Faculty

Chris Tilly

Professor, UCLA

9,664 citations Google Scholar h-index 42

As of 2026-10-15.

Citations, all95th

Citations, fulls89th

h-index, all94th

h-index, fulls87th

Percentile among the professors in this dataset, and among all faculty in it.

Total citations recorded by this project, Google Scholar. Up 3% over that span.

Details

Rank: Professor
PhD: 1989, MIT
Years since PhD: 37
Citations per year: 261
Interests: Work and labor markets, poverty and inequality, community and regional development, social movements; His research focuses on the US and Mexico, with some broader comparative work; Also Director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Google Scholar profile
OpenAlex author record
ORCID
ResearchGate

OpenAlex, for comparison

Citations: 4,609
h-index: 30
Works: 236

OpenAlex is journal-centric and normally counts fewer citations than Scholar. Shown for context, not used in rankings. Here OpenAlex counts 48% of the Scholar total; across the 735 faculty on this site with both figures, the typical share is 58%.