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D-Index
52
Citations
9104
World Ranking
2471
National Ranking
1202

David Shapiro 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 David Shapiro sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 166 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David Shapiro 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 David Shapiro sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1980 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

David Shapiro is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Social Sciences, with a subfield specialization in Demography. Their work spans topics including Insurance, Mortality, Demography, and Risk Management.

Shapiro's recent research output includes the paper titled Laggards in the global fertility transition, published in 2020 in the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research. This paper contributes to the understanding of demographic changes and fertility trends at a global scale.

Their frequent co-author is Andrew Hinde, with whom they have collaborated on research projects. Publications by Shapiro have appeared notably in the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, reflecting a focus on demographic and population studies within that venue.

Recognition of their contributions to science includes being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1980, which marks an acknowledgment by peers in the scientific community.

  • Social Sciences
  • Demography

  • Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management

  • Laggards in the global fertility transition, 2020, Vienna Yearbook of Population Research

  • Andrew Hinde

  • Vienna Yearbook of Population Research

Best Publications

  • Effects of treatment duration and severity of depression on the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic-interpersonal psychotherapy.

    David A. Shapiro;Michael Barkham;Anne Rees;Gillian E. Hardy

  • Minor psychiatric disorder in NHS Trust staff::Occupational and gender differences

    T D Wall;R I Bolden;C S Borrill;A J Carter

  • Patterns of alliance development and the rupture-repair hypothesis: Are productive relationships U-shaped or V-shaped?

    William B. Stiles;Meredith J. Glick;Katerine Osatuke;Gillian E. Hardy

  • Team working and effectiveness in health care

    Carol Borrill;Michael West;David Shapiro;Anne Rees

  • Dose-Effect Relations in Time-Limited Psychotherapy for Depression

    Michael Barkham;Anne Rees;William B. Stiles;David A. Shapiro

  • Evaluation and Description of Psychotherapy Sessions by Clients Using the Session Evaluation Questionnaire and the Session Impacts Scale.

    William B. Stiles;Shirley Reynolds;Gillian E. Hardy;Anne Rees

  • Disabuse of the drug metaphor: Psychotherapy process-outcome correlations.

    William B. Stiles;David A. Shapiro

  • Early sudden gains in psychotherapy under routine clinic conditions: practice-based evidence.

    William B. Stiles;Chris Leach;Michael Barkham;Mike Lucock

  • Effects of Treatment Duration and Severity of Depression on the Maintenance of Gains after Cognitive-Behavioral and Psychodynamic-Interpersonal Psychotherapy.

    David A. Shapiro;Anne Rees;Michael Barkham;Gillian Hardy

  • Validation of the General Health Questionnaire-12: Using a sample of employees from England's health care services.

    Gillian E. Hardy;David A. Shapiro;Clare E. Haynes;Jo E. Rick

  • Impact of Cluster C Personality Disorders on Outcomes of Contrasting Brief Psychotherapies for Depression.

    Gillian E. Hardy;Michael Barkham;David A. Shapiro;William B. Stiles

  • Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Falling and Stalling

    David Shapiro;Tesfayi Gebreselassie

  • Comprehensive process analysis of insight events in cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic-interpersonal psychotherapies.

    Robert Elliott;David A. Shapiro;Jenny Firth-Cozens;William B. Stiles

  • Acceleration of Changes in Session Impact During Contrasting Time-Limited Psychotherapies

    Shirley Reynolds;William B. Stiles;Michael Barkham;David A. Shapiro

  • Psychotherapy in two-plus-one sessions: outcomes of a randomized controlled trial of cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy for subsyndromal depression.

    Michael Barkham;David A. Shapiro;Gillian E. Hardy;Anne Rees

  • Outcomes of time-limited psychotherapy in applied settings: replicating the Second Sheffield Psychotherapy Project

    Michael Barkham;Anne Rees;David A. Shapiro;William B. Stiles

  • Relations of the alliance with psychotherapy outcome: findings in the Second Sheffield Psychotherapy Project

    William B. Stiles;Roxane Agnew-Davies;Gillian E. Hardy;Michael Barkham

  • Future Fertility in High Fertility Countries

    Regina Fuchs;Anne Goujon;Donation Beguy;John Casterline

  • Long-term employment and earnings of women in relation to employment behavior surrounding the

    David Shapiro;Frank L. Mott

  • Ambulatory blood pressure, heart rate, and neuroendocrine responses in women nurses during work and off work days.

    Iris B. Goldstein;David Shapiro;Aleksandra Chicz-DeMet;Don Guthrie

Frequent Co-Authors

Gillian E. Hardy
Gillian E. Hardy University of Sheffield
Michael Barkham
Michael Barkham University of Sheffield
William B. Stiles
William B. Stiles Miami University
Shirley Reynolds
Shirley Reynolds University of Reading
Gary E. Schwartz
Gary E. Schwartz University of Arizona
Larry D. Jamner
Larry D. Jamner University of California, Irvine
Mitchell L. Shiffman
Mitchell L. Shiffman Bon Secours Health System
Kris V. Kowdley
Kris V. Kowdley Washington State University
Bruce D. Naliboff
Bruce D. Naliboff University of California, Los Angeles

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