2026 Jane Menken: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	36	6442	5989	3112	2842	115	6728

Research.com Recognitions

1995 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
1992 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1990 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1989 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1982 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1977 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Jane Menken is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research work spans several interconnected fields within medicine, particularly focusing on public health issues related to maternal and child health, epidemiology, and infectious diseases.

The main fields of study in their research include:

Medicine

Within this broader field, their subfields of study are:

Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Infectious Diseases
General Health Professions
Gender Studies
Epidemiology

The central topics that frequently appear in Jane Menken's work encompass:

Global Maternal and Child Health
HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
Reproductive Health and Contraception
Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
HIV-related health complications and treatments

Jane Menken's recent publications include:

Brief Report: HIV Incidence Among Older Adults in a Rural South African Setting: 2010-2015 (2020) - JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
Organizations matter in local governance: evidence from health sector decentralization in Honduras (2020) - Health Policy and Planning
The impact of contraceptive access on high school graduation (2021) - Science Advances
Thirty-five years later: Long-term effects of the Matlab maternal and child health/family planning program on older women's well-being (2021) - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Expanded Contraceptive Access Linked To Increase In College Completion Among Women In Colorado (2022) - Health Affairs

The scientist has frequently collaborated with several co-authors in their publications, including:

Elisabeth Dowling Root
Alan Zarychta
Tara Grillos
Krister Andersson
A. Molina-Garzon

Jane Menken's publications often appear in the following venues:

Harvard Dataverse
Demography
Health Policy and Planning
JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
Science Advances

Throughout their career, Jane Menken has received several recognitions, including:

Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), 1977
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1982
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1989
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1990
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1992
Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 1995

Best Publications

Age and infertility

Jane Menken;James Trussell;Ulla Larsen

1035
Citations
Mathematical models of conception and birth

Mindel C. Sheps;Jane A. Menken;Annette P. Padick

367
Citations
Demographic foundations of family change.

Susan Cotts Watkins;Jane A. Menken;John Bongaarts

362
Citations
Age, period, and cohort effects in demography: a review.

John Hobcraft;Jane Menken;Samuel Preston

313
Citations
Famines in historical perspective.

Susan Cotts Watkins;Jane Menken

278
Citations
Ageing and adult health status in eight lower-income countries: the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration

Paul Kowal;Kathleen Kahn;Nawi Ng;Nirmala Naidoo

255
Citations
Age and fertility: how late can you wait?

Jane Menken

252
Citations
Prevalence of HIV among those 15 and older in rural South Africa

Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé;Nicole Angotti;Brian Houle;Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch

251
Citations
Early childbearing and subsequent fertility.

James Trussell;Jane Menken

244
Citations
Proportional hazards life table models: an illustrative analysis of socio-demographic influences on marriage dissolution in the United States.

Jane Menken;James Trussell;Debra Stempel;Ozer Babakol

180
Citations
The nutrition fertility link: an evaluation of the evidence.

Jane Menken;James Trussell;Susan Watkins

175
Citations
Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recommendations for Furthering Research

Barney Cohen;Jane Menken

171
Citations
Teenage Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing

Frank F. Furstenberg;Richard Lincoln;Jane A. Menken

146
Citations
The health and social consequences of teenage childbearing.

Jane Menken

136
Citations
The impact of pensions on health and wellbeing in rural South Africa: Does gender matter?

Enid Schatz;Xavier Gómez-Olivé;Margaret Ralston;Jane Menken;Jane Menken

134
Citations
Contraceptive failure in the United States: the impact of social, economic and demographic factors.

Allen L. Schirm;James Trussell;Jane Menken;William R. Grady

132
Citations
Marriage remarriage marital disruption and age at first birth.

James McCarthy;Jane Menken

128
Citations
The impact of restricting Medicaid financing for abortion.

James Trussell;Jane Menken;Barbara L. Lindheim;Barbara Vaughan

118
Citations
Older widow mortality in rural Bangladesh.

Omar Rahman;Andrew Foster;Jane Menken

101
Citations
Cardiometabolic disease risk and HIV status in rural South Africa: establishing a baseline

Samuel J. Clark;F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé;Brian C Houle;Brian C Houle;Brian C Houle;Margaret Thorogood;Margaret Thorogood

100
Citations
Truncation effect in closed and open birth interval data.

Mindel C. Sheps;Jane A. Menken;Jeanne Clare Ridley;Joan W. Lingner

99
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Tollman University of the Witwatersrand

Susan Cotts Watkins University of California, Los Angeles

Andrew D. Foster Brown University

Charles F. Turner City University of New York

Kathleen Kahn University of the Witwatersrand

Ansley J. Coale Princeton University

Anne R. Pebley University of California, Los Angeles

John Bongaarts Population Council

Kathleen Ford University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Till Bärnighausen Heidelberg University

External Links

Personal website of Jane Menken Google Scholar page

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