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D-Index
42
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6631
World Ranking
4795
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2271

Penny L. Brennan 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 Penny L. Brennan sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 94 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Penny L. Brennan 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 Penny L. Brennan sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Penny L. Brennan is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. The research work centers on topics intersecting medicine, health professions, and social sciences, with particular engagement in subfields such as general health professions, neuropsychology and physiological psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The main topics of study in their work include:

  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Aging and gerontology research
  • Dementia and cognitive impairment research
  • Alcohol consumption and health effects
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout

Key recent publications by Penny L. Brennan demonstrate an emphasis on aging, stressors, pain, and their interrelationships. These include:

  • Life Stressors: Elevations and Disparities Among Older Adults with Pain, 2020, Pain Medicine
  • Stressors and Pain across the Late-Life Span: Findings from Two Parent Longitudinal Studies of Aging and Health, 2022, Journal of Aging and Health
  • History of drinking problems diminishes the protective effects of within-guideline drinking on 18-year risk of dementia and CIND, 2021, BMC Public Health
  • Stressors and Pain Over the Late-Life Course: Findings from Two Parent Longitudinal Studies of Aging and Health, 2020, Innovation in Aging
  • Within-Guideline Alcohol Consumption Protects Against Dementia?: Offset Effect of History of Drinking Problems, 2020, Innovation in Aging

The frequent co-authors associated with this research include Charles J. Holahan, Rudolf H. Moos, and Kathleen K. Schutte.

The spectrum of publication venues for Penny L. Brennan reflects their multidisciplinary research approach, appearing in:

  • Innovation in Aging
  • Pain Medicine
  • Journal of Aging and Health
  • BMC Public Health

Best Publications

  • Stress generation, avoidance coping, and depressive symptoms: a 10-year model.

    Charles J. Holahan;Rudolf H. Moos;Carole K. Holahan;Penny L. Brennan

  • Social support, coping, and depressive symptoms in a late-middle-aged sample of patients reporting cardiac illness.

    Charles J. Holahan;Rudolf H. Moos;Carole K. Holahan;Penny L. Brennan

  • Social context, coping strategies, and depressive symptoms: an expanded model with cardiac patients.

    Charles J. Holahan;Rudolf H. Moos;Rudolf H. Moos;Carole K. Holahan;Penny L. Brennan;Penny L. Brennan

  • Pain and use of alcohol to manage pain: prevalence and 3‐year outcomes among older problem and non‐problem drinkers

    Penny L. Brennan;Kathleen K. Schutte;Rudolf H. Moos

  • Approach and avoidance coping responses among older problem and nonproblem drinkers.

    Rudolf H. Moos;Penny L. Brennan;Mark R. Fondacaro;Bernice S. Moos

  • Cognitive mapping and elderly adults: verbal and location memory for urban landmarks.

    Gary W. Evans;Penny L. Brennan;Mary Anne Skorpanich;Donna Held

  • The musculoskeletal diagnosis cohort: examining pain and pain care among veterans.

    Joseph L. Goulet;Robert D. Kerns;Matthew Bair;William C. Becker

  • Life stressors, social resources, and late-life problem drinking.

    Penny L. Brennan;Rudolf H. Moos

  • Ten-year patterns of alcohol consumption and drinking problems among older women and men.

    Rudolf H. Moos;Kathleen Schutte;Penny Brennan;Bernice S. Moos

  • Older adults' alcohol consumption and late-life drinking problems: a 20-year perspective.

    Rudolf H. Moos;Kathleen K. Schutte;Penny L. Brennan;Bernice S. Moos

  • Older adults' coping with negative life events: common processes of managing health, interpersonal, and financial/work stressors.

    Rudolf H. Moos;Penny L. Brennan;Kathleen K. Schutte;Bernice S. Moos

  • The Drinking Problems Index: a measure to assess alcohol-related problems among older adults.

    John W. Finney;Rudolf H. Moos;Penny L. Brennan

  • Reciprocal relations between stressors and drinking behavior: a three-wave panel study of late middle-aged and older women and men.

    Penny L. Brennan;Kathleen K. Schutte;Rudolf H. Moos

  • High-Risk Alcohol Consumption and Late-Life Alcohol Use Problems

    Rudolf H. Moos;Penny L. Brennan;Kathleen K. Schutte;Bernice S. Moos

  • Mortality Rates and Predictors of Mortality Among Late-Middle-Aged and Older Substance Abuse Patients

    Rudolf H. Moos;Penny L. Brennan;Jennifer R. Mertens

  • Late-life alcohol consumption and 20-year mortality.

    Charles J. Holahan;Kathleen K. Schutte;Penny L. Brennan;Carole K. Holahan

  • Older adults' health and late-life drinking patterns: a 20-year perspective.

    Rudolf H. Moos;Penny L. Brennan;Kathleen K. Schutte;Bernice S. Moos

  • Rates and predictors of four-year readmission among late-middle-aged and older substance abuse patients

    R H Moos;J R Mertens;P L Brennan

  • The Interplay Between Life Stressors and Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults

    Rudolf H Moos;Kathleen K Schutte;Penny L Brennan;Bernice S Moos

  • Twenty-year alcohol-consumption and drinking-problem trajectories of older men and women.

    Penny L. Brennan;Kathleen K. Schutte;Bernice S. Moos;Rudolf H. Moos

  • Patterns of diagnosis and treatment among late-middle-aged and older substance abuse patients

    R H Moos;J R Mertens;P L Brennan

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudolf H. Moos
Rudolf H. Moos Stanford University
Bernice S. Moos
Bernice S. Moos United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Charles J. Holahan
Charles J. Holahan The University of Texas at Austin
Carole K. Holahan
Carole K. Holahan The University of Texas at Austin
Jennifer R. Mertens
Jennifer R. Mertens Kaiser Permanente
Robert D. Kerns
Robert D. Kerns Yale University
Diana J. Burgess
Diana J. Burgess United States Department of Veterans Affairs
John D. Piette
John D. Piette University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John W. Finney
John W. Finney VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Amy C. Justice
Amy C. Justice Yale University

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