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Psychology D-index 75 Citations 48,689 143 World Ranking 1224 National Ranking 763

Research.com Recognitions

Awards & Achievements

2007 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

1999 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

1997 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1986 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

1986 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Social science
  • World War II
  • Social psychology

His scientific interests lie mostly in Socioeconomic status, Public health, Demography, Social support and Social psychology. His Socioeconomic status research includes elements of Personal income, Psychosocial, National Death Index, Health equity and Mental health. James S. House interconnects Mortality rate, Stressor, Environmental health and Risk factor in the investigation of issues within Public health.

The Social support study combines topics in areas such as Anxiety, Clinical psychology and Social isolation. As part of one scientific family, James S. House deals mainly with the area of Social isolation, narrowing it down to issues related to the Empirical evidence, and often Social determinants of health. Many of his research projects under Social psychology are closely connected to Social learning with Social learning, tying the diverse disciplines of science together.

His most cited work include:

  • Social relationships and health. (5384 citations)
  • Work stress and social support (3264 citations)
  • Structures and Processes of Social Support (1327 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

James S. House mostly deals with Gerontology, Socioeconomic status, Demography, Social psychology and Public health. His Gerontology research also works with subjects such as

  • Population health most often made with reference to Health equity,
  • Social support most often made with reference to Social environment. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Developmental psychology and Mental health.

His study explores the link between Socioeconomic status and topics such as Environmental health that cross with problems in Health education and Poverty. His Social psychology research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Critical psychology and Social network. His work carried out in the field of Public health brings together such families of science as Job satisfaction and Risk factor.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Gerontology (20.00%)
  • Socioeconomic status (18.18%)
  • Demography (17.58%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2009-2020)?

  • Gerontology (20.00%)
  • Socioeconomic status (18.18%)
  • Demography (17.58%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of study are Gerontology, Socioeconomic status, Demography, Environmental health and Interpersonal ties. His Gerontology study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Health equity, Life course approach, Educational attainment and Race. His Socioeconomic status research includes themes of Middle age and Early adulthood.

His research integrates issues of Social stratification, Longitudinal study, Proportional hazards model and Odds in his study of Demography. His Interpersonal ties research incorporates themes from Social support, Gender studies and Disease. As a part of the same scientific family, James S. House mostly works in the field of Social support, focusing on Social connectedness and, on occasion, Interpersonal relationship.

Between 2009 and 2020, his most popular works were:

  • Socioeconomic and behavioral risk factors for mortality in a national 19-year prospective study of U.S. adults. (148 citations)
  • Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension Prevalence: Reconsidering the Role of Chronic Stress (133 citations)
  • Climate Change and the Integrity of Science (122 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Social science
  • World War II
  • Internal medicine

His scientific interests lie mostly in Gerontology, Socioeconomic status, Demography, Young adult and Educational attainment. His research in Gerontology intersects with topics in Odds ratio, Marital status, Odds and Demographic economics. His studies deal with areas such as Social relation, Interpersonal relationship and Cognition as well as Socioeconomic status.

He has included themes like Longitudinal study, Risk of mortality, Social stratification, Overweight and National Death Index in his Demography study. His Young adult study combines topics in areas such as Body mass index, Socioeconomic position, Race and Body weight, Weight gain. His Educational attainment research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Mental health, Life course approach, Cohort and Social theory.

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Best Publications

Social relationships and health.

James S. House;Karl R. Landis;Debra Umberson.
Science (1988)

9723 Citations

Work stress and social support

James S. House.
(1981)

5590 Citations

Structures and Processes of Social Support

James S. House;Debra Umberson;Karl R. Landis.
Review of Sociology (1988)

2753 Citations

THE ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES WITH MORTALITY: PROSPECTIVE EVIDENCE FROM THE TECUMSEH COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDY

James S. House;Cynthia Robbins;Helen L. Metzner.
American Journal of Epidemiology (1982)

2289 Citations

Socioeconomic factors, health behaviors, and mortality: Results from a nationally representative prospective study of US adults

Paula M. Lantz;James S. House;James M. Lepkowski;David R. Williams.
JAMA (1998)

2091 Citations

Income inequality and mortality: importance to health of individual income, psychosocial environment, or material conditions

John W Lynch;George Davey Smith;George A Kaplan;James S House.
BMJ (2000)

2065 Citations

Social support, occupational stress, and health.

James M. LaRocco;James S. House;John R. P. French.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior (1980)

1937 Citations

The social stratification of aging and health

J S House;J M Lepkowski;A M Kinney;R P Mero.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior (1994)

1314 Citations

Age, socioeconomic status, and health.

James S. House;Ronald C. Kessler;A. Regula Herzog.
Milbank Quarterly (1990)

1219 Citations

Volunteering and Mortality Among Older Adults: Findings From a National Sample

Marc A. Musick;A. Regula Herzog;James S. House.
Journals of Gerontology Series B-psychological Sciences and Social Sciences (1999)

824 Citations

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