Sheldon Cohen

134.4k total citations · 32 hit papers
312 papers, 94.3k citations indexed

About

Sheldon Cohen is a scholar working on Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sheldon Cohen has authored 312 papers receiving a total of 94.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 48 papers in Clinical Psychology and 48 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sheldon Cohen's work include Stress Responses and Cortisol (69 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (43 papers) and Health, psychology, and well-being (32 papers). Sheldon Cohen is often cited by papers focused on Stress Responses and Cortisol (69 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (43 papers) and Health, psychology, and well-being (32 papers). Sheldon Cohen collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Sheldon Cohen's co-authors include Thomas W. Kamarck, Robin Mermelstein, Thomas A. Wills, Denise Janicki‐Deverts, Gregory E. Miller, S. Leonard Syme, Sarah D. Pressman, Tracy B. Herbert, William J. Doyle and Harry M. Hoberman and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Sheldon Cohen

304 papers receiving 88.3k citations

Hit Papers

A Global Measure of Perceived Stress 1980 2026 1995 2010 1983 1985 2004 1986 1988 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k 20.0k
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. A Global Measure of Perceived Stress
    1983 23.9k citations Sheldon Cohen et al. profile →
  2. Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis.
    1985 12.2k citations Sheldon Cohen et al. profile →
  3. Social Relationships and Health.
    2004 3.5k citations Sheldon Cohen profile →
  4. Social Support and Health.
    1986 3.2k citations Sheldon Cohen et al. profile →
  5. Perceived stress in a probability sample of the United States
    1988 3.0k citations Sheldon Cohen profile →
  6. Psychological Stress and Disease
    2007 2.2k citations Sheldon Cohen, Denise Janicki‐Deverts et al. JAMA profile →
  7. Positive Events and Social Supports as Buffers of Life Change Stress1
    1983 2.1k citations Sheldon Cohen et al. profile →
  8. Socioeconomic status and health: The challenge of the gradient.
    1994 2.0k citations Sheldon Cohen et al. profile →
  9. Socioeconomic status and health: The challenge of the gradient.
    1994 1.9k citations Sheldon Cohen et al. profile →
  10. Does positive affect influence health?
    2005 1.5k citations Sheldon Cohen et al. profile →
  11. Psychological Stress and Susceptibility to the Common Cold
    1991 1.2k citations Sheldon Cohen et al. profile →
  12. Psychosocial models of the role of social support in the etiology of physical disease.
    1988 1.1k citations Sheldon Cohen Health Psychology profile →
  13. Psychosocial models of the role of social support in the etiology of physical disease.
    1988 1.0k citations Sheldon Cohen Health Psychology profile →
  14. Measuring stress: A guide for health and social scientists.
    1995 972 citations Sheldon Cohen et al. profile →
  15. Chronic stress, glucocorticoid receptor resistance, inflammation, and disease risk
    2012 943 citations Sheldon Cohen, Denise Janicki‐Deverts et al. profile →
  16. Social Ties and Susceptibility to the Common Cold
    1997 907 citations Sheldon Cohen JAMA profile →
  17. Who's Stressed? Distributions of Psychological Stress in the United States in Probability Samples from 1983, 2006, and 20091
    2012 904 citations Sheldon Cohen, Denise Janicki‐Deverts profile →
  18. Stress and immunity in humans: a meta-analytic review.
    1993 808 citations Sheldon Cohen et al. Psychosomatic Medicine profile →
  19. Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis.
    1985 786 citations Sheldon Cohen et al. profile →
  20. Chronic psychological stress and the regulation of pro-inflammatory cytokines: A glucocorticoid-resistance model.
    2002 661 citations Gregory E. Miller, Sheldon Cohen et al. Health Psychology profile →
  21. Depression and immunity: A meta-analytic review.
    1993 642 citations Sheldon Cohen et al. profile →
  22. Aftereffects of stress on human performance and social behavior: A review of research and theory.
    1980 617 citations Sheldon Cohen profile →
  23. Chronic psychological stress and the regulation of pro-inflammatory cytokines: A glucocorticoid-resistance model.
    2002 599 citations Gregory E. Miller, Sheldon Cohen et al. Health Psychology profile →
  24. Stress and infectious disease in humans.
    1991 529 citations Sheldon Cohen et al. profile →
  25. HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY: Psychological Factors and Physical Disease from the Perspective of Human Psychoneuroimmunology
    1996 526 citations Sheldon Cohen et al. profile →
  26. Social support and adjustment to cancer: Reconciling descriptive, correlational, and intervention research.
    1996 522 citations Sheldon Cohen et al. Health Psychology profile →
  27. Childhood socioeconomic status and adult health
    2010 505 citations Sheldon Cohen, Denise Janicki‐Deverts et al. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences profile →
  28. Stress and infectious disease in humans.
    1991 499 citations Sheldon Cohen et al. profile →
  29. Issues in the study and application of social support.
    1985 479 citations Sheldon Cohen et al. profile →
  30. Social support and adjustment to cancer: Reconciling descriptive, correlational, and intervention research.
    1996 459 citations Sheldon Cohen et al. Health Psychology profile →
  31. A Stage Model of Stress and Disease
    2016 343 citations Sheldon Cohen et al. profile →
  32. Ten Surprising Facts About Stressful Life Events and Disease Risk
    2018 319 citations Sheldon Cohen, Michael Murphy et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sheldon Cohen United States 110 29.7k 23.7k 22.7k 15.6k 14.3k 312 94.3k
Andrew Steptoe United Kingdom 130 14.4k 0.5× 16.4k 0.7× 12.8k 0.6× 13.7k 0.9× 4.9k 0.3× 935 71.8k
Terrie E. Moffitt United States 179 62.2k 2.1× 11.7k 0.5× 21.8k 1.0× 9.7k 0.6× 20.2k 1.4× 613 111.3k
Avshalom Caspi United States 174 52.6k 1.8× 10.2k 0.4× 20.1k 0.9× 8.6k 0.6× 15.4k 1.1× 535 99.0k
Robert L. Spitzer United States 79 59.0k 2.0× 20.0k 0.8× 24.5k 1.1× 7.7k 0.5× 9.7k 0.7× 239 129.0k
John T. Cacioppo United States 142 17.6k 0.6× 11.7k 0.5× 34.2k 1.5× 17.8k 1.1× 27.4k 1.9× 465 104.8k
Kurt Kroenke United States 114 42.0k 1.4× 23.9k 1.0× 22.6k 1.0× 8.0k 0.5× 8.8k 0.6× 453 120.1k
Janet B. W. Williams United States 54 40.8k 1.4× 15.4k 0.6× 17.0k 0.7× 5.8k 0.4× 7.3k 0.5× 118 89.7k
Ronald C. Kessler United States 214 101.2k 3.4× 39.4k 1.7× 50.4k 2.2× 22.0k 1.4× 23.7k 1.7× 960 215.9k
Ellen E. Walters United States 46 28.9k 1.0× 9.8k 0.4× 15.2k 0.7× 5.0k 0.3× 5.5k 0.4× 68 59.9k
Charles S. Carver United States 114 34.2k 1.2× 12.9k 0.5× 32.5k 1.4× 6.5k 0.4× 18.5k 1.3× 378 98.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brown, Kirk Warren, Sheldon Cohen, Kasey G. Creswell, et al.. (2024). Does high perceived stress over the past month alter cortisol reactivity to the Trier Social Stress Test?. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 172. 107256–107256. 2 indexed citations
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Dutcher, Janine M., Michael Tumminia, Daniella K. Villalba, et al.. (2024). Identifying Links Between Productivity and Biobehavioral Rhythms Modeled From Multimodal Sensor Streams: Exploratory Quantitative Study. PubMed. 3. e47194–e47194.
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Doryab, Afsaneh, Daniella K. Villalba, Prerna Chikersal, et al.. (2019). Identifying Behavioral Phenotypes of Loneliness and Social Isolation with Passive Sensing: Statistical Analysis, Data Mining and Machine Learning of Smartphone and Fitbit Data. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 7(7). e13209–e13209. 96 indexed citations
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Murdock, Kyle W., et al.. (2018). Low childhood subjective social status and telomere length in adulthood: The role of attachment orientations. Developmental Psychobiology. 60(3). 340–346. 5 indexed citations
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Murphy, Michael, Denise Janicki‐Deverts, & Sheldon Cohen. (2018). Receiving a hug is associated with the attenuation of negative mood that occurs on days with interpersonal conflict. PLoS ONE. 13(10). e0203522–e0203522. 26 indexed citations
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Murphy, Michael, et al.. (2018). Social integration and age-related decline in lung function.. Health Psychology. 37(5). 472–480. 7 indexed citations
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Bose, Sonali, Yueh-Hsiu Mathilda Chiu, Hsiao‐Hsien Leon Hsu, et al.. (2017). Prenatal Nitrate Exposure and Childhood Asthma. Influence of Maternal Prenatal Stress and Fetal Sex. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 196(11). 1396–1403. 44 indexed citations
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Wright, Rosalind J., Kate Fisher, Yueh-Hsiu Mathilda Chiu, et al.. (2013). Disrupted Prenatal Maternal Cortisol, Maternal Obesity, and Childhood Wheeze. Insights into Prenatal Programming. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 187(11). 1186–1193. 57 indexed citations
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Chiu, Yueh-Hsiu Mathilda, et al.. (2012). Prenatal and Postnatal Maternal Stress and Wheeze in Urban Children: Effect of Maternal Sensitization. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 186(2). 147–154. 87 indexed citations
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Cohen, Sheldon, et al.. (2012). The prospective association of socioeconomic status with C-reactive protein levels in the CARDIA study. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 26(7). 1128–1135. 37 indexed citations
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Cohen, Sheldon, Vicki DiLillo, Cora E. Lewis, et al.. (2010). Depressive Symptoms, Race, and Circulating C-Reactive Protein: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. Psychosomatic Medicine. 72(8). 734–741. 88 indexed citations
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Cohen, Sheldon, Denise Janicki‐Deverts, & Gregory E. Miller. (2007). Psychological Stress and Disease. JAMA. 298(14). 1685–1685. 2159 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cohen, Sheldon, Joseph E. Schwartz, Elissa S. Epel, et al.. (2006). Socioeconomic Status, Race, and Diurnal Cortisol Decline in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. Psychosomatic Medicine. 68(1). 41–50. 335 indexed citations
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Cohen, Sheldon, William J. Doyle, Ronald B. Turner, Cüneyt M. Alper, & David P. Skoner. (2004). Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Host Resistance to Infectious Illness in Adulthood. Psychosomatic Medicine. 66(4). 553–558. 147 indexed citations
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Wright, Rosalind J., et al.. (2002). Parental Stress as a Predictor of Wheezing in Infancy: A Prospective Birth-Cohort Study. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 165(3). 358–365. 217 indexed citations
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Cohen, Sheldon. (1999). Social Status and Susceptibility to Respiratory Infections. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 896(1). 246–253. 132 indexed citations
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Cohen, Sheldon. (1997). Social Ties and Susceptibility to the Common Cold. JAMA. 277(24). 1940–1940. 907 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cohen, Sheldon. (1995). Psychological Stress and Susceptibility to Upper Respiratory Infections. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 152(4_Part_2). S53–S58. 56 indexed citations
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Ehrke, M. Jane, Sheldon Cohen, & Enrico Mihich. (1978). Selectivity of inhibition by anticancer agents of mouse spleen immune effector functions involved in responses to sheep erythrocytes.. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 38(3). 521–30. 17 indexed citations
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Cohen, Sheldon, et al.. (1959). The Effect of Forced Inhalation of Tobacco Smoke on the Electrocardiogram of Normal and Tobacco-Sensitized Rabbits. Diseases of the Chest. 35(6). 663–676. 1 indexed citations

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