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He is the author who has published more in the field, Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Director of the Human Flourishing Program and Co-Director of the Initiative on Health, Religion and Spirituality at Harvard University. He appears as main author or co-author in 17 documents treating human flourishing, all of them published between 2017 and 2021: 2 in 2017, 2 in 2018, 3 in 2019 and 10 in 2021. He is very focussed in psychosocial measurements and quantitative approaches in subjects like psychiatric, social epidemiology, the science of happiness or the study of religion and health. His most cited article is On the promotion of human flourishing (VanderWeele, 2017) with 148 citations at the moment of the collection.

He is the next most productive author, professor at Nort-West University, with 15 articles within the sample. His research about human flourishing is related with the development of the human potential in institutions with multicultural contexts. He often uses approaches based on capabilities in order to generated what he calls positive organizations. His articles expand from 2012 to 2020, also receiving a distributed number of citations, with a mean of 9 citations by article.

He is another of the most productive authors writing about human flourishing in Scopus database. He is a Professor at Emory College of Arts and Sciences in Georgia in the areas of social psychology and mental health. He has 13 documents in the collected, begining in a very early date, at 2006. Actually, he is one of the main references for the positive psychology movement. His article Promoting and protecting mental health as flourishing: A complementary strategy for improving national mental health (Keyes, 2007) receives 879 citations at the moment of the collection, being the fourth most cited of the whole sample. He is specially focussed in showing how the absence of mental illness does not translate into the presence of mental health, and how to apply these approach in public healthcare systems.

‪He is a Professor at East China Universtiy of Science and Technology who has been publishing about human flourishing since 2015, with 10 documents detected in the present collection. He is specialized in Non-medical Health Intervention, Sociology of Happiness, Assessment-based Social Work, Positive and Character Education, and eHealth, combining Emic-Etic Approach, and integrating indigenous modification of Chinese cultural characteristics. He is coauthor of the article Psychometric Evaluation of the Simplified Chinese Version of Flourishing Scale (Tang et al., 2016) with 54 citations within the data collected.

He is the program's Director of Empirical Research of Human Flourishing at Harvard. He treats topics such as benevolent service to others, organizational compassion capability, and the integration of social science and the humanities. He has 9 documents in the collected sample, all of then between 2020 and 2021.

He is a professor of Law in the Cornell Law School, with 9 documents within the collection. He writes about propierty and commodity and their relations with dignity and human flourishing. His most cited article is the The social-obligation norm in American property law (2009) with 139 citations. He also has a relevant book written together with Eduardo M. Peñalver, An Introduction to Property Theory (2012), cited 91 times in the database, where they include the Aristotelian human flourishing theory of propierty as an alternative to all the modern models -Lockean, libertarian, utilitarian/law-and-economics, personhood and Kantian-.

He is professor of the Department of Education and Psychological Studies at Miami University. He uses evolutionary theory in dialogue with Aristotle’s systematic ethics. He claims a better understanding of human ethics assuming the evidence provided by our evolved biological nature. He has 8 articles in the sample, very spaced and distributed since 2003 until 2021.

He is Professor at the Department of Psychological Sciences of Purdue University. He has 8 documents published within the sample, which go from 2014 to 2021. He researches on Industrial Organizational psychology from a interdisciplinary point of view, combining data science methodologies with wellness programs. He is coauthor of the article The Development and Validation of the Comprehensive Inventory of Thriving (CIT) and the Brief Inventory of Thriving (BIT): Comprehensive and Brief Inventory of Thriving (Su et al., 2014) obtaining 163 citations within the sample.