Sung Joon Jang

6.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
95 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Sung Joon Jang is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Health and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sung Joon Jang has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 32 papers in Health and 29 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sung Joon Jang's work include Crime Patterns and Interventions (30 papers), Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (29 papers) and Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (24 papers). Sung Joon Jang is often cited by papers focused on Crime Patterns and Interventions (30 papers), Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (29 papers) and Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (24 papers). Sung Joon Jang collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Poland. Sung Joon Jang's co-authors include Byron R. Johnson, Catherine E. Ross, Terence P. Thornberry, Marvin D. Krohn, Alan J. Lizotte, Margaret Farnworth, Spencer D. Li, David B. Larson, André Ivanoff and Carolyn A. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as American Sociological Review, Scientific Reports and Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Sung Joon Jang

88 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

DELINQUENT PEERS, BELIEFS, AND DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR: A LONGITUDINAL TEST OF INTERACTIONAL THEORY*

1994 561 citations Sung Joon Jang et al. profile →
Neighborhood Disorder, Fear, and Mistrust: The Buffering Role of Social Ties with Neighbors

2000 537 citations Sung Joon Jang et al. profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Sung Joon Jang

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Sung Joon Jang's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Sung Joon Jang with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Sung Joon Jang more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Sung Joon Jang

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sung Joon Jang. 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 Sung Joon Jang. The network helps show where Sung Joon Jang may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sung Joon Jang

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A cross-national analysis of childhood predictors of daily smoking in adulthood 2025 ·Communications Medicine ·Sung Joon Jang, Pedro Antonio de la Rosa, R. Noah Padgett, Matt Bradshaw, Tyler J. VanderWeele, Byron R. Johnson	0
2	Religion, Accountability, and the Risk of Aggressive Misconduct Among Prisoners: Preliminary Evidence of Restorative Rehabilitation 2023 ·International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology ·Sung Joon Jang, Byron R. Johnson, Charlotte van Oyen Witvliet, C. Stephen Evans	1
3	Explaining the Relationship between Religiosity and Political Participation: The Mediating Roles of Transcendent Accountability and Religiopolitical Awareness 2023 ·Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion ·Sung Joon Jang, (unknown), Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet, Joseph Leman, Byron R. Johnson, Matt Bradshaw	2
4	Transcendent Accountability and Pro-Community Attitudes: Assessing the Link Between Religion and Community Engagement 2023 ·Review of Religious Research ·Sung Joon Jang, Matt Bradshaw, Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet, Young Il Kim, Byron R. Johnson, Joseph Leman	2
5	Transcendent accountability: construct and measurement of a virtue that connects religion, spirituality, and positive psychology 2023 ·The Journal of Positive Psychology ·Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet, Sung Joon Jang, Byron R. Johnson, C. Stephen Evans, Jack W. Berry, (unknown), Robert C. Roberts, John R. Peteet, Joseph Leman, Matt Bradshaw	6
6	Virtuous effects of religion on negative emotions among offenders in a Colombian prison 2023 ·Journal of Crime and Justice ·Sung Joon Jang, Byron R. Johnson, (unknown)	0
7	Religion and Rehabilitation as Moral Reform: Conceptualization and Preliminary Evidence 2022 ·American Journal of Criminal Justice ·Sung Joon Jang, Byron R. Johnson	10
8	Religion and Rehabilitation in Colombian and South African Prisons: A Human Flourishing Approach 2022 ·International Criminal Justice Review ·Sung Joon Jang, Byron R. Johnson, (unknown), (unknown)	6
9	Religion and Responsibility-Taking Among Offenders in Colombia and South Africa: A Qualitative Assessment of a Faith-Based Program in Prison 2022 ·International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology ·(unknown), (unknown), Sung Joon Jang, (unknown), Byron R. Johnson, Michael Joseph	3
10	Assessing a Faith-Based Program for Trauma Healing Among Jail Inmates: A Quasi-Experimental Study 2022 ·International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology ·Sung Joon Jang, Byron R. Johnson, Matt Bradshaw, Chongmin Na	4
11	Prison Strains, Negative Emotions, and Deviance Among Prisoners in South Korea: A Latent-Variable Modeling Test of General Strain Theory 2020 ·International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology ·Sung Joon Jang	12
12	Prisoners Helping Prisoners Change: A Study of Inmate Field Ministers Within Texas Prisons 2019 ·International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology ·Sung Joon Jang, Byron R. Johnson, (unknown), Michael Hallett, Grant Duwe	11
13	“Four Gods” in Maximum Security Prison: Images of God, Religiousness, and Worldviews among Inmates 2018 ·Review of Religious Research ·Sung Joon Jang, (unknown), Byron R. Johnson, Michael Hallett, Grant Duwe	5
14	The Effects of Provincial and Individual Religiosity on Deviance in China: A Multilevel Modeling Test of the Moral Community Thesis 2018 ·Religions ·Xiuhua Wang, Sung Joon Jang	4
15	Religiosity, Crime, and Drug Use Among Juvenile Offenders: A Test of Reciprocal Relationships Over Time 2018 ·International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology ·Sung Joon Jang	4
16	Existential and Virtuous Effects of Religiosity on Mental Health and Aggressiveness among Offenders 2018 ·Religions ·Sung Joon Jang, Byron R. Johnson, (unknown), Michael Hallett, Grant Duwe	20
17	Homeschool and Underage Drinking: Is It More Protective than Public and Private Schools? 2016 ·Deviant Behavior ·(unknown), Sung Joon Jang	10
18	A “rough test” of a delinquent coping process model of general strain theory 2015 ·Journal of Criminal Justice ·Sung Joon Jang, Juyoung Song	35
19	Problem solving and suicidality among prison inmates: Another look at state versus trait. 1992 ·Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology ·André Ivanoff, Nancy J. Smyth, Sandra Grochowski, Sung Joon Jang, (unknown)	22
20	The role of hopelessness and social desirability in predicting suicidal behavior: A study of prison inmates. 1991 ·Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology ·André Ivanoff, Sung Joon Jang	57

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact