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Nilam Ram 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 Nilam Ram sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 277 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nilam Ram 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 Nilam Ram sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Nilam Ram is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and their research spans several key areas within psychology and social sciences. Their scholarly output includes 163 publications in psychology and 79 in social sciences, reflecting a strong interdisciplinary focus.

The primary subfields of study covered in their work include:

  • Social Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Applied Psychology

The main topics Nilam Ram has explored in their research comprise:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Health disparities and outcomes

Nilam Ram has published in several venues repeatedly, with notable frequency in:

  • Innovation in Aging (14 publications)
  • Psychology and Aging (12 publications)
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B (6 publications)
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology (4 publications)
  • Multivariate Behavioral Research (4 publications)

The scientist's recent published papers include:

  • People, places, and time: a large-scale, longitudinal study of transformed avatars and environmental context in group interaction in the metaverse, 2023, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
  • Time for the Human Screenome Project, 2020, Nature
  • Digital Trace Data Collection for Social Media Effects Research: APIs, Data Donation, and (Screen) Tracking, 2023, Communication Methods and Measures
  • The idiosyncrasies of everyday digital lives: Using the Human Screenome Project to study user behavior on smartphones, 2020, Computers in Human Behavior
  • Adult development and aging in historical context., 2020, American Psychologist

Nilam Ram has collaborated frequently with several researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Denis Gerstorf
  • Johanna Drewelies
  • Byron Reeves
  • Thomas N. Robinson
  • Christiane A. Hoppmann

Best Publications

  • Emotional experience improves with age: evidence based on over 10 years of experience sampling.

    Laura L. Carstensen;Bulent Turan;Susanne Scheibe;Nilam Ram

  • Growth Mixture Modeling: A Method for Identifying Differences in Longitudinal Change Among Unobserved Groups.

    Nilam Ram;Kevin J. Grimm

  • Time-Structured and Net Intraindividual Variability: Tools for Examining the Development of Dynamic Characteristics and Processes

    Nilam Ram;Denis Gerstorf

  • Boredom Prone or Nothing to Do? Distinguishing Between State and Trait Leisure Boredom and Its Association with Substance Use in South African Adolescents

    Elizabeth H. Weybright;Linda L. Caldwell;Nilam Ram;Edward A. Smith

  • Individual differences in boys' and girls' timing and tempo of puberty: modeling development with nonlinear growth models.

    Kristine Marceau;Nilam Ram;Renate M. Houts;Kevin J. Grimm

  • Nonlinear Growth Curves in Developmental Research

    Kevin J. Grimm;Nilam Ram;Fumiaki Hamagami

  • Using simple and complex growth models to articulate developmental change: Matching theory to method

    Nilam Ram;Kevin Grimm

  • Studying Intraindividual Variability: What We Have Learned That Will Help Us Understand Lives in Context

    John R. Nesselroade;Nilam Ram

  • Late-life decline in well-being across adulthood in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States: Something is seriously wrong at the end of life.

    Denis Gerstorf;Nilam Ram;Guy Mayraz;Mira Hidajat

  • Emotion as a thermostat: Representing emotion regulation using a damped oscillator model

    Sy-Miin Chow;Nilam Ram;Steven M. Boker;Frank Fujita

  • Decline in Life Satisfaction in Old Age: Longitudinal Evidence for Links to Distance-to-Death

    Denis Gerstorf;Nilam Ram;Christina Röcke;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Life Satisfaction Shows Terminal Decline in Old Age: Longitudinal Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP).

    Denis Gerstorf;Nilam Ram;Ryne Estabrook;Jürgen Schupp;Jürgen Schupp

  • The Effects of Stress on Cognitive Aging, Physiology and Emotion (ESCAPE) Project.

    Stacey B. Scott;Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland;Christopher G. Engeland;Joshua M. Smyth

  • Long-Term Antecedents and Outcomes of Perceived Control

    Frank J. Infurna;Denis Gerstorf;Nilam Ram;Jürgen Schupp

  • A daily analysis of physical activity and satisfaction with life in emerging adults.

    Jaclyn P. Maher;Shawna E. Doerksen;Steriani Elavsky;Amanda L. Hyde

  • Automatic search for fMRI connectivity mapping: An alternative to Granger causality testing using formal equivalences among SEM path modeling, VAR, and unified SEM

    Kathleen M. Gates;Peter Molenaar;Frank Gerard Hillary;Nilam Ram

  • Saving energy in an office environment: A serious game intervention

    Brian Orland;Nilam Ram;Dean Lang;Kevin Houser

  • Acorn mast drives long-term dynamics of rodent and songbird populations

    Ethan D. Clotfelter;Amy B. Pedersen;Jack A. Cranford;Nilam Ram

  • Nonlinear Growth Models in Mplus and SAS

    Kevin J. Grimm;Nilam Ram

  • Daily physical activity and life satisfaction across adulthood

    Jaclyn P. Maher;Aaron L. Pincus;Nilam Ram;David E. Conroy

  • Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study

    Denis Gerstorf;Nilam Ram;Christiane Hoppmann;Sherry L. Willis

Frequent Co-Authors

Denis Gerstorf
Denis Gerstorf Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Gert G. Wagner
Gert G. Wagner German Institute for Economic Research
David E. Conroy
David E. Conroy Pennsylvania State University
Jürgen Schupp
Jürgen Schupp German Institute for Economic Research
Aaron L. Pincus
Aaron L. Pincus Pennsylvania State University
Frank J. Infurna
Frank J. Infurna Arizona State University
Pamela M. Cole
Pamela M. Cole Pennsylvania State University
Christiane A. Hoppmann
Christiane A. Hoppmann University of British Columbia
Kevin J. Grimm
Kevin J. Grimm Arizona State University
Ulman Lindenberger
Ulman Lindenberger Max Planck Institute for Human Development

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