I‐Fen Lin

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

I‐Fen Lin is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Demography and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, I‐Fen Lin has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 35 papers in Demography and 19 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in I‐Fen Lin's work include Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (47 papers), Family Dynamics and Relationships (30 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (19 papers). I‐Fen Lin is often cited by papers focused on Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (47 papers), Family Dynamics and Relationships (30 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (19 papers). I‐Fen Lin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Taiwan and Canada. I‐Fen Lin's co-authors include Susan L. Brown, Nora Cate Schaeffer, Sara McLanahan, Anna M. Hammersmith, Anne Case, Matthew R. Wright, Maxine Weinstein, Noreen Goldman, Yu‐Hsuan Lin and Douglas A. Wolf and has published in prestigious journals such as American Economic Review, Acta Materialia and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

I‐Fen Lin

53 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

The Gray Divorce Revolution: Rising Divorce Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults, 1990-2010

2012 315 citations Susan L. Brown, I‐Fen Lin The Journals of Gerontology Series B profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
I‐Fen Lin United States	24	1.3k	936	560	414	352	57	2.0k
Zheng Wu Canada	26	1.0k 0.8×	559 0.6×	466 0.8×	293 0.7×	493 1.4×	63	1.8k
Rachel Margolis Canada	24	923 0.7×	547 0.6×	670 1.2×	278 0.7×	518 1.5×	64	2.0k
Eliza K. Pavalko United States	24	1.1k 0.8×	591 0.6×	485 0.9×	332 0.8×	903 2.6×	41	2.0k
Rachel Dunifon United States	25	1.2k 0.9×	612 0.7×	250 0.4×	518 1.3×	671 1.9×	55	2.1k
Bruno Arpino Italy	27	1.4k 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	648 1.2×	528 1.3×	385 1.1×	107	2.4k
Susan E. Short United States	20	761 0.6×	425 0.5×	365 0.7×	475 1.1×	408 1.2×	41	1.8k
Ellen Verbakel Netherlands	21	1000 0.8×	370 0.4×	287 0.5×	219 0.5×	497 1.4×	63	1.6k
Jan Mutchler United States	28	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	1.0k 1.8×	143 0.3×	976 2.8×	109	2.7k
Jennifer Burr United Kingdom	23	691 0.5×	479 0.5×	400 0.7×	144 0.3×	570 1.6×	50	1.7k
Joan R. Kahn United States	20	884 0.7×	697 0.7×	465 0.8×	577 1.4×	781 2.2×	31	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by I‐Fen Lin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of I‐Fen Lin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of I‐Fen Lin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of I‐Fen Lin 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 I‐Fen Lin. I‐Fen Lin 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

Brown, Susan L., et al.. (2025). Parent–Adult Child Relationships and Repartnering After Gray Divorce. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 80(5). 1 indexed citations

Lin, I‐Fen, et al.. (2024). Adult children's responsiveness to parental needs during the pandemic. Journal of Marriage and the Family. 87(2). 460–477.

Brown, Susan L., et al.. (2024). Marital separation, reconciliation, and repartnering in later life. Journal of Marriage and the Family. 87(1). 182–200.

Wiemers, Emily, et al.. (2024). Age Differences in Experiences of Pandemic-Related Health and Economic Challenges Among Adults Aged 55 and Older. The Gerontologist. 64(6). 1 indexed citations

Lin, I‐Fen, Haowei Wang, Daniel R Y Gan, et al.. (2023). Changes in late‐life assistance networks for Black and White older adults during the COVID ‐19 pandemic. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 71(11). 3574–3583. 2 indexed citations

Lin, I‐Fen & Judith A. Seltzer. (2023). Stepfamily variation in parent–child relationship quality in later life. Journal of Marriage and the Family. 86(3). 718–737. 5 indexed citations

Freedman, Vicki A., Emily M. Agree, Judith A. Seltzer, et al.. (2023). The Changing Demography of Late-Life Family Caregiving: A Research Agenda to Understand Future Care Networks for an Aging U.S. Population. The Gerontologist. 64(2). 30 indexed citations

Brown, Susan L., et al.. (2023). Gray Divorce During the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 79(2). 5 indexed citations

Brown, Susan L., et al.. (2023). A Brief Report on Living Arrangements Following Gray Divorce. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 78(8). 1396–1401. 6 indexed citations

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Lin, I‐Fen, et al.. (2023). Gray divorce and parent–child disconnectedness: Implications for depressive symptoms. Journal of Marriage and the Family. 86(1). 95–110. 7 indexed citations

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Brown, Susan L., et al.. (2022). The rising midlife first marriage rate in the U.S.. Journal of Marriage and the Family. 84(4). 1220–1233. 7 indexed citations

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Brown, Susan L., et al.. (2021). Sole Family Survivors: Older Adults Lacking Family of Origin Kin. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 77(5). 930–935. 8 indexed citations

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Lin, I‐Fen, et al.. (2021). The Roles of Gray Divorce and Subsequent Repartnering for Parent–Adult Child Relationships. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 77(1). 212–223. 10 indexed citations

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Lin, I‐Fen & Susan L. Brown. (2020). Consequences of Later‐Life Divorce and Widowhood for Adult Well‐Being: A Call for the Convalescence Model. Journal of Family Theory & Review. 12(2). 264–277. 20 indexed citations

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Lin, I‐Fen & Susan L. Brown. (2020). The Economic Consequences of Gray Divorce for Women and Men. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 76(10). 2073–2085. 30 indexed citations

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Brown, Susan L., et al.. (2020). Midlife Marital Dissolution and the Onset of Cognitive Impairment. The Gerontologist. 61(7). 1085–1094. 22 indexed citations

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Wright, Matthew R., Anna M. Hammersmith, Susan L. Brown, & I‐Fen Lin. (2019). The Roles of Marital Dissolution and Subsequent Repartnering on Loneliness in Later Life. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 75(8). 1796–1807. 23 indexed citations

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Lin, I‐Fen & Douglas A. Wolf. (2019). Division of Parent Care Among Adult Children. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 75(10). 2230–2239. 25 indexed citations

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Lin, I‐Fen, et al.. (2018). Early-Life Parent–Child Relationships and Adult Children’s Support of Unpartnered Parents in Later Life. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 74(5). 869–880. 4 indexed citations

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Lin, I‐Fen, et al.. (2017). A National Portrait of Stepfamilies in Later Life. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 73(6). 1043–1054. 29 indexed citations

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