Ruth G. McRoy

Ruth G. McRoy publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Ruth G. McRoy D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Best Publications

• Openness in Adoption: Exploring Family Connections.

  Harold D. Grotevant;Ruth G. McRoy

  365
  Citations

• Self-Esteem and Racial Identity in Transracial and Inracial Adoptees.

  Ruth G. McRoy;Louis A. Zurcher;Michael L. Lauderdale;Rosalie N. Anderson

  272
  Citations

• A Mixed-Methods Case Study of Parent Involvement in an Urban High School Serving Minority Students:

  Andrew D. Reynolds;Thomas M. Crea;Jose Medina;Elizabeth Degnan

  154
  Citations

• The Family Adoption Communication (FAC) Model

  Gretchen Miller Wrobel;Julie K. Kohler;Harold D. Grotevant;Ruth G. McRoy

  144
  Citations

• Adoptive family system dynamics: variations by level of openness in the adoption.

  Harold D. Grotevant;Ruth G. McROY;Carol L. Elde;Deborah Lewis Fravel

  130
  Citations

• Contact Between Adoptive and Birth Families: Perspectives From the Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project

  Harold D. Grotevant;Ruth G. McRoy;Gretchen M. Wrobel;Susan Ayers-Lopez

  109
  Citations

• Adopted Adolescents' Preoccupation With Adoption: The Impact on Adoptive Family Relationships

  Julie K. Kohler;Harold D. Grotevant;Ruth G. McRoy

  107
  Citations

• Birthmother Perceptions of the Psychologically Present Adopted Child: Adoption Openness and Boundary Ambiguity*

  Deborah Lewis Fravel;Ruth G. McRoy;Harold D. Grotevant

  101
  Citations

• The Identity of Transracial Adoptees

  Ruth G. McRoy;Louis A. Zurcher;Michael L. Lauderdale;Rosalie E. Anderson

  95
  Citations

• Transracial and Inracial Adoptees: The Adolescent Years

  Ruth G. McRoy;Louis A. Zurcher

  89
  Citations

• Openness in Adoption and the Level of Child Participation

  Gretchen Miller Wrobel;Susan Ayers-Lopez;Harold D. Grotevant;Ruth G. McRoy

  86
  Citations

• Racial-Identity Issues among Mixed-Race Children

  Ruth G. McRoy;Edith Freeman

  86
  Citations

• Many Faces of Openness in Adoption: Perspectives of Adopted Adolescents and Their Parents

  Harold D. Grotevant;Gretchen Miller Wrobel;Lynn Von Korff;Brooke Skinner

  85
  Citations

• Evolution and resolution: Birthmothers' experience of grief and loss at different levels of adoption openness

  Susan M. Henney;Susan Ayers-Lopez;Ruth G. McRoy;Harold D. Grotevant

  78
  Citations

• Adolescent Search for Birthparents: Who Moves Forward?

  Gretchen Miller Wrobel;Harold D. Grotevant;Ruth G. McRoy

  67
  Citations

• Openness arrangements and psychological adjustment in adolescent adoptees.

  Lynn Von Korff;Harold D. Grotevant;Ruth G. McRoy

  64
  Citations

• Adolescents' feelings about openness in adoption: Implications for adoption agencies

  Jerica M. Berge;Tai J. Mendenhall;Gretchen M. Wrobel;Harold D. Grotevant

  63
  Citations

• Point of Engagement: Reducing Disproportionality and Improving Child and Family Outcomes

  Eric J. Marts;Eun-Kyoung Othelia Lee;Ruth McRoy;Jacquelyn McCroskey

  62
  Citations

• Grief Resolution of Birthmothers in Confidential, Time-Limited Mediated, Ongoing Mediated, and Fully Disclosed Adoptions

  Cinda L. Christian;Ruth G. McRoy;Harold D. Grotevant;Chalandra M. Bryant;Chalandra M. Bryant

  61
  Citations

• Factors related to patterns of information exchange between adoptive parents and children in mediated adoptions

  Gretchen Miller Wrobel;Julie K. Kohler;Harold D. Grotevant;Ruth G. McRoy

  61
  Citations