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D-Index
35
Citations
9306
World Ranking
6603
National Ranking
3199

Guang Guo 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 Guang Guo sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 97 publications — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Guang Guo 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 Guang Guo sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 16th percentile

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

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

Overview

Guang Guo is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research covers multiple interdisciplinary fields including health, toxicology and mutagenesis; sociology and political science; genetics; electrical and electronic engineering; and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The scientist's work spans a range of topics, notably:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Sirtuins and Resveratrol in Medicine

Guang Guo has contributed to a number of publications across various journals and venues. Their recent papers include:

  • Interaction between APOE ε4 and dietary protein intake on cognitive decline: A longitudinal cohort study, 2021, Clinical Nutrition
  • Why are Women More Religious than Men? Do Risk Preferences and Genetic Risk Predispositions Explain the Gender Gap?, 2020, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
  • Achieved educational attainment, inherited genetic endowment for education, and obesity, 2021, Biodemography and Social Biology
  • Interaction of Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) candidate longevity gene and particulate matter (PM2.5) on all-cause mortality: a longitudinal cohort study in China, 2021, Environmental Health
  • The VNTR 2 repeat in MAOA and delinquent behavior in adolescence and young adulthood: associations and MAOA promoter activity, 2020, UNC Libraries

The primary publication venues for Guang Guo's work include UNC Libraries, with 14 publications, followed by Biodemography and Social Biology and Human Biology with 2 publications each. Other venues include Clinical Nutrition and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Their collaborative network involves frequent co-authors such as Yao Yao, Yi Li, Tianji Cai, Kathleen Mullan Harris, and Yi Zeng, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • The Mechanisms Mediating the Effects of Poverty on Children's Intellectual Development *

    Guang Guo;Kathleen Mullan Harris

  • Multilevel Modeling for Binary Data

    Guang Guo;Hongxin Zhao

  • Sexy Media Matter: Exposure to Sexual Content in Music, Movies, Television, and Magazines Predicts Black and White Adolescents' Sexual Behavior

    Jane D. Brown;Kelly Ladin L'Engle;Carol J. Pardun;Guang Guo

  • Event-history analysis for left-truncated data.

    Guang Guo

  • Who Drops Out of and Who Continues Beyond High School? A 20-Year Follow-Up of Black Urban Youth

    Jeanne Brooks-Gunn;Guang Guo;Frank F. Furstenberg

  • The Timing of the Influences of Cumulative Poverty on Children's Cognitive Ability and Achievement

    Guang Guo

  • Sibship size and intellectual development: Is the relationship causal?

    Guang Guo;Leah K. VanWey

  • Revised regional model life tables at very low levels of mortality.

    Ansley Coale;Guang Guo

  • Gender Differences in Mathematical Trajectories

    Erin Leahey;Guang Guo

  • The Integration of Genetic Propensities into Social-Control Models of Delinquency and Violence among Male Youths

    Guang Guo;Michael E. Roettger;Tianji Cai

  • Estimating a Multivariate Proportional Hazards Model for Clustered Data Using the EM Algorithm, with an Application to Child Survival in Guatemala

    Guang Guo;Germán Rodríguez

  • The Social Influences on the Realization of Genetic Potential for Intellectual Development

    Guang Guo;Elizabeth Stearns

  • The VNTR 2 repeat in MAOA and delinquent behavior in adolescence and young adulthood: associations and MAOA promoter activity.

    Guang Guo;Xiao Ming Ou;Michael Roettger;Jean C. Shih

  • Contributions of the DAT1 and DRD2 genes to serious and violent delinquency among adolescents and young adults

    Guang Guo;Michael E. Roettger;Jean C. Shih

  • Use of sibling data to estimate family mortality effects in Guatemala.

    Guang Guo

  • Gender differences in associations between depressive symptoms and patterns of substance use and risky sexual behavior among a nationally representative sample of U.S. adolescents

    M. W. Waller;D. D. Hallfors;C. T. Halpern;B. J. Iritani

  • The mixed or multilevel model for behavior genetic analysis.

    Guang Guo;Jianmin Wang

  • Trends in Body Mass Index in Adolescence and Young Adulthood in the United States: 1959–2002

    Hedwig E Lee;Dohoon Lee;Guang Guo;Kathleen Mullan Harris

  • Lifetime Socioeconomic Status, Historical Context, and Genetic Inheritance in Shaping Body Mass in Middle and Late Adulthood:

    Hexuan Liu;Guang Guo

  • Age at first sexual intercourse, genes, and social context: evidence from twins and the dopamine D4 receptor gene.

    Guang Guo;Yuying Tong

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathleen Mullan Harris
Kathleen Mullan Harris University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kari E. North
Kari E. North University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hedwig Lee
Hedwig Lee Washington University in St. Louis
Yi Zeng
Yi Zeng Peking University
Denise Dion Hallfors
Denise Dion Hallfors Pacific Institute For Research and Evaluation
Leslie A. Lange
Leslie A. Lange University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Greg J. Duncan
Greg J. Duncan University of California, Irvine
Carolyn Tucker Halpern
Carolyn Tucker Halpern University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Columbia University
Ethan M. Lange
Ethan M. Lange University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

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