Alvin Thomas

Alvin Thomas

University of Wisconsin-Madison

H-index: 15

North America-United States

About Alvin Thomas

Alvin Thomas, With an exceptional h-index of 15 and a recent h-index of 14 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializes in the field of Fatherhood, Adolescence, Internet Impact, violence, Risk and resilience Podcasting.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Public Emotion and Response immediately following the Death of George Floyd: A Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Comments

Honoring foundational Black psychologists' contributions to research on Black fathers.

Online racial discrimination, critical consciousness, and psychosocial distress among Black and Latino adolescents: A moderated mediation model

Efficacy to avoid violence and parenting: A moderated mediation of violence exposure for African American urban-dwelling boys

Taking the good with the bad?: Social media and online racial discrimination influences on psychological and academic functioning in Black and Hispanic youth

Black fathers’ contributions to maternal mental health

“When She Says Daddy”: Black Fathers’ Recidivism following Reentry from Jail

An intersectional approach to understanding the academic and health effects of policing among urban adolescents

Alvin Thomas Information

University

Position

Assistant Professor School of Human Ecology Department of Human

Citations(all)

1225

Citations(since 2020)

1008

Cited By

590

hIndex(all)

15

hIndex(since 2020)

14

i10Index(all)

17

i10Index(since 2020)

15

Email

University Profile Page

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Alvin Thomas Skills & Research Interests

Fatherhood

Adolescence

Internet Impact

violence

Risk and resilience Podcasting

Top articles of Alvin Thomas

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Public Emotion and Response immediately following the Death of George Floyd: A Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Comments

Telematics and Informatics Reports

Jesse Scotland

Alvin Thomas

Mengguo Jing

2024/4/24

Honoring foundational Black psychologists' contributions to research on Black fathers.

American Psychologist

Shauna M Cooper

Alvin Thomas

Justin Harty

Shedrick Garrett

Qiana Cryer-Coupet

...

2023/5

Online racial discrimination, critical consciousness, and psychosocial distress among Black and Latino adolescents: A moderated mediation model

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Alvin Thomas

Adrian Gale

Alexandrea R Golden

2023/1/6

Efficacy to avoid violence and parenting: A moderated mediation of violence exposure for African American urban-dwelling boys

Development and psychopathology

Alvin Thomas

Shervin Assari

Erica Odukoya

Cleopatra H Caldwell

2023/5

Taking the good with the bad?: Social media and online racial discrimination influences on psychological and academic functioning in Black and Hispanic youth

Journal of youth and adolescence

Alvin Thomas

Mengguo Jing

Hung-Yang Chen

Eric L Crawford

2023/2

Black fathers’ contributions to maternal mental health

Archives of women's mental health

Tova B Walsh

Alvin Thomas

Helenia Quince

Jacqueline Buck

Vivian Tamkin

...

2023/2

“When She Says Daddy”: Black Fathers’ Recidivism following Reentry from Jail

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Alvin Thomas

Jennifer Clare Wirth

Julie Poehlmann-Tynan

David J Pate Jr

2022/3/16

An intersectional approach to understanding the academic and health effects of policing among urban adolescents

Journal of Research on Adolescence

Juan Del Toro

Ming‐Te Wang

Alvin Thomas

Diane Hughes

2022/3

The longitudinal associations between paternal incarceration and family well-being: Implications for ethnic/racial disparities in health

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Juan Del Toro

Adam Fine

Ming-Te Wang

Alvin Thomas

Lisa M Schneper

...

2022/3/1

Parental educational attainment, the superior temporal cortical surface area, and reading ability among American children: A test of marginalization-related diminished returns

Children

Shervin Assari

Shanika Boyce

Mohsen Bazargan

Alvin Thomas

Ryon J Cobb

...

2021/5/18

Black American fathers employed in higher-risk contexts for contracting COVID-19: Implications for individual wellbeing and work-family spillover

American Journal of Men's Health

Shauna M Cooper

Alvin Thomas

Olajide Bamishigbin

2021/4

“Why Don’t You Reach Out to Dad?”: Involving Fathers in Therapy

Research on Social Work Practice

Alvin Thomas

Jocelyn R Smith Lee

Michael Muhammed

Cleopatra H Caldwell

2021/11

Parents’ perceived neighborhood safety and children’s cognitive performance: complexities by race, ethnicity, and cognitive domain

Urban Science

Shervin Assari

Shanika Boyce

Ritesh Mistry

Alvin Thomas

Harvey L Nicholson Jr

...

2021/6/1

Age-specific mechanism of the effects of family based interventions with African American nonresident fathers and sons

Journal of Child and Family Studies

Alvin Thomas

Shervin Assari

Maria Ines Susperreguy

DeLoney E Hill

Cleopatra H Caldwell

2020/12

The longitudinal effects of fathers’ incarceration on families’ well-being

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Juan Del Toro

Adam Fine

Ming-Te Wang

Alvin Thomas

Lisa Schneper

...

2020/9/1

Hyperarousal and hypervigilance in African American male adolescents exposed to community violence

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

Jenny Phan

Suzanna So

Alvin Thomas

Noni Gaylord-Harden

2020/7/1

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Co-Authors

H-index: 110
Brian R Flay

Brian R Flay

Oregon State University

H-index: 78
Shervin Assari, MD, MPH

Shervin Assari, MD, MPH

University of Michigan

H-index: 36
Ron Mincy

Ron Mincy

Columbia University in the City of New York

H-index: 32
Laura Miller-Graff

Laura Miller-Graff

University of Notre Dame

H-index: 18
LORI HOGGARD

LORI HOGGARD

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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