Kyla Thomas

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 946 citations indexed

About

Kyla Thomas is a scholar working on Health, Sociology and Political Science and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Kyla Thomas has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 946 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Health, 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Kyla Thomas's work include Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (8 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (5 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (5 papers). Kyla Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (8 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (5 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (5 papers). Kyla Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United States and Norway. Kyla Thomas's co-authors include Arie Kapteyn, Megha D. Shah, Sitaram Vangala, Peter G. Szilagyi, Nathalie Vizueta, Yan Cui, Brian Karl Finch, Rashmi Shetgiri, Ying Liu and Jill Darling and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Kyla Thomas

24 papers receiving 920 citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Parents’ Intentions and Perceptions About COVID-19 Vaccination for Their Children: Results From a National Survey

2021 210 citations Peter G. Szilagyi, Megha D. Shah 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
Kyla Thomas United States	12	646	316	300	204	158	24	946
Michael Wiblishauser United States	11	849 1.3×	483 1.5×	396 1.3×	214 1.0×	285 1.8×	18	1.3k
Ana Gama Portugal	17	578 0.9×	446 1.4×	479 1.6×	313 1.5×	176 1.1×	82	1.3k
Margaret Blake United Kingdom	8	440 0.7×	224 0.7×	247 0.8×	182 0.9×	136 0.9×	18	886
Jad A. Elharake United States	12	1.2k 1.8×	388 1.2×	707 2.4×	267 1.3×	439 2.8×	21	1.5k
Majid Alabdulla Qatar	14	311 0.5×	117 0.4×	178 0.6×	315 1.5×	88 0.6×	87	802
Grace Yi United States	11	608 0.9×	333 1.1×	269 0.9×	123 0.6×	208 1.3×	25	857
Aglaia Katsiroumpa Greece	16	375 0.6×	128 0.4×	220 0.7×	176 0.9×	84 0.5×	59	793
Olympia Konstantakopoulou Greece	14	377 0.6×	104 0.3×	221 0.7×	156 0.8×	85 0.5×	67	743
Ovidiu Tatar Canada	15	582 0.9×	228 0.7×	178 0.6×	97 0.5×	63 0.4×	36	939
Elaine Robertson United Kingdom	5	430 0.7×	173 0.5×	232 0.8×	110 0.5×	136 0.9×	9	595

Countries citing papers authored by Kyla Thomas

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Kyla Thomas's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Kyla Thomas with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Kyla Thomas more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Kyla Thomas

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Kyla Thomas. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Kyla Thomas. The network helps show where Kyla Thomas may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kyla Thomas

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Thomas, Kyla, et al.. (2025). Covid as Crucible: Humanizing Professional Learning within Neoliberal Urban School Contexts. The Urban Review. 57(4). 697–721. 1 indexed citations

Thomas, Kyla, Peter G. Szilagyi, Sitaram Vangala, et al.. (2023). Behind closed doors: Protective social behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE. 18(6). e0287589–e0287589. 1 indexed citations

Szilagyi, Peter G., Megha D. Shah, Kyla Thomas, et al.. (2022). Influence of Perceived Adolescent Vaccination Desire on Parent Decision for Adolescent COVID-19 Vaccination. Journal of Adolescent Health. 70(4). 567–570. 10 indexed citations

Dudovitz, Rebecca, Kyla Thomas, Megha D. Shah, et al.. (2022). School-Age Children's Wellbeing and School-Related Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Academic Pediatrics. 22(8). 1368–1374. 13 indexed citations

Thomas, Kyla. (2022). The psychology of distinction: How cultural tastes shape perceptions of class and competence in the U.S.✰. Poetics. 93. 101669–101669. 7 indexed citations

Beck, Audrey N., Kyla Thomas, Brian Karl Finch, & Joseph Gibbons. (2022). Determining Gentrification’s Relationship to Birth Outcomes in Metropolitan California. Housing Policy Debate. 33(1). 107–128. 5 indexed citations

Shah, Megha D., Peter G. Szilagyi, Rashmi Shetgiri, et al.. (2022). Trends in Parents’ Confidence in Childhood Vaccines During the COVID-19 Pandemic. PEDIATRICS. 150(3). 15 indexed citations

Szilagyi, Peter G., Megha D. Shah, Kyla Thomas, et al.. (2021). Parents’ Intentions and Perceptions About COVID-19 Vaccination for Their Children: Results From a National Survey. PEDIATRICS. 148(4). 210 indexed citations breakdown →

Finch, Brian Karl, et al.. (2021). Assessing Data Completeness, Quality, and Representativeness of Justifiable Homicides in the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports: A Research Note. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 38(1). 267–293. 8 indexed citations

10.

Finch, Brian Karl, Kyla Thomas, Joseph Gibbons, & Audrey N. Beck. (2021). The Impact of Residing in a Gang Territory on Adverse Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Los Angeles. Journal of Urban Health. 98(2). 233–247. 4 indexed citations

11.

Pérez‐Arce, Francisco, Marco Angrisani, Daniel Bennett, et al.. (2021). COVID-19 vaccines and mental distress. PLoS ONE. 16(9). e0256406–e0256406. 88 indexed citations

12.

Szilagyi, Peter G., Kyla Thomas, Megha D. Shah, et al.. (2021). The role of trust in the likelihood of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine: Results from a national survey. Preventive Medicine. 153. 106727–106727. 98 indexed citations

13.

Szilagyi, Peter G., Kyla Thomas, Megha D. Shah, et al.. (2021). Likelihood of COVID-19 vaccination by subgroups across the US: post-election trends and disparities. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 17(10). 3262–3267. 26 indexed citations

14.

Szilagyi, Peter G., Kyla Thomas, Megha D. Shah, et al.. (2020). National Trends in the US Public’s Likelihood of Getting a COVID-19 Vaccine—April 1 to December 8, 2020. JAMA. 325(4). 396–396. 204 indexed citations

15.

Liu, Ying, et al.. (2020). Perceived Discrimination and Mental Distress Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From the Understanding America Study. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 59(4). 481–492. 91 indexed citations

16.

Finch, Brian Karl, Kyla Thomas, & Audrey N. Beck. (2019). The Great Recession and adverse birth outcomes: Evidence from California, USA. SSM - Population Health. 9. 100470–100470. 7 indexed citations

17.

Finch, Brian Karl, et al.. (2019). “Using Crowd-Sourced Data to Explore Police-Related-Deaths in the United States (2000–2017): The Case of Fatal Encounters”. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 1–1. 31 indexed citations

18.

Thomas, Kyla. (2019). When Disney came to Broadway: Assessing the impact of corporatization in an art world. Poetics. 77. 101384–101384. 4 indexed citations

19.

Thomas, Kyla. (2018). The Labor Market Value of Taste: An Experimental Study of Class Bias in U.S. Employment. Sociological Science. 5. 562–595. 26 indexed citations

20.

Thomas, Kyla. (2016). Sounds of disadvantage: Musical taste and the origins of ethnic difference. Poetics. 60. 29–47. 11 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact