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Researcher · Norwegian Institute of Public Health · Norway

Vegard Skirbekk

Vegard Skirbekk publishes mostly in Demography, Sociology and Political Science and Gender Studies, on topics such as Family Dynamics and Relationships, Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences and Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management.

ORCID 0000-0002-1647-3246 OpenAlex
World rank
#8,005
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Norway
#19
of 6,482
Works
56
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
24.6

What does Vegard Skirbekk research?

Demography: 18.8%Sociology and Political Science: 16.8%Gender Studies: 11.9%General Health Professions: 10.9%other fields: 41.6%19%top field
Demography18.8%Sociology and Political Science16.8%Gender Studies11.9%General Health Professions10.9%other fields41.6%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Demography19% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science17% of their works
  3. 3Gender Studies12% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions11% of their works
  5. 5Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health6% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Vegard Skirbekk's research?

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

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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Life Expectancy112 topics
  2. Divorce81 topic
  3. Fertility81 topic
  4. Sex Ratios81 topic
  5. Son Preference81 topic
  6. Mortality Forecasting61 topic
  7. Population Ageing61 topic
  8. Ageing Population51 topic
  9. Family Support51 topic
  10. Health Care Expenditure51 topic
  11. Intergenerational Relations51 topic
  12. Gender Inequality41 topic
  13. Labor Force Participation41 topic
  14. Religion41 topic
  15. Secularism41 topic
  16. Child Mortality31 topic
  17. Maternal Mortality31 topic

Where does Vegard Skirbekk work?

Vegard Skirbekk's main affiliation in the publication record is Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway.

How many publications and citations does Vegard Skirbekk have?

Science Explorer counts 56 works and 1,376 citations for Vegard Skirbekk, ranking #8,005 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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