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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 76 512 441 243 206 272 18836

Michele R. Decker publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Michele R. Decker between 2003 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Michele R. Decker published across 23 years, from 2003 to 2025, averaging 13 papers a year. Output peaked at 25 publications in 2022. 22 of the 298 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2003 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 25. Peak 25 publications in 2022. 2003: 1 publication 2004: 2 publications 2005: 2 publications 2006: 7 publications 2007: 10 publications 2008: 8 publications 2009: 11 publications 2010: 14 publications 2011: 15 publications 2012: 18 publications 2013: 15 publications 2014: 16 publications 2015: 21 publications 2016: 13 publications 2017: 15 publications 2018: 14 publications 2019: 17 publications 2020: 20 publications 2021: 21 publications 2022: 25 publications 2023: 11 publications 2024: 10 publications 2025: 12 publications
2003 2025

298 publications in total across all disciplines

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Michele R. Decker: publications per year, 2003 to 2025
Year Publications
2003 1
2004 2
2005 2
2006 7
2007 10
2008 8
2009 11
2010 14
2011 15
2012 18
2013 15
2014 16
2015 21
2016 13
2017 15
2018 14
2019 17
2020 20
2021 21
2022 25
2023 11
2024 10
2025 12
Total 298
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Michele R. Decker publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michele R. Decker sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 264–273 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 272 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138 272
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Michele R. Decker 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 Michele R. Decker sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 76 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45 76
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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Overview

Michele R. Decker is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences, Medicine, and Health Professions, with a strong focus on subfields such as General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Health, Epidemiology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their work concentrates on main topics including:

  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Reproductive Health and Contraception

Michele R. Decker has published extensively in journals such as:

  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Journal of Family Violence
  • BMJ Open
  • BMJ Global Health
  • BMC Public Health

Frequent collaborators of Decker include:

  • Shannon N. Wood
  • Nancy Glass
  • Peter Gichangi
  • Mary Thiongo
  • Charvonne N. Holliday

Recent notable publications by Michele R. Decker include:

  • "Gender-based violence during COVID-19 among adolescent girls and young women in Nairobi, Kenya: a mixed-methods prospective study over 18 months" (2022) published in BMJ Global Health
  • "Safety decision-making and planning mobile app for intimate partner violence prevention and response: randomised controlled trial in Kenya" (2020) published in BMJ Global Health
  • "Defining Justice: Restorative and Retributive Justice Goals Among Intimate Partner Violence Survivors" (2020) published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Other influential papers associated with their area of research include works on reproductive coercion, intimate partner violence, and the vulnerabilities of female sex workers, highlighting the broader context and interdisciplinary nature of this field.

Best Publications

  • Burden of HIV among female sex workers in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Stefan Baral;Chris Beyrer;Kathryn Muessig;Tonia Poteat

  • Pregnancy coercion, intimate partner violence and unintended pregnancy ☆

    Elizabeth Miller;Michele R. Decker;Heather L. McCauley;Daniel J. Tancredi

  • Intimate partner violence victimization prior to and during pregnancy among women residing in 26 U.S. states: Associations with maternal and neonatal health

    Jay G. Silverman;Michele R. Decker;Elizabeth Reed;Anita Raj

  • Masculine Gender Roles Associated with Increased Sexual Risk and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration among Young Adult Men

    M. Christina Santana;Anita Raj;Michele R. Decker;Ana La Marche

  • “Coaching Boys into Men”: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of a Dating Violence Prevention Program

    Elizabeth Miller;Daniel J. Tancredi;Heather L. McCauley;Michele R. Decker

  • Human rights violations against sex workers: burden and effect on HIV

    Michele R. Decker;Anna-Louise Crago;Sandra Ka Hon Chu;Susan G. Sherman

  • Intimate partner violence and HIV infection among married Indian women

    Jay G. Silverman;Michele R. Decker;Niranjan Saggurti;Donta Balaiah

  • The Effect of Maternal Child Marriage on Morbidity and Mortality of Children Under 5 in India: Cross Sectional Study of a Nationally Representative Sample

    Anita Raj;Niranjan Saggurti;Michael Winter;Alan Labonte

  • Intimate partner violence and unwanted pregnancy, miscarriage, induced abortion, and stillbirth among a national sample of Bangladeshi women

    Jay G. Silverman;Jhumka Gupta;Michele R. Decker;Navneet Kapur

  • An action agenda for HIV and sex workers

    Chris Beyrer;Anna Louise Crago;Linda Gail Bekker;Jenny Butler

  • Gender-based violence and HIV: reviewing the evidence for links and causal pathways in the general population and high-risk groups.

    Kristin L. Dunkle;Michele R. Decker

  • HIV Prevalence and Predictors of Infection in Sex-Trafficked Nepalese Girls and Women

    Jay G. Silverman;Michele R. Decker;Jhumka Gupta;Ayonija Maheshwari

  • A family planning clinic partner violence intervention to reduce risk associated with reproductive coercion

    Elizabeth Miller;Michele R. Decker;Heather L. McCauley;Daniel J. Tancredi

  • Intimate partner violence functions as both a risk marker and risk factor for women's HIV infection: findings from Indian husband-wife dyads.

    Michele R. Decker;George R. Seage;David A. Hemenway;Anita Raj

  • The global response and unmet actions for HIV and sex workers.

    Kate Shannon;Anna Louise Crago;Stefan D. Baral;Linda Gail Bekker

  • A conceptual framework for early adolescence: a platform for research

    Robert W. Blum;Nan Marie Astone;Michele R. Decker;Venkatraman Chandra Mouli

  • Dating Violence and Sexually Transmitted Disease/HIV Testing and Diagnosis Among Adolescent Females

    Michele R. Decker;Jay G. Silverman;Anita Raj

  • Recent reproductive coercion and unintended pregnancy among female family planning clients

    Elizabeth Miller;Heather L. McCauley;Daniel J. Tancredi;Michele R. Decker

  • Witness of intimate partner violence in childhood and perpetration of intimate partner violence in adulthood.

    Andrea L. Roberts;Stephen E. Gilman;Garrett Fitzmaurice;Michele R. Decker

  • Asking about intimate partner violence: advice from female survivors to health care providers

    Judy C. Chang;Michele R. Decker;Kathryn E. Moracco;Sandra L. Martin

  • One-year follow-up of a coach-delivered dating violence prevention program: A cluster randomized controlled trial

    Elizabeth Miller;Daniel J. Tancredi;Heather L. McCauley;Michele R. Decker

  • Original research article Pregnancy coercion, intimate partner violence and unintended pregnancy ☆

    Elizabeth Miller;Michele R. Decker;Heather L. McCauley;Daniel J. Tancredi

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay G. Silverman
Jay G. Silverman University of California, San Diego
Anita Raj
Anita Raj University of California, San Diego
Heather L. McCauley
Heather L. McCauley Michigan State University
Susan G. Sherman
Susan G. Sherman Johns Hopkins University
Daniel J. Tancredi
Daniel J. Tancredi University of California, Davis
Jhumka Gupta
Jhumka Gupta George Mason University
Andrea L. Wirtz
Andrea L. Wirtz Johns Hopkins University
Elizabeth Reed
Elizabeth Reed San Diego State University
Stefan Baral
Stefan Baral Johns Hopkins University
Chris Beyrer
Chris Beyrer Johns Hopkins University

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