Crystal Park Google Scholar: h-index, Total Citations, and Citation Map
Crystal Park's h-index is 119 (387 i10-index, 64,607+ total citations across 536+ publications) according to Google Scholar as of October 2026. Crystal Park is affiliated with Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut.
Crystal Park is a researcher affiliated with Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, specializing in Coping, Health Psychology, Meaning. Their work has been cited 64,607 times. This profile visualizes their global influence, highlighting strong citation networks in United States.
Crystal Park's Citation Metrics
Bibliometric impact based on 536 indexed publications. Of these, 16 are original research articles — the rest are literature highlights, conference abstracts or theses.
- H-Index
- 119
- i10-Index
- 387
- Total Citations
- 64,607
- Citing Countries
- 63
As of October 2026.
Crystal Park has an h-index of 119 and 64,607 total citations across 536 publications, with research cited by institutions in 63 countries.
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Making sense of the meaning literature: an integrative review of meaning making and its effects on adjustment to stressful life events.
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The researcher established a foundational framework for understanding how meaning-making processes influence psychological adjustment to stressful life events.
The researcher established a foundational framework for assessing and predicting stress-related growth, a seminal contribution that has significantly influenced subsequent psychological research.
The researcher established the conceptual framework for posttraumatic growth, defining positive psychological changes following crisis, as evidenced by a seminal 1998 monograph with over 2,200 citations.
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About Crystal Park's research
Crystal Park is a researcher in Coping, Health Psychology and Meaning at Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut. Their work has been cited 64,607 times across 536 publications (h-index 119), according to Google Scholar.
Their most-cited work, “Making sense of the meaning literature: an integrative review of meaning making and its effects on adjustment to stressful life events.” (2010), has accumulated 5,228 citations. Other influential works include “Meaning in the Context of Stress and Coping” (1997) with 3,702 citations and “Assessment and prediction of stress‐related growth” (1996) with 3,003 citations.
Citations of Crystal Park's research come primarily from United States, Turkey and China, reflecting international research impact across 5+ countries. The interactive citation map above shows the full geographic distribution of the institutions citing this work.
