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Social Sciences and Humanities
UK
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
76
Citations
20629
World Ranking
505
National Ranking
86

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Law
  • China
  • Social science

John Cleland focuses on Developing country, Family planning, Demography, Fertility and Reproductive health. His study in Developing country is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Environmental health, Marital status, Program evaluation, Family medicine and Socioeconomics. His Family planning research incorporates elements of Obstetrics and Birth rate.

His Demography study incorporates themes from Condom, Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, Cross-sectional study, Latin Americans and Gynecology. The study incorporates disciplines such as Economic growth, Birth control, Politics and Sociology of scientific knowledge in addition to Fertility. His work carried out in the field of Reproductive health brings together such families of science as Rural area and Socioeconomic status.

His most cited work include:

  • Family planning: the unfinished agenda (760 citations)
  • Demand Theories of the Fertility Transition: An Iconoclastic View (679 citations)
  • Maternal education and child survival in developing countries: the search for pathways of influence. (654 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His scientific interests lie mostly in Family planning, Demography, Developing country, Fertility and Reproductive health. His research in Family planning intersects with topics in Postpartum period, Gynecology, Discontinuation and Family medicine. His Demography study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Condom, Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, Abortion, Marital status and Public health.

His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Socioeconomic status, Program evaluation and Socioeconomics. His Fertility research includes elements of Developed country, Total fertility rate, Development economics and Breastfeeding. His Reproductive health course of study focuses on Environmental health and Rural area.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Family planning (36.40%)
  • Demography (35.56%)
  • Developing country (30.13%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2013-2021)?

  • Demography (35.56%)
  • Family planning (36.40%)
  • Fertility (26.78%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

John Cleland spends much of his time researching Demography, Family planning, Fertility, Reproductive health and Developing country. His Demography research includes themes of Abortion, Total fertility rate, Public health, Population based and Pediatrics. He combines subjects such as Psychological intervention, Postpartum period, Discontinuation and Family medicine with his study of Family planning.

His work deals with themes such as Young adult, Population decline, Pill and Survey data collection, which intersect with Fertility. The Reproductive health study combines topics in areas such as Longitudinal study, Health care, Data collection, Rural setting and Qualitative research. His Developing country study results in a more complete grasp of Economic growth.

Between 2013 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Unmet Need for Contraception: Issues and Challenges (89 citations)
  • Interventions to Improve Postpartum Family Planning in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Program Implications and Research Priorities. (38 citations)
  • Unmet need for family planning in Ghana: the shifting contributions of lack of access and attitudinal resistance. (37 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • China
  • Social science

His main research concerns Family planning, Demography, Developing country, Fertility and Family medicine. His Family planning research integrates issues from Psychological intervention and Postpartum period. His Demography research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Sexual abstinence, Pediatrics and Socioeconomics.

John Cleland has included themes like Rural area, Young adult, Marital status, Public health and Pill in his Fertility study. As a part of the same scientific family, he mostly works in the field of Pill, focusing on Qualitative research and, on occasion, Reproductive health. His studies in Family medicine integrate themes in fields like Economic growth, MEDLINE, Program evaluation, Global health and Reproductive medicine.

Best Publications

  • Family planning: the unfinished agenda

    John Cleland;Stan Bernstein;Alex Ezeh;Anibal Faundes

  • Demand Theories of the Fertility Transition: An Iconoclastic View

    John Cleland;Christopher Wilson

  • Maternal education and child survival in developing countries: the search for pathways of influence.

    John G. Cleland;Jerome K. van Ginneken

  • The weight of nations: an estimation of adult human biomass

    Sarah Catherine Walpole;David Prieto-Merino;Phil Edwards;John Cleland

  • Contraception and health

    John Cleland;Agustin Conde-Agudelo;Herbert B Peterson;John Ross

  • Determinants of maternal care in a region of South India

    Jagdish C Bhatia;John Cleland

  • Institutional delivery in rural India: the relative importance of accessibility and economic status

    Amy J Kesterton;John Gf Cleland;Andy Sloggett;Carine Ronsmans

  • Self-reported symptoms of gynecological morbidity and their treatment in south India.

    Jagdish C Bhatia;John Cleland

  • Causes and consequences of contraceptive discontinuation: evidence from 60 Demographic and Health Surveys.

    Ali Mm;Cleland J;Shah Ih

  • Relationships between contraception and abortion: a review of the evidence.

    Cicely Marston;John Cleland

  • Family planning in sub-Saharan Africa: progress or stagnation?

    John G Cleland;Robert P Ndugwa;Eliya M Zulu

  • Unmet Need for Contraception: Issues and Challenges

    John Cleland;Sarah Harbison;Iqbal H. Shah

  • Maternal and child health services in rural Nepal: does access or quality matter more?

    Laxmi Bilas Acharya;John Cleland

  • Risk perception and condom use among married or cohabiting couples in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

    Pranitha Maharaj;John G. Cleland

  • Do unintended pregnancies carried to term lead to adverse outcomes for mother and child? An assessment in five developing countries

    Cicely Marston;John Cleland

  • The Effect of Parental Education on Marital Fertility in Developing Countries

    John Cleland;Germán Rodríguez

  • The Effect of Birth Spacing on Childhood Mortality in Pakistan

    J. G. Cleland;Zeba A. Sathar

  • Sexual Abstinence, Contraception, and Condom Use by Young African Women: A Secondary Analysis of Survey Data

    John G. Cleland;Mohamed M. Ali

  • Overview of migration, poverty and health dynamics in Nairobi City's slum settlements.

    Eliya M. Zulu;Donatien Beguy;Alex C. Ezeh;Philippe Bocquier

  • Monitoring sexual behaviour in general populations: a synthesis of lessons of the past decade

    J. G. Cleland;J. T. Boerma;M. Carael;S. S. Weir

  • Contraception in historical and global perspective

    John Cleland

  • The Determinants of Reproductive Change in Bangladesh: Success in a Challenging Environment.

    Geoffrey McNicoll;John Cleland;James F. Phillips;Sajeda Amin

Frequent Co-Authors

Alex Ezeh
Alex Ezeh Drexel University
Claudia Garcia-Moreno
Claudia Garcia-Moreno World Health Organization
Susannah H. Mayhew
Susannah H. Mayhew London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Eliya M. Zulu
Eliya M. Zulu Shelter Insurance
John B. Casterline
John B. Casterline The Ohio State University
Gill Walt
Gill Walt London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Caroline W. Kabiru
Caroline W. Kabiru African Population and Health Research Center
John Bongaarts
John Bongaarts Population Council
Lenka Benova
Lenka Benova Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Donatien Beguy
Donatien Beguy United Nations

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