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Helena Skyt Nielsen

Helena Skyt Nielsen

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
39
Citations
6478
World Ranking
5666
National Ranking
36

Helena Skyt Nielsen 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 Helena Skyt Nielsen sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 115 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Helena Skyt Nielsen 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 Helena Skyt Nielsen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Helena Skyt Nielsen is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark, with a primary focus in the Social Sciences. Their research encompasses several subfields including Education, Sociology and Political Science, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Safety Research, and Statistics and Probability.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships

Helena Skyt Nielsen's recent publications demonstrate a range of interests within education and socioeconomic factors affecting academic outcomes. Examples of their recent papers include:

  • "Sibling Spillovers", 2020, The Economic Journal
  • "A systematic literature review of math interventions across educational settings from early childhood education to high school", 2023, Frontiers in Education
  • "Parent Involvement, Socioeconomic Status and Reading Performance", 2020, Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research
  • "Development of writing skills within a home-based, shared reading intervention: Re-analyses of evidence from a randomized controlled trial", 2022, Learning and Individual Differences
  • "Effects of school displacement on academic achievement and wellbeing of ethnic minorities", 2022, Labour Economics

The scientist has frequently published in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal and AEA Randomized Controlled Trials, with multiple papers also appearing in other journals including The Economic Journal, Frontiers in Education, and Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research.

Their collaborative work includes partnerships with other researchers, most notably:

  • Simon Calmar Andersen
  • Elena Mattana
  • Kristoffer Balle Hvidberg
  • Maria Knoth Humlum
  • Marianne Simonsen

Best Publications

  • Child labour or school attendance? Evidence from Zambia.

    Peter Jensen;Helena Skyt Nielsen

  • Nudging in Education

    Mette Trier Damgaard;Helena Skyt Nielsen

  • Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform

    Helena Skyt Nielsen;Torben Sørensen;Christopher R Taber

  • Behavioral economics of education

    Alexander K. Koch;Julia Nafziger;Helena Skyt Nielsen

  • Is there a Causal Effect of High School Math on Labor Market Outcomes

    Juanna Schrøter Joensen;Helena Skyt Nielsen

  • Does the Gap in Family‐friendly Policies Drive the Family Gap?*

    Helena Skyt Nielsen;Marianne Simonsen;Metter Verner

  • Effect of drugs on the risk of injuries in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a prospective cohort study

    Søren Dalsgaard;Søren Dalsgaard;James F Leckman;Preben Bo Mortensen;Preben Bo Mortensen;Helena Skyt Nielsen

  • Employment and Wage Assimilation of Male First-generation immigrants in Denmark

    Leif Husted;Helena Skyt Nielsen;Michael Rosholm;Nina Smith

  • The risk-return trade-off in human capital investment

    Charlotte Christiansen;Juanna Schröter Joensen;Helena Skyt Nielsen;Helena Skyt Nielsen

  • The school-to-work transition of 2 nd generation immigrants in Denmark

    Helena Skyt Nielsen;Michael Rosholm;Nina Smith;Leif Husted

  • Five-fold increase in national prevalence rates of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder medications for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and other psychiatric disorders: a Danish register-based study.

    Søren Dalsgaard;Helena Skyt Nielsen;Marianne Simonsen

  • Discrimination and detailed decomposition in a logit model

    Helena Skyt Nielsen

  • Child Labor and School Attendance: Two Joint Decisions

    Helena Nielsen

  • The importance of children's ADHD for parents' relationship stability and labor supply.

    Anette Primdal Kvist;Helena Skyt Nielsen;Marianne Simonsen

  • Reading intervention with a growth mindset approach improves children’s skills

    Simon Calmar Andersen;Helena Skyt Nielsen

  • Qualifications, discrimination, or assimilation? An extended framework for analysing immigrant wage gaps

    Helena Skyt Nielsen;Michael Rosholm;Nina Smith;Leif Husted

  • Cardiovascular safety of stimulants in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a nationwide prospective cohort study.

    Søren Dalsgaard;Anette Primdal Kvist;James F. Leckman;Helena Skyt Nielsen

  • The public-private sector wage gap in Zambia in the 1990s: A quantile regression approach

    Helena Skyt Nielsen;Michael Rosholm

  • Consequences of ADHD Medication Use for Children's Outcomes

    Søren Dalsgaard;Helena Skyt Nielsen;Marianne Simonsen

  • Bullying in Elementary School

    Tine Louise Mundbjerg Eriksen;Helena Skyt Nielsen;Marianne Simonsen

  • Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform

    Helena Skyt Nielsen;Helena Skyt Nielsen;Torben Soerensen;Christopher Taber;Christopher Taber

  • Employment and Wage Assimilation of Male First Generation Immigrants in Denmark

    Nina Smith;Nina Smith;Leif Husted;Helena Skyt Nielsen;Helena Skyt Nielsen;Michael Rosholm;Michael Rosholm

Frequent Co-Authors

Nina Smith
Nina Smith Aarhus University
Michael Rosholm
Michael Rosholm Aarhus University
Christopher Taber
Christopher Taber University of Wisconsin–Madison
James F. Leckman
James F. Leckman Yale University
Joop Hartog
Joop Hartog University of Amsterdam
Preben Bo Mortensen
Preben Bo Mortensen Aarhus University
Meredith L. Rowe
Meredith L. Rowe Harvard University
David N. Figlio
David N. Figlio University of Rochester
Pieter Bevelander
Pieter Bevelander Malmö University

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