.

    Barrett A. Lee;Sean F. Reardon;Glenn Firebaugh;Chad R. Farrell

  • Trends in Antiblack Prejudice, 1972-1984: Region and Cohort Effects.

    Glenn Firebaugh;Kenneth E. Davis

  • Seven Rules for Social Research.

    Glenn Firebaugh

  • The Geographic Scale of Metropolitan Racial Segregation

    Sean F. Reardon;Stephen A. Matthews;David O’Sullivan;Barrett A. Lee

  • Accounting for the recent decline in global income inequality

    Glenn Firebaugh;Brian Goesling

  • Fixed Effects, Random Effects, and Hybrid Models for Causal Analysis

    Glenn Firebaugh;Cody Warner;Michael Massoglia

  • Trends in Global Gender Inequality

    Shawn F. Dorius;Glenn Firebaugh

  • Race and Space in the 1990s: Changes in the Geographic Scale of Racial Residential Segregation, 1990-2000

    Sean F Reardon;Chad R Farrell;Stephen A Matthews;David O'Sullivan

  • The Trend in International Health Inequality

    Brian Goesling;Glenn Firebaugh

  • Does Foreign Capital Harm Poor Nations? New Estimates Based on Dixon and Boswell's Measures of Capital Penetration

    Glenn A. Firebaugh

  • User's Guide to Ratio Variables

    Glenn Firebaugh;Jack P. Gibbs

  • Methods for estimating cohort replacement effects.

    Glenn A. Firebaugh

  • Surging environmentalism: changing public opinion or changing publics?

    C. L. Kanagy;C. R. Humphrey;G. Firebaugh

  • Sociological Methodology 1986.

    Glenn Firebaugh;Nancy Brandon Tuma

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean F. Reardon
Sean F. Reardon Stanford University
Stephen A. Matthews
Stephen A. Matthews Pennsylvania State University
Barrett A. Lee
Barrett A. Lee Pennsylvania State University
Laura Tach
Laura Tach Cornell University
John Iceland
John Iceland Pennsylvania State University
Robert A. Hummer
Robert A. Hummer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mary Frank Fox
Mary Frank Fox Georgia Institute of Technology

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