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73
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17387
World Ranking
1986
National Ranking
1160

Howard Dubowitz publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Howard Dubowitz sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 215 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Howard Dubowitz D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Howard Dubowitz sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Howard Dubowitz is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and health professions, with significant contributions in clinical psychology, general health professions, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, safety research, and sociology and political science.

The main topics of their work focus on child abuse and trauma, child and adolescent health, and psychosocial and emotional development of children and adolescents. Additional areas include homelessness and social issues, child welfare and adoption, prenatal substance exposure effects, and migration, health, and trauma.

Among their recent papers are several publications addressing critical issues in child maltreatment and health risk. Key papers include:

  • Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences in Primary Care: Challenges and Considerations, 2022, published in PEDIATRICS
  • Child Maltreatment, Early Adult Substance Use, and Mediation by Adolescent Behavior Problems, 2020, published in Child Maltreatment
  • Protocol for comparing two training approaches for primary care professionals implementing the Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) model, 2020, published in Implementation Science Communications

Other notable papers related to their research area, authored by co-researchers, are:

  • Cost effectiveness of SEEK: A primary care-based child maltreatment prevention model, 2020, published in Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Adolescent Neglect and Health Risk, 2021, published in Child Maltreatment

Their frequent coauthors include Richard Thompson, Dallas R. English, Alan J. Litrownik, Terri L. Lewis, and Laura J. Proctor.

Howard Dubowitz's work has been published extensively in a variety of venues with the highest number of publications appearing in UNC Libraries. Other frequent publication venues include Academic Pediatrics, JAMA Pediatrics, PEDIATRICS, and Child Maltreatment.

Best Publications

  • Children who prosper in unfavorable environments: the relationship to social capital

    Desmond K. Runyan;Wanda M. Hunter;Rebecca R. S. Socolar;Lisa Amaya-Jackson

  • Defining maltreatment according to substantiation: distinction without a difference?

    Jon M. Hussey;Jane Marie Marshall;Diana J. English;Elizabeth Dawes Knight

  • Health care needs of children in the foster care system.

    Mark D. Simms;Howard Dubowitz;Moira A. Szilagyi

  • African American Fathers in Low Income, Urban Families: Development, Behavior, and Home Environment of Their Three-Year-Old Children.

    Maureen M. Black;Howard Dubowitz;Raymond H. Starr

  • Maltreatment's Wake: The Relationship of Maltreatment Dimensions to Child Outcomes.

    Diana J. English;Mukund P. Upadhyaya;Alan J. Litrownik;Jane M. Marshall

  • Physical abuse and neglect of children

    Howard Dubowitz;Stephanie Bennett

  • Adverse Childhood Experiences and Child Health in Early Adolescence

    Emalee G. Flaherty;Emalee G. Flaherty;Richard Thompson;Howard Dubowitz;Elizabeth M. Harvey

  • Longscan: A consortium for longitudinal studies of maltreatment and the life course of children

    Desmond Kimo Runyan;Patrick A. Curtis;Wanda M. Hunter;Maureen M. Black

  • Identifying Children at High Risk for a Child Maltreatment Report.

    Howard Dubowitz;Jeongeun Kim;Maureen M. Black;Cindy Weisbart

  • Pediatric primary care to help prevent child maltreatment: the Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) Model.

    Howard Dubowitz;S. Feigelman;Wendy Gwirtzman Lane;Jaeyeun Kim

  • Children in kinship care: How do they fare?

    Howard Dubowitz;Susan Feigelman;Donna Harrington;Raymond H. Starr

  • A Conceptual Definition of Child Neglect

    Howard Dubowitz;Maureen Black;Raymond H. Starr;Susan Zuravin

  • Effect of early childhood adversity on child health.

    Emalee G. Flaherty;Richard Thompson;Alan J. Litrownik;Adrea Theodore

  • A Profile of Kinship Care.

    Howard Dubowitz

  • Father involvement and children's functioning at age 6 years: a multisite study.

    Howard Dubowitz;Maureen M. Black;Christine E. Cox;Mia A. Kerr

  • Importance of early neglect for childhood aggression.

    Jonathan B. Kotch;Terri Lewis;Jon M. Hussey;Diana English

  • Type and timing of mothers' victimization: effects on mothers and children.

    Howard Dubowitz;Maureen M. Black;Mia A. Kerr;Jon M. Hussey

  • School performance of children in kinship care

    Richard J. Sawyer;Howard Dubowitz

  • Child Neglect: Outcomes in High-Risk Urban Preschoolers

    Howard Dubowitz;Mia A. Papas;Maureen M. Black;Raymond H. Starr

  • Adverse Childhood Exposures and Reported Child Health at Age 12

    Emalee G. Flaherty;Richard Thompson;Alan J. Litrownik;Adam J. Zolotor

  • A randomized clinical trial of home intervention for children with failure to thrive.

    Maureen M. Black;Howard Dubowitz;Jacqueline Hutcheson;Julie Berenson-Howard

Frequent Co-Authors

Diana J. English
Diana J. English University of Washington
Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson Juvenile Protective Association
Maureen M. Black
Maureen M. Black University of Maryland, Baltimore
Alan J. Litrownik
Alan J. Litrownik San Diego State University
Desmond K. Runyan
Desmond K. Runyan University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Terri L. Lewis
Terri L. Lewis McMaster University
Jonathan B. Kotch
Jonathan B. Kotch University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Scott C. Roesch
Scott C. Roesch San Diego State University
Ernestine C. Briggs
Ernestine C. Briggs Duke University
Susan J. Zuravin
Susan J. Zuravin University of Maryland, Baltimore

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