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2278
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Irma T. Elo 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 Irma T. Elo sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 148 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Irma T. Elo 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 Irma T. Elo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Irma T. Elo is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on social sciences, health professions, and medicine. Their work explores a range of subfields including general health professions, health, oncology, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and clinical psychology.

The main topics covered by their research reflect public health concerns and social determinants, including:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Climate change and health impacts
  • Global health care issues
  • Migration, health and trauma
  • Employment and welfare studies
  • Healthcare cost, quality, and practices

Irma T. Elo has contributed to numerous recent publications. Among these are:

  • COVID-19 and excess mortality in the United States: A county-level analysis (2021, PLoS Medicine)
  • COVID-19 Mortality by Race and Ethnicity in US Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas, March 2020 to February 2022 (2023, JAMA Network Open)
  • The unequal burden of the Covid-19 pandemic: Capturing racial/ethnic disparities in US cause-specific mortality (2021, SSM - Population Health)
  • County-level estimates of excess mortality associated with COVID-19 in the United States (2022, SSM - Population Health)
  • Evaluation of Age Patterns of COVID-19 Mortality by Race and Ethnicity From March 2020 to October 2021 in the US (2022, JAMA Network Open)

Their publications are featured frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), JAMA Network Open, Social Science & Medicine, UNC Libraries, and SSM - Population Health.

Irma T. Elo has collaborated extensively with coauthors including Samuel H. Preston, Andrew Stokes, Katherine Hempstead, Dielle J. Lundberg, and Eugenio Paglino. The volume of joint work with these researchers illustrates a network of scholarship particularly active in topics related to mortality, health disparities, and epidemiological impacts.

Best Publications

  • The Development of a Standardized Neighborhood Deprivation Index

    Lynne C. Messer;Lynne C. Messer;Barbara A. Laraia;Jay S. Kaufman;Janet Eyster

  • Educational differentials in mortality: United States, 1979-85.

    Irma T. Elo;Samuel H. Preston

  • Effects of early-life conditions on adult mortality: a review.

    Irma T. Elo;Samuel H. Preston

  • Social Class Differentials in Health and Mortality: Patterns and Explanations in Comparative Perspective

    Irma T. Elo

  • Utilization of maternal health-care services in Peru: the role of women's education.

    Irma T Elo

  • Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Infant Health Practices Among Low-Income Women

    Esther K Chung;Kelly F McCollum;Irma T Elo;Helen J Lee

  • The Impact of Salmon Bias on the Hispanic Mortality Advantage: New Evidence from Social Security Data.

    Cassio M. Turra;Irma T. Elo

  • Eliciting Maternal Expectations about the Technology of Cognitive Skill Formation

    Flávio Cunha;Irma Elo;Jennifer Culhane

  • Are educational differentials in adult mortality increasing in the United States

    Samuel H. Preston;Irma T. Elo

  • Neighborhood deprivation and preterm birth among non-Hispanic Black and White women in eight geographic areas in the United States.

    Patricia O'Campo;Jessica G. Burke;Jessica G. Burke;Jennifer Culhane;Irma T. Elo

  • Intra-class correlation in random-effects models for binary data

    Germán Rodríguez;Irma Elo

  • African-american mortality at older ages: Results of a matching study

    Samuel H. Preston;Irma T. Elo;Ira Rosenwaike;Mark Hill

  • Distinct Trajectories of Perinatal Depressive Symptomatology: Evidence From Growth Mixture Modeling

    Pablo A. Mora;Ian M. Bennett;Irma T. Elo;Leny Mathew

  • Neighborhood context and reproductive health.

    Jennifer F. Culhane;Irma T. Elo

  • Exposure to chronic stress and ethnic differences in rates of bacterial vaginosis among pregnant women

    Jennifer F. Culhane;Virginia Rauh;Kelly Farley McCollum;Irma T. Elo

  • Effects of Age Misreporting on Mortality Estimates at Older Ages

    Samuel H. Preston;Irma T. Elo;Quincy Stewart

  • Mortality among elderly Hispanics in the United States: past evidence and new results.

    Irma T. Elo;Cassio M. Turra;Bert Kestenbaum;B. Reneé Ferguson

  • Estimating African-American Mortality from Inaccurate Data*

    Irma T. Elo;Samuel H. Preston

  • Socioeconomic domains and associations with preterm birth

    Lynne C. Messer;Lisa C. Vinikoor;Barbara A. Laraia;Jay S. Kaufman

  • Parenting attitudes and infant spanking: the influence of childhood experiences.

    Esther K. Chung;Leny Mathew;Amy C. Rothkopf;Amy C. Rothkopf;Irma T. Elo

  • Adolescent Females: Their Sexual Partners and the Fathers of Their Children.

    Irma T. Elo;Rosalind Berkowitz King;Frank F. Furstenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel H. Preston
Samuel H. Preston University of Pennsylvania
Pekka Martikainen
Pekka Martikainen University of Helsinki
Patricia O'Campo
Patricia O'Campo University of Toronto
Seppo Koskinen
Seppo Koskinen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Mikko Myrskylä
Mikko Myrskylä Max Planck Society
James C. Coyne
James C. Coyne University of Groningen
Jessica G. Burke
Jessica G. Burke University of Pittsburgh
Kaare Christensen
Kaare Christensen University of Southern Denmark
Jay S. Kaufman
Jay S. Kaufman McGill University
Nicole Schupf
Nicole Schupf Columbia University

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