Ronald L Simons

Ronald L Simons

University of Georgia

H-index: 108

North America-United States

About Ronald L Simons

Ronald L Simons, With an exceptional h-index of 108 and a recent h-index of 55 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Georgia, specializes in the field of medical sociology, life course, criminology, family, race.

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

Racial discrimination during middle age predicts higher serum phosphorylated tau and neurofilament light chain levels a decade later: A study of aging black Americans

Direct and indirect effects of socioeconomic status and discrimination on subjective cognitive decline: A longitudinal study of African American women

Racial discrimination and the weathering of nonmarital relationships

Changes in Loneliness, BDNF, and Biological Aging Predict Trajectories in a Blood-Based Epigenetic Measure of Cortical Aging: A Study of Older Black Americans

Specifying the psychosocial pathways whereby child and adolescent adversity shape adult health outcomes

Racism over time: Experiences from a panel study of Black Americans

Unstable childhood, adult adversity, and smoking accelerate biological aging among middle-age African Americans: Similar findings for GrimAge and PoAm

Neighborhood structural disadvantage and biological aging in a sample of Black middle age and young adults

Ronald L Simons Information

University

Position

Regents Professor Department of Sociology

Citations(all)

45697

Citations(since 2020)

11555

Cited By

38244

hIndex(all)

108

hIndex(since 2020)

55

i10Index(all)

244

i10Index(since 2020)

198

Email

University Profile Page

University of Georgia

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Ronald L Simons Skills & Research Interests

medical sociology

life course

criminology

family

race

Top articles of Ronald L Simons

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Racial discrimination during middle age predicts higher serum phosphorylated tau and neurofilament light chain levels a decade later: A study of aging black Americans

Alzheimer's & Dementia

Ronald L Simons

Mei Ling Ong

Man‐Kit Lei

Steven RH Beach

Yue Zhang

...

2024/4/10

Direct and indirect effects of socioeconomic status and discrimination on subjective cognitive decline: A longitudinal study of African American women

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B

Ronald L Simons

Mei Ling Ong

Steven R H Beach

Man-Kit Lei

Robert Philibert

...

2023/5/1

Racial discrimination and the weathering of nonmarital relationships

Journal of Marriage and Family

Ashley B Barr

Ronald L Simons

Steven RH Beach

Leslie Gordon Simons

2023/5

Changes in Loneliness, BDNF, and Biological Aging Predict Trajectories in a Blood-Based Epigenetic Measure of Cortical Aging: A Study of Older Black Americans

Genes

Ronald L Simons

Mei Ling Ong

Man-Kit Lei

Steven RH Beach

Yue Zhang

...

2023/3/31

Specifying the psychosocial pathways whereby child and adolescent adversity shape adult health outcomes

Psychological medicine

Man-Kit Lei

Mark T Berg

Ronald L Simons

Steven RH Beach

2023/10

Racism over time: Experiences from a panel study of Black Americans

Social Psychology Quarterly

Malissa Alinor

Ronald L Simons

Man-Kit Lei

2023/9

Unstable childhood, adult adversity, and smoking accelerate biological aging among middle-age African Americans: Similar findings for GrimAge and PoAm

Journal of aging and health

Ronald L Simons

Mei Ling Ong

Man-Kit Lei

Eric Klopack

Mark Berg

...

2022/8

Neighborhood structural disadvantage and biological aging in a sample of Black middle age and young adults

Social Science & Medicine

Man-Kit Lei

Mark T Berg

Ronald L Simons

Steven RH Beach

2022/1/1

Do loneliness and per capita income combine to increase the pace of biological aging for black adults across late middle age?

International journal of environmental research and public health

Steven RH Beach

Eric T Klopack

Sierra E Carter

Robert A Philibert

Ronald L Simons

...

2022/10/17

Childhood adversity predicts black young adults’ DNA methylation-based accelerated aging: A dual pathway model

Development and psychopathology

Steven RH Beach

Frederick X Gibbons

Sierra E Carter

Mei Ling Ong

Justin A Lavner

...

2022/5

Incarceration exposure and epigenetic aging in neighborhood context

Social Science & Medicine

Mark T Berg

Ethan M Rogers

Kendall Riley

Man-Kit Lei

Ronald L Simons

2022/10/1

School disengagement predicts accelerated aging among Black American youth: mediation by psychological maladjustment and moderation by supportive parenting

International journal of environmental research and public health

Mei Ling Ong

Eric T Klopack

Sierra Carter

Ronald L Simons

Steven RH Beach

2022/9/23

Additive and interactive genetically contextual effects of HbA1c on cg19693031 methylation in type 2 diabetes

Genes

Kelsey Dawes

Willem Philibert

Benjamin Darbro

Ronald L Simons

Robert Philibert

2022/4/13

Methylation of FKBP5 is associated with accelerated DNA methylation ageing and cardiometabolic risk: replication in young-adult and middle-aged Black Americans

Epigenetics

Steven RH Beach

Mei Ling Ong

Man-Kit Lei

Sierra E Carter

Ronald L Simons

...

2022/9/2

Life course trajectories of chronic financial strain and acute stress reactivity: Steeling in response to recovery from strain

Stress and Health

Eric T Klopack

Kandauda AS Wickrama

Ronald L Simons

2022/4

Childhood adversity and adult health: A dyadic analysis of Black American couples.

Health Psychology

Yue Zhang

Man-Kit Lei

Ronald L Simons

Steven RH Beach

Sierra E Carter

2022/12

Shifts in lifestyle and socioeconomic circumstances predict change—for better or worse—in speed of epigenetic aging: a study of middle-aged black women

Social Science & Medicine

Ronald L Simons

Mei Ling Ong

Man-Kit Lei

Eric Klopach

Mark Berg

...

2022/8/1

Racial discrimination and health among two generations of African American couples

Social Science & Medicine

Ashley B Barr

Ronald L Simons

Steven RH Beach

Leslie Gordon Simons

2022/3/1

Romantic relationship status, quality, and depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older Black women

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B

Stephanie L Hanus

Leslie G Simons

Man-Kit Lei

Ryon J Cobb

Ronald L Simons

2022/11/1

The effects of social adversity, discrimination, and health risk behaviors on the accelerated aging of African Americans: Further support for the weathering hypothesis

Social Science & Medicine

Ronald L Simons

Man-Kit Lei

Eric Klopack

Steven RH Beach

Frederick X Gibbons

...

2021/8/1

See List of Professors in Ronald L Simons University(University of Georgia)

Co-Authors

H-index: 142
Glen H. Elder, Jr.

Glen H. Elder, Jr.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

H-index: 141
Rand D Conger

Rand D Conger

University of California, Davis

H-index: 124
Gene H. Brody

Gene H. Brody

University of Georgia

H-index: 114
frederick x gibbons

frederick x gibbons

University of Connecticut

H-index: 101
Steven Beach

Steven Beach

University of Georgia

H-index: 90
meg gerrard

meg gerrard

University of Connecticut

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