Howard Kress

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Howard Kress is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Health and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Howard Kress has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Clinical Psychology, 17 papers in Health and 15 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Howard Kress's work include Child Abuse and Trauma (20 papers), Intimate Partner and Family Violence (17 papers) and Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (11 papers). Howard Kress is often cited by papers focused on Child Abuse and Trauma (20 papers), Intimate Partner and Family Violence (17 papers) and Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (11 papers). Howard Kress collaborates with scholars based in United States, Nigeria and Tanzania. Howard Kress's co-authors include James A. Mercy, Susan D. Hillis, Adaugo Amobi, Nurul Alam, Mary K. Shenk, Kimberly H. Nguyen, Steven A. Sumner, Laura Chiang, Andrés Villaveces and Mary C. Towner and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PEDIATRICS and Child Abuse & Neglect.

In The Last Decade

Howard Kress

26 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Global Prevalence of Past-year Violence Against Children: A Systematic Review and Minimum Estimates

2016 810 citations Susan D. Hillis, James A. Mercy et al. PEDIATRICS profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Howard Kress United States	15	1.1k	695	575	298	193	27	1.6k
Cindy Sousa United States	17	1.3k 1.2×	734 1.1×	485 0.8×	537 1.8×	108 0.6×	45	1.7k
Lynette M. Renner United States	22	1.2k 1.1×	1.2k 1.7×	556 1.0×	571 1.9×	277 1.4×	83	1.9k
Leah K. Gilbert United States	13	1.0k 0.9×	837 1.2×	540 0.9×	550 1.8×	413 2.1×	20	1.8k
Phyllis Holditch Niolon United States	18	612 0.6×	700 1.0×	419 0.7×	343 1.2×	291 1.5×	42	1.2k
J. B. Kingree United States	24	1.1k 1.0×	593 0.9×	645 1.1×	574 1.9×	320 1.7×	51	1.9k
Stephanie Holt Ireland	14	1.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.5×	409 0.7×	585 2.0×	96 0.5×	42	1.5k
Teresa Evans‐Campbell United States	15	811 0.7×	747 1.1×	611 1.1×	556 1.9×	86 0.4×	19	1.7k
Martha L. Coulter United States	17	677 0.6×	430 0.6×	228 0.4×	409 1.4×	141 0.7×	40	1.1k
Gillian M. Pinchevsky United States	18	775 0.7×	517 0.7×	441 0.8×	573 1.9×	138 0.7×	41	1.5k
Edward F. Garrido United States	17	880 0.8×	489 0.7×	341 0.6×	295 1.0×	71 0.4×	24	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Howard Kress

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Howard Kress

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Howard Kress. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Howard Kress based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Howard Kress. Howard Kress is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Miedema, Stephanie Spaid, et al.. (2023). Path Analysis of Adverse Childhood Experiences, Early Marriage, Early Pregnancy, and Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence Among Young Women in Honduras. Journal of Family Violence. 39(4). 705–722. 2 indexed citations

Villaveces, Andrés, et al.. (2022). Association between violence and mental distress, self-harm and suicidal ideation and attempts among young people in Malawi. Injury Prevention. 28(5). 446–452. 7 indexed citations

Miedema, Stephanie Spaid, et al.. (2021). Associations between adverse childhood experiences and contraceptive use among young adults in Honduras. Child Abuse & Neglect. 123. 105381–105381. 2 indexed citations

Kieselbach, Berit, Howard Kress, Harriet L. MacMillan, & Thomas Perneger. (2020). Prevalence of childhood exposure to intimate partner violence and associations with mental distress in Cambodia, Malawi and Nigeria: A cross-sectional study. Child Abuse & Neglect. 111. 104807–104807. 13 indexed citations

Annor, Francis, Leah K. Gilbert, Evelyn P. Davila, et al.. (2020). Emotional violence in childhood and health conditions, risk-taking behaviors, and violence perpetration among young adults in Nigeria. Child Abuse & Neglect. 106. 104510–104510. 10 indexed citations

Nguyen, Kimberly H., Scott R. Kegler, Laura Chiang, & Howard Kress. (2019). Effects of Poly-Victimization Before Age 18 on Health Outcomes in Young Kenyan Adults: Violence Against Children Survey. Violence and Victims. 34(2). 229–242. 13 indexed citations

Nguyen, Kimberly H., Andrés Villaveces, Pragna Patel, et al.. (2019). Coerced and forced sexual initiation and its association with negative health outcomes among youth: Results from the Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia Violence Against Children Surveys. Child Abuse & Neglect. 96. 104074–104074. 34 indexed citations

Devries, Karen, Louise Knight, Max Petzold, et al.. (2018). Who perpetrates violence against children? A systematic analysis of age-specific and sex-specific data. BMJ Paediatrics Open. 2(1). e000180–e000180. 119 indexed citations

Nguyen, Kimberly H., et al.. (2018). Disclosure of Sexual Violence Among Girls and Young Women Aged 13 to 24 Years: Results From the Violence Against Children Surveys in Nigeria and Malawi. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 36(3-4). NP2188–2204NP. 26 indexed citations

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Kress, Howard, et al.. (2018). Correlates of disclosure of sexual violence among Kenyan youth. Child Abuse & Neglect. 79. 164–172. 18 indexed citations

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VanderEnde, Kristin, Laura Chiang, James A. Mercy, et al.. (2018). Adverse Childhood Experiences and HIV Sexual Risk-Taking Behaviors Among Young Adults in Malawi. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 33(11). 1710–1730. 49 indexed citations

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Hillis, Susan D., et al.. (2016). THRIVES: Using the best evidence to prevent violence against children. Journal of Public Health Policy. 37(S1). 51–65. 25 indexed citations

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Fan, Amy Z., Howard Kress, Sundeep Gupta, et al.. (2016). Do self-reported data reflect the real burden of lifetime exposure to sexual violence among females aged 13–24 years in Malawi?. Child Abuse & Neglect. 58. 72–79. 15 indexed citations

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Hillis, Susan D., James A. Mercy, Adaugo Amobi, & Howard Kress. (2016). Global Prevalence of Past-year Violence Against Children: A Systematic Review and Minimum Estimates. PEDIATRICS. 137(3). e20154079–e20154079. 810 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sumner, Steven A., James A. Mercy, Louis Herns Marcelin, et al.. (2016). Childhood Sexual Violence Against Boys: A Study in 3 Countries. PEDIATRICS. 137(5). 36 indexed citations

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Chiang, Laura, et al.. (2016). Violence Against Children Surveys (VACS): towards a global surveillance system. Injury Prevention. 22(Suppl 1). i17–i22. 75 indexed citations

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Sumner, Steven A., Louis Herns Marcelin, James A. Mercy, et al.. (2015). Sentinel events predicting later unwanted sex among girls: A national survey in Haiti, 2012. Child Abuse & Neglect. 50. 49–55. 3 indexed citations

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Shenk, Mary K., Kathrine Starkweather, Howard Kress, & Nurul Alam. (2013). Does Absence Matter?. Human Nature. 24(1). 76–110. 41 indexed citations

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Kress, Howard, et al.. (2012). Top 20 violence and injury practice innovations since 1992. Journal of Safety Research. 43(4). 257–263. 10 indexed citations

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Kress, Howard. (2008). Explaining the demographic transition in Otavalo, Ecuador: A comparison of three models of the demographic transition. OpenCommons - UConn (University of Connecticut).

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