Christopher R. Beam

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Christopher R. Beam is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Health and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher R. Beam has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 19 papers in Health and 19 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Christopher R. Beam's work include Cognitive Abilities and Testing (25 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (18 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (12 papers). Christopher R. Beam is often cited by papers focused on Cognitive Abilities and Testing (25 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (18 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (12 papers). Christopher R. Beam collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Denmark. Christopher R. Beam's co-authors include Eric Turkheimer, Margaret Gatz, Alice J. Kim, Chandra A. Reynolds, Nancy L. Pedersen, Jung Yun Jang, Robert E. Emery, Erin E. Horn, Jing Luo and David A. Sbarra and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Child Development and Developmental Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Christopher R. Beam

63 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Differences Between Women and Men in Incidence Rates of Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease

2018 325 citations Christopher R. Beam, Chandra A. Reynolds et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher R. Beam United States	17	302	234	220	201	179	67	1.2k
Jeffrey Ma United States	13	309 1.0×	149 0.6×	288 1.3×	253 1.3×	110 0.6×	17	1.4k
Pasqualina Perrig‐Chiello Switzerland	19	282 0.9×	223 1.0×	197 0.9×	234 1.2×	226 1.3×	69	1.3k
Ruixue Zhaoyang United States	19	202 0.7×	140 0.6×	329 1.5×	162 0.8×	127 0.7×	42	837
Meg Fluharty United Kingdom	15	438 1.5×	263 1.1×	285 1.3×	172 0.9×	79 0.4×	30	1.4k
Kyle J. Bourassa United States	18	342 1.1×	273 1.2×	220 1.0×	84 0.4×	141 0.8×	55	1.0k
Jonathan D. Schaefer United States	13	538 1.8×	167 0.7×	159 0.7×	248 1.2×	418 2.3×	32	2.2k
Sungwon Roh South Korea	19	282 0.9×	141 0.6×	152 0.7×	85 0.4×	114 0.6×	77	1.3k
Christopher B. Rosnick United States	14	161 0.5×	111 0.5×	166 0.8×	140 0.7×	242 1.4×	18	879
Johanna Drewelies Germany	21	185 0.6×	377 1.6×	331 1.5×	194 1.0×	118 0.7×	77	1.1k
Giuseppe Marano Italy	15	641 2.1×	200 0.9×	173 0.8×	123 0.6×	172 1.0×	60	1.3k

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Willroth, Emily C, Emorie D Beck, Tomiko Yoneda, et al.. (2025). Associations of personality trait level and change with mortality risk in 11 longitudinal studies.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 128(2). 392–409. 1 indexed citations

Beam, Christopher R., Kelly M. Bakulski, Ebrahim Zandi, et al.. (2024). Epigenome-wide association study of loneliness in a sample of U.S. middle-aged twins. Epigenetics. 19(1). 2427999–2427999.

Duncan, Glen E., et al.. (2024). A Genetically Informed Study of the Association Between Perceived Stress and Loneliness. Behavior Genetics. 54(3). 268–277. 2 indexed citations

Beam, Christopher R., et al.. (2024). A genetically informed longitudinal study of early-life temperament and childhood aggression. Development and Psychopathology. 37(2). 779–801. 1 indexed citations

Luczak, Susan E., Christopher R. Beam, Shandell Pahlen, et al.. (2023). Remember this: Age moderation of genetic and environmental contributions to verbal episodic memory from midlife through late adulthood. Intelligence. 99. 101759–101759.

Sáenz, Joseph, Christopher R. Beam, & Alice J. Kim. (2023). Development of a latent dementia index in the aging, demographics, and memory study: Validation and measurement invariance by sex. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring. 15(2). e12433–e12433. 2 indexed citations

Arpawong, Thalida Em, et al.. (2023). Associations Between Longitudinal Loneliness, DNA Methylation Age Acceleration, and Cognitive Functioning. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 78(12). 2045–2059. 9 indexed citations

Beam, Christopher R., et al.. (2023). Gene–environment interplay in internalizing problem behavior.. Developmental Psychology. 59(8). 1470–1483. 2 indexed citations

Giangrande, Evan J., Christopher R. Beam, Deborah Finkel, Deborah Winders Davis, & Eric Turkheimer. (2021). Genetically informed, multilevel analysis of the Flynn Effect across four decades and three WISC versions. Child Development. 93(1). e47–e58. 8 indexed citations

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Beam, Christopher R., et al.. (2021). Genetic and environmental correlates of the nonlinear recovery of cognitive ability in Twins.. Developmental Psychology. 58(3). 535–550. 3 indexed citations

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Beam, Christopher R., Jane Mendle, S. Alexandra Burt, et al.. (2020). How nonshared environmental factors come to correlate with heredity. Development and Psychopathology. 34(1). 321–333. 3 indexed citations

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Mendle, Jane, et al.. (2020). Puberty and Transdiagnostic Risks for Mental Health. Journal of Research on Adolescence. 30(3). 687–705. 22 indexed citations

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Luo, Jing, Christopher R. Beam, Ida Karlsson, et al.. (2020). Dementia risk in women higher in same‐sex than opposite‐sex twins. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring. 12(1). e12049–e12049. 8 indexed citations

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Beam, Christopher R. & Alice J. Kim. (2020). Psychological sequelae of social isolation and loneliness might be a larger problem in young adults than older adults.. Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy. 12(S1). S58–S60. 128 indexed citations

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Beam, Christopher R., et al.. (2020). When helping hurts? Toward a nuanced interpretation of adverse effects in gang-focused interventions.. Clinical Psychology Science and Practice. 28(1). 29–39. 11 indexed citations

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Beam, Christopher R., Eric Turkheimer, Deborah Finkel, et al.. (2019). Midlife Study of the Louisville Twins: Connecting Cognitive Development to Biological and Cognitive Aging. Behavior Genetics. 50(2). 73–83. 12 indexed citations

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Beam, Christopher R., et al.. (2018). Gender Differences in the Structure of Marital Quality. Behavior Genetics. 48(3). 209–223. 31 indexed citations

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Turkheimer, Eric, et al.. (2016). Is marriage a buzzkill? A twin study of marital status and alcohol consumption.. Journal of Family Psychology. 30(6). 698–707. 47 indexed citations

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Beam, Christopher R., Robert E. Emery, Chandra A. Reynolds, et al.. (2015). Widowhood and the Stability of Late Life Depressive Symptomatology in the Swedish Adoption Twin Study of Aging. Behavior Genetics. 46(1). 100–113. 4 indexed citations

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Beam, Christopher R., Eric Turkheimer, William T. Dickens, & Deborah Winders Davis. (2015). Twin Differentiation of Cognitive Ability Through Phenotype to Environment Transmission: The Louisville Twin Study. Behavior Genetics. 45(6). 622–634. 9 indexed citations

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