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Derek Nord

Social Sciences · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Established · publishing since 1989Rising activity
Disability Education and EmploymentRetirement, Disability, and EmploymentFamily and Disability Support ResearchEducation Systems and PolicyDown syndrome and intellectual disability research

Publications

55

Citations

652

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

38

Publishing since 1989

Research summary
AI-generated

Derek Nord studies employment and support systems for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), including autism spectrum disorder. His work examines how vocational rehabilitation services, funding policies, and health insurance affect job outcomes, wages, and the wellbeing of both individuals with disabilities and their family caregivers. Much of the research uses survey and statistical analysis of state and national data.

Employment for people with intellectual and developmental disabilitiesVocational rehabilitation services and outcomesFamily caregiving and disability supportDisability policy and funding effectsTransition to adulthood for youth with disabilities

Publication activity has been intermittent over the past decade, with clusters of output in 2018 and 2020 and a lower steady pace of roughly one to two papers per year in recent years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

In context
Among 1,197 established Social Sciences PIs within our index
Citations: 652cohort median 1,128
h-index: 14cohort median 16
Publications / year (recent): 1.2cohort median 2.2

Typically publishes in teams of ~3 · 73% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 11 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.2/year recently
172018: 4 publications4182019: 2 publications192020: 4 publications42021222023: 3 publications232024: 1 publication242025: 2 publications2526
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 0 collaborators at the same institution2018: 0 collaborators at the same institution2019: 0 collaborators at the same institution2020: 2 collaborators at the same institution2021: 0 collaborators at the same institution2022: 0 collaborators at the same institution2023: 2 collaborators at the same institution2024: 0 collaborators at the same institution2025: 1 collaborator at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Intellectual and developmental disabilities×5
  • Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation×3
  • Research in autism spectrum disorders×2
  • American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities×2
  • Developmental Disabilities Network Journal×2
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Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

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