Ner Littner

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Ner Littner is a scholar working on Safety Research, Demography and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ner Littner has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Safety Research, 2 papers in Demography and 1 paper in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ner Littner's work include Child Welfare and Adoption (5 papers), Family Dynamics and Relationships (2 papers) and Family Support in Illness (1 paper). Ner Littner is often cited by papers focused on Child Welfare and Adoption (5 papers), Family Dynamics and Relationships (2 papers) and Family Support in Illness (1 paper). Ner Littner collaborates with scholars based in United States. Ner Littner's co-authors include Geoffrey C. Hazard and David Matza and has published in prestigious journals such as Social Service Review, The University of Chicago Law Review and Family Court Review.

In The Last Decade

Ner Littner

10 papers receiving 793 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Delinquency and Drift

1965 793 citations Ner Littner, Geoffrey C. Hazard et al. The University of Chicago Law Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ner Littner United States	6	687	324	138	115	108	10	1.0k
Lewis Yablonsky United States	14	659 1.0×	453 1.4×	284 2.1×	193 1.7×	60 0.6×	36	1.3k
Martin Gold United States	17	775 1.1×	486 1.5×	209 1.5×	286 2.5×	128 1.2×	44	1.4k
Edwin H. Sutherland United Kingdom	10	1.0k 1.5×	292 0.9×	231 1.7×	128 1.1×	69 0.6×	18	1.4k
Harry V. Ball United States	7	724 1.1×	139 0.4×	196 1.4×	64 0.6×	43 0.4×	13	943
Scott Briar United States	14	624 0.9×	212 0.7×	219 1.6×	131 1.1×	38 0.4×	27	1.0k
Larry L. Tifft United States	12	718 1.0×	259 0.8×	79 0.6×	79 0.7×	31 0.3×	22	935
Frank E. Hartung United States	9	543 0.8×	116 0.4×	111 0.8×	92 0.8×	21 0.2×	19	784
Josine Junger-Tas Netherlands	17	826 1.2×	456 1.4×	194 1.4×	236 2.1×	67 0.6×	41	1.2k
Anthony M. Platt United States	12	749 1.1×	349 1.1×	188 1.4×	44 0.4×	59 0.5×	27	1.0k
Richard A. Ball United States	12	717 1.0×	221 0.7×	165 1.2×	55 0.5×	30 0.3×	36	900

Countries citing papers authored by Ner Littner

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ner Littner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ner Littner. 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 Ner Littner. The network helps show where Ner Littner may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ner Littner

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

All Works

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10 of 10 papers shown

1.

Littner, Ner. (1978). The manifold pressures placed upon foster parents can be eased by their awareness of where the trouble spots lie and what must be done to avoid them.. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 57(1). 3–12. 3 indexed citations

2.

Littner, Ner. (1978). The Art of Being a Foster Parent.. Child welfare. 2 indexed citations

3.

Littner, Ner. (1975). The importance of the natural parents to the child in placement.. PubMed. 54(3). 175–81. 39 indexed citations

4.

Littner, Ner. (1974). The challenge to make fuller use of our knowledge about children.. PubMed. 53(5). 287–94. 6 indexed citations

5.

Littner, Ner. (1973). THE EFFECTS ON A CHILD OF FAMILY DISRUPTION AND SEPARATION FROM ONE OR BOTH PARENTS. Family Court Review. 11(1). 9–18. 5 indexed citations

6.

Littner, Ner. (1969). The caseworker's self‐observation and the child's interpersonal defenses∗. Smith College Studies in Social Work. 39(2). 95–117. 2 indexed citations

7.

Littner, Ner, Geoffrey C. Hazard, & David Matza. (1965). Delinquency and Drift. The University of Chicago Law Review. 32(4). 850–850. 793 indexed citations breakdown →

8.

Littner, Ner. (1960). The Child's Need to Repeat His Past Some Implications for Placement. Social Service Review. 34(2). 128–148. 16 indexed citations

9.

Littner, Ner. (1957). Patterns of Child Rearing. Robert R. Sears , Eleanor E. Maccoby , Harry Levin. Social Service Review. 31(4). 461–463. 137 indexed citations

10.

Littner, Ner. (1956). Some traumatic effects of separation and placement. 37 indexed citations

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