Jo C. Phelan

17.3k total citations · 9 hit papers
46 papers, 11.2k citations indexed

About

Jo C. Phelan is a scholar working on Social Psychology, General Health Professions and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jo C. Phelan has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 11.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Social Psychology, 18 papers in General Health Professions and 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Jo C. Phelan's work include Mental Health Treatment and Access (14 papers), Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (12 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (12 papers). Jo C. Phelan is often cited by papers focused on Mental Health Treatment and Access (14 papers), Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (12 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (12 papers). Jo C. Phelan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Kenya and China. Jo C. Phelan's co-authors include Bruce G. Link, Mark L. Hatzenbuehler, Parisa Tehranifar, Carol S. Aneshensel, Jennifer Boyd Ritsher, Lawrence H. Yang, John F. Dovidio, Sing Lee, Byron J. Good and Arthur Kleinman and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, JAMA and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Jo C. Phelan

44 papers receiving 10.6k citations

Hit Papers

Stigma as a Fundamental Cause of Populati... 1999 2026 2008 2017 2013 2010 2006 2015 2006 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Stigma as a Fundamental Cause of Population Health Inequalities
    2013 1.8k citations Mark L. Hatzenbuehler, Jo C. Phelan et al. American Journal of Public Health profile →
  2. Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Health Inequalities: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications
    2010 1.7k citations Jo C. Phelan, Bruce G. Link et al. Journal of Health and Social Behavior profile →
  3. Stigma and its public health implications
    2006 1.1k citations Bruce G. Link, Jo C. Phelan The Lancet profile →
  4. Is Racism a Fundamental Cause of Inequalities in Health?
    2015 969 citations Jo C. Phelan, Bruce G. Link profile →
  5. Culture and stigma: Adding moral experience to stigma theory
    2006 793 citations Lawrence H. Yang, Bruce G. Link et al. Social Science & Medicine profile →
  6. Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health
    1999 611 citations Jo C. Phelan et al. profile →
  7. Internalized stigma predicts erosion of morale among psychiatric outpatients
    2004 507 citations Jennifer Boyd Ritsher, Jo C. Phelan Psychiatry Research profile →
  8. Stigma and prejudice: One animal or two?
    2008 460 citations Jo C. Phelan, Bruce G. Link et al. Social Science & Medicine profile →
  9. Stigma power
    2014 394 citations Bruce G. Link, Jo C. Phelan Social Science & Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jo C. Phelan United States 30 4.2k 3.4k 3.3k 3.0k 2.7k 46 11.2k
Mark A. Schuster United States 65 5.4k 1.3× 2.8k 0.8× 4.3k 1.3× 2.3k 0.8× 1.2k 0.5× 327 15.0k
Robert W. Blum United States 63 4.9k 1.2× 1.5k 0.4× 4.7k 1.4× 2.2k 0.7× 1.4k 0.5× 211 13.4k
Michael D. Resnick United States 51 5.9k 1.4× 3.4k 1.0× 7.8k 2.4× 2.3k 0.8× 1.8k 0.7× 142 16.1k
Nancy D. Brener United States 49 4.9k 1.2× 2.4k 0.7× 5.1k 1.5× 2.2k 0.7× 1.8k 0.7× 156 14.1k
Jeannette R. Ickovics United States 55 5.0k 1.2× 2.6k 0.8× 3.1k 1.0× 2.7k 0.9× 2.0k 0.7× 217 15.6k
Carol S. Aneshensel United States 55 4.4k 1.1× 2.5k 0.7× 3.9k 1.2× 4.1k 1.3× 3.9k 1.5× 107 11.4k
Joseph T. Mullan United States 30 5.4k 1.3× 2.6k 0.8× 4.5k 1.4× 5.2k 1.7× 3.6k 1.3× 41 15.0k
Jo C. Phelan United States 36 6.9k 1.7× 7.9k 2.3× 6.6k 2.0× 4.7k 1.5× 3.7k 1.4× 58 18.5k
Harold W. Neighbors United States 54 3.6k 0.9× 3.5k 1.0× 5.0k 1.5× 5.3k 1.7× 3.4k 1.3× 123 12.1k
Catherine E. Ross United States 39 4.7k 1.1× 2.0k 0.6× 2.0k 0.6× 4.3k 1.4× 4.2k 1.6× 83 12.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Phelan, Jo C.. (2024). Impostorization in Academia, Psychological Distress, and Class Reproduction. Society and Mental Health. 14(1). 1–22. 1 indexed citations
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Link, Bruce G., et al.. (2024). Socioeconomic-Status-Based Disrespect, Discrimination, Exclusion, and Shaming: A Potential Source of Health Inequalities?. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 65(4). 558–576. 6 indexed citations
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Link, Bruce G., et al.. (2020). A School-Based Intervention for Mental Illness Stigma: A Cluster Randomized Trial. PEDIATRICS. 145(6). 25 indexed citations
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DuPont‐Reyes, Melissa J., et al.. (2019). Adolescent views of mental illness stigma: An intersectional lens.. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 90(2). 201–211. 59 indexed citations
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Phelan, Jo C., et al.. (2018). A comparison of status and stigma processes: Explicit and implicit appraisals of “mentally ill people” and “uneducated people”.. Stigma and Health. 4(2). 213–224. 10 indexed citations
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Villatoro, Alice P., Melissa J. DuPont‐Reyes, Jo C. Phelan, Kirstin Painter, & Bruce G. Link. (2018). Parental recognition of preadolescent mental health problems: Does stigma matter?. Social Science & Medicine. 216. 88–96. 36 indexed citations
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Phelan, Jo C., Michael J. Paskow, Anita Roach, et al.. (2017). 0771 THE NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION’S SLEEP HEALTH INDEX. SLEEP. 40(suppl_1). A286–A286. 5 indexed citations
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Phelan, Jo C., et al.. (2014). Stigma, status, and population health. Social Science & Medicine. 103. 15–23. 131 indexed citations
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Hatzenbuehler, Mark L., Jo C. Phelan, & Bruce G. Link. (2013). Stigma as a Fundamental Cause of Population Health Inequalities. American Journal of Public Health. 103(5). 813–821. 1794 indexed citations breakdown →
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Phelan, Jo C., et al.. (2010). Effectiveness and Outcomes of Assisted Outpatient Treatment in New York State. Psychiatric Services. 61(2). 137–143. 60 indexed citations
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Tehranifar, Parisa, Alfred I. Neugut, Jo C. Phelan, et al.. (2009). Medical Advances and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Cancer Survival. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 18(10). 2701–2708. 108 indexed citations
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Phelan, Jo C., Bruce G. Link, & John F. Dovidio. (2008). Stigma and prejudice: One animal or two?. Social Science & Medicine. 67(3). 358–367. 460 indexed citations breakdown →
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Phelan, Jo C., et al.. (2006). Effects of Attributing Serious Mental Illnesses to Genetic Causes on Orientations to Treatment. Psychiatric Services. 57(3). 382–387. 151 indexed citations
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Link, Bruce G. & Jo C. Phelan. (2006). Stigma and its public health implications. The Lancet. 367(9509). 528–529. 1065 indexed citations breakdown →
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Miech, Richard A., Shiriki Kumanyika, Nicolas Stettler, et al.. (2006). Trends in the Association of Poverty With Overweight Among US Adolescents, 1971-2004. JAMA. 295(20). 2385–2385. 217 indexed citations
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Ritsher, Jennifer Boyd & Jo C. Phelan. (2004). Internalized stigma predicts erosion of morale among psychiatric outpatients. Psychiatry Research. 129(3). 257–265. 507 indexed citations breakdown →
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Phelan, Jo C. & Bruce G. Link. (1998). The growing belief that people with mental illnesses are violent: the role of the dangerousness criterion for civil commitment. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 33(13). S7–S12. 89 indexed citations
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Link, Bruce G., A Stueve, & Jo C. Phelan. (1998). Psychotic symptoms and violent behaviors: probing the components of threat/control-override symptoms. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 33(0). S55–S60. 184 indexed citations
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Phelan, Jo C., et al.. (1983). A Comparative Study of College Impacts on Human Outcomes. ASHE 1983 Annual Meeting Paper.. 1 indexed citations

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