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D-Index
62
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17298
World Ranking
1649
National Ranking
725

Overview

Herbert E. Wright was affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research contributions primarily focused on the field of Social Sciences, with specific attention to Education, Sociology and Political Science, and Safety Research as subfields.

The scientist's work covered several main topics, notably:

  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Children's Rights and Participation
  • Child Welfare and Adoption

Herbert E. Wright published at least one paper titled "Honoring childhood agency in developmental research: Best practices, applications, and insights" in 2025. This article appeared in the journal Methods in Psychology.

Their collaborations included frequent co-authorship with the following researchers:

  • Amanda N Howery
  • Olivia J Lashley
  • Jannine Williams
  • Olivia Nomura
  • Eline L Lenne

Their publications appeared in venues such as Methods in Psychology.

Best Publications

  • Global Climates since the Last Glacial Maximum

    John R. Mather;H. E. Wright;J. E. Kutzbach;T. Webb

  • The Quaternary of the United States

    H. E. Wright;D. G. Frey

  • Global Climates: since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Murray Gray;Herbert E. Wright

  • Chemical stratigraphy of lake sediments as a record of environmental change

    D.R. Engstrom;H.E. Wright

  • A square-rod piston sampler for lake sediments

    H. E. Wright

  • Piston corers for peat and lake sediments

    H. E. Wright;D. H. Mann;P. H. Glaser

  • Late Quaternary environments of the Soviet Union

    Andreĭ Alekseevich Velichko;H. E. Wright;C. W. Barnosky

  • An updated radiocarbon-based ice margin chronology for the last deglaciation of the North American Ice Sheet Complex

    April S. Dalton;April S. Dalton;Martin Margold;Chris R. Stokes;Lev Tarasov

  • Simulation of the climate of 18,000 years BP: Results for the North American/North Atlantic/European sector and comparison with the geologic record of North America

    J.E. Kutzbach;H.E. Wright

  • Palaeoecological Events During the Last 15,000 Years: Regional Synthesis of Palaeoecological Studies of Lakes and Mires in Europe.

    BE Berglund;Hjb Birks;M Ralska-Jasiewiczowa;HE Wright

  • North America and Adjacent Oceans During the Last Deglaciation

    W. F. Ruddiman;H. E. Wright

  • Pleistocene Extinctions: The Search for a Cause

    D. J. Schove;P. S. Martin;H. E. Wright

  • The patterned mires of the Red Lake Peatland, northern Minnesota: vegetation, water chemistry, and landforms

    Paul H. Glaser;Gerald A. Wheeler;Eville Gorham;Herbert E. Wright

  • Holocene Changes In the Vegetation of the Midwest

    T. Iii Webb;E. J. Cushing;Herbert E. Wright

  • Timing of atmospheric precipitation in the Zagros Mountains inferred from a multi-proxy record from Lake Mirabad, Iran

    R Lora Stevens;Emi Ito;Antji Schwalb;Herbert Wright

  • The use of surface samples in quaternary pollen analysis

    H.E. Wright

  • Landscape Development, Forest Fires, and Wilderness Management

    H. E. Wright

  • Two Pollen Diagrams from Southeastern Minnesota: Problems in the Regional Late-Glacial and Postglacial Vegetational History

    H. E Wright;Thomas C Winter;Harvey L Patten

  • Abrupt changes in North American climate during early Holocene times

    F. S. Hu;D. Slawinski;H. E. Wright;E. Ito

  • A Possible Younger Dryas Record in Southeastern Alaska

    D. R. Engstrom;B. C. S. Hansen;H. E. Wright

  • Glacial and quaternary geology

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Brigitta Ammann
Brigitta Ammann University of Bern
W.O. van der Knaap
W.O. van der Knaap University of Bern
Willy Tinner
Willy Tinner University of Bern
Eville Gorham
Eville Gorham University of Minnesota
David R. Foster
David R. Foster Harvard University
Daniele Colombaroli
Daniele Colombaroli Royal Holloway University of London
Sherilyn C. Fritz
Sherilyn C. Fritz University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Daniel R. Engstrom
Daniel R. Engstrom Science Museum of Minnesota
Stephen J. Brooks
Stephen J. Brooks Natural History Museum

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