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Nancy E. Adler 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 Nancy E. Adler sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 393 publications — 94th percentile

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

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

Nancy E. Adler 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 Nancy E. Adler sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 122 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Socioeconomic status and health: The challenge of the gradient.

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

  • Accelerated telomere shortening in response to life stress

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

  • Socioeconomic Disparities In Health: Pathways And Policies

    Nancy E. Adler;Katherine Newman

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

    Nancy E. Adler;Joan M. Ostrove

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in health. No easy solution.

    Adler Ne;Boyce Wt;Chesney Ma;Folkman S

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

    Nancy E. Adler;David H. Rehkopf

  • Social Determinants of Health and Diabetes: A Scientific Review.

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Cancer care for the whole patient : meeting psychosocial health needs

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

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

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

  • 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

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

    Nancy E. Adler;Judith Stewart

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

    Nancy Adler;Karen Matthews

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

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

  • 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

  • Subjective social status: reliability and predictive utility for global health

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Susan Kegeles;Nancy Adler;Charles E. Irwin

Frequent Co-Authors

Elissa S. Epel
Elissa S. Epel University of California, San Francisco
Dean Schillinger
Dean Schillinger University of California, San Francisco
Andrew J. Karter
Andrew J. Karter Kaiser Permanente
Jonathan M. Ellen
Jonathan M. Ellen Johns Hopkins University
Lauri A. Pasch
Lauri A. Pasch University of California, San Francisco
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Elizabeth H. Blackburn University of California, San Francisco
W. Thomas Boyce
W. Thomas Boyce University of California, San Francisco
Charles E. Irwin
Charles E. Irwin University of California, San Francisco
Jeanne M. Tschann
Jeanne M. Tschann University of California, San Francisco
Karen A. Matthews
Karen A. Matthews University of Pittsburgh

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