Irwin Gerber

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Irwin Gerber is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Health and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Irwin Gerber has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Clinical Psychology, 2 papers in Health and 2 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Irwin Gerber's work include Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (4 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (3 papers) and Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (2 papers). Irwin Gerber is often cited by papers focused on Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (4 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (3 papers) and Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (2 papers). Irwin Gerber collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and United States. Irwin Gerber's co-authors include George V. Coelho, David A. Hamburg, John Adams, David Peretz, Bernard Schoenberg, Arthur M. Arkin, Alvin I. Goldfarb, Max Pollack, Arthur C. Carr and Austin H. Kutscher and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, American Journal of Psychiatry and The Journal of Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Irwin Gerber

8 papers receiving 962 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Coping and Adaptation.

1976 855 citations Irwin Gerber, George V. Coelho et al. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Irwin Gerber United Kingdom	7	557	297	290	233	139	8	1.1k
George V. Coelho United States	12	461 0.8×	370 1.2×	270 0.9×	277 1.2×	80 0.6×	25	1.2k
Earle Silber United States	11	624 1.1×	342 1.2×	167 0.6×	212 0.9×	72 0.5×	19	1.1k
Joel Fischer United States	16	793 1.4×	406 1.4×	500 1.7×	265 1.1×	105 0.8×	43	1.7k
Roger C. Katz United States	24	761 1.4×	220 0.7×	215 0.7×	196 0.8×	118 0.8×	63	1.6k
Andrew I. Schwebel United States	19	570 1.0×	487 1.6×	153 0.5×	528 2.3×	95 0.7×	73	1.4k
Bernard R. Blishen Canada	12	512 0.9×	289 1.0×	214 0.7×	465 2.0×	86 0.6×	20	1.8k
Russ V. Reynolds United States	8	432 0.8×	225 0.8×	215 0.7×	134 0.6×	63 0.5×	12	973
Kathryn Strother Ratcliff United States	11	536 1.0×	279 0.9×	205 0.7×	350 1.5×	69 0.5×	16	1.1k
Joanne C. Gersten United States	18	627 1.1×	147 0.5×	257 0.9×	236 1.0×	96 0.7×	27	1.1k
David L. Tobin United States	20	1.0k 1.9×	279 0.9×	199 0.7×	257 1.1×	158 1.1×	32	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Irwin Gerber

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Irwin Gerber. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Irwin Gerber 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 Irwin Gerber. Irwin Gerber is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Schoenberg, Bernard, et al.. (1977). Bereavement: Its Psychosocial Aspects.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 6(2). 193–193. 33 indexed citations

2.

Schoenberg, Bernard, et al.. (1976). BEREAVEMENT; Its Psychosocial Aspects. AJN American Journal of Nursing. 76(10). 1675–1675. 62 indexed citations

3.

Hess, Patricia, Bernard Schoenberg, Irwin Gerber, et al.. (1976). Bereavement; Its Psychosocial Aspects. AJN American Journal of Nursing. 76(10). 1675–1675. 28 indexed citations

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Gerber, Irwin, George V. Coelho, David A. Hamburg, & John Adams. (1976). Coping and Adaptation.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 5(1). 59–59. 855 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gerber, Irwin, et al.. (1975). Anticipatory Grief and Aged Widows and Widowers. Journal of Gerontology. 30(2). 225–229. 96 indexed citations

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Gerber, Irwin. (1969). Bereavement and the acceptance of professional service. Community Mental Health Journal. 5(6). 487–495. 7 indexed citations

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Gerber, Irwin. (1962). The Effects of the Supreme Court's Desegregation Decision on the Group Cohesion of New York City's Negroes. The Journal of Social Psychology. 58(2). 295–303. 1 indexed citations

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Goldfarb, Alvin I., et al.. (1960). THE RELATIONSHIP OF MENTAL AND PHYSICAL STATUS IN INSTITUTIONALIZED AGED PERSONS. American Journal of Psychiatry. 117(2). 120–124. 57 indexed citations

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