Christopher Wildeman

10.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
110 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Christopher Wildeman is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Wildeman has authored 110 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 79 papers in General Health Professions and 36 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Christopher Wildeman's work include Homelessness and Social Issues (76 papers), Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (69 papers) and Child Abuse and Trauma (25 papers). Christopher Wildeman is often cited by papers focused on Homelessness and Social Issues (76 papers), Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (69 papers) and Child Abuse and Trauma (25 papers). Christopher Wildeman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Sweden. Christopher Wildeman's co-authors include Kristin Turney, Emily A. Wang, Sara Wakefield, Bruce Western, Hedwig Lee, Natalia Emanuel, Jason Schnittker, Christopher Muller, Andrew V. Papachristos and Youngmin Yi and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Wildeman

106 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Mass incarceration, public health, and widening inequality in the USA

2017 557 citations Christopher Wildeman, Emily A. Wang profile →
Lifetime Prevalence of Investigating Child Maltreatment Among US Children

2016 379 citations Christopher Wildeman et al. profile →
Parental imprisonment, the prison boom, and the concentration of childhood disadvantage

2009 369 citations Christopher Wildeman Demography profile →
The Prevalence of Confirmed Maltreatment Among US Children, 2004 to 2011

2014 341 citations Christopher Wildeman, Natalia Emanuel et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Wildeman United States	43	4.4k	4.1k	3.2k	1.0k	882	110	7.1k
Dan R. Hoyt United States	48	3.2k 0.7×	3.8k 0.9×	2.7k 0.8×	1.6k 1.5×	417 0.5×	82	6.8k
Kristin Turney United States	39	2.5k 0.6×	2.1k 0.5×	2.0k 0.6×	568 0.5×	355 0.4×	100	4.4k
Lawrence M. Berger United States	40	1.7k 0.4×	1.9k 0.5×	2.5k 0.8×	557 0.5×	925 1.0×	120	5.1k
Melissa Jonson‐Reid United States	42	1.3k 0.3×	2.5k 0.6×	4.5k 1.4×	949 0.9×	2.2k 2.5×	150	5.6k
Tama Leventhal United States	38	3.7k 0.8×	3.4k 0.8×	2.2k 0.7×	1.7k 1.7×	618 0.7×	79	7.8k
Velma McBride Murry United States	43	2.4k 0.5×	1.8k 0.4×	3.2k 1.0×	705 0.7×	609 0.7×	107	6.4k
Cleopatra H. Caldwell United States	51	4.6k 1.0×	2.3k 0.6×	4.1k 1.3×	2.2k 2.1×	617 0.7×	205	9.8k
Melissa T. Merrick United States	33	1.8k 0.4×	2.1k 0.5×	5.0k 1.6×	2.5k 2.4×	491 0.6×	64	7.4k
Brett Drake United States	41	1.2k 0.3×	2.6k 0.6×	4.6k 1.4×	918 0.9×	1.9k 2.2×	115	5.5k
Flavio F. Marsiglia United States	41	1.8k 0.4×	2.0k 0.5×	2.3k 0.7×	627 0.6×	437 0.5×	206	5.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Wildeman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Wildeman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wildeman, Christopher, et al.. (2025). Two Decades of Child Welfare System Contact in the Global North: A Research Note on Trends in 44 Countries. Demography. 62(1). 1–15.

Wildeman, Christopher, et al.. (2025). Discordant patterns and adulthood consequences of childhood maltreatment and foster care placement. Social Forces.

Boch, Samantha, Christopher Wildeman, Judith W. Dexheimer, et al.. (2024). Pediatric Health and System Impacts of Mass Incarceration, 2009–2020: A Matched Cohort Study. Academic Pediatrics. 24(8). 1285–1295. 2 indexed citations

Wildeman, Christopher, et al.. (2024). Adult Children of the Prison Boom: Family Troubles and the Intergenerational Transmission of Criminal Justice Contact. Demography. 61(1). 141–164. 2 indexed citations

Wakefield, Sara, et al.. (2024). The consequences of sibling criminal legal system contact for family life. Journal of Marriage and the Family. 86(4). 931–945. 2 indexed citations

Yi, Youngmin, Peter K. Enns, & Christopher Wildeman. (2024). Reconsidering the Relationship between Incarceration, Trust in the State, Community Engagement, and Civic Participation. Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 10.

Yi, Youngmin, Frank Edwards, Natalia Emanuel, et al.. (2023). State-level variation in the cumulative prevalence of child welfare system contact, 2015–2019. Children and Youth Services Review. 147. 106832–106832. 20 indexed citations

Yi, Youngmin, Brita Roy, Carley Riley, et al.. (2021). Exposure to Family Member Incarceration and Adult Well-being in the United States. JAMA Network Open. 4(5). e2111821–e2111821. 24 indexed citations

Wildeman, Christopher, et al.. (2021). Sticky Stigma: The Impact of Incarceration on Perceptions of Personality Traits and Deservingness. Social Forces. 100(4). 1910–1934. 16 indexed citations

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Edwards, Frank, Sara Wakefield, Kieran Healy, & Christopher Wildeman. (2021). Contact with Child Protective Services is pervasive but unequally distributed by race and ethnicity in large US counties. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(30). 59 indexed citations

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Wildeman, Christopher, Alyssa W. Goldman, & Emily A. Wang. (2019). Age-Standardized Mortality of Persons on Probation, in Jail, or in State Prison and the General Population, 2001-2012. Public Health Reports. 134(6). 660–666. 27 indexed citations

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Turney, Kristin & Christopher Wildeman. (2017). Adverse childhood experiences among children placed in and adopted from foster care: Evidence from a nationally representative survey. Child Abuse & Neglect. 64. 117–129. 123 indexed citations

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Wildeman, Christopher, Kristin Turney, & Jason Schnittker. (2014). The Hedonic Consequences of Punishment Revisited. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-). 104(1). 133–164. 17 indexed citations

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Wildeman, Christopher & Natalia Emanuel. (2014). Cumulative Risks of Foster Care Placement by Age 18 for U.S. Children, 2000–2011. PLoS ONE. 9(3). e92785–e92785. 159 indexed citations

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Fallesen, Peter, Natalia Emanuel, & Christopher Wildeman. (2014). Cumulative Risks of Foster Care Placement for Danish Children. PLoS ONE. 9(10). e109207–e109207. 34 indexed citations

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Papachristos, Andrew V., Christopher Wildeman, & Elizabeth Roberto. (2014). Tragic, but not random: The social contagion of nonfatal gunshot injuries. Social Science & Medicine. 125. 139–150. 161 indexed citations

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Dumont, Dora M., Christopher Wildeman, Hedwig Lee, et al.. (2014). Incarceration, Maternal Hardship, and Perinatal Health Behaviors. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 18(9). 2179–2187. 43 indexed citations

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Wildeman, Christopher, Hedwig Lee, & Megan Comfort. (2013). A New Vulnerable Population? The Health of Female Partners of Men Recently Released from Prison. Women s Health Issues. 23(6). e335–e340. 37 indexed citations

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Turney, Kristin, Christopher Wildeman, & Jason Schnittker. (2012). As Fathers and Felons. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 53(4). 465–481. 123 indexed citations

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Cadge, Wendy, et al.. (2007). Bridging the denomination-congregation divide : Evangelical Lutheran Church in America congregations respond to homosexuality. Review of Religious Research. 48(3). 245–259. 19 indexed citations

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