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Marcela Raffaelli 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 Marcela Raffaelli sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 125 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Marcela Raffaelli 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 Marcela Raffaelli sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Marcela Raffaelli is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans several fields within the social sciences and environmental science, with a particular focus on topics related to youth development, community health, and family dynamics.

Their scholarly contributions include research on early childhood education and development, youth development and social support, homelessness and social issues, heavy metal exposure and toxicity, intimate partner and family violence, and community health and development.

Marcela Raffaelli has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Sílvia Helena Koller, Normanda Araújo de Morais, Juliana Prates Santana, Saverio Caini, and Nora de Bonfioli Cavalcabo'. These partnerships have contributed to a diversified portfolio of research outputs.

The scientist's recent publications feature studies published in various peer-reviewed journals, notably:

  • "From Theory to Methodology: Using Ecological Engagement to Study Development in Context," 2020, Child Development Perspectives
  • "Child Adjustment after Parental Separation: Variations by Gender, Age, and Maternal Experiences of Violence during Marriage," 2021, Journal of Family Violence
  • "Capturing the heterogeneity of life on the streets: A person-centered analysis of street histories and social connections of youth," 2021, Journal of Adolescence
  • "Goals for Adolescent Participation in Organized Youth Programs: Views From Adolescent-Parent Dyads," 2021, Journal of Adolescent Research
  • "Adolescents, Street, Drugs and Psychoactive Substances: A Study on Risk and Protection," 2021, Psicologia Teoria e Pesquisa

Their frequent publication venues reflect a broad interest in developmental psychology, family dynamics, and social issues affecting youth, encompassing:

  • Child Development Perspectives
  • Journal of Family Violence
  • Journal of Adolescence
  • Journal of Adolescent Research
  • Psicologia Teoria e Pesquisa

Marcela Raffaelli's work within social sciences includes subfields such as general health professions, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, education, safety research, and demography, indicating an interdisciplinary approach to addressing complex social and environmental challenges.

Best Publications

  • Acculturative stress, social support, and coping: relations to psychological adjustment among Mexican American college students.

    Lisa J. Crockett;Maria I. Iturbide;Rosalie A. Torres Stone;Meredith McGinley

  • The Differential Relations of Parent and Peer Attachment to Adolescent Adjustment

    Deborah J. Laible;Gustavo Carlo;Marcela Raffaelli

  • Gender Socialization in Latino/a Families: Results from Two Retrospective Studies

    Marcela Raffaelli;Lenna L. Ontai

  • Developmental Stability and Change in Self-Regulation From Childhood to Adolescence

    Marcela Raffaelli;Lisa J. Crockett;Yuh Ling Shen

  • The NIMH multisite HIV prevention trial: Reducing HIV sexual risk behavior

    D. D. Celentano;C. Dilorio;T. Hartwell;J. Kelly

  • Parent Influences on Adolescent Peer Orientation and Substance Use: The Interface of Parenting Practices and Values

    Karen Bogenschneider;Ming-yeh Wu;Marcela Raffaelli;Jenner C. Tsay

  • Why are Girls Less Physically Aggressive than Boys? Personality and Parenting Mediators of Physical Aggression

    Gustavo Carlo;Marcela Raffaelli;Deborah J. Laible;Kathryn A. Meyer

  • Adolescent religiosity and sexuality: an investigation of reciprocal influences.

    Sam A Hardy;Marcela Raffaelli

  • Sexual risk taking in adolescence: the role of self-regulation and attraction to risk.

    Marcela Raffaelli;Lisa J. Crockett

  • Linking Self-Regulation and Risk Proneness to Risky Sexual Behavior: Pathways through Peer Pressure and Early Substance Use

    Lisa J. Crockett;Marcela Raffaelli;Yuh Ling Shen

  • Parent-Teen Communication About Sexual Topics

    Marcela Raffaelli;Karen Bogenschneider;Mary Fran Flood

  • Ecology of depression in late childhood and early adolescence: A profile of daily states and activities.

    Reed W. Larson;Marcela Raffaelli;Maryse H. Richards;Mark Ham

  • Early predictors of self‐regulation in middle childhood

    Rebecca A. Colman;Sam A. Hardy;Myesha Albert;Marcela Raffaelli

  • ‘She’s 16 years old and there’s boys calling over to the house’: an exploratory study of sexual socialization in Latino families

    Marcela Raffaelli;Lenna L. Ontai

  • Stress, Social Support, and Depression: A Test of the Stress-Buffering Hypothesis in a Mexican Sample

    Marcela Raffaelli;Flavia C. D. Andrade;Angela R. Wiley;Omar Sanchez-Armass

  • “We were just talking ...”: Conversations in early adolescence

    Marcela Raffaelli;Elena Duckett

  • An exploratory study of constructions of masculinity, sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Namibia, Southern Africa

    Jill Brown;James Sorrell;Marcela Raffaelli

  • Parent-Adolescent Communication About Sex: Retrospective Reports by Latino College Students

    Marcela Raffaelli;Stephanie Green

  • Sibling Conflict in Early Adolescence.

    Marcela Raffaelli

  • Toward a Standard Approach to Operationalizing Coercive Control and Classifying Violence Types

    Jennifer L. Hardesty;Kimberly A. Crossman;Megan L. Haselschwerdt;Marcela Raffaelli

  • Social networks and daily activities of street youth in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Regina Campos;Marcela Raffaelli;Walter Ude;Marilia Greco

Frequent Co-Authors

Silvia Helena Koller
Silvia Helena Koller Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Gustavo Carlo
Gustavo Carlo University of California, Irvine
Reed W. Larson
Reed W. Larson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ann O'Leary
Ann O'Leary Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Byron L. Zamboanga
Byron L. Zamboanga University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Sandra D. Simpkins
Sandra D. Simpkins University of California, Irvine
Deborah Laible
Deborah Laible Lehigh University
Sam A. Hardy
Sam A. Hardy Brigham Young University
Maryse H. Richards
Maryse H. Richards Loyola University Chicago
Neal A. Halsey
Neal A. Halsey Johns Hopkins University

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