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Researcher · Harvard University Press · United States

Nathan Keyfitz

Nathan Keyfitz publishes mostly in Demography, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management, Global Health Care Issues and Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences.

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World rank
#49,768
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#19,217
of 1,627,098
Works
525
Citations
10k
Citations per work
19.0
h-index
48
i10-index 136Top 0.3% in Demography
Nathan Keyfitz

What does Nathan Keyfitz research?

Nathan Keyfitz's work is mostly in Social Sciences (45%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (9%), Health Professions (7%).

Social Sciences: 280 works · 53.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 235 works · 44.7% of their workDemography: 90 works · 17.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 84 works · 16.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 37 works · 7.1% of their workGender Studies: 24 works · 4.5% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 45 works · 8.6% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 45 works · 8.6% of their workEverything else: 207 works · 39.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 38 works · 7.2% of their workHealth Professions: 38 works · 7.2% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 38 works · 7.2% of their workTHEIR WORKNathan Keyfitz525works
Health Sciences7%Social Sciences53%

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 Sciences23544.7%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance458.6%
  2. Everything else20739.5%
    1. Health Professions387.2%
  1. 1Demography17% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science16% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics9% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions7% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  6. 6Gender Studies4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nathan Keyfitz's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Life Expectancy, Mortality Forecasting, Population Ageing, Economic Growth, Ageing Population, Health Care Expenditure, Sex Ratios and Son Preference.

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 Expectancy1772 topics
  2. Mortality Forecasting1311 topic
  3. Population Ageing1311 topic
  4. Economic Growth783 topics
  5. Ageing Population461 topic
  6. Health Care Expenditure461 topic
  7. Sex Ratios271 topic
  8. Son Preference271 topic
  9. Economic Development211 topic
  10. Institutions211 topic
  11. Capture-Recapture201 topic
  12. Population Size Estimation201 topic
  13. Income Inequality171 topic
  14. Poverty Measurement171 topic
  15. Small Area Estimation171 topic
  16. Spatial Microsimulation171 topic
  17. Environmental Sustainability151 topic
  18. Sustainability Indicators151 topic

Where does Nathan Keyfitz work?

Nathan Keyfitz's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvard University Press, United States.

How many publications and citations does Nathan Keyfitz have?

OpenAlex counts 525 works and 9,953 citations for Nathan Keyfitz, an h-index of 48, ranking #49,768 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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