Alan Meca

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
114 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Alan Meca is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Meca has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 56 papers in Clinical Psychology and 25 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Alan Meca's work include Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (57 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (26 papers) and Identity, Memory, and Therapy (23 papers). Alan Meca is often cited by papers focused on Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (57 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (26 papers) and Identity, Memory, and Therapy (23 papers). Alan Meca collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Canada. Alan Meca's co-authors include Seth J. Schwartz, Byron L. Zamboanga, Rachel Ritchie, Koen Luyckx, Jennifer B. Unger, Cory L. Cobb, Elma I. Lorenzo‐Blanco, Miguel Ángel Cano, Dong Xie and Daniel W. Soto and has published in prestigious journals such as American Psychologist, Child Development and Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Alan Meca

106 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Identity in Emerging Adulthood 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 50 100 150 200 250
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Identity in Emerging Adulthood
    2013 276 citations Seth J. Schwartz, Byron L. Zamboanga et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan Meca United States 27 1.3k 946 559 409 399 114 2.2k
Marilyn J. Montgomery United States 22 771 0.6× 631 0.7× 487 0.9× 469 1.1× 284 0.7× 54 1.7k
Kazumi Sugimura Japan 17 726 0.6× 713 0.8× 504 0.9× 559 1.4× 260 0.7× 56 1.9k
Sheila K. Marshall Canada 26 667 0.5× 1.1k 1.2× 920 1.6× 282 0.7× 431 1.1× 98 2.3k
Steven L. Berman United States 26 625 0.5× 1.0k 1.1× 434 0.8× 545 1.3× 342 0.9× 48 1.8k
Jurjen Iedema Netherlands 19 831 0.6× 736 0.8× 537 1.0× 341 0.8× 259 0.6× 56 2.1k
Paola Di Blasio Italy 23 750 0.6× 1.2k 1.3× 886 1.6× 201 0.5× 508 1.3× 109 2.2k
Frosso Motti‐Stefanidi Greece 28 1.3k 1.0× 1.2k 1.3× 428 0.8× 105 0.3× 1.0k 2.6× 67 2.5k
Linda G. Castillo United States 27 1.4k 1.1× 1.2k 1.3× 905 1.6× 104 0.3× 727 1.8× 80 2.7k
Lisa Kiang United States 34 1.7k 1.3× 1.4k 1.5× 780 1.4× 117 0.3× 956 2.4× 111 3.1k
Lisa A. Suzuki United States 19 504 0.4× 767 0.8× 891 1.6× 207 0.5× 433 1.1× 44 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Meca

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Meca

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All Works

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Hausmann‐Stabile, Carolina, et al.. (2024). The role of acculturation and acculturation stress in suicidal behaviors among Latina Adolescents: A systematic review of research. Children and Youth Services Review. 163. 107773–107773.
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Schwartz, Seth J., Cory L. Cobb, José Szapocznik, et al.. (2024). Examining acculturation at the daily level: Adding nuance to acculturation scholarship. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. 100. 101989–101989. 3 indexed citations
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Ward, Colleen, Cory L. Cobb, Alan Meca, et al.. (2024). Cultural Stressors and Cultural Identity Styles Among Hispanic College Students. The Counseling Psychologist. 52(3). 443–476.
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Meca, Alan, et al.. (2024). Contextualizing experiences of cultural stress: A qualitative exploration among Hispanic/Latinx youth in Miami and Los Angeles.. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology. 30(4). 613–623.
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Unger, Jennifer B., et al.. (2024). The 123s and affective, behavioral, and cognitives of unaccompanied Latinx Minors: A trauma-informed composite case study.. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology. 30(4). 907–916. 1 indexed citations
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Unger, Jennifer B., Alan Meca, Ryan Lee, et al.. (2023). Cultural Stress Profiles: Describing Different Typologies of Migration Related and Cultural Stressors among Hispanic or Latino Youth. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 52(8). 1632–1646. 4 indexed citations
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Loyd, Aerika Brittian, et al.. (2023). “I Just Want to Be Me, Authentically”: Identity Shifting Among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Young Adults. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 52(4). 701–718. 10 indexed citations
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Zamboanga, Byron L., Lucy E. Napper, Amanda M. George, et al.. (2023). Utility of the Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire-Drinking Game (B-YAACQ-DG) scale in screening hazardous alcohol use among university student drinking gamers in the United States. Addiction Research & Theory. 32(2). 129–137. 1 indexed citations
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Polanco‐Roman, Lillian, et al.. (2023). Acculturation and suicide-related risk in ethnoracially minoritized youth in the US: a scoping review and content analysis of the empirical evidence. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 58(8). 1121–1137. 5 indexed citations
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Zamboanga, Byron L., Jennifer E. Merrill, Janine V. Olthuis, et al.. (2021). Racial, ethnic, and sex differences in heavy drinking and negative alcohol-related consequences in a national sample of NCAA student-athlete drinkers. Journal of American College Health. 71(4). 1250–1258. 2 indexed citations
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Smith, Emily L., et al.. (2021). Military self-stigma as a mediator of the link between military identity and suicide risk. Military Psychology. 34(2). 237–251. 8 indexed citations
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Szabó, Ágnes, Colleen Ward, Alan Meca, & Seth J. Schwartz. (2020). Testing the construct validity and empirical distinctiveness of the Multicultural Identity Styles Scale (MISS) and the Bicultural Identity Integration Scale (BIIS-2).. Psychological Assessment. 32(7). 705–712. 13 indexed citations
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Cobb, Cory L., Seth J. Schwartz, Christopher P. Salas‐Wright, et al.. (2020). Alcohol use severity, depressive symptoms, and optimism among Hispanics: Examining the immigrant paradox in a serial mediation model. Journal of Clinical Psychology. 76(12). 2329–2344. 10 indexed citations
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Ward, Colleen, Ágnes Szabó, Seth J. Schwartz, & Alan Meca. (2020). Acculturative stress and cultural identity styles as predictors of psychosocial functioning in Hispanic Americans. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. 80. 274–284. 26 indexed citations
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Shrader, Cho‐Hee, Alan Meca, Jennifer B. Unger, et al.. (2020). Cultural stress in the age of mass xenophobia: Perspectives from Latin/o adolescents. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. 80. 217–230. 11 indexed citations
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Meca, Alan, Seth J. Schwartz, Jennifer B. Unger, et al.. (2018). The use of cultural identity in predicting health lifestyle behaviors in Latinx immigrant adolescents.. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology. 25(3). 371–378. 16 indexed citations
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Meca, Alan, et al.. (2014). Reducing Identity Distress: Results of an Identity Intervention for Emerging Adults. Identity. 14(4). 312–331. 42 indexed citations

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