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Heather Joshi 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 Heather Joshi sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 307 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Heather Joshi 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 Heather Joshi sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 61 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Heather Joshi is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study is Social Sciences, with 22 publications, and notable subfields including General Health Professions, Education, Sociology and Political Science, Demography, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main research topics addressed by Joshi include Retirement, Disability, and Employment; Employment and Welfare Studies; Early Childhood Education and Development; Work-Family Balance Challenges; Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics; Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development; and Labor Market Dynamics and Wage Inequality.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Joshi cover a range of empirical and theoretical issues:

  • A short history of the gender wage gap in Britain, 2020, Oxford Review of Economic Policy
  • Ability-grouping and problem behavior trajectories in childhood and adolescence: Results from a U.K. population-based sample, 2021, Child Development
  • The gender gap in wages over the life course: Evidence from a British cohort born in 1958, 2020, Gender Work and Organization
  • Does residential mobility affect child development at age five? A comparative study of children born in U.S. and U.K. cities, 2022, Developmental Psychology
  • Exploring the reasons for labour market gender inequality a year into the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the UK cohort studies, 2023, Longitudinal and Life Course Studies

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Joshi include:

  • Alex Bryson
  • David Wilkinson
  • Bożena Wielgoszewska
  • Efstathios Papachristou
  • Eirini Flouri

Joshi's work is frequently published in venues such as Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, SSRN Electronic Journal, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Child Development, and Gender Work and Organization. The publication distribution shows a particular concentration in longitudinal and interdisciplinary studies addressing life course and gender dynamics.

Best Publications

  • Higher mortality in deprived areas: community or personal disadvantage?

    Andrew Sloggett;Heather Joshi

  • The wages of motherhood: better or worse?

    Heather Joshi;Pierella Paci;Jane Waldfogel

  • Investing in People.

    Heather Joshi;Theodore W. Schultz

  • The role of urban neighbourhood green space in children's emotional and behavioural resilience

    Eirini Flouri;Emily Midouhas;Heather Joshi

  • Neighbourhood and family influences on the cognitive ability of children in the British National Child Development Study.

    Andrew McCulloch;Heather E Joshi

  • The Influence of Context, Timing, and Duration of Risk Experiences for the Passage from Childhood to Midadulthood

    Ingrid Schoon;John Bynner;Heather Joshi;Samantha Parsons

  • How active are our children? Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study.

    Lucy J Griffiths;Mario Cortina-Borja;Francesco Sera;Theodora Pouliou

  • Households, Employment and Gender: A Social, Economic and Demographic View

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  • The opportunity costs of childbearing: more than mothers business.

    Heather Joshi

  • Women's Employment Transitions Around Childbearing

    Shirley Dex;Heather Joshi;Susan Macran;Andrew McCulloch

  • Women's health: dimensions and differentials.

    Susan Macran;Lynda Clarke;Heather Joshi

  • Postponement and childlessness: Evidence from two British cohorts

    Dylan Kneale;Heather Joshi

  • The relationship between childbearing and transitions from marriage and cohabitation in Britain

    Fiona Steele;Constantinos Kallis;Harvey Goldstein;Heather Joshi

  • The Millennium Cohort Study: the making of a multi-purpose resource for social science and policy

    Heather Joshi;Emla Fitzsimons

  • Deprivation indicators as predictors of life events 1981-1992 based on the UK ONS Longitudinal Study.

    Andrew Sloggett;Heather Joshi

  • The Cash Opportunity Costs of Childbearing: An Approach To Estimation Using British Data

    Heather Joshi

  • Production, Reproduction, and Education: Women, Children, and Work in a British Perspective

    Heather Joshi

  • Children of the 21st century: From birth to nine months

    Shirley Dex;Heather Joshi

  • Employment after Childbearing: A Survival Analysis:

    Susan Macran;Heather Joshi;Shirley Dex

  • Single-sex Schooling and Academic Attainment at School and through the Lifecourse

    Alice Sullivan;Heather Joshi;Diana Leonard

  • Millennium Cohort Study Third Survey: A User’s Guide to Initial Findings

    Kirstine Hansen;Heather Joshi

  • The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies

    Heather Joshi

  • Key Issues in Women's Work: Female Heterogeneity and the Polarisation of Women's Employment

    Heather Joshi;Catherine Hakim

Frequent Co-Authors

Shirley Dex
Shirley Dex University College London
Eirini Flouri
Eirini Flouri University College London
John Bynner
John Bynner University College London
Ingrid Schoon
Ingrid Schoon University College London
Harvey Goldstein
Harvey Goldstein University of Bristol
Mel Bartley
Mel Bartley University College London
Jane Waldfogel
Jane Waldfogel Columbia University
Jonathan Bradshaw
Jonathan Bradshaw University of York
Kathy Sylva
Kathy Sylva University of Oxford
Susan A. Jebb
Susan A. Jebb University of Oxford

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