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Researcher · Population Council · United States

John Bongaarts

John Bongaarts publishes mostly in Demography, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Gender Studies, on topics such as Global Maternal and Child Health, Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences and Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management.

ORCID 0000-0001-6195-7234 OpenAlex
World rank
#11,425
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,938
of 1,627,098
Works
339
Citations
28k
Citations per work
82.2
h-index
80
i10-index 206Top 0.1% in Demography
John Bongaarts

What does John Bongaarts research?

John Bongaarts's work is mostly in Social Sciences (40%), Medicine (15%), Health Professions (10%).

Social Sciences: 156 works · 46.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 137 works · 40.5% of their workDemography: 59 works · 17.4% of their workGender Studies: 51 works · 15.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 27 works · 8.1% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 19 works · 5.6% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 19 works · 5.6% of their workEverything else: 98 works · 29.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 84 works · 24.9% of their workMedicine: 52 works · 15.4% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 52 works · 15.4% of their workHealth Professions: 32 works · 9.5% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 32 works · 9.5% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn Bongaarts339works
Health Sciences25%Social Sciences46%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences13740.5%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance195.6%
  2. Everything else9829.0%
    1. Medicine5215.4%
    2. Health Professions329.5%
  1. 1Demography17% of their works
  2. 2Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health15% of their works
  3. 3Gender Studies15% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions10% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Bongaarts's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Life Expectancy, Child Mortality, Maternal Mortality, Sex Ratios, Son Preference, Mortality Forecasting, Population Ageing and Divorce.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Life Expectancy1172 topics
  2. Child Mortality981 topic
  3. Maternal Mortality981 topic
  4. Sex Ratios831 topic
  5. Son Preference831 topic
  6. Mortality Forecasting691 topic
  7. Population Ageing691 topic
  8. Divorce571 topic
  9. Fertility571 topic
  10. Gender Inequality542 topics
  11. Ageing Population481 topic
  12. Health Care Expenditure481 topic
  13. Labor Force Participation321 topic
  14. Welfare Reform321 topic
  15. Conditional Cash Transfers221 topic
  16. School Subsidies221 topic
  17. Family Support211 topic
  18. Intergenerational Relations211 topic

Where does John Bongaarts work?

John Bongaarts's main affiliation in the publication record is Population Council, United States.

How many publications and citations does John Bongaarts have?

OpenAlex counts 339 works and 27,871 citations for John Bongaarts, an h-index of 80, ranking #11,425 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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