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Arne Mastekaasa

Arne Mastekaasa

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
38
Citations
6175
World Ranking
5940
National Ranking
55

Arne Mastekaasa publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Arne Mastekaasa sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 85 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Arne Mastekaasa D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Arne Mastekaasa sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Arne Mastekaasa is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research spans multiple fields with a particular emphasis on social sciences and medicine, including subfields such as sociology and political science, pharmacology, general health professions, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The primary topics of Arne Mastekaasa's work include intergenerational and educational inequality studies, youth education and societal dynamics, income, poverty, and inequality, cannabis and cannabinoid research, homelessness and social issues, and prenatal substance exposure effects. These topics reflect a multidisciplinary approach that integrates social science perspectives with health and pharmacological concerns.

The scientist has published research in various venues, with frequent contributions to European Societies and the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. Notable recent papers include:

  • The intergenerational transmission of social advantage and disadvantage: comprehensive evidence on the association of parents' and children's educational attainments, class, earnings, and status (2022, European Societies)
  • Cannabis and Tobacco Use Among Young People and Labor Market Outcomes in Midlife: A 23-Year Population-Based Longitudinal Study (2022, Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs)

Collaboration forms an important aspect of their research activity, with frequent co-authors including Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund, Willy Pedersen, and Tilmann von Soest. These collaborations indicate a network of scholars with overlapping interests across sociology, public health, and substance use research.

Best Publications

  • Chapter 5. Risk factors for sick leave - general studies

    Peter Allebeck;Arne Mastekaasa

  • Marriage and Psychological Well-Being: Some Evidence on Selection into Marriage.

    Arne Mastekaasa

  • Quality of life in patients treated for head and neck cancer: A follow-up study 7 to 11 years after radiotherapy

    Kristin Bjordal;Stein Kaasa;Arne Mastekaasa

  • Marital Status, Distress, and Well-Being: An International Comparison*

    Arne Mastekaasa

  • Parenthood, gender and sickness absence.

    Arne Mastekaasa

  • Prognostic factors for patients with inoperable non-small cell lung cancer, limited disease. The importance of patients' subjective experience of disease and psychosocial well-being.

    Stein Kaasa;Arne Mastekaasa;Eiliv Lund

  • Satisfied Movers, Committed Stayers: The Impact of Job Mobility on Work Attitudes in Norway

    Arne L. Kalleberg;Arne Mastekaasa

  • Unemployment and Health: Selection Effects

    Arne Mastekaasa

  • Conduct problems and early cannabis initiation: a longitudinal study of gender differences

    Willy Pedersen;Arne Mastekaasa;Lars Wichstrøm

  • Educational choice and persistence in male- and female-dominated fields

    Arne Mastekaasa;Arne Mastekaasa;Jens-Christian Smeby

  • Social Origins and Academic Performance at University

    Marianne Nordli Hansen;Arne Mastekaasa

  • Chapter 3. Causes of sickness absence: research approaches and explanatory models

    Peter Allebeck;Arne Mastekaasa

  • Gender differences in sickness absence--the contribution of occupation and workplace.

    Mikko Laaksonen;Arne Mastekaasa;Pekka Martikainen;Ossi Rahkonen

  • The Subjective Well-Being of the Previously Married: The Importance of Unmarried Cohabitation and Time Since Widowhood or Divorce

    Arne Mastekaasa

  • Gender, absenteeism, and job characteristics: A fixed effects approach.

    Arne Mastekaasa;Karen Modesta Olsen

  • Psychological Well-Being and Marital Dissolution Selection Effects?

    Arne Mastekaasa

  • Sickness absence in female- and male-dominated occupations and workplaces.

    Arne Mastekaasa

  • Age variations in the suicide rates and self-reported subjective well-being of married and never married persons†

    Arne Mastekaasa

  • Marital Dissolution and Subjective Distress: Panel Evidence

    Arne Mastekaasa

  • Highly educated immigrants in the Norwegian labour market: permanent disadvantage?:

    Idunn Brekke;Arne Mastekaasa

Frequent Co-Authors

Stein Kaasa
Stein Kaasa Oslo University Hospital
Arne L. Kalleberg
Arne L. Kalleberg University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eiliv Lund
Eiliv Lund University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Peter Allebeck
Peter Allebeck Karolinska Institute
Willy Pedersen
Willy Pedersen University of Oslo
Eero Lahelma
Eero Lahelma University of Helsinki
Pekka Martikainen
Pekka Martikainen University of Helsinki
Mikko Laaksonen
Mikko Laaksonen University of Helsinki
Tilmann von Soest
Tilmann von Soest University of Oslo
Lars Wichstrøm
Lars Wichstrøm Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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