Leigh Minturn

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 868 citations indexed

About

Leigh Minturn is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Leigh Minturn has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 868 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Clinical Psychology, 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 4 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Leigh Minturn's work include South Asian Studies and Diaspora (2 papers), Categorization, perception, and language (2 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (2 papers). Leigh Minturn is often cited by papers focused on South Asian Studies and Diaspora (2 papers), Categorization, perception, and language (2 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (2 papers). Leigh Minturn collaborates with scholars based in United States. Leigh Minturn's co-authors include William W. Lambert, Taniya Singh, Herbert Barry, Colin Bell, William D. Wilder, B. B. Goswami, James E. Ritchie, Beatrice B. Whiting, Thomas R. Williams and Sylvia Caiuby Novaes and has published in prestigious journals such as American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology and Sex Roles.

In The Last Decade

Leigh Minturn

26 papers receiving 670 citations

Hit Papers

My Brother's Keeper: Child and Sibling Caretaking [and Co... 1977 2026 1993 2009 1977 100 200 300
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. My Brother's Keeper: Child and Sibling Caretaking [and Comments and Reply]
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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leigh Minturn United States 12 323 207 184 180 135 28 868
Diane Mitsch Bush United States 10 372 1.2× 226 1.1× 240 1.3× 247 1.4× 138 1.0× 15 891
Margaret K. Bacon United States 9 382 1.2× 228 1.1× 195 1.1× 346 1.9× 194 1.4× 12 1.1k
B. B. Goswami India 3 282 0.9× 129 0.6× 100 0.5× 189 1.1× 148 1.1× 6 605
Ailsa Burns Australia 18 368 1.1× 187 0.9× 185 1.0× 210 1.2× 94 0.7× 55 876
Leanne K. Lamke United States 17 425 1.3× 124 0.6× 303 1.6× 340 1.9× 171 1.3× 27 1.0k
Lester A. Kirkendall United States 21 418 1.3× 133 0.6× 472 2.6× 305 1.7× 118 0.9× 106 1.3k
Henry B. Biller United States 20 401 1.2× 229 1.1× 386 2.1× 275 1.5× 98 0.7× 45 1.1k
Colin Bell United Kingdom 7 205 0.6× 133 0.6× 81 0.4× 91 0.5× 78 0.6× 11 493
Harwin L. Voss United States 16 693 2.1× 221 1.1× 303 1.6× 190 1.1× 54 0.4× 32 1.3k
Joseph H. Stevens United States 11 200 0.6× 308 1.5× 285 1.5× 137 0.8× 64 0.5× 30 762

Countries citing papers authored by Leigh Minturn

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leigh Minturn

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leigh Minturn

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Leigh Minturn. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Leigh Minturn 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 Leigh Minturn. Leigh Minturn 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
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Minturn, Leigh. (1996). The Economic Importance and Technological Complexity of Hand-Spinning and Hand-Weaving. Cross-Cultural Research. 30(4). 330–351. 4 indexed citations
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Searle‐Chatterjee, Mary & Leigh Minturn. (1994). Sita's Daughters: Coming Out of Purdah: The Rajput Women of Khalapur Revisited.. Man. 29(2). 524–524. 2 indexed citations
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Minturn, Leigh. (1993). Sita’s Daughters: Coming Out of Purdah. 34 indexed citations
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Minturn, Leigh. (1993). Health and Family Planning. PubMed. 221–245. 1 indexed citations
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Minturn, Leigh. (1984). Changes in the differential treatment of Rajput girls in Khalapur: 1955–1975. Medical Anthropology. 8(2). 127–132. 6 indexed citations
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Minturn, Leigh. (1983). Birth in Four Cultures: A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden and the United States. Psychology of Women Quarterly. 8(1). 105–106. 33 indexed citations
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Minturn, Leigh. (1983). Ethnocentrism in Cross- Cultural Research; and What to do about it. 18(3). 213–227. 2 indexed citations
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Minturn, Leigh, et al.. (1982). Infanticide as a Terminal Abortion Procedure. PubMed. 17(1-2). 70–90. 16 indexed citations
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Minturn, Leigh, et al.. (1978). Increased Maternal Power Status. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 9(4). 483–498. 4 indexed citations
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Minturn, Leigh. (1976). The Great Universe of Kota: Stress Change and Mental Disorder in an Indian Village. 19 indexed citations
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Minturn, Leigh, et al.. (1975). A Comparative and Longitudinal Study of the Behavior of Communally Raised Children. Ethos. 3(4). 469–480. 3 indexed citations
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Minturn, Leigh, et al.. (1969). Cultural Patterning of Sexual Beliefs and Behavior. Ethnology. 8(3). 301–301. 63 indexed citations
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Hess, Robert D. & Leigh Minturn. (1969). Rules and Aggression: A Cross-National study of the Socialization of Children into Compliance Systems. International Journal of Psychology. 4(4). 307–316. 5 indexed citations
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Minturn, Leigh, et al.. (1968). Age Differences in Peer Ratings of Socially Desirable and Socially Undesirable Behavior. Psychological Reports. 23(3). 783–791. 6 indexed citations
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Hitchcock, John T. & Leigh Minturn. (1966). The Rājpūts of Khalapur, India. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 28 indexed citations
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Minturn, Leigh, et al.. (1966). Mothers of Six Cultures: Antecedents of Child Rearing. British Journal of Sociology. 17(1). 98–98. 90 indexed citations
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Minturn, Leigh. (1965). A Cross-Cultural Linguistic Analysis of Freudian Symbols. Ethnology. 4(3). 336–336. 1 indexed citations
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Minturn, Leigh & William W. Lambert. (1964). The antecedents of child training: a cross-cultural test of some hypotheses. 2 indexed citations
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Minturn, Leigh. (1954). A test for sign-Gestalt expectancies under conditions of negative motivation.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 48(2). 98–100. 3 indexed citations

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