Florencia Torche

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Florencia Torche is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Health and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Florencia Torche has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 12 papers in Health and 10 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Florencia Torche's work include Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (26 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (12 papers) and Social and Cultural Dynamics (11 papers). Florencia Torche is often cited by papers focused on Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (26 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (12 papers) and Social and Cultural Dynamics (11 papers). Florencia Torche collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and United Kingdom. Florencia Torche's co-authors include Kathryn M. Neckerman, Alejandra Mizala, Karine Kleinhaus, Catherine Sirois, Eduardo Valenzuela, Ghislaine C. Echevarría, Andrés Villarreal, Michael Grätz, Alejandro Corvalán and Carlos Antônio Costa Ribeiro and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Sociological Review and American Journal of Epidemiology.

In The Last Decade

Florencia Torche

60 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Is a College Degree Still the Great Equalizer? Intergener... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Is a College Degree Still the Great Equalizer? Intergenerational Mobility across Levels of Schooling in the United States
    2011 392 citations Florencia Torche profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Florencia Torche United States 29 1.9k 677 523 416 408 62 3.3k
Kristian Bernt Karlson Denmark 19 1.7k 0.9× 582 0.9× 742 1.4× 340 0.8× 652 1.6× 41 3.6k
Michael J. White United States 38 2.6k 1.4× 674 1.0× 647 1.2× 208 0.5× 283 0.7× 103 4.1k
Carina Mood Sweden 18 1.8k 0.9× 493 0.7× 667 1.3× 452 1.1× 443 1.1× 35 3.1k
Lucinda Platt United Kingdom 30 1.4k 0.8× 360 0.5× 525 1.0× 212 0.5× 374 0.9× 110 2.7k
Norbert Schady United States 35 1.8k 0.9× 1.1k 1.6× 823 1.6× 424 1.0× 192 0.5× 103 5.8k
Gordon B. Dahl United States 20 1.5k 0.8× 468 0.7× 458 0.9× 201 0.5× 235 0.6× 68 3.3k
Miles Corak Canada 21 2.1k 1.1× 577 0.9× 327 0.6× 467 1.1× 227 0.6× 69 3.0k
Geeta Kingdon United Kingdom 29 1.2k 0.7× 1.1k 1.6× 390 0.7× 313 0.8× 154 0.4× 89 3.3k
Marianne Page United States 22 1.3k 0.7× 1000 1.5× 701 1.3× 189 0.5× 350 0.9× 42 3.0k
Todd E. Elder United States 18 1.2k 0.6× 961 1.4× 459 0.9× 253 0.6× 183 0.4× 39 4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Florencia Torche

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Fields of papers citing papers by Florencia Torche

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Florencia Torche

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All Works

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Torche, Florencia, et al.. (2025). Doing gender and the surname choices of married women. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 98. 101060–101060. 1 indexed citations
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Torche, Florencia, et al.. (2024). Contextual variation in the effect of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in the United States. Social Science Research. 126. 103126–103126. 1 indexed citations
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Torche, Florencia & Jenna Nobles. (2023). Vaccination, immunity, and the changing impact of COVID-19 on infant health. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(49). e2311573120–e2311573120. 11 indexed citations
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Brand, Jennie E., et al.. (2022). Unequal effects of disruptive events. Sociology Compass. 16(4). 24 indexed citations
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Torche, Florencia & Tamkinat Rauf. (2021). The Political Context and Infant Health in the United States. American Sociological Review. 86(3). 377–405. 20 indexed citations
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Torche, Florencia & Tamkinat Rauf. (2020). The Transition to Fatherhood and the Health of Men. Journal of Marriage and the Family. 83(2). 446–465. 17 indexed citations
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Torche, Florencia. (2018). Intergenerational Mobility at the Top of the Educational Distribution. Sociology of Education. 91(4). 266–289. 45 indexed citations
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Torche, Florencia. (2018). Prenatal Exposure to an Acute Stressor and Children’s Cognitive Outcomes. Demography. 55(5). 1611–1639. 40 indexed citations
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Torche, Florencia & Uri Shwed. (2015). The Hidden Costs of War: Exposure to Armed Conflict and Birth Outcomes. Sociological Science. 2. 558–581. 18 indexed citations
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Torche, Florencia, et al.. (2014). Exposure to Local Homicides and Early Educational Achievement in Mexico. Sociology of Education. 87(2). 89–105. 44 indexed citations
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Halpern-Manners, Andrew, John Robert Warren, & Florencia Torche. (2014). Panel Conditioning in the General Social Survey. Sociological Methods & Research. 46(1). 103–124. 23 indexed citations
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Torche, Florencia. (2014). Analyses of Intergenerational Mobility. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 657(1). 37–62. 165 indexed citations
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Torche, Florencia & Ghislaine C. Echevarría. (2011). The effect of birthweight on childhood cognitive development in a middle-income country. International Journal of Epidemiology. 40(4). 1008–1018. 80 indexed citations
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Torche, Florencia & Karine Kleinhaus. (2011). Prenatal stress, gestational age and secondary sex ratio: the sex-specific effects of exposure to a natural disaster in early pregnancy. Human Reproduction. 27(2). 558–567. 125 indexed citations
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Torche, Florencia & Alejandro Corvalán. (2010). Seasonality of Birth Weight in Chile: Environmental and Socioeconomic Factors. Annals of Epidemiology. 20(11). 818–826. 23 indexed citations
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Chan, Tak Wing, Arthur S. Alderson, Philippe Coulangeon, et al.. (2010). Social Status and Cultural Consumption. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 92 indexed citations
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Torche, Florencia & Seymour Spilerman. (2010). Intergenerational Influences of Wealth in Mexico. Latin American Research Review. 44(3). 75–101. 37 indexed citations
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Mizala, Alejandra & Florencia Torche. (2010). Bringing the schools back in: the stratification of educational achievement in the Chilean voucher system. International Journal of Educational Development. 32(1). 132–144. 170 indexed citations
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Torche, Florencia, et al.. (2004). Estratificación y movilidad social en Chile: entre la adscripción y el logro. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 5 indexed citations

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