Harold I. Lief

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Harold I. Lief is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Harold I. Lief has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in General Health Professions, 9 papers in Clinical Psychology and 9 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Harold I. Lief's work include Gender Roles and Identity Studies (7 papers), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (7 papers) and Sexual function and dysfunction studies (5 papers). Harold I. Lief is often cited by papers focused on Gender Roles and Identity Studies (7 papers), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (7 papers) and Sexual function and dysfunction studies (5 papers). Harold I. Lief collaborates with scholars based in United States. Harold I. Lief's co-authors include James Walters, William R. Miller, D. Strauss, Harold Persky, Charles P. O’Brien, William R. Miller, William Fullard, Ellen Berman, Alan J. Wein and Helen Singer Kaplan and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, American Journal of Psychiatry and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Harold I. Lief

45 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality 1977 2026 1993 2009 1977 100 200 300 400
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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. Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality
    1977 402 citations Harold I. Lief 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
Harold I. Lief United States 18 524 437 379 351 252 50 1.4k
Peter R. Kilmann United States 22 784 1.5× 416 1.0× 173 0.5× 455 1.3× 396 1.6× 78 1.3k
Patricia J. Morokoff United States 23 811 1.5× 314 0.7× 902 2.4× 432 1.2× 506 2.0× 40 1.9k
George E. Schreer United States 8 694 1.3× 617 1.4× 517 1.4× 355 1.0× 482 1.9× 11 1.9k
Helen Singer Kaplan United States 19 1.5k 2.8× 482 1.1× 284 0.7× 1.4k 4.0× 418 1.7× 60 2.5k
Markus Varjonen Finland 21 690 1.3× 247 0.6× 215 0.6× 678 1.9× 255 1.0× 26 1.4k
Phyllis Kernoff Mansfield United States 22 206 0.4× 152 0.3× 249 0.7× 175 0.5× 196 0.8× 56 1.2k
Katarina Witting Finland 19 590 1.1× 222 0.5× 199 0.5× 679 1.9× 243 1.0× 23 1.3k
Neil Buhrich Australia 23 563 1.1× 312 0.7× 414 1.1× 344 1.0× 173 0.7× 64 1.3k
Nathaniel N. Wagner United States 18 609 1.2× 319 0.7× 257 0.7× 136 0.4× 249 1.0× 52 1.3k
Anthony Charuvastra United States 17 993 1.9× 355 0.8× 310 0.8× 132 0.4× 204 0.8× 26 2.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Harold I. Lief

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Harold I. Lief

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McHugh, Paul R., et al.. (2004). From Refusal to Reconciliation. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 192(8). 525–531. 9 indexed citations
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Lief, Harold I.. (2003). Questions Raised by the Controversy Over Recovered Memories of Incest. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. 31(2). 381–395. 1 indexed citations
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Lief, Harold I.. (2001). Satisfaction and Distress: Disjunctions in the Components of Sexual Response. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. 27(2). 169–170. 7 indexed citations
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Lief, Harold I.. (2001). Boundary Crossings: Sexual Misconduct of Clergy. Journal of Sex Education and Therapy. 26(4). 310–314.
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Lief, Harold I., et al.. (1997). The Construction of False Memory Syndrome: A Transactional Model. Psychological Inquiry. 8(4). 303–306. 2 indexed citations
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Lief, Harold I., et al.. (1993). Orgasm in the postoperative transsexual. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 22(2). 145–155. 57 indexed citations
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Lief, Harold I. & Helen Singer Kaplan. (1986). Ego-dystonic homosexuality. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. 12(4). 259–266. 12 indexed citations
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Lief, Harold I., et al.. (1984). International research in sexology: Selected papers from the fifth world congress. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations
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Miller, William R. & Harold I. Lief. (1979). The sex knowledge and attitude test (SKAT). Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. 5(3). 282–287. 63 indexed citations
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Lief, Harold I.. (1978). Sex Education in Medicine. DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library). 203–216. 22 indexed citations
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Miller, William R. & Harold I. Lief. (1976). Masturbatory attitudes, knowledge, and experience: Data from the sex knowledge and attitude test (SKAT). Archives of Sexual Behavior. 5(5). 447–467. 30 indexed citations
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Lief, Harold I.. (1975). Medical aspects of human sexuality : 750 questions answered by 500 authorities. DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library).
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Lief, Harold I., et al.. (1975). Sexuality: Knowledge and Attitudes. AJN American Journal of Nursing. 75(11). 2026–2026. 25 indexed citations
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Lief, Harold I., et al.. (1975). SEXUALITY—Knowledge and Attitudes. AJN American Journal of Nursing. 75(11). 2026–2029. 36 indexed citations
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Lief, Harold I., et al.. (1972). Medical school involvement in sex counseling for college students. Academic Medicine. 47(9). 740–1. 2 indexed citations
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Rohrer, John H., et al.. (1964). The eighth generation grows up : cultures and personalities of New Orleans Negroes. Harper & Row eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Lief, Harold I.. (1963). Training for 'detached concern' in medical students. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 12–35. 141 indexed citations
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Lief, Harold I.. (1962). Silence as intervention in psychotherapy. The American Journal of Psychoanalysis. 22(1). 80–83. 6 indexed citations
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Lief, Harold I. & William C. Thompson. (1961). The Prediction of Behavior from Adolescence to Adulthood†. Psychiatry. 24(1). 32–38. 1 indexed citations
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Lief, Harold I.. (1958). Department of Psychiatry and Neurology Tulane University School of Medicine 1430 Tulane Avenue New Orleans 12, Louisiana. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 2(4). 364–364. 1 indexed citations

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