Judith Blake

4.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
48 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Judith Blake is a scholar working on Gender Studies, Demography and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Judith Blake has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Gender Studies, 15 papers in Demography and 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Judith Blake's work include Family Dynamics and Relationships (14 papers), Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (11 papers) and Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (11 papers). Judith Blake is often cited by papers focused on Family Dynamics and Relationships (14 papers), Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (11 papers) and Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (11 papers). Judith Blake collaborates with scholars based in United States. Judith Blake's co-authors include Kingsley Davis, Fernando Henriques, Michael G. Smith, Dennis P. Hogan, John Hagan, W. Richard Scott, Neil J. Smelser, James F. Short, Alex Inkeles and James Coleman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, American Sociological Review and BioScience.

In The Last Decade

Judith Blake

46 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

Family Size and the Quality of Children 1956 2026 1979 2002 1981 1956 1989 100 200 300 400 500
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. Family Size and the Quality of Children
    1981 577 citations Judith Blake profile →
  2. Social Structure and Fertility: An Analytic Framework
    1956 547 citations Kingsley Davis, Judith Blake profile →
  3. Family Size and Achievement
    1989 533 citations Judith Blake profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Judith Blake United States 24 1.4k 1.3k 1.2k 575 454 48 3.3k
Brian Powell United States 35 1.8k 1.3× 999 0.7× 903 0.8× 296 0.5× 719 1.6× 97 3.9k
Lala Carr Steelman United States 29 1.4k 1.0× 689 0.5× 600 0.5× 241 0.4× 1.0k 2.3× 53 2.8k
Dudley L. Poston United States 31 1.5k 1.1× 849 0.6× 794 0.7× 374 0.7× 180 0.4× 145 2.8k
Norman B. Ryder United States 23 1.7k 1.3× 1.3k 1.0× 1.7k 1.5× 528 0.9× 127 0.3× 70 4.4k
Tim B. Heaton United States 34 2.1k 1.5× 866 0.6× 1.4k 1.2× 246 0.4× 146 0.3× 121 3.5k
Lynn White United States 38 2.8k 2.1× 1.2k 0.9× 2.4k 2.1× 282 0.5× 216 0.5× 56 4.4k
Gary D. Sandefur United States 26 3.1k 2.3× 1.5k 1.1× 1.9k 1.7× 220 0.4× 979 2.2× 77 4.9k
Kathleen Kiernan United Kingdom 39 2.7k 2.0× 1.3k 1.0× 2.2k 1.9× 533 0.9× 648 1.4× 89 5.3k
Harriet B. Presser United States 27 2.2k 1.6× 1.6k 1.2× 815 0.7× 110 0.2× 306 0.7× 58 3.3k
John Hobcraft United Kingdom 24 714 0.5× 761 0.6× 824 0.7× 1.1k 1.8× 105 0.2× 59 2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Judith Blake

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Fields of papers citing papers by Judith Blake

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Judith Blake

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Blake, Judith. (1991). Number of Siblings and Personality. Family Planning Perspectives. 23(6). 272–272. 5 indexed citations
2.
Blake, Judith. (1985). Number of Siblings and Educational Mobility. American Sociological Review. 50(1). 84–84. 85 indexed citations
3.
Blake, Judith. (1984). Catholicism and Fertility: On Attitudes of Young Americans. Population and Development Review. 10(2). 329–329. 21 indexed citations
4.
Blake, Judith. (1983). World Fertility Survey Conference 1980: Record of Proceedings.. Population and Development Review. 9(1). 153–153. 19 indexed citations
5.
Blake, Judith. (1981). The Only Child in America: Prejudice versus Performance. Population and Development Review. 7(1). 43–43. 101 indexed citations
6.
Blake, Judith, et al.. (1979). Predictors of family‐size preferences, 1945–1977: A multivariate analysis. Social Biology. 26(4). 302–313. 2 indexed citations
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Blake, Judith. (1979). Is Zero Preferred? American Attitudes toward Childlessness in the 1970s. Journal of Marriage and the Family. 41(2). 245–245. 89 indexed citations
8.
Blake, Judith & Prithwis Das Gupta. (1978). Reply [to Ön the Time Series of American Fertility"]. Population and Development Review. 4(2). 326–326. 3 indexed citations
9.
Blake, Judith. (1977). The pill and the rising costs of fertility control. Social Biology. 24(4). 267–280. 5 indexed citations
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Blake, Judith. (1977). The Supreme Court's Abortion Decisions and Public Opinion in the United States. Population and Development Review. 3(1/2). 45–45. 18 indexed citations
11.
Blake, Judith. (1974). The Changing Status of Women in Developed Countries. Scientific American. 231(3). 136–147. 32 indexed citations
12.
Blake, Judith. (1973). The Teenage Birth Control Dilemma and Public Opinion. Science. 180(4087). 708–712. 10 indexed citations
13.
Blake, Judith. (1971). Abortion and Public Opinion: The 1960-1970 Decade. Science. 171(3971). 540–549. 79 indexed citations
14.
Blake, Judith. (1971). Reproductive Motivation and Population Policy. BioScience. 21(5). 215–220. 9 indexed citations
15.
Blake, Judith. (1969). Response : Birth Control—Population Policy. Science. 165(3889). 122–124. 1 indexed citations
16.
Freedman, Ronald, Kingsley Davis, & Judith Blake. (1967). Factores sociologicos de la fecundidad. 1 indexed citations
17.
Blake, Judith. (1967). Family size in the 1960's—a baffling fad?. Eugenics Quarterly. 14(1). 60–74. 13 indexed citations
18.
Blake, Judith. (1966). The Americanization of catholic reproductive ideals. Population Studies. 20(1). 27–43. 34 indexed citations
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Blake, Judith, et al.. (1963). Pioneering in Family Planning. The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. 41(3). 319–319. 6 indexed citations
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Davis, Kingsley & Judith Blake. (1960). La estructura social y la fecundidad: un sistema analítico. DIGITAL REPOSITORY Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (United Nations). 2 indexed citations

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