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D-Index
59
Citations
22971
World Ranking
3628
National Ranking
195

Margaret L. Kern 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 Margaret L. Kern sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 155 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Margaret L. Kern 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 Margaret L. Kern sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Margaret L. Kern is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and specializes primarily in the field of psychology. Their scholarly output focuses extensively on psychological well-being and related areas within clinical, social, and applied psychology.

The scientist's research spans multiple subfields, including:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Applied Psychology
  • Education
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

The main topics covered in Kern's work encompass:

  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being

Margaret L. Kern has contributed research published in several frequent venues, which include:

  • The Journal of Positive Psychology
  • International Journal of Wellbeing
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Scientific Reports
  • International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology

The scientist has collaborated repeatedly with a number of coauthors, with the most frequent among them being:

  • Johannes C. Eichstaedt
  • Lindsay G. Oades
  • Lyle Ungar
  • David B. Yaden
  • Kelly-Ann Allen

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • Belonging: a review of conceptual issues, an integrative framework, and directions for future research (2021), published in the Australian Journal of Psychology
  • Third wave positive psychology: broadening towards complexity (2020), published in The Journal of Positive Psychology
  • Characterizing Geographic Variation in Well-Being Using Tweets (2021), published in the Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Estimating geographic subjective well-being from Twitter: A comparison of dictionary and data-driven language methods (2020), published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Closed- and open-vocabulary approaches to text analysis: A review, quantitative comparison, and recommendations (2021), published in Psychological Methods

Best Publications

  • Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach

    H. Andrew Schwartz;Johannes C. Eichstaedt;Margaret L. Kern;Lukasz Dziurzynski

  • The PERMA-Profiler: A brief multidimensional measure of flourishing

    Julie Butler;Margaret L. Kern

  • A meta-analysis of the convergent validity of self-control measures

    Angela Lee Duckworth;Margaret L. Kern

  • What Schools Need to Know About Fostering School Belonging: a Meta-analysis

    Kelly Allen;Margaret L. Kern;Dianne Vella-Brodrick;John Hattie

  • Doing the right thing: Measuring wellbeing for public policy

    Marie J. C. Forgeard;Eranda Jayawickreme;Margaret L. Kern;Martin E. P. Seligman

  • A multidimensional approach to measuring well-being in students: Application of the PERMA framework

    Margaret L. Kern;Lea E. Waters;Alejandro Adler;Mathew A. White

  • Automatic personality assessment through social media language.

    Gregory Park;H. Andrew Schwartz;Johannes C. Eichstaedt;Margaret L. Kern

  • Health benefits: Meta-analytically determining the impact of well-being on objective health outcomes

    Ryan T. Howell;Margaret L. Kern;Sonja Lyubomirsky

  • Social Networking Sites, Depression, and Anxiety: A Systematic Review

    Elizabeth M Seabrook;Margaret L Kern;Nikki S Rickard;Nikki S Rickard

  • Detecting depression and mental illness on social media: an integrative review

    Sharath Chandra Guntuku;David B Yaden;Margaret L Kern;Lyle H Ungar

  • Belonging: A Review of Conceptual Issues, an Integrative Framework, and Directions for Future Research.

    Kelly-Ann Allen;Margaret L. Kern;Christopher S. Rozek;Dennis Michael Mcinerney

  • Personality, Well-Being, and Health*

    Howard S. Friedman;Margaret L. Kern

  • Psychological Language on Twitter Predicts County-Level Heart Disease Mortality

    Johannes C. Eichstaedt;Hansen Andrew Schwartz;Margaret L. Kern;Gregory Park

  • Do conscientious individuals live longer? A quantitative review.

    Margaret L. Kern;Howard S. Friedman

  • The EPOCH Measure of Adolescent Well-Being

    Margaret L Kern;Lizbeth Benson;Elizabeth A Steinberg;Laurence Steinberg

  • Leader autonomy support in the workplace: A meta-analytic review.

    Gavin R. Slemp;Margaret L. Kern;Kent J. Patrick;Richard M. Ryan;Richard M. Ryan

  • School Belonging in Adolescents: Theory, Research and Practice

    Kelly-Ann Allen;Kelly-Ann Allen;Margaret L. Kern

  • Personality and Health, Subjective Well-Being, and Longevity

    Howard S. Friedman;Margaret L. Kern;Chandra A. Reynolds

  • Assessing Employee Wellbeing in Schools Using a Multifaceted Approach: Associations with Physical Health, Life Satisfaction, and Professional Thriving

    Margaret L. Kern;Lea Waters;Alejandro Adler;Mathew White

  • Workplace Well-Being: The Role of Job Crafting and Autonomy Support

    Gavin R. Slemp;Margaret L. Kern;Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick

  • Characterizing geographic variation in well-being using tweets

    Hansen Andrew Schwartz;Johannes C. Eichstaedt;Margaret L. Kern;Lukasz Dziurzynski

Frequent Co-Authors

Johannes C. Eichstaedt
Johannes C. Eichstaedt Stanford University
Lyle H. Ungar
Lyle H. Ungar University of Pennsylvania
H. Andrew Schwartz
H. Andrew Schwartz Stony Brook University
Martin E. P. Seligman
Martin E. P. Seligman University of Pennsylvania
Howard S. Friedman
Howard S. Friedman University of California, Riverside
Lea Waters
Lea Waters University of Melbourne
David Stillwell
David Stillwell University of Cambridge
Michal Kosinski
Michal Kosinski Stanford University
Maarten Sap
Maarten Sap Carnegie Mellon University
Dianne Vella-Brodrick
Dianne Vella-Brodrick University of Melbourne

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