Vickie M. Mays

19.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
156 papers, 13.0k citations indexed

About

Vickie M. Mays is a scholar working on Social Psychology, General Health Professions and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Vickie M. Mays has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 13.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Social Psychology, 53 papers in General Health Professions and 52 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Vickie M. Mays's work include LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (48 papers), Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (22 papers) and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (21 papers). Vickie M. Mays is often cited by papers focused on LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (48 papers), Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (22 papers) and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (21 papers). Vickie M. Mays collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Vickie M. Mays's co-authors include Susan D. Cochran, J. Greer Sullivan, Ninez A. Ponce, Barbara Tomlinson, Devon W. Carbado, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Heather L. Corliss, James S. Jackson, Colleen Keenan and Michael Hughes and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and American Journal of Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Vickie M. Mays

150 papers receiving 12.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Mental Health Correlates of Perceived Discrimination Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults in the United States

2001 1.1k citations Vickie M. Mays, Susan D. Cochran American Journal of Public Health profile →
Prevalence of mental disorders, psychological distress, and mental health services use among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults in the United States.

2003 814 citations Susan D. Cochran, Vickie M. Mays et al. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology profile →
Prevalence of mental disorders, psychological distress, and mental services use among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults in the United States.

2003 810 citations Susan D. Cochran, Vickie M. Mays et al. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology profile →
Race, Race-Based Discrimination, and Health Outcomes Among African Americans

2006 628 citations Vickie M. Mays, Susan D. Cochran et al. profile →
INTERSECTIONALITY

2013 526 citations Vickie M. Mays et al. profile →
Risk of psychiatric disorders among individuals reporting same-sex sexual partners in the National Comorbidity Survey

2001 518 citations Susan D. Cochran, Vickie M. Mays et al. American Journal of Public Health profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vickie M. Mays United States	53	7.4k	4.6k	3.7k	3.5k	2.3k	156	13.0k
Susan D. Cochran United States	56	8.3k 1.1×	4.4k 1.0×	3.9k 1.1×	3.3k 0.9×	2.6k 1.1×	138	13.5k
Tonda L. Hughes United States	51	7.3k 1.0×	3.0k 0.7×	3.0k 0.8×	2.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	262	9.6k
Mark L. Hatzenbuehler United States	68	11.7k 1.6×	5.9k 1.3×	6.9k 1.9×	4.3k 1.2×	2.8k 1.2×	160	19.0k
John E. Pachankis United States	53	8.1k 1.1×	3.5k 0.8×	3.8k 1.0×	1.6k 0.5×	2.0k 0.9×	199	10.7k
Margaret Rosario United States	54	5.3k 0.7×	2.1k 0.5×	3.1k 0.9×	2.5k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	108	8.0k
Brian Mustanski United States	71	8.8k 1.2×	4.7k 1.0×	5.0k 1.4×	5.8k 1.7×	7.1k 3.1×	410	17.6k
Don Operario United States	57	4.7k 0.6×	4.3k 0.9×	3.1k 0.8×	3.3k 0.9×	5.0k 2.2×	335	11.5k
Michael E. Newcomb United States	50	4.7k 0.6×	2.3k 0.5×	2.3k 0.6×	2.2k 0.6×	2.9k 1.2×	185	7.7k
Sari L. Reisner United States	73	14.0k 1.9×	6.0k 1.3×	6.6k 1.8×	2.8k 0.8×	4.8k 2.1×	381	19.4k
Anthony R. D’Augelli United States	47	9.2k 1.2×	3.5k 0.8×	3.9k 1.0×	1.8k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	124	11.4k

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Fenton, Susan H., et al.. (2025). An examination of ambulatory care code specificity utilization in ICD-10-CM compared to ICD-9-CM: implications for ICD-11 implementation. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 32(4). 675–681.

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Juillard, Catherine, et al.. (2024). Association of sociodemographic characteristics with the timeliness of surgery for patients with open tibial fractures. Injury. 55(11). 111878–111878. 1 indexed citations

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Mallory, Caitlin S., et al.. (2024). Might culture impact the assessment of handedness in Black participants in neuroscience research?. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 18. 1390881–1390881.

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Strassle, Paula D., et al.. (2023). County-level barriers in the COVID-19 vaccine coverage index and their associations with willingness to receive the COVID-19 vaccine across racial/ethnic groups in the U.S.. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1192748–1192748. 7 indexed citations

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Arseniev‐Koehler, Alina, Susan D. Cochran, Vickie M. Mays, Kai-Wei Chang, & Jacob G. Foster. (2022). Integrating topic modeling and word embedding to characterize violent deaths. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(10). e2108801119–e2108801119. 23 indexed citations

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Mays, Vickie M., Abigail Echo‐Hawk, Susan D. Cochran, & Randall Akee. (2022). Data Equity in American Indian/Alaska Native Populations: Respecting Sovereign Nations’ Right to Meaningful and Usable COVID-19 Data. American Journal of Public Health. 112(10). 1416–1420. 14 indexed citations

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Jones, Audrey L., Susan D. Cochran, Jane Rafferty, Robert Joseph Taylor, & Vickie M. Mays. (2020). Lifetime and Twelve-Month Prevalence, Persistence, and Unmet Treatment Needs of Mood, Anxiety, and Substance Use Disorders in African American and U.S. versus Foreign-Born Caribbean Women. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(19). 7007–7007. 15 indexed citations

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Villatoro, Alice P., Vickie M. Mays, Ninez A. Ponce, & Carol S. Aneshensel. (2017). Perceived Need for Mental Health Care: The Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status. Society and Mental Health. 8(1). 1–24. 76 indexed citations

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Clark, Kirsty A., Vickie M. Mays, & Susan D. Cochran. (2017). Extreme Violence and the Invisibility of Women Who Murder: The Intersectionality of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity Equals Silence. Violence and Gender. 4(4). 117–120. 1 indexed citations

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Pachankis, John E., Susan D. Cochran, & Vickie M. Mays. (2015). The mental health of sexual minority adults in and out of the closet: A population-based study.. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 83(5). 890–901. 137 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Lorna E., Shervin Assari, Stephen A. Deppen, et al.. (2014). The role of epidemiology in disaster response policy development. Annals of Epidemiology. 25(5). 377–386. 14 indexed citations

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Swanson, Jeffrey W., Emma E. McGinty, Seena Fazel, & Vickie M. Mays. (2014). Mental illness and reduction of gun violence and suicide: bringing epidemiologic research to policy. Annals of Epidemiology. 25(5). 366–376. 190 indexed citations

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Mays, Vickie M.. (2013). Sexual orientation differences in allostatic load among adults, age 20-59 years, in the 2001-2010 NHANES. 141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 2 - November 6, 2013).

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Cochran, Susan D. & Vickie M. Mays. (2009). Burden of psychiatric morbidity among lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals in the California Quality of Life Survey.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 118(3). 647–658. 229 indexed citations

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Cochran, Susan D., et al.. (2007). Race, Race-Based Discrimination, and Health Outcomes Among African Americans. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Cochran, Susan D. & Vickie M. Mays. (2007). Physical Health Complaints Among Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexual and Homosexually Experienced Heterosexual Individuals: Results From the California Quality of Life Survey. American Journal of Public Health. 97(11). 2048–2055. 271 indexed citations

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Cochran, Susan D. & Vickie M. Mays. (2000). Lifetime prevalence of suicide symptoms and affective disorders among men reporting same-sex sexual partners: results from NHANES III. American Journal of Public Health. 90(4). 573–578. 306 indexed citations

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Mays, Vickie M., Merry Bullock, Mark R. Rosenzweig, & Michael Wessells. (1998). Ethnic conflict: Global challenges and psychological perspectives.. American Psychologist. 53(7). 737–742. 14 indexed citations

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Mays, Vickie M., Merry Bullock, Mark R. Rosenzweig, & Michael Wessells. (1998). Ethnic conflict: Global challenges and psychological perspectives.. American Psychologist. 53(7). 737–742. 4 indexed citations

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Mays, Vickie M., et al.. (1993). Black gay men's language revisited: Keeping the ethnicity in ethnic research. The Journal of Sex Research. 30(1). 97–98. 1 indexed citations

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