Steven R. H. Beach

22.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
361 papers, 15.5k citations indexed

About

Steven R. H. Beach is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven R. H. Beach has authored 361 papers receiving a total of 15.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 153 papers in Social Psychology, 153 papers in Clinical Psychology and 86 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Steven R. H. Beach's work include Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (126 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (102 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (50 papers). Steven R. H. Beach is often cited by papers focused on Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (126 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (102 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (50 papers). Steven R. H. Beach collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Steven R. H. Beach's co-authors include Frank D. Fincham, Robert A. Philibert, Gene H. Brody, Man‐Kit Lei, Thomas N. Bradbury, Ronald L. Simons, K. Daniel O’Leary, Gene H. Brody, Jennifer Katz and Frederick X. Gibbons and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Bulletin and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Steven R. H. Beach

346 papers receiving 14.5k citations

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Research on the Nature and Determinants of Marital Satisfaction: A Decade in Review

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Steven R. H. Beach United States	65	7.1k	6.6k	4.2k	2.4k	2.2k	361	15.5k
Gene H. Brody United States	85	4.9k 0.7×	12.3k 1.9×	7.2k 1.7×	2.3k 0.9×	2.8k 1.2×	432	23.2k
Matt McGue United States	89	3.2k 0.5×	12.2k 1.8×	3.0k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	507	28.4k
Ronald L. Simons United States	83	4.8k 0.7×	11.2k 1.7×	10.4k 2.5×	3.5k 1.4×	2.7k 1.2×	276	22.6k
Carolyn E. Cutrona United States	62	6.9k 1.0×	8.2k 1.2×	6.1k 1.5×	4.9k 2.0×	1.5k 0.7×	127	19.7k
Louise Arseneault United Kingdom	80	6.4k 0.9×	12.6k 1.9×	2.8k 0.7×	2.2k 0.9×	288 0.1×	235	23.8k
Frank Vitaro Canada	84	8.4k 1.2×	16.1k 2.4×	4.0k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	387 0.2×	526	24.2k
Renate Houts United States	63	2.7k 0.4×	6.5k 1.0×	1.9k 0.5×	841 0.3×	623 0.3×	132	17.9k
Markus Jokela Finland	62	2.0k 0.3×	3.5k 0.5×	1.6k 0.4×	1.8k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	308	13.0k
Xiaojia Ge United States	50	2.6k 0.4×	6.7k 1.0×	2.5k 0.6×	745 0.3×	729 0.3×	80	11.2k
Denise B. Kandel United States	77	2.7k 0.4×	7.8k 1.2×	3.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	663 0.3×	166	22.5k

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Rice, TeKisha M., et al.. (2025). We Gon' Be Alright: Examining Culturally Relevant Coping Strategies as Promotive Factors for Black Romantic Relationships. Family Process. 64(2). e70027–e70027.

Chen, Ronald C., Viraj A. Master, Lanyu Mi, et al.. (2025). Thromboembolic Events in Castration‐Resistant Prostate Cancer Patients With and Without Cardiovascular Comorbidities Receiving Oral Androgen Receptor Pathway Inhibitors. The Prostate. 85(10). 954–965.

Lei, Man‐Kit, Steven R. H. Beach, Ronald L. Simons, & Michelle M. Mielke. (2024). Cumulative Socioeconomic Status Risk is Associated With Greater Increase in Serum Neurofilament Light Chain Levels Among Middle-Aged Black Adults. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 80(1). 4 indexed citations

Haeny, Angela M., et al.. (2022). Racial centrality mediates the association between adolescent racial discrimination and adult cigarette smoking outcomes among Black Americans. Social Science & Medicine. 316. 115225–115225. 10 indexed citations

Lei, Man‐Kit, Steven R. H. Beach, Ronald L. Simons, & Kaixiong Ye. (2021). The Impact of Harsh Parenting on the Development of Obesity in Adulthood: An Examination of Epigenetic/Gene Expression Mediators Among African American Youth. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 8. 755458–755458. 1 indexed citations

Beach, Steven R. H., et al.. (2021). Feasibility, tolerability, and potential advantages of a dyadic financial incentive treatment for smoking cessation among dual-smoker couples: A pilot study.. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. 30(6). 1001–1007. 4 indexed citations

Chen, Ronald C., Henry N. Young, Anant Mandawat, et al.. (2021). Race and prostate specific antigen surveillance testing and monitoring 5-years after definitive therapy for localized prostate cancer. Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases. 24(4). 1093–1102. 2 indexed citations

Philibert, Robert A., Meeshanthini V. Dogan, Steven R. H. Beach, James A. Mills, & Jeffrey D. Long. (2019). AHRR methylation predicts smoking status and smoking intensity in both saliva and blood DNA. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 183(1). 51–60. 55 indexed citations

Andersen, Allan M., et al.. (2019). Saliva DNA Methylation Detects Nascent Smoking in Adolescents. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 29(7). 535–544. 15 indexed citations

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Beach, Steven R. H., et al.. (2017). MTHFR methylation moderates the impact of smoking on DNA methylation at AHRR for African American young adults. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 174(6). 608–618. 18 indexed citations

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Owens, Max M., Michael Amlung, Steven R. H. Beach, Lawrence H. Sweet, & James MacKillop. (2017). Delay discounting differences in brain activation, connectivity, and structure in individuals with addiction: a systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews. 6(1). 138–138. 2 indexed citations

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Dogan, Meeshanthini V., Bridget E. Shields, Carolyn E. Cutrona, et al.. (2014). The effect of smoking on DNA methylation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from African American women. BMC Genomics. 15(1). 151–151. 158 indexed citations

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Brody, Gene H., Tianyi Yu, Steven R. H. Beach, et al.. (2013). Harsh parenting and adolescent health: A longitudinal analysis with genetic moderation.. Health Psychology. 33(5). 401–409. 52 indexed citations

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Beach, Steven R. H. & Mark A. Whisman. (2012). You have full text access to this contentAffective Disorders.. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. 38(1). 201–219. 36 indexed citations

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Philibert, Robert A., Steven R. H. Beach, Tracy D. Gunter, et al.. (2011). The relationship of deiodinase 1 genotype and thyroid function to lifetime history of major depression in three independent populations. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 156(5). 593–599. 31 indexed citations

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Beach, Steven R. H. & Mark A. Whisman. (2011). Affective Disorders. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. 38(1). 201–219. 54 indexed citations

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IJzendoorn, Marinus H. van, Kristin Caspers, Marian J. Bakermans‐Kranenburg, Steven R. H. Beach, & Robert A. Philibert. (2010). Methylation Matters: Interaction Between Methylation Density and Serotonin Transporter Genotype Predicts Unresolved Loss or Trauma. Biological Psychiatry. 68(5). 405–407. 171 indexed citations

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Beach, Steven R. H.. (2006). Relational processes and DSM-V : neuroscience, assessment, prevention, and intervention. 17 indexed citations

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Hurt, Tera R., et al.. (2006). Dissemination of Couples Interventions among African American Populations: Experiences from ProSAAM. Behavior Therapy. 31(1). 17–19. 4 indexed citations

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Beach, Steven R. H.. (1983). Risk for Depression as a Function of Social Support.. Kidney International. 24(6). 748–53. 1 indexed citations

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