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John B. Casterline 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 John B. Casterline sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 132 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John B. Casterline 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 John B. Casterline sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 45 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Social learning social influence and new models of fertility.

    Mark R. Montgomery;John B. Casterline

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

    John B. Casterline;Steven W. Sinding

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

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

  • The Age Difference Between Spouses: Variations among Developing Countries

    John B. Casterline;Lindy Williams;Peter McDonald

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

    Mark R. Montgomery;John B. Casterline

  • Factors underlying unmet need for family planning in the Philippines.

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

  • Obstacles to contraceptive use in Pakistan: A study in Punjab

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

  • Critical Perspectives on Schooling and Fertility in the Developing World

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

  • Modelling Diffusion Effects in Fertility Transition

    Luis Rosero-Bixby;John B. Casterline

  • Diffusion Processes and Fertility Transition: Selected Perspectives

    J. B. Casterline

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

    Casterline Jb

  • Diffusion Processes and Fertility Transition: Introduction

    John B. Casterline

  • Villages as Contexts for Contraceptive Behavior in Rural Egypt

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

  • The onset of fertility transition in Pakistan

    Zeba A. Sathar;John B. Casterline

  • Understanding Unmet Need: History, Theory, and Measurement

    Sarah E.K. Bradley;John B. Casterline

  • Fertility preferences and contraceptive change in developing countries

    Bamikale J. Feyisetan;John B. Casterline

  • The estimation of unwanted fertility.

    John B. Casterline;Laila O. El-Zeini

  • Future Fertility in High Fertility Countries

    Regina Fuchs;Anne Goujon;Donation Beguy;John Casterline

  • Household income and child survival in Egypt.

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

  • Global fertility transition

    Rodolfo A. Bulatao;J. B. Casterline

Frequent Co-Authors

John Cleland
John Cleland London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Mark R. Montgomery
Mark R. Montgomery Stony Brook University
Caroline W. Kabiru
Caroline W. Kabiru African Population and Health Research Center
Barbara Entwisle
Barbara Entwisle University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David R. Johnson
David R. Johnson Pennsylvania State University
James Trussell
James Trussell Princeton University
Susheela Singh
Susheela Singh Guttmacher Institute
John Bongaarts
John Bongaarts Population Council
Ann E. Biddlecom
Ann E. Biddlecom Guttmacher Institute
David Phillips
David Phillips University of Melbourne

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