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Social Sciences and Humanities
South Africa
2022

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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 66 Citations 21,697 240 World Ranking 338 National Ranking 4

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Awards & Achievements

2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Law
  • Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
  • Social science

Her main research concerns Demography, Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, Psychiatry, Poverty and Child development. The study incorporates disciplines such as Odds ratio, Cohort study, Young adult, Public health and Cohort in addition to Demography. Her Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Psychological intervention, Gerontology, Family medicine, Behavior change and Socioeconomic status.

In her research on the topic of Psychiatry, Developing country, Environmental health, Cognitive development and Psychological resilience is strongly related with Transmission. Her research integrates issues of Economic growth, Social transformation, Institutional racism, Standard of living and Early childhood in her study of Child development. Her Pediatrics research includes themes of Child poverty, Disadvantaged, Early childhood education and Malnutrition.

Her most cited work include:

  • Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital. (2358 citations)
  • Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries (2081 citations)
  • Inequality in early childhood: risk and protective factors for early child development (916 citations)

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

Linda Richter mainly focuses on Demography, Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, Economic growth, Cohort and Child development. Her biological study deals with issues like Developing country, which deal with fields such as Environmental health. Her work carried out in the field of Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome brings together such families of science as Psychological intervention, Psychiatry, Gerontology, Family medicine and Public health.

Her research in Economic growth is mostly concerned with Poverty. Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Body mass index, Prospective cohort study, Socioeconomic status and Lead poisoning. Linda Richter frequently studies issues relating to Early childhood and Child development.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Demography (35.51%)
  • Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (25.57%)
  • Economic growth (14.49%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2016-2021)?

  • Demography (35.51%)
  • Early childhood (11.93%)
  • Child development (12.78%)

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

Her primary areas of study are Demography, Early childhood, Child development, Cohort and Psychological intervention. Her study in Demography is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Birth weight, Cohort study, Young adult, Public health and Adolescent health. She works mostly in the field of Early childhood, limiting it down to topics relating to Family medicine and, in certain cases, Health facility.

Her Child development study incorporates themes from Economic growth, Poverty, Attendance, Intervention and Sustainable development. Her Cohort research incorporates themes from Body mass index, Odds ratio, Psychosocial, Mental health and Pediatrics. Linda Richter has researched Psychological intervention in several fields, including Gerontology and Malnutrition.

Between 2016 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • Investing in the foundation of sustainable development: pathways to scale up for early childhood development (265 citations)
  • Early childhood development: the foundation of sustainable development (86 citations)
  • Gender norms and health: insights from global survey data (65 citations)

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

  • Law
  • Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
  • Social science

Linda Richter mostly deals with Demography, Early childhood, Child development, Cohort and Young adult. Linda Richter has included themes like Developing country, Socioeconomic status and Cohort study in her Demography study. She combines subjects such as Economic growth, Global health, Life course approach and Development economics with her study of Early childhood.

Her Child development research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Psychological intervention, Child mortality and Sustainable development. Her Cohort study combines topics in areas such as Body mass index, Epidemiology, Public health, Pediatrics and Depression. Her study explores the link between Young adult and topics such as Clinical psychology that cross with problems in Mental health, Prospective cohort study and Retrospective cohort study.

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Best Publications

Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries

Sally Grantham-McGregor;Yin Bun Cheung;Santiago Cueto;Paul Glewwe.
The Lancet (2007)

4180 Citations

Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital.

Cesar G. Victora;Linda S Adair;Caroline H.D. Fall;Pedro C. Hallal.
The Lancet (2008)

3738 Citations

Inequality in early childhood: risk and protective factors for early child development

Susan P Walker;Theodore D Wachs;Sally Grantham-McGregor;Maureen M Black.
The Lancet (2011)

1532 Citations

Why invest, and what it will take to improve breastfeeding practices?

Nigel C Rollins;Nita Bhandari;Nemat Hajeebhoy;Susan Horton.
The Lancet (2016)

1448 Citations

Behavioural strategies to reduce HIV transmission: how to make them work better

Thomas J Coates;Linda Richter;Carlos Caceres.
The Lancet (2008)

959 Citations

Investing in the foundation of sustainable development: pathways to scale up for early childhood development

Linda M Richter;Bernadette Daelmans;Joan Lombardi;Jody Heymann.
The Lancet (2017)

684 Citations

Risk of childhood undernutrition related to small-for-gestational age and preterm birth in low- and middle-income countries

Parul Christian;Sun Eun Lee;Moira Donahue Angel;Linda S. Adair.
International Journal of Epidemiology (2013)

382 Citations

Baba : men and fatherhood in South Africa

L. Richter;R. Morrell.
(2006)

365 Citations

Cohort Profile: Mandela's children: The 1990 birth to twenty study in South Africa

Linda Richter;Shane Norris;John Pettifor;Derek Yach.
International Journal of Epidemiology (2007)

328 Citations

An Integrated Scientific Framework for Child Survival and Early Childhood Development

Jack P. Shonkoff;Linda Richter;Jacques van der Gaag;Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta.
Pediatrics (2012)

308 Citations

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