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2023
Vaidyanathan, Brandon, Bailey Haraburda, and Christopher Jacobi. “Beauty in Biology: An Empirical Assessment.” Journal of Biosciences 48(15). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12038-023-00342-6
Jacobi, Christopher, Zohaib Jessani, Peter J Varga, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. “Individual Differences in Scientists' Aesthetic Disposition, Aesthetic Experiences, and Aesthetic Sensitivity in Scientific Work.” Frontiers in Psychology, Section Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1197870
Di, Di, Stephen Cranney, Brandon Vaidyanathan, and Caitlin Anne Fitzgerald. “Religion, Spirituality, and Mental Health Among Scientists During the Pandemic: A Four-Country Study.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science.
Fitzgerald, Caitlin Anne, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. “Faith Leaders’ Views on Collaboration with Mental Health Professionals.” Community Mental Health Journal 59 (3): 477–485. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-022-01031-8
2022
Jacobi, Christopher, Peter Varga, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. “Aesthetic Experiences and Flourishing in Science: A Four-Country Study.” Frontiers in Psychology, Section Positive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.923940
Gabriel Acevedo, Reed DeAngelis, Jordan Farrell, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. “Is it the Sermon or the Choir? Pastoral Support, Congregant Support, and Worshiper Mental Health.” Review of Religious Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13644-022-00500-6
Jacobi, Christopher Justin, Maria Andronicou, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. “Looking beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic: Congregants’ Expectations of Future Online Religious Service Attendance.” Religions 13(6): 559. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13060559
Jacobi, Christopher, Jennifer Charles, Brandon Vaidyanathan, Emma Frankham, and Bailey Haraburda. “Effects of familiarity and causal attributions on stigma towards mental illness and substance use disorders in faith communities.” Stigma & Health https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000373
Jacobi, Christopher, Richard G. Cowden, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. Association of Changes in Religiosity with Flourishing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of Faith Communities in the U.S.” Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.805785
Khalsa, Simranjit, Brenton Kalinowski, Brandon Vaidyanathan, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “Science-Religion Boundaries in Indian Scientific Workplaces.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12760
Jacobi, Christopher Justin, Maria Andronicou, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. “Mental Health Correlates of Sharing Personal Problems in Congregations during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12780
2021
Vaidyanathan, Brandon, Jennifer Charles, Tram Nguyen, and Sahara Brodsky. “Religious Leaders’ Trust in Mental Health Professionals.” Mental Health, Religion and Culture. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2021.1967901
Jacobi, Christopher Justin, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. “Racial differences in anticipated COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among religious populations in the US.” Vaccine 39(43): 6351-6355 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.09.005
Frankham, Emma, Christopher Jacobi, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. “Race, trust in police, and mental illness crisis support.” Contexts (Fall 2021). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/15365042211035343
DeAngelis, Reed, Gabriel Acevedo, Brandon Vaidyanathan, and Christopher G. Ellison. “Coping with an Evil World: Contextualizing the Stress-Buffering Role of Scripture Reading.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 60(3): 645-652. https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12728
2020
Vaidyanathan, Brandon. “How minority religion can shape corporate capitalism: An emergentist account and empirical illustration.” Business and Society 59 (5), 881-913.
Kirstin R. W. Matthews, Erin Yang, Steven W. Lewis, Brandon R. Vaidyanathan & Monica Gorman. “International scientific collaborative activities and barriers to them in eight societies.” Accountability in Research, DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2020.1774373
2019
Salazar, Esmeralda Sánchez, Brandon Vaidyanathan, Elaine Howard Ecklund, Adriana Garcia. Challenging Evolution in Public Schools: Race, Religion, and Attitudes toward Teaching Creationism. Socius. https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023119870376
2018
Vaidyanathan, Brandon, Simranjit Khalsa, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2018. “Naturally ambivalent: Religion’s role in shaping environmental action.” Sociology of Religion 79(4): 472-494.
Johnson, David R., Brandon Vaidyanathan, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2018. “Structural Strain in Science: Organizational Context, Career Stage, and Disciplinary Differences among UK Scientists.” Sociological Inquiry 88(1):5-31. (Lead Article )
2016
Vaidyanathan, Brandon, Simranjit Khalsa, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2016. “Gossip as social control?: Informal sanctions on ethical violations in scientific workplaces.” Social Problems 63(4):554-572. (Coverage: Retraction Watch, Inside Higher Ed)
Vaidyanathan, Brandon, David Johnson, Pamela Prickett, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2016. “Rejecting the Conflict Narrative: American Jewish and Muslim Views on Science and Religion” Social Compass 63(4): 63: 478-496.
Vaidyanathan, Brandon, Michael Strand, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Meghan Davis, Amanda Varela, and Thomas Buschman. 2016. “Causality in Contemporary American Sociology: An Empirical Assessment and Critique”. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior 46(1):3-26. (First two authors share authorship equally; Lead Article; Honorable Mention, Edward Shils-James Coleman Memorial Award, Theory section, American Sociological Association, 2010.)
Offutt, Steven, LiErin Probasco, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2016. “Religion, Poverty and Development.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 55(2):207-215.
2015
Herzog, Patricia S., and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2015. “Conflict and Community: Twin Tensions in Becoming a Multiethnic Congregation.” Review of Religious Research 57(4):507-529.
Vaidyanathan, Brandon. 2015. “Professional Socialization in Medicine.” The American Medical Association Journal of Ethics 17(2):160-166.
2013
Christian Smith, Brandon Vaidyanathan, Nancy Tatom Ammerman, José Casanova, Hilary Davidson, Elaine Howard Ecklund, John H. Evans, Philip S. Gorski, Mary Ellen Konieczny, Jason A. Springs, Jenny Trinitapoli, and Meredith Whitnah. 2013. “Twenty-Three Theses on the Status of Religion in American Sociology” Journal for the American Academy of Religion 81(4): 1-36.
* Lead article
2012
Vaidyanathan, Brandon. 2012. “Professionalism ‘from below’: Mobilisation Potential in Indian Call Centres.” Work, Employment, and Society 26(2):211-227. ( Joyce Award for best student paper, Higgins Labor Research Center (2010); Honorable mention, Jeanine A. Becker Memorial Award for best graduate student paper, Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame (2010)).
Vaidyanathan, Brandon. 2012. “Religion in the Formal and Informal Economy: Catholicism and Professionals in the Arabian Gulf”. Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management Meeting. doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2012.209.
2011
Vaidyanathan, Brandon, Jonathan P. Hill, and Christian Smith. 2011. “Religion and Charitable Financial Giving to Religious and Secular Causes: Does Political Ideology Matter?” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 50(3):450-469.
Hill, Jonathan P., and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2011. “Substitution or Symbiosis? Rethinking the Relationship between Religious and Secular Giving.” Social Forces 90(1):157-180.
Vaidyanathan, Brandon. 2011. “Religious Resources or Differential Returns? Early Religious Socialization and Declining Attendance in Emerging Adulthood.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 50(2): 366-387.
Vaidyanathan, Brandon, and Patricia Snell. 2011. “Motivations for and Obstacles to Religious Financial Giving.”Sociology of Religion 72(2): 189-214.