New preprint! osf.io/preprints/ps... The age-period-cohort problem is something that many researchers are vaguely aware of. There have been very cool advances in how to reason about it which don't seem to be well-known in psych. So, I've written a primer!
Patrick Sharkey PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
I'm so glad this site is taking off. My intro: I am an internal medicine physician and health economist. I am interested in identifying and intervening on the social and economic forces that lead to premature mortality in the U.S.. I have a whole lab that studies this: opportunityforhealth.org
Tech support question: How do I get citations to a judge's dismissal of a lawsuit against me to be counted in my Google scholar profile?
Did my account get put on a (bsky equivalent of a Twitter) list somewhere? Seeing a bunch of new follows from people I don’t know. They’re obvi not spam accounts and many are academic—but it is odd because someone like me doesn’t usually collect follows like this 😂
Journal impact factors are out! SSM-Mental Health lands at 👀4.1 👀 Puts us in good company with our SSM portfolio siblings Soc Sci Med (IF 4.9) and SSM-Popul Health (IF 3.6) 🥳🥂🎉 Send us all y'all's papers!
In a new paper lead by Ben Schlüter, we estimated about *1.2 million* youth (<18y) in the US have lost a parent due to drugs or guns since 1999. In 2020, drugs and guns accounted for about one in four parental deaths — about double the proportion in 1999. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
I’m coming back here to comment when Queen Britney comes out with her tenth