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Jan Van Bavel

Jan Van Bavel

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
33
Citations
4303
World Ranking
7127
National Ranking
84

Jan Van Bavel 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 Jan Van Bavel sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 206 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jan Van Bavel 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 Jan Van Bavel 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: 33 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

  • The Reversal of the Gender Gap in Education and its Consequences for Family Life

    Jan Van Bavel;Christine R. Schwartz;Albert Esteve

  • The End of Hypergamy: Global Trends and Implications

    Albert Esteve;Christine R. Schwartz;Jan van Bavel;Iñaki Permanyer

  • The reversal of gender inequality in education, union formation and fertility in Europe

    Jan Van Bavel

  • Regional family cultures and child care by grandparents in Europe

    Maaike Jappens;Jan Van Bavel

  • Partners’ Educational Pairings and Fertility Across Europe

    Natalie Nitsche;Anna Matysiak;Jan Van Bavel;Daniele Vignoli

  • Choice of Study Discipline and the Postponement of Motherhood in Europe: The Impact of Expected Earnings, Gender Composition, and Family Attitudes

    Jan Van Bavel

  • The Baby Boom and Its Causes: What We Know and What We Need to Know

    Jan Van Bavel;David S. Reher

  • The Reversed Gender Gap in Education and Assortative Mating in Europe

    Yolien De Hauw;André Grow;Jan Van Bavel

  • Schooling, Violent Conflict, and Gender in Burundi

    Philip Verwimp;Jan Van Bavel

  • Education and the Transition to Fatherhood: The Role of Selection Into Union.

    Alessandra Trimarchi;Jan Van Bavel

  • Becoming a Grandparent and Early Retirement in Europe

    Jan Van Bavel;Tom De Winter

  • Assortative mating and the reversal of gender inequality in education in europe: an agent-based model.

    André Grow;Jan Van Bavel

  • Subreplacement fertility in the West before the baby boom: past and current perspectives.

    Jan Van Bavel

  • Birth Spacing in the Netherlands. The Effects of Family Composition, Occupation and Religion on Birth Intervals, 1820–1885

    Jan Van Bavel;Jan Kok

  • The Reversal of the Gender Gap in Education, Motherhood, and Women as Main Earners in Europe

    Martin Klesment;Jan Van Bavel

  • Second birth rates across Europe: interactions between women's level of education and child care enrolment

    Jan Van Bavel;Joanna Różańska-Putek

  • Diffusion Effects in the European Fertility Transition: Historical Evidence from Within a Belgian Town (1846–1910)

    Jan van Bavel

  • Family size and intergenerational social mobility during the fertility transition: Evidence of resource dilution from the city of Antwerp in nineteenth century Belgium

    Jan Van Bavel;Sarah Moreels;Bart Van de Putte;Koenraad Matthijs

  • The world population explosion: causes, backgrounds and -projections for the future.

    Unknown

  • Parental Divorce, Residence Arrangements, and Contact Between Grandchildren and Grandparents

    Maaike Jappens;Jan Van Bavel

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip Verwimp
Philip Verwimp Université Libre de Bruxelles
David Reher
David Reher Complutense University of Madrid
Tomáš Sobotka
Tomáš Sobotka Austrian Academy of Sciences
Piet Bracke
Piet Bracke Ghent University
Daniele Vignoli
Daniele Vignoli University of Florence
Warren C. Sanderson
Warren C. Sanderson Stony Brook University
S. Philip Morgan
S. Philip Morgan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Melinda Mills
Melinda Mills University of Oxford
Maria Testa
Maria Testa University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Pearl A. Dykstra
Pearl A. Dykstra Erasmus University Rotterdam

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