2026 Nancy E. Adler: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Female Scientists	121	521	494	308	289	433	68793
Psychology	122	237		151		393	71026
Medicine	123	3292		1814		408	71887

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
2010 - David Rall Medal, National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
2009 - APA Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology, American Psychological Association
1994 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Nancy E. Adler is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine and Health Professions, with a focus on numerous subfields such as General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Health, and Clinical Psychology.

The main topics covered in their work include Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Birth, Development, and Health, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Child and Adolescent Health, and Public Health Policies and Education.

The scientist has published papers in a range of venues frequently including the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, JAMA Network Open, Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, The Journal of Pediatrics, and the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Recent papers authored by or co-authored by Nancy E. Adler include:

Social Determinants of Health and Diabetes: A Scientific Review (2020) published in Diabetes Care
The Association Between Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Status and Subjective Well-Being: A Meta-Analytic Review (2020) published in Psychological Bulletin
Racial Discrimination and Telomere Shortening Among African Americans: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study (2020) published in Health Psychology
Effects of In-Person Assistance vs Personalized Written Resources About Social Services on Household Social Risks and Child and Caregiver Health (2020) published in JAMA Network Open
Effects of In-Person Navigation to Address Family Social Needs on Child Health Care Utilization (2020) published in JAMA Network Open

Frequent co-authors collaborating with this scientist include Laura M. Gottlieb, Barbara Laraia, Elissa S. Epel, Matthew S. Pantell, and Danielle Hessler.

Awards received highlight recognition by professional bodies and include the David Rall Medal from the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2010, the APA Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology from the American Psychological Association in 2009, and membership in the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) since 1994.

Best Publications

Relationship of subjective and objective social status with psychological and physiological functioning: preliminary data in healthy white women.

Nancy E. Adler;Elissa S. Epel;Grace Castellazzo;Jeannette R. Ickovics

5045
Citations
Socioeconomic status and health: The challenge of the gradient.

Nancy E. Adler;Thomas Boyce;Margaret A. Chesney;Sheldon Cohen

4628
Citations
Accelerated telomere shortening in response to life stress

Elissa S. Epel;Elizabeth H. Blackburn;Jue Lin;Firdaus S. Dhabhar

3885
Citations
Socioeconomic Disparities In Health: Pathways And Policies

Nancy E. Adler;Katherine Newman

2882
Citations
Socioeconomic status and health: what we know and what we don't.

Nancy E. Adler;Joan M. Ostrove

2538
Citations
Socioeconomic inequalities in health. No easy solution.

Adler Ne;Boyce Wt;Chesney Ma;Folkman S

1631
Citations
U.S. disparities in health: descriptions, causes, and mechanisms.

Nancy E. Adler;David H. Rehkopf

1623
Citations
Social Determinants of Health and Diabetes: A Scientific Review.

Felicia Hill-Briggs;Nancy E. Adler;Seth A. Berkowitz;Marshall H. Chin

1496
Citations
Adolescents' Perceptions of Social Status: Development and Evaluation of a New Indicator

E. Goodman;N. E. Adler;I. Kawachi;I. Kawachi;A. L. Frazier;A. L. Frazier

1321
Citations
Subjective social status: its determinants and its association with measures of ill-health in the Whitehall II study.

Archana Singh-Manoux;Nancy E Adler;Michael G Marmot

1299
Citations
Cancer care for the whole patient : meeting psychosocial health needs

Nancy E Adler;Ann Ek Page;Families in a Community Setting

1204
Citations
Does subjective social status predict health and change in health status better than objective status

Archana Singh-Manoux;Michael G Marmot;Nancy E Adler

1176
Citations
From ideas to efficacy: The ORBIT model for developing behavioral treatments for chronic diseases.

Susan M. Czajkowski;Lynda H. Powell;Nancy Adler;Sylvie Naar-King

1091
Citations
Health disparities across the lifespan: meaning, methods, and mechanisms.

Nancy E. Adler;Judith Stewart

931
Citations
Health psychology: why do some people get sick and some stay well?

Nancy Adler;Karen Matthews

917
Citations
Social Isolation: A Predictor of Mortality Comparable to Traditional Clinical Risk Factors

Matthew Pantell;David H. Rehkopf;Douglas Jutte;S. Leonard Syme

787
Citations
Biological sensitivity to context: the interactive effects of stress reactivity and family adversity on socioemotional behavior and school readiness.

Jelena Obradović;Nicole R. Bush;Juliet Stamperdahl;Nancy E. Adler

752
Citations
Subjective social status: reliability and predictive utility for global health

Don Operario;Nancy E. Adler;David R. Williams

750
Citations
Objective and subjective assessments of socioeconomic status and their relationship to self-rated health in an ethnically diverse sample of pregnant women.

Joan M. Ostrove;Nancy E. Adler;Miriam Kuppermann;A. Eugene Washington

642
Citations
Using Electronic Health Records for Population Health Research: A Review of Methods and Applications.

Joan A. Casey;Brian S. Schwartz;Brian S. Schwartz;Walter F. Stewart;Nancy E. Adler

610
Citations
Sexually active adolescents and condoms: changes over one year in knowledge attitudes and use.

Susan Kegeles;Nancy Adler;Charles E. Irwin

597
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Elissa S. Epel University of California, San Francisco

Dean Schillinger University of California, San Francisco

Andrew J. Karter Kaiser Permanente

Jonathan M. Ellen Johns Hopkins University

Lauri A. Pasch University of California, San Francisco

Elizabeth H. Blackburn University of California, San Francisco

W. Thomas Boyce University of California, San Francisco

Charles E. Irwin University of California, San Francisco

Jeanne M. Tschann University of California, San Francisco

Karen A. Matthews University of Pittsburgh

External Links

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