2026 Stephen W. Raudenbush: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	83	292	248	132	113	177	101349

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
2006 - Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, American Educational Research Association
2004 - Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award, American Educational Research Association
2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1994 - Early Career Award, American Educational Research Association

Overview

Stephen W. Raudenbush is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Mathematics, with notable contributions in Education and Statistics and Probability. Subfields of their work include Developmental and Educational Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's research topics cover a variety of areas, including:

School Choice and Performance
Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
Language Development and Disorders
Family and Disability Support Research
Reading and Literacy Development
Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Stephen W. Raudenbush include:

Randomized Experiments in Education, with Implications for Multilevel Causal Inference (2020), published in Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application
Effects of Time-Varying Parent Input on Children's Language Outcomes Differ for Vocabulary and Syntax (2021), published in Psychological Science
Longitudinally adaptive assessment and instruction increase numerical skills of preschool children (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Effects of double-dose algebra on college persistence and degree attainment (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Hierarchical Linear Models from Incomplete Data: Random Coefficients, Statistical Interactions, and Measurement Error (2023), published in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

The venues where their research is most frequently published include:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application
Psychological Science
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
Behavioural Public Policy

Frequent collaborators with whom Stephen W. Raudenbush has worked are:

Susan Goldin-Meadow
Yongyun Shin
Daniel Schwartz
Catriona Silvey
Özlem Ece Demir-Lira

The scientist has received several awards, highlighting their involvement and recognition in the educational research community. These awards include:

Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2012)
Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (2008)
Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, American Educational Research Association (2006)
Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award, American Educational Research Association (2004)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001)
Early Career Award, American Educational Research Association (1994)

Best Publications

Hierarchical Linear Models: Applications and Data Analysis Methods.

Nicholas T. Longford;Anthony S. Bryk;Stephen W. Raudenbush

40504
Citations
Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy

Robert J. Sampson;Stephen W. Raudenbush;Felton James Earls

15850
Citations
Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods

Robert J. Sampson;Stephen W. Raudenbush

3650
Citations
Neighborhood inequality, collective efficacy, and the spatial dynamics of urban violence

Jeffrey D. Morenoff;Robert J. Sampson;Stephen W. Raudenbush

2723
Citations
Application of Hierarchical Linear Models to Assessing Change

Anthony S. Bryk;Stephen W. Raudenbush

2402
Citations
Seeing Disorder: Neighborhood Stigma and the Social Construction of Broken Windows

Robert J. Sampson;Stephen W. Raudenbush

2096
Citations
Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Physical Activity, Obesity, and Morbidity

Reid Ewing;Tom Schmid;Richard Killingsworth;Amy Zlot

2034
Citations
Resources, Instruction, and Research:

David K. Cohen;Stephen W. Raudenbush;Deborah Loewenberg Ball

1823
Citations
'Ecometrics': Toward A Science of Assessing Ecological Settings, with Application to the Systematic Social Observation of Neighborhoods

Stephen W. Raudenbush;Robert J. Sampson

1350
Citations
Social anatomy of racial and ethnic disparities in violence.

Robert J. Sampson;Jeffrey D. Morenoff;Stephen W. Raudenbush

1259
Citations
A Hierarchical Model for Studying School Effects

Stephen Raudenbush;Anthony S. Bryk

1146
Citations
Contextual Effects on the Self-Perceived Efficacy of High School Teachers.

Stephen W. Raudenbush;Brian Rowan;Yuk Fai Cheong

967
Citations
HLM 5 : Hierarchical Linear and Nonlinear Modeling

Stephen Raudenbush;Raudenbush;Yuk Fai Cheong;Anthony Bryk

931
Citations
Statistical analysis and optimal design for cluster randomized trials

Stephen W. Raudenbush

840
Citations
A multivariate hierarchical model for studying psychological change within married couples.

Stephen W. Raudenbush;Robert T. Brennan;Rosalind C. Barnett

749
Citations
Statistical power and optimal design for multisite randomized trials.

Stephen W. Raudenbush;Xiaofeng Liu

711
Citations
Assessing Exposure to Violence in Urban Youth

Mary Beth Selner-O'Hagan;Daniel J. Kindlon;Stephen L. Buka;Stephen W. Raudenbush

706
Citations
Random effects models.

Stephen W. Raudenbush

687
Citations
Durable effects of concentrated disadvantage on verbal ability among African-American children

Robert J. Sampson;Patrick Sharkey;Stephen W. Raudenbush

675
Citations
The Estimation of School Effects

Stephen W. Raudenbush;J. Douglas Willms

664
Citations
Summarizing Evidence: Crusaders for Simplicity@@@Methods of Meta-Analysis: Correcting Error and Bias in Research Findings

Stephen W. Raudenbush;John E. Hunter;Frank L. Schmidt

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Sampson Harvard University

Anthony S. Bryk University of Chicago

Sean F. Reardon Stanford University

Brian Rowan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Susanna Loeb Brown University

Robert T. Brennan Boston College

Felton Earls Harvard University

Rosalind C. Barnett Brandeis University

Grover J. Whitehurst Stony Brook University

Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago

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