2026 Martin Kohli: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	44	4011	3701	42	40	142	14189

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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4011

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Overview

Martin Kohli is affiliated with the European University Institute in Italy. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a strong focus on health professions and psychology. The main areas of study include social sciences, health professions, and psychology. More specific subfields explored in their work are general health professions, political science and international relations, health, sociology and political science, and social psychology.

The scientist's research topics revolve around several key themes: employment and welfare studies, health disparities and outcomes, social policy and reform studies, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, global health care issues, and social and demographic issues in Germany.

Martin Kohli has contributed to a number of academic publications across varied venues. Frequent venues for their work include:

Advances in Life Course Research
Nature Aging
The Lancet Healthy Longevity
ZSE Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation
Health Affairs Scholar

Their recent papers include:

Understanding the effects of Covid-19 through a life course lens (2020) in Advances in Life Course Research
Gender differences in countries' adaptation to societal ageing: an international cross-sectional comparison (2021) in The Lancet Healthy Longevity
A global analysis of adaptation to societal aging across low-, middle- and high-income countries using the Global Aging Society Index (2024) in Nature Aging
Zum 40-jährigen Jubiläum der ZSE: 40 Jahre ZSE - 30 Jahre "Wende" (2021) in ZSE Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation
Relation of income to trends in well-being by age: implications for the future older "forgotten" lower middle class (2025) in Health Affairs Scholar

Collaboration has been a significant aspect of Kohli's work, frequently co-authoring with researchers such as John W. Rowe, Toni C. Antonucci, Frank F. Furstenberg, David H. Rehkopf, and Cynthia Chen.

Best Publications

Die Institutionalisierung des Lebenslaufs. Historische Befunde und theoretische Argumente

Martin Kohli

1962
Citations
The Life Story Approach: A Continental View

Daniel Bertaux;Martin Kohli

945
Citations
Differences in life expectancy due to race and educational differences are widening, and many may not catch up.

S. Jay Olshansky;Toni C. Antonucci;Lisa F. Berkman;Robert H. Binstock

937
Citations
Intergenerational Transfers of Time and Money in European Families: Common Patterns - Different Regimes?

Marco Albertini;Martin Kohli;Claudia Vogel

935
Citations
The Institutionalization of the Life Course: Looking Back to Look Ahead

Martin Kohli

791
Citations
Time for Retirement: Comparative Studies of Early Exit from the Labor Force

Martin Kohli

734
Citations
The World We Forgot: A Historical Review of the Life Course

Martin Kohli

731
Citations
Private and public transfers between generations: linking the family and the state

Martin Kohli

639
Citations
THE BATTLEGROUNDS OF EUROPEAN IDENTITY

Martin Kohli

473
Citations
Biography: Account, Text, Method

Martin Kohli

376
Citations
Biographie und soziale Wirklichkeit

Martin Kohli;Günther Robert

370
Citations
Understanding the Effects of COVID-19 Through a Life Course Lens

Richard A. Settersten;Laura Bernardi;Juho Härkönen;Toni C. Antonucci

361
Citations
Social Organization and Subjective Construction of the Life Course

Martin Kohli

355
Citations
The Generational Contract in the Family: An Analysis of Transfer Regimes in Europe

Marco Albertini;Martin Kohli

352
Citations
Intergenerational Transfers in the Family: What Motivates Giving?

Martin Kohli;Harald Künemund

287
Citations
Gender, generations and the family in international migration

Albert Kraler;Eleonore Kofman;Martin Kohli;Camille Schmoll

207
Citations
Family Structure, Proximity and Contact

Martin Kohli;Jorg Ludicke;Harald Künemund

185
Citations
Generationen in Familie und Gesellschaft

Martin Kohli;Marc Szydlik

185
Citations
Retirement and the moral economy: An historical interpretation of the German case.

Martin Kohli

180
Citations
A life-course approach to fertility

Johannes Huinink;Martin Kohli

170
Citations
Die zweite Lebenshälfte

Martin Kohli;Harald Künemund

162
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Toni C. Antonucci University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

James S. Jackson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Jürgen Schupp German Institute for Economic Research

Dana P. Goldman University of Southern California

Karl Ulrich Mayer Max Planck Society

Linda P. Fried Columbia University

Ursula M. Staudinger TU Dresden

Laura L. Carstensen Stanford University

Lisa F. Berkman Harvard University

Frank F. Furstenberg University of Pennsylvania

External Links

Personal website of Martin Kohli

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