Scholarly Index

Child Welfare and Adoption

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Child Welfare and Adoption.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Charles A. Nelson	98.77	77,129	1,206
2	Sarah A. Font	98.65	3,768	119
3	Philip Mendes	98.17	2,894	376
4	Catherine A. LaBrenz	97.65	1,031	97
5	Ben Mathews	97.36	3,920	203
6	Carmit Katz	97.28	2,417	147
7	Eunice Magalhães	97.07	1,348	108
8	Susan Yoon	96.91	1,917	131
9	Susan Baidawi	96.83	855	61
10	Abbie E. Goldberg	96.63	7,132	193
11	Sarah J. Beal	96.38	2,999	109
12	Nathan A. Fox	96.37	55,495	690
13	Nick Midgley	96.36	5,142	228
14	Richard P. Barth	95.87	15,566	308
15	Charles H. Zeanah	95.76	29,112	384
16	David Finkelhor	95.75	34,994	270
17	Nathanael J. Okpych	95.44	1,265	48
18	Amy Conley Wright	95.38	1,008	86
19	Rachel M. Hiller	95.35	2,010	75
20	Emily Putnam‐Hornstein	95.33	4,032	119
21	Ciarán Murphy	95.32	704	76
22	Brett Drake	94.90	7,390	127
23	Barbara Fallon	94.80	4,254	179
24	Nicola Carone	94.77	2,162	123
25	Bryn King	94.76	1,492	56
26	Marc Schmid	94.61	3,708	210
27	Yanfeng Xu	94.53	1,318	92
28	Angelique Day	94.50	1,598	100
29	Melissa Jonson‐Reid	94.31	7,544	165
30	Mary Dozier	94.04	13,874	227
31	Süheyla Seker	93.96	340	26
32	Thomas J. Esposito	93.80	6,378	193
33	Mark E. Courtney	93.75	11,203	192
34	Susan Golombok	93.72	14,542	258
35	Heather N. Taussig	93.72	3,160	77
36	Lindsey Palmer	93.58	331	41
37	Travonne Edwards	93.57	252	33
38	Berni Kelly	93.44	1,234	76
39	Jill Duerr Berrick	93.34	3,267	118
40	Catia Malvaso	93.32	1,057	66
41	Cyril Boonmann	93.22	832	70
42	Melissa O’Donnell	93.19	2,716	133
43	Yo Jackson	92.86	2,034	92
44	Megan Feely	92.67	596	34
45	Svetlana Shpiegel	92.67	476	36
46	Jesús Palacios	92.64	3,236	260
47	Karine Dubois‐Comtois	92.27	2,085	95
48	Guy Diamond	92.25	4,775	137
49	Frank Edwards	91.96	5,209	99
50	Helen Minnis	91.93	5,894	215