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Peter Shawn Bearman

Peter Shawn Bearman

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
53
Citations
28190
World Ranking
2212
National Ranking
1065

Overview

Peter Shawn Bearman is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields including Clinical Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Political Science and International Relations, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their research focuses on a range of topics including Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Family and Disability Support Research, Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues, Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, and Employment and Welfare Studies.

Recent publications by Bearman include:

  • Differential spatial-social accessibility to mental health care and suicide, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The social patterning of autism diagnoses reversed in California between 1992 and 2018, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Political isolation in America, 2020, Network Science
  • Developmental Trajectories of Autism, 2023, PEDIATRICS
  • Elective Deliveries and the Risk of Autism, 2022, American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Bearman frequently collaborates with several co-authors who have contributed to multiple publications together. Notable frequent collaborators include Alix S. Winter, Christine Fountain, Keely Cheslack-Postava, Kayuet Liu, and Julien O. Teitler.

Publication venues where Bearman's work commonly appears include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • American Journal of Epidemiology
  • UNC Libraries
  • Network Science
  • PEDIATRICS

Best Publications

  • Protecting adolescents from harm: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health.

    Michael D Resnick;Peter S. Bearman;Robert Wm Blum;Karl E. Bauman

  • Chains of affection: The structure of adolescent romantic and sexual networks

    Peter Shawn Bearman;James Moody;Katherine Stovel

  • Suicide and Friendships Among American Adolescents

    Peter Shawn Bearman;James Moody

  • Promising the future: Virginity pledges and first intercourse

    Peter Shawn Bearman;Hannah Brückner

  • The Oxford handbook of analytical sociology

    Peter Hedström;Peter S. Bearman

  • Diagnostic change and the increased prevalence of autism

    Marissa King;Peter Shawn Bearman

  • Dynamics of Political Polarization

    Delia Baldassarri;Peter Shawn Bearman

  • After the promise: the STD consequences of adolescent virginity pledges.

    Hannah Brückner;Peter Bearman

  • Six Developmental Trajectories Characterize Children With Autism

    Christine Fountain;Alix S. Winter;Peter S. Bearman

  • The structure and dynamics of movement participation

    Hyojoung Kim;Peter Shawn Bearman

  • Age of diagnosis for autism: individual and community factors across 10 birth cohorts

    Christine Fountain;Marissa King;Peter Shawn Bearman

  • Foregone health care among adolescents.

    Carol A. Ford;Peter S. Bearman;James Moody

  • Social Influence and the Autism Epidemic

    Ka-Yuet Liu;Marissa King;Peter Shawn Bearman

  • Cloning Headless Frogs and Other Important Matters: Conversation Topics and Network Structure

    Peter Shawn Bearman;Paulo Parigi

  • Ambivalence and pregnancy: adolescents attitudes contraceptive use and pregnancy.

    Hannah Brückner;Anne Martin;Peter S. Bearman

  • Becoming a Nazi: A model for narrative networks☆

    Peter S. Bearman;Katherine Stovel

  • Protecting adolescent's from harm

    Michael D Resnick;Peter S. Bearman;Robert Wm Blum;Karl E. Bauman

  • The Temporal Structure of Scientific Consensus Formation

    Uri Shwed;Peter Shawn Bearman

  • Ascription into Achievement: Models of Career Systems at Lloyds Bank, 1890-1970

    Katherine Stovel;Michael Savage;Peter Shawn Bearman

  • What is Analytical Sociology All About? An Introductory Essay

    Peter Hedström;Peter Bearman

  • Socioeconomic Status and the Increased Prevalence of Autism in California

    Marissa D. King;Peter S. Bearman

Frequent Co-Authors

James Moody
James Moody Duke University
Denise J. Jamieson
Denise J. Jamieson Emory University
Linda H. Bearinger
Linda H. Bearinger University of Minnesota
Kathleen Mullan Harris
Kathleen Mullan Harris University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Marjorie Ireland
Marjorie Ireland University of Minnesota
Karl E. Bauman
Karl E. Bauman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jochen Weber
Jochen Weber Columbia University
Kevin N. Ochsner
Kevin N. Ochsner Columbia University
J. Richard Udry
J. Richard Udry University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Catherine Rice
Catherine Rice Emory University

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