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2023

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D-Index
66
Citations
18005
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2689
National Ranking
21

Lei Chang publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lei Chang sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 200 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Lei Chang D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lei Chang sits on this spectrum.

30–31 D-Index: 398 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 702 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 671 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 659 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 641 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 671 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 617 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 558 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 495 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 487 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 445 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 390 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 408 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 345 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 325 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 321 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 248 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 290 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 218 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 219 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 215 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 183 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 169 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 132 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 137 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 120 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 112 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 86 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 101 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 83 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 77 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 70 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 78 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 58 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 53 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 57 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 48 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 53 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 46 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 24 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 35 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 27 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 32 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 31 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 22 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 16 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 24 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 18 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 11 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 19 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 10 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 16 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 10 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 12 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 8 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 5 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 12 scientists 144+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in China Leader Award
  • 1994 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Lei Chang is affiliated with the University of Macau in China and has an extensive body of research primarily within the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their work spans diverse subfields including social psychology, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, education, and sociology and political science.

Their research topics cover areas such as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, cultural differences and values, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, early childhood education and development, attachment and relationship dynamics, social and intergroup psychology, and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

Lei Chang has contributed to numerous recent papers, including:

  • Effects of Parental Warmth and Behavioral Control on Adolescent Externalizing and Internalizing Trajectories Across Cultures, 2020, Journal of Research on Adolescence
  • Effects of Parental Acceptance-Rejection on Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors: A Longitudinal, Multicultural Study, 2021, Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • Longitudinal associations between mothers' and fathers' anger/irritability expressiveness, harsh parenting, and adolescents' socioemotional functioning in nine countries., 2020, Developmental Psychology
  • Cross-Cultural Examination of Links between Parent-Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Psychological Problems in 12 Cultural Groups, 2020, Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Predicting Adolescent Mental Health Outcomes Across Cultures: A Machine Learning Approach, 2023, Journal of Youth and Adolescence

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Lei Chang include:

  • Jennifer E. Lansford
  • Ann T. Skinner
  • Marc H. Bornstein
  • Kirby Deater-Deckard
  • Kenneth A. Dodge

The scholar often publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Research on Adolescence
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Evolutionary Psychological Science
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Development and Psychopathology

Lei Chang has authored books published by Cambridge University Press, including Life History and Child Development, which is expected to be published in 2025.

An award received by Lei Chang is membership in the National Academy of Sciences, granted in 1994.

Best Publications

  • Harsh parenting in relation to child emotion regulation and aggression.

    Lei Chang;David Schwartz;Kenneth A. Dodge;Catherine McBride-Chang

  • Physical discipline and children's adjustment: Cultural normativeness as a moderator

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Lei Chang;Kenneth A. Dodge;Patrick S. Malone

  • A Psychometric Evaluation of 4-Point and 6-Point Likert-Type Scales in Relation to Reliability and Validity.

    Lei Chang

  • Parent discipline practices in an international sample: associations with child behaviors and moderation by perceived normativeness

    Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff;Andrew Grogan-Kaylor;Jennifer E. Lansford;Lei Chang

  • The role of classroom norms in contextualizing the relations of children's social behaviors to peer acceptance.

    Lei Chang

  • Around the world, adolescence is a time of heightened sensation seeking and immature self-regulation.

    Laurence Steinberg;Laurence Steinberg;Grace Icenogle;Elizabeth P. Shulman;Kaitlyn Breiner

  • Variable Effects of Children's Aggression, Social Withdrawal, and Prosocial Leadership as Functions of Teacher Beliefs and Behaviors

    Lei Chang

  • A HIERARCHICAL CONSTRUCT OF SELF‐MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO QUALITY OF WORK LIFE AND PERCEIVED WORK GROUP EFFECTIVENESS

    Susan G. Cohen;Lei Chang;Gerald E. Ledford

  • Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World

    Natasha Duell;Laurence Steinberg;Grace Icenogle;Jason Chein

  • The peer group as a context: mediating and moderating effects on relations between academic achievement and social functioning in Chinese children.

    Xinyin Chen;Lei Chang;Yunfeng He

  • Life satisfaction, self-concept, and family relations in Chinese adolescents and children

    Lei Chang;Catherine Mcbride-Chang;Sunita M. Stewart;Ernest Au

  • Gender Differences in Emotional Response: Inconsistency between Experience and Expressivity.

    Yaling Deng;Lei Chang;Meng Yang;Meng Huo

  • Boys’ and Girls’ Relational and Physical Aggression in Nine Countries

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Ann T. Skinner;Emma Sorbring;Laura Di Giunta

  • Victimization in South Korean Children's Peer Groups

    David Schwartz;JoAnn M. Farver;Lei Chang;Yoolim Lee-Shin

  • Corporal punishment, maternal warmth, and child adjustment: a longitudinal study in eight countries

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Chinmayi Sharma;Patrick S. Malone;Darren Woodlief

  • Correlates of victimization in Chinese children's peer groups.

    David Schwartz;Lei Chang;JoAnn M. Farver

  • The Evolution of Individual and Cultural Variation in Social Learning

    Alex Mesoudi;Lei Chang;Sasha R.X. Dall;Alex Thornton

  • Corporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent Gender

    Jennifer E Lansford;Liane Peña Alampay;Suha M Al-Hassan;Dario Bacchini

  • The association between parental warmth and control in thirteen cultural groups.

    Kirby Deater-Deckard;Jennifer E. Lansford;Patrick S. Malone;Liane Peña Alampay

  • Hostile attributional bias and aggressive behavior in global context.

    Kenneth A. Dodge;Patrick S. Malone;Jennifer E. Lansford;Emma Sorbring

  • Adolescent-Parent Relations in Hong Kong: Parenting Styles, Emotional Autonomy, and School Achievement

    Catherine McBride-Chang;Lei Chang

Frequent Co-Authors

Suha M. Al-Hassan
Suha M. Al-Hassan Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority
Jennifer E. Lansford
Jennifer E. Lansford Duke University
Kenneth A. Dodge
Kenneth A. Dodge Duke University
Sombat Tapanya
Sombat Tapanya Chiang Mai University
Ann T. Skinner
Ann T. Skinner Duke University
Concetta Pastorelli
Concetta Pastorelli Sapienza University of Rome
Laura Di Giunta
Laura Di Giunta Sapienza University of Rome
Kirby Deater-Deckard
Kirby Deater-Deckard University of Massachusetts Amherst
Marc H. Bornstein
Marc H. Bornstein National Institutes of Health
Liane Peña Alampay
Liane Peña Alampay Ateneo de Manila University

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