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Researcher · Norwegian Institute of Public Health · Norway

Vegard Skirbekk

Vegard Skirbekk publishes mostly in Demography, Sociology and Political Science and General Health Professions, on topics such as Family Dynamics and Relationships, Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management and Health disparities and outcomes.

ORCID 0000-0002-1647-3246 OpenAlex
World rank
#19,786
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Norway
#64
of 33,005
Works
317
Citations
72k
Citations per work
226.6
h-index
55
i10-index 123Top 0.2% in Demography
Vegard Skirbekk

What does Vegard Skirbekk research?

Vegard Skirbekk's work is mostly in Social Sciences (49%), Health Professions (11%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (5%).

Social Sciences: 170 works · 53.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 154 works · 48.6% of their workDemography: 55 works · 17.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 50 works · 15.8% of their workHealth: 27 works · 8.5% of their workGender Studies: 23 works · 7.1% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 16 works · 5.1% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 16 works · 5.1% of their workEverything else: 113 works · 35.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 34 works · 10.6% of their workHealth Professions: 34 works · 10.6% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 34 works · 10.6% of their workTHEIR WORKVegard Skirbekk317works
Health Sciences11%Social Sciences54%

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 Sciences15448.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance165.1%
  2. Everything else11335.7%
    1. Health Professions3410.6%
  1. 1Demography17% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science16% of their works
  3. 3General Health Professions11% of their works
  4. 4Health8% of their works
  5. 5Gender Studies7% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Vegard Skirbekk's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Life Expectancy, Social Support, Divorce, Fertility, Mortality Forecasting, Population Ageing, Social Relationships and Socioeconomic Inequalities.

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 Expectancy812 topics
  2. Social Support752 topics
  3. Divorce501 topic
  4. Fertility501 topic
  5. Mortality Forecasting461 topic
  6. Population Ageing461 topic
  7. Social Relationships461 topic
  8. Socioeconomic Inequalities461 topic
  9. Sex Ratios441 topic
  10. Son Preference441 topic
  11. Ageing Population351 topic
  12. Health Care Expenditure351 topic
  13. Religion341 topic
  14. Secularism341 topic
  15. Aging Workforce301 topic
  16. Retirement301 topic
  17. Family Support291 topic
  18. Intergenerational Relations291 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?

OpenAlex counts 317 works and 71,831 citations for Vegard Skirbekk, an h-index of 55, ranking #19,786 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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