2026 Irma T. Elo: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	53	2278	2073	1101	988	148	12864

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

1076
Citations
Educational differentials in mortality: United States, 1979-85.

Irma T. Elo;Samuel H. Preston

1037
Citations
Effects of early-life conditions on adult mortality: a review.

Irma T. Elo;Samuel H. Preston

843
Citations
Social Class Differentials in Health and Mortality: Patterns and Explanations in Comparative Perspective

Irma T. Elo

703
Citations
Utilization of maternal health-care services in Peru: the role of women's education.

Irma T Elo

521
Citations
Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Infant Health Practices Among Low-Income Women

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

443
Citations
The Impact of Salmon Bias on the Hispanic Mortality Advantage: New Evidence from Social Security Data.

Cassio M. Turra;Irma T. Elo

441
Citations
Eliciting Maternal Expectations about the Technology of Cognitive Skill Formation

Flávio Cunha;Irma Elo;Jennifer Culhane

386
Citations
Are educational differentials in adult mortality increasing in the United States

Samuel H. Preston;Irma T. Elo

331
Citations
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

327
Citations
Intra-class correlation in random-effects models for binary data

Germán Rodríguez;Irma Elo

288
Citations
African-american mortality at older ages: Results of a matching study

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

257
Citations
Distinct Trajectories of Perinatal Depressive Symptomatology: Evidence From Growth Mixture Modeling

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

215
Citations
Neighborhood context and reproductive health.

Jennifer F. Culhane;Irma T. Elo

212
Citations
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

192
Citations
Effects of Age Misreporting on Mortality Estimates at Older Ages

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

189
Citations
Mortality among elderly Hispanics in the United States: past evidence and new results.

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

178
Citations
Estimating African-American Mortality from Inaccurate Data*

Irma T. Elo;Samuel H. Preston

178
Citations
Socioeconomic domains and associations with preterm birth

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

167
Citations
Parenting attitudes and infant spanking: the influence of childhood experiences.

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

165
Citations
Adolescent Females: Their Sexual Partners and the Fathers of Their Children.

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

157
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel H. Preston University of Pennsylvania

Pekka Martikainen University of Helsinki

Patricia O'Campo University of Toronto

Mikko Myrskylä Max Planck Society

Seppo Koskinen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Jessica G. Burke University of Pittsburgh

James C. Coyne University of Groningen

Jay S. Kaufman McGill University

Satu Männistö Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Anne B. Newman University of Pittsburgh

External Links

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