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2026

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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 64 1114 975 14 6 190 14624

Basile Chaix publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Basile Chaix between 2002 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Basile Chaix published across 25 years, from 2002 to 2026, averaging 9 papers a year. Output peaked at 17 publications in 2023. 10 of the 225 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2002 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 17. Peak 17 publications in 2023. 2002: 2 publications 2003: 0 publications 2004: 3 publications 2005: 9 publications 2006: 9 publications 2007: 4 publications 2008: 3 publications 2009: 6 publications 2010: 8 publications 2011: 13 publications 2012: 13 publications 2013: 9 publications 2014: 12 publications 2015: 13 publications 2016: 12 publications 2017: 11 publications 2018: 14 publications 2019: 15 publications 2020: 13 publications 2021: 9 publications 2022: 13 publications 2023: 17 publications 2024: 7 publications 2025: 9 publications 2026: 1 publication
2002 2026

225 publications in total across all disciplines

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Basile Chaix: publications per year, 2002 to 2026
Year Publications
2002 2
2003 0
2004 3
2005 9
2006 9
2007 4
2008 3
2009 6
2010 8
2011 13
2012 13
2013 9
2014 12
2015 13
2016 12
2017 11
2018 14
2019 15
2020 13
2021 9
2022 13
2023 17
2024 7
2025 9
2026 1
Total 225
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Basile Chaix 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 Basile Chaix sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 184–193 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 190 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319 190
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Basile Chaix 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 Basile Chaix sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 64 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79 64
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award

Overview

Basile Chaix is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and specializes in environmental science and social sciences. Their research focuses on the intersection of environment, health, and social factors, particularly relating to urban living conditions and their impact on well-being.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics addressing mental health, urban spaces, and social environments. Selected papers include:

  • Micro urban spaces and mental well-being: Measuring the exposure to urban landscapes along daily mobility paths and their effects on momentary depressive symptomatology among older population (2023, Environment International)
  • Linking physical and social environments with mental health in old age: a multisensor approach for continuous real-life ecological and emotional assessment (2020, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health)
  • Combining social network and activity space data for health research: tools and methods (2020, Health & Place)
  • Mediating role of psychological distress in the associations between neighborhood social environments and sleep health (2022, SLEEP)
  • Overview of retrospective data harmonisation in the MINDMAP project: process and results (2020, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health)

Frequent collaborators in Chaix's research include:

  • Giovanna Fancello
  • Sanjeev Bista
  • Yan Kestens
  • Cédric Sueur
  • Dustin T. Duncan

Their work has been published multiple times in specific venues, reflecting their research focus and community engagement:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (8 publications)
  • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health (5 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (5 publications)
  • Environment International (4 publications)
  • Health & Place (4 publications)

Basile Chaix's main fields of study are:

  • Environmental Science
  • Social Sciences

Their subfields of study include:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Transportation
  • Health
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Speech and Hearing

Their primary research topics cover:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Urban Green Space and Health

Best Publications

  • A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: using measures of clustering in multilevel logistic regression to investigate contextual phenomena

    Juan Merlo;Basile Chaix;Henrik Ohlsson;Anders Beckman

  • A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: linking the statistical concept of clustering to the idea of contextual phenomenon

    Juan Merlo;Basile Chaix;Min Yang;John Lynch

  • Measuring the food environment using geographical information systems: a methodological review.

    Hélène Charreire;Romain Casey;Paul Salze;Chantal Simon

  • The influence of geographic life environments on cardiometabolic risk factors: a systematic review, a methodological assessment and a research agenda

    C. Leal;B. Chaix;B. Chaix

  • A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: investigating contextual phenomena in different groups of people

    Juan Merlo;Min Yang;Basile Chaix;John Lynch

  • Conceptualization and measurement of environmental exposure in epidemiology: Accounting for activity space related to daily mobility

    Camille Perchoux;Basile Chaix;Steven Cummins;Yan Kestens

  • GPS tracking in neighborhood and health studies: a step forward for environmental exposure assessment, a step backward for causal inference?

    Basile Chaix;Julie Méline;Julie Méline;Scott Duncan;Claire Merrien;Claire Merrien

  • Geographic Life Environments and Coronary Heart Disease: A Literature Review, Theoretical Contributions, Methodological Updates, and a Research Agenda

    Basile Chaix

  • An Interactive Mapping Tool to Assess Individual Mobility Patterns in Neighborhood Studies

    Basile Chaix;Basile Chaix;Yan Kestens;Camille Perchoux;Camille Perchoux;Camille Perchoux;Noëlla Karusisi;Noëlla Karusisi

  • A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: interpreting neighbourhood differences and the effect of neighbourhood characteristics on individual health

    Juan Merlo;Basile Chaix;Min Yang;John Lynch

  • Comparison of a Spatial Perspective with the Multilevel Analytical Approach in Neighborhood Studies: The Case of Mental and Behavioral Disorders due to Psychoactive Substance Use in Malmö, Sweden, 2001

    Basile Chaix;Juan Merlo;S V Subramanian;John Lynch

  • Neighbourhoods in eco-epidemiologic research: delimiting personal exposure areas. A response to Riva, Gauvin, Apparicio and Brodeur.

    Basile Chaix;Juan Merlo;David Evans;Cinira Leal

  • Comparison of a spatial approach with the multilevel approach for investigating place effects on health: the example of healthcare utilisation in France

    Basile Chaix;Juan Merlo;Pierre Chauvin

  • Children’s exposure to nitrogen dioxide in Sweden: investigating environmental injustice in an egalitarian country

    Basile Chaix;Susanna Gustafsson;Michael Jerrett;Håkan Kristersson

  • Food environment and socioeconomic status influence obesity rates in Seattle and in Paris

    Adam Drewnowski;Anne Vernez Moudon;Junfeng Jiao;Anju Aggarwal

  • Individual/Neighborhood Social Factors and Blood Pressure in the RECORD Cohort Study. Which Risk Factors Explain the Associations?

    Basile Chaix;Kathy Bean;Cinira Leal;Frédérique Thomas

  • Individual and collective bodies: using measures of variance and association in contextual epidemiology

    Juan Merlo;Henrik Ohlsson;Kristian F Lynch;Basile Chaix

  • Association between activity space exposure to food establishments and individual risk of overweight.

    Yan Kestens;Alexandre Lebel;Alexandre Lebel;Basile Chaix;Christelle Clary

  • Detecting activity locations from raw GPS data: a novel kernel-based algorithm.

    Benoit Thierry;Basile Chaix;Basile Chaix;Yan Kestens

  • Active transportation and public transportation use to achieve physical activity recommendations? A combined GPS, accelerometer, and mobility survey study

    Basile Chaix;Basile Chaix;Yan Kestens;Scott Duncan;Claire Merrien;Claire Merrien

  • Neighborhood Effects on Health: Correcting Bias From Neighborhood Effects on Participation

    Basile Chaix;Nathalie Billaudeau;Frédérique Thomas;Sabrina Havard

Frequent Co-Authors

Yan Kestens
Yan Kestens University of Montreal
Juan Merlo
Juan Merlo Lund University
Dustin T. Duncan
Dustin T. Duncan Columbia University
Pierre Chauvin
Pierre Chauvin Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
Bruno Pannier
Bruno Pannier Grenoble Alpes University
Maria Rosvall
Maria Rosvall University of Gothenburg
Frank J. van Lenthe
Frank J. van Lenthe Erasmus University Rotterdam
John Lynch
John Lynch University of Adelaide
Martin Lindström
Martin Lindström Lund University
Tarik Benmarhnia
Tarik Benmarhnia University of California, San Diego

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