2026 John B. Casterline: 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	45	3889	3588	1849	1674	132	8218

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John B. Casterline is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Medicine and Social Sciences, with a focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Gender Studies, General Health Professions, and Demography.

The main topics of their work include:

Reproductive Health and Contraception
Global Maternal and Child Health
Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
Family Dynamics and Relationships
Reproductive Health and Technologies
Global Health Care Issues

Some of the frequent publication venues for this researcher are:

Population and Development Review
Studies in Family Planning
Contraception
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Reproductive Health

Frequent co-authors include:

Payal Chakraborty
Shibani Chettri
Maria F Gallo
Alison H. Norris
Abigail Norris Turner

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by John B. Casterline include:

"Traditional supports and contemporary disrupters of high fertility desires in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review" (2023) published in Reproductive Health
"Use of nonpreferred contraceptive methods among women in Ohio" (2021) published in Contraception
"Alignment between Desires and Outcomes among Women Wanting to Avoid Pregnancy: A Global Comparative Study of "Conditional" Unintended Pregnancy Rates" (2023) published in Studies in Family Planning
"Passage of abortion ban and women's accurate understanding of abortion legality" (2021) published in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
"Fertility Preferences and Contraceptive Change in Low- and Middle-Income Countries" (2022) published in Studies in Family Planning

In 2018, John B. Casterline was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

Fertility Transition: Is sub-Saharan Africa Different?

John Bongaarts;John Casterline

636
Citations
Social learning social influence and new models of fertility.

Mark R. Montgomery;John B. Casterline

611
Citations
Unmet Need for Family Planning in Developing Countries and Implications for Population Policy

John B. Casterline;Steven W. Sinding

551
Citations
Trends in the Timing of First Marriage Among Men and Women in the Developing World

Barbara S. Mensch;Susheela Singh;John B. Casterline

382
Citations
The Age Difference Between Spouses: Variations among Developing Countries

John B. Casterline;Lindy Williams;Peter McDonald

310
Citations
The diffusion of fertility control in Taiwan: evidence from pooled cross-section time-series models.

Mark R. Montgomery;John B. Casterline

299
Citations
Factors underlying unmet need for family planning in the Philippines.

John B. Casterline;Aurora E. Perez;Ann E. Biddlecom

292
Citations
Obstacles to contraceptive use in Pakistan: A study in Punjab

John B. Casterline;Zeba A. Sathar;Minhaj ul Haque

292
Citations
Critical Perspectives on Schooling and Fertility in the Developing World

Caroline H. Bledsoe;John B. Casterline;Jennifer A. Johnson-Kuhn;John G. Haaga

234
Citations
Modelling Diffusion Effects in Fertility Transition

Luis Rosero-Bixby;John B. Casterline

202
Citations
Diffusion Processes and Fertility Transition: Selected Perspectives

J. B. Casterline

199
Citations
The pace of fertility transition: national patterns in the second half of the twentieth century.

Casterline Jb

187
Citations
Diffusion Processes and Fertility Transition: Introduction

John B. Casterline

186
Citations
Villages as Contexts for Contraceptive Behavior in Rural Egypt

Barbara Entwisle;John B. Casterline;Hussein A. A. Sayed

178
Citations
The onset of fertility transition in Pakistan

Zeba A. Sathar;John B. Casterline

175
Citations
Understanding Unmet Need: History, Theory, and Measurement

Sarah E.K. Bradley;John B. Casterline

172
Citations
Fertility preferences and contraceptive change in developing countries

Bamikale J. Feyisetan;John B. Casterline

161
Citations
The estimation of unwanted fertility.

John B. Casterline;Laila O. El-Zeini

155
Citations
Future Fertility in High Fertility Countries

Regina Fuchs;Anne Goujon;Donation Beguy;John Casterline

141
Citations
Household income and child survival in Egypt.

John B. Casterline;Elizabeth C. Cooksey;Abdel Fattah E. Ismail

134
Citations
Global fertility transition

Rodolfo A. Bulatao;J. B. Casterline

118
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John Cleland London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Mark R. Montgomery Stony Brook University

Barbara Entwisle University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Caroline W. Kabiru African Population and Health Research Center

John Bongaarts Population Council

David R. Johnson Pennsylvania State University

Anne R. Pebley University of California, Los Angeles

Peter McDonald University of Melbourne

David Phillips University of Melbourne

David Shapiro Pennsylvania State University

External Links

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