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D-Index
35
Citations
6553
World Ranking
6684
National Ranking
401

Gerry Veenstra 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 Gerry Veenstra sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 97 publications — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gerry Veenstra 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 Gerry Veenstra sits on this spectrum.

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: 35 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gerry Veenstra is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and works primarily within the Social Sciences, with a focus on Health. Their research spans several subfields including Health, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, and Physiology.

Their research topics include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology

Veenstra has published multiple papers, with recent notable publications including:

  • Plant-based dietary practices in Canada: examining definitions, prevalence and correlates of animal source food exclusions using nationally representative data from the 2015 Canadian Community Health Survey-Nutrition (2020, Public Health Nutrition)
  • Associations between social connections, their interactions, and obesity differ by gender: A population-based, cross-sectional analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Does household income mediate the association between education and health in Canada? (2020, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health)
  • Family income and self-rated health in Canada: Using fixed effects models to control for unobserved confounders and investigate causal temporality (2020, Social Science & Medicine)
  • Intergenerational social mobility and self-rated health in Canada (2021, SSM - Population Health)

Frequent co-authors of Veenstra include:

  • Annalijn Conklin
  • Nadia Khan
  • Adam Vanzella-Yang
  • Gilciane Ceolin
  • Sanaz Mehranfar

Veenstra's research is often published in venues such as:

  • PLoS ONE
  • SSM - Population Health
  • Journal of Hypertension
  • CJC Open
  • Canadian Journal of Public Health

Best Publications

  • Social capital, SES and health: an individual-level analysis.

    Gerry Veenstra

  • Race, gender, class, and sexual orientation: intersecting axes of inequality and self-rated health in Canada

    Gerry Veenstra

  • Who you know, where you live: social capital, neighbourhood and health

    Gerry Veenstra;Isaac Luginaah;Sarah Wakefield;Stephen Birch

  • “Who Do They Think We Are, Anyway?”: Perceptions of and Responses to Poverty Stigma

    Linda I. Reutter;Miriam J. Stewart;Gerry Veenstra;Rhonda Love

  • Social capital and health (plus wealth, income inequality and regional health governance).

    Gerry Veenstra

  • Loneliness and risk of mortality: a longitudinal investigation in Alameda County, California.

    Andrew C. Patterson;Gerry Veenstra

  • Location, location, location: contextual and compositional health effects of social capital in British Columbia, Canada

    Gerry Veenstra

  • Perceptions of genetic discrimination among people at risk for Huntington’s disease: a cross sectional survey

    Yvonne O. Bombard;Gerry Veenstra;Jan M. Friedman;Susan Creighton

  • Poverty, Sense of Belonging and Experiences of Social Isolation

    Miriam J. Stewart;Edward Makwarimba;Linda I. Reutter;Gerry Veenstra

  • Social space, social class and Bourdieu: Health inequalities in British Columbia, Canada

    Gerry Veenstra

  • Devolving authority for health care in Canada's provinces: 1. An introduction to the issues

    Jonathan Lomas;John Woods;Gerry Veenstra

  • Racialized identity and health in Canada: Results from a nationally representative survey

    Gerry Veenstra

  • Explicating social capital: Trust and participation in the civil space

    Gerry Veenstra

  • Does the community want devolved authority? Results of deliberative polling in Ontario.

    Julia Abelson;Jonathan Lomas;John Eyles;Stephen Birch

  • The Gendered Nature of Discriminatory Experiences by Race, Class, and Sexuality: A Comparison of Intersectionality Theory and the Subordinate Male Target Hypothesis

    Gerry Veenstra

  • The Relationship Between Cultural Competence and Ethnocentrism of Health Care Professionals

    Jen Capell;Elizabeth Dean;Gerry Veenstra

  • Home is where the governing is: social capital and regional health governance.

    Gerry Veenstra;Jonathan Lomas

  • Race, gender, class, sexuality (RGCS) and hypertension

    Gerry Veenstra

  • Psychosocial and neo-material dimensions of SES and health revisited: predictors of self-rated health in a Canadian national survey.

    James R. Dunn;James R. Dunn;James R. Dunn;Gerry Veenstra;Nancy Ross

  • Public Attributions for Poverty in Canada

    Linda I. Reutter;Gerry Veenstra;Miriam J. Stewart;Dennis Raphael

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda Reutter
Linda Reutter University of Alberta
Dennis Raphael
Dennis Raphael York University
Miriam Stewart
Miriam Stewart University of Alberta
Stephen Birch
Stephen Birch University of Queensland
John Eyles
John Eyles University of the Witwatersrand
Pamela A. Ratner
Pamela A. Ratner University of British Columbia
Joan L. Bottorff
Joan L. Bottorff University of British Columbia
Susan J. Elliott
Susan J. Elliott University of Waterloo
James R. Dunn
James R. Dunn McMaster University
Michael R. Hayden
Michael R. Hayden University of British Columbia

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