Laurel Westbrook

3.0k citations
20 papers · 2.0k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 12
Topics
LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (13 papers)Gender Diversity and Inequality (3 papers)Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 papers)
Partner nations
United StatesCzechia

In The Last Decade

Laurel Westbrook

19 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity20092026201420202009201320152022100200300400500

Peers

Laurel Westbrook
Comparison fields: 5 of 101
  • Social Psychology 1.1k
  • Gender Studies 1.1k
  • Sociology and Political Science 944
  • Clinical Psychology 326
  • Reproductive Medicine 147
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Fields of papers citing papers by Laurel Westbrook

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laurel Westbrook

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#WorkIndexed citations
1 9
2 13
3 17
4 5
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Reducing the Joy Deficit in Sociology: A Study of Transgender Joybreakdown →
82
6 20
7 11
8 2
9 33
10 84
11 102
12
New Categories Are Not Enoughbreakdown →
280
13 71
14 1
15
Doing Gender, Determining Genderbreakdown →
311
16 0
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Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity “Gender Normals,” Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality
404
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Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativitybreakdown →
526
19 10
20 6

About Laurel Westbrook

Laurel Westbrook is a scholar working on Gender Studies, Social Psychology and Health, having authored 20 papers that have together received 2.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (13 papers), Gender Diversity and Inequality (3 papers) and Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Gender Studies (1.1k citations), Social Psychology (1.1k citations) and Sociology and Political Science (944 citations). Laurel Westbrook has collaborated with scholars based in United States and Czechia. Frequent co-authors include Kristen Schilt, Aliya Saperstein, Stef M. Shuster and Steven Seidman. Their work appears in journals such as American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Health and Social Behavior and Social Problems.

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