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D-Index
68
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45778
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2415
National Ranking
1399

Louise C. Hawkley 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 Louise C. Hawkley sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 147 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Louise C. Hawkley 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 Louise C. Hawkley sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Louise C. Hawkley is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to social sciences and psychology, with a significant emphasis on health, aging, and well-being.

The main fields of study for Hawkley include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Within these fields, Hawkley's work spans several subfields:

  • Health
  • General Health Professions
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
  • Social Psychology

Their research covers a range of topics such as:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Technology Use by Older Adults

Hawkley has published extensively in notable venues, frequently appearing in:

  • Innovation in Aging
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Recent papers by Hawkley include:

  • Loneliness from young adulthood to old age: Explaining age differences in loneliness, 2020, International Journal of Behavioral Development
  • Loneliness and health, 2022, Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Additional notable recent publications related to the broader field are:

  • Consensus statement: loneliness in older adults, the 21st century social determinant of health?, 2020, BMJ Open
  • A unified approach to loneliness, 2020, The Lancet
  • The epidemiology of social isolation and loneliness among older adults during the last years of life, 2021, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Hawkley frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Laura E. Finch
  • Linda J. Waite
  • Kristen Wroblewski
  • Ashwin Kotwal
  • Ellen Compernolle

Best Publications

  • Loneliness Matters: A Theoretical and Empirical Review of Consequences and Mechanisms

    Louise C. Hawkley;John T. Cacioppo

  • A Short Scale for Measuring Loneliness in Large Surveys: Results From Two Population-Based Studies.

    Mary Elizabeth Hughes;Linda J. Waite;Louise C. Hawkley;John T. Cacioppo

  • Loneliness as a specific risk factor for depressive symptoms: Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses.

    John T. Cacioppo;Mary Elizabeth Hughes;Linda J. Waite;Louise C. Hawkley

  • Perceived social isolation and cognition

    John T. Cacioppo;Louise C. Hawkley

  • A Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Reduce Loneliness:

    Christopher M. Masi;Hsi-Yuan Chen;Louise C. Hawkley;John T. Cacioppo

  • Perceived social isolation makes me sad: 5-year cross-lagged analyses of loneliness and depressive symptomatology in the Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relations Study.

    John T. Cacioppo;Louise C. Hawkley;Ronald A. Thisted

  • Loneliness and health: potential mechanisms.

    John T Cacioppo;Louise C Hawkley;L Elizabeth Crawford;John M Ernst

  • Loneliness, health, and mortality in old age: A national longitudinal study

    Ye Luo;Louise C. Hawkley;Linda J. Waite;John T. Cacioppo

  • Loneliness within a nomological net: An evolutionary perspective

    John T. Cacioppo;Louise C. Hawkley;John M. Ernst;Mary Burleson

  • Social Isolation and Health, with an Emphasis on Underlying Mechanisms

    John T. Cacioppo;Louise C. Hawkley

  • Day-to-day dynamics of experience¿cortisol associations in a population-based sample of older adults

    Emma K. Adam;Louise C. Hawkley;Brigitte M. Kudielka;John T. Cacioppo

  • Social regulation of gene expression in human leukocytes

    Steve W Cole;Louise C Hawkley;Jesusa M Arevalo;Caroline Y Sung

  • Loneliness predicts increased blood pressure: 5-year cross-lagged analyses in middle-aged and older adults.

    Louise C. Hawkley;Ronald A. Thisted;Christopher M. Masi;John T. Cacioppo

  • From Social Structural Factors to Perceptions of Relationship Quality and Loneliness: The Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relations Study

    Louise C. Hawkley;Mary Elizabeth Hughes;Linda J. Waite;Christopher M. Masi

  • LONELINESS IN EVERYDAY LIFE: CARDIOVASCULAR ACTIVITY, PSYCHOSOCIAL CONTEXT, AND HEALTH BEHAVIORS

    Louise C. Hawkley;Mary H. Burleson;Gary G. Berntson;John T. Cacioppo

  • Age differences in loneliness from late adolescence to oldest old age.

    Maike Luhmann;Louise C. Hawkley

  • Loneliness predicts reduced physical activity: Cross-sectional & longitudinal analyses.

    Louise C. Hawkley;Ronald A. Thisted;John T. Cacioppo

  • Lonely traits and concomitant physiological processes : the MacArthur social neuroscience studies

    John T Cacioppo;John M Ernst;Mary H Burleson;Martha K McClintock

  • Loneliness is a unique predictor of age-related differences in systolic blood pressure

    Louise C. Hawkley;Christopher M. Masi;Jarett D. Berry;John T. Cacioppo

  • Objective and perceived neighborhood environment, individual SES and psychosocial factors, and self-rated health: an analysis of older adults in Cook County, Illinois.

    Ming Wen;Louise C. Hawkley;John T. Cacioppo

  • Social Isolation and Health, with an Emphasis on Underlying Mechanisms

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

John T. Cacioppo
John T. Cacioppo University of Chicago
Gary G. Berntson
Gary G. Berntson The Ohio State University
Linda J. Waite
Linda J. Waite University of Chicago
Maike Luhmann
Maike Luhmann Ruhr University Bochum
Gregory J. Norman
Gregory J. Norman Dexcom (United States)
Ronald A. Thisted
Ronald A. Thisted University of Chicago
William B. Malarkey
William B. Malarkey The Ohio State University
Steve W. Cole
Steve W. Cole University of California, Los Angeles
John P. Capitanio
John P. Capitanio University of California, Davis
Jeff T. Larsen
Jeff T. Larsen University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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