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Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe

Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
34
Citations
4174
World Ranking
6968
National Ranking
3385

Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 167 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe 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 Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 34 D-Index — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to substance abuse, health outcomes, and social issues connected with alcohol consumption and related behaviors.

The main fields of study for Karriker-Jaffe include:

  • Medicine
  • Health Professions

The scientist's work extends into several subfields, notably:

  • Epidemiology
  • General Health Professions
  • Pathology and Forensic Medicine
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Health

The research topics explored in their publications cover a range of important issues, including:

  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation

Karriker-Jaffe has contributed to multiple papers. Recent publications include:

  • Longitudinal assessment of drinking changes during the pandemic: The 2021 COVID-19 follow-up study to the 2019 to 2020 National Alcohol Survey, 2022, Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
  • Mental health and drinking to cope in the early COVID period: Data from the 2019-2020 US National Alcohol Survey, 2022, Addictive Behaviors
  • Alcohol Consumption During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States: Results From a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Survey, 2022, Journal of Addiction Medicine
  • Relationships between US state alcohol policies and alcohol outcomes: differences by gender and race/ethnicity, 2020, Addiction
  • Harmful Drinking, Tobacco, and Marijuana use in the 2000-2015 National Alcohol Surveys: Examining Differential Trends by Sexual Identity, 2020, Substance Abuse

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Karriker-Jaffe include:

  • Thomas K. Greenfield
  • Deidre Patterson
  • Amy A. Mericle
  • William C. Kerr
  • Nina Mulia

Their work appears regularly in several publication venues, including:

  • Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
  • UNC Libraries
  • Alcohol and Alcoholism
  • Addiction
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Best Publications

  • Areas of disadvantage: a systematic review of effects of area-level socioeconomic status on substance use outcomes.

    Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe

  • Risk and protective factors distinguishing profiles of adolescent peer and dating violence perpetration

    Vangie A. Foshee;Heath Luz McNaughton Reyes;Susan T. Ennett;Chirayath Suchindran

  • The Development of Four Types of Adolescent Dating Abuse and Selected Demographic Correlates

    Vangie A Foshee;Thad Benefield;Chirayath M Suchindran;Susan T Ennett

  • The Development of Aggression During Adolescence: Sex Differences in Trajectories of Physical and Social Aggression Among Youth in Rural Areas

    Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe;Vangie A. Foshee;Susan T. Ennett;Chirayath Suchindran

  • What Accounts for Demographic Differences in Trajectories of Adolescent Dating Violence? An Examination of Intrapersonal and Contextual Mediators

    Vangie A. Foshee;Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe;Heathe Luz McNaughton Reyes;Susan T. Ennett

  • Neighborhood socioeconomic status and substance use by U.S. adults.

    Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe

  • Neighborhood disadvantage and adult alcohol outcomes: differential risk by race and gender.

    Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe;Sarah E. Zemore;Nina Mulia;Rhonda Jones-Webb

  • Interactive influences of neighborhood and individual socioeconomic status on alcohol consumption and problems.

    Nina Mulia;Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe

  • Ethnic Drinking Cultures and Alcohol Use among Asian American Adults: Findings from a National Survey

    Won Kim Cook;Nina Mulia;Katherine Karriker-Jaffe

  • Income inequality, alcohol use, and alcohol-related problems.

    Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe;Sarah C. M. Roberts;Jason Bond

  • Alcohol’s Harm to Others: Opportunities and Challenges in a Public Health Framework

    Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe;Robin Room;Robin Room;Norman Giesbrecht;Thomas K. Greenfield

  • Social and economic consequences of alcohol use disorder : a longitudinal cohort and co-relative analysis

    K. S. Kendler;H. Ohlsson;K. J. Karriker-Jaffe;J. Sundquist

  • The Future of Research on Alcohol-Related Disparities Across U.S. Racial/Ethnic Groups: A Plan of Attack.

    Sarah E Zemore;Katherine J Karriker-Jaffe;Nina Mulia;William C Kerr

  • Racial Prejudice and Unfair Treatment: Interactive Effects With Poverty and Foreign Nativity on Problem Drinking*

    Sarah E. Zemore;Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe;Sarah Colleen Keithly;Nina Mulia

  • Neighborhood Disadvantage, High Alcohol Content Beverage Consumption, Drinking Norms, and Drinking Consequences: A Mediation Analysis

    Rhonda J. Jones-Webb;Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe

  • Second-hand drinking may increase support for alcohol policies: New results from the 2010 National Alcohol Survey

    Thomas K. Greenfield;Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe;Norman Giesbrecht;William C. Kerr

  • Alcohol’s Secondhand Harms in the United States: New Data on Prevalence and Risk Factors

    Madhabika B Nayak;Deidre Patterson;Sharon C Wilsnack;Katherine J Karriker-Jaffe

  • Racial/ethnic differences in 30-year trajectories of heavy drinking in a nationally representative U.S. sample

    Nina Mulia;Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe;Jane Witbrodt;Jason Bond

  • Distress and alcohol-related harms from intimates, friends, and strangers

    Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe;Thomas K. Greenfield;Lauren M. Kaplan

  • Trends in Alcohol's Harms to Others (AHTO) and Co-occurrence of Family-Related AHTO: The Four US National Alcohol Surveys, 2000–2015:

    Thomas K. Greenfield;Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe;Lauren M. Kaplan;William C. Kerr

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas K. Greenfield
Thomas K. Greenfield Alcohol Research Group
Kristina Sundquist
Kristina Sundquist Lund University
Kenneth S. Kendler
Kenneth S. Kendler Virginia Commonwealth University
Vangie A. Foshee
Vangie A. Foshee University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Susan T. Ennett
Susan T. Ennett University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jason Bond
Jason Bond Alcohol Research Group
Robin Room
Robin Room La Trobe University
Jan Sundquist
Jan Sundquist Lund University
Chirayath M. Suchindran
Chirayath M. Suchindran University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kathryn Graham
Kathryn Graham Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

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