2026 Janet Shibley Hyde: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	101	584	508	371	313	237	71201

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science
2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1985 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
1975 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)

Overview

Janet Shibley Hyde is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Safety Research, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics mostly centered on Career Development and Diversity, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Mentoring and Academic Development, Educational Strategies and Epistemologies, Education, Achievement, and Giftedness. Additional topics include Stress Responses and Cortisol as well as Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Janet Shibley Hyde are the following:

Gender Differences in Depression: Biological, Affective, Cognitive, and Sociocultural Factors, 2020, Harvard Review of Psychiatry
College students' reasons for leaving biomedical fields: Disenchantment with biomedicine or attraction to other fields?, 2020, Journal of Educational Psychology
Utility-value intervention promotes persistence and diversity in STEM, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Inside the STEM pipeline: Changes in students' biomedical career plans across the college years, 2021, Science Advances
A prosocial value intervention in gateway STEM courses., 2023, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Hyde include:

Judith M. Harackiewicz
Michael W. Asher
Cameron A. Hecht
Stacy J. Priniski
Nicole M. Else-Quest

Publishing venues that frequently appear in Hyde's work comprise:

UNC Libraries
Harvard Review of Psychiatry
Journal of Educational Psychology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Janet Shibley Hyde has been recognized with several awards and honors during their career, including:

James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2018
Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2008
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2004
Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1985
Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) in 1975

Best Publications

The gender similarities hypothesis.

Janet Shibley Hyde

4608
Citations
Gender differences in mathematics performance: A meta-analysis.

Janet Shibley Hyde;Elizabeth Fennema;Susan J. Lamon

3129
Citations
The role of the media in body image concerns among women: A meta-analysis of experimental and correlational studies.

Shelly Grabe;L. Monique Ward;Janet Shibley Hyde

2960
Citations
The Objectified Body Consciousness Scale Development and Validation

Nita Mary McKinley;Janet Shibley Hyde

2439
Citations
Gender differences in depression in representative national samples: Meta-analyses of diagnoses and symptoms.

Rachel H. Salk;Janet S. Hyde;Lyn Y. Abramson

2422
Citations
Women, men, work, and family. An expansionist theory.

Rosalind Chait Barnett;Janet Shibley Hyde

2395
Citations
Gender differences in verbal ability: A meta-analysis.

Janet Shibley Hyde;Marcia C. Linn

2356
Citations
Gender differences in self-esteem: A meta-analysis.

Kristen C. Kling;Janet Shibley Hyde;Carolin J. Showers;Brenda N. Buswell

2258
Citations
Cross-National Patterns of Gender Differences in Mathematics: A Meta-Analysis.

Nicole M. Else-Quest;Janet Shibley Hyde;Marcia C. Linn

2144
Citations
Is There a Universal Positivity Bias in Attributions? A Meta-Analytic Review of Individual, Developmental, and Cultural Differences in the Self-Serving Attributional Bias.

Amy H. Mezulis;Lyn Y. Abramson;Janet S. Hyde;Benjamin L. Hankin

1762
Citations
Gender differences in sexuality: a meta-analysis.

Mary Beth Oliver;Janet Shibley Hyde

1758
Citations
Gender differences in temperament: a meta-analysis.

Nicole M. Else-Quest;Janet Shibley Hyde;H. Hill Goldsmith;Carol A. Van Hulle

1641
Citations
The Science of Sex Differences in Science and Mathematics

Diane F. Halpern;Camilla P. Benbow;David C. Geary;Ruben C. Gur

1609
Citations
Gender Similarities Characterize Math Performance

Janet S. Hyde;Sara M. Lindberg;Marcia C. Linn;Amy B. Ellis

1589
Citations
The ABCs of depression: integrating affective, biological, and cognitive models to explain the emergence of the gender difference in depression.

Janet Shibley Hyde;Amy H. Mezulis;Lyn Y. Abramson

1448
Citations
Gender Similarities and Differences

Janet Shibley Hyde

1310
Citations
New Trends in Gender and Mathematics Performance: A Meta-Analysis

Sara M. Lindberg;Janet Shibley Hyde;Jennifer L. Petersen;Marcia C. Linn

1249
Citations
A meta-analytic review of research on gender differences in sexuality, 1993–2007.

Jennifer L. Petersen;Janet Shibley Hyde

1193
Citations
Gender differences in moral orientation: a meta-analysis.

Sara Jaffee;Janet Shibley Hyde

1128
Citations
How large are cognitive gender differences? A meta-analysis using !w² and d..

Janet Shibley Hyde

1050
Citations
Cross-National Patterns of Gender Differences in Mathematics:

Nicole M. Else-Quest;Janet Shibley Hyde;Marcia C. Linn

94
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Judith M. Harackiewicz University of Wisconsin–Madison

John DeLamater University of Wisconsin–Madison

Marilyn J. Essex University of Wisconsin–Madison

Sabra L. Katz-Wise Boston Children's Hospital

Lyn Y. Abramson University of Wisconsin–Madison

Diane F. Halpern Claremont McKenna College

Marjorie H. Klein University of Wisconsin–Madison

H. Hill Goldsmith University of Wisconsin–Madison

Patricia G. Devine University of Wisconsin–Madison

E. Ashby Plant Florida State University

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