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46
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Nathan Keyfitz 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 Nathan Keyfitz sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 390 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nathan Keyfitz 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 Nathan Keyfitz sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% 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

  • 1977 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1959 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences
  • 1952 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1952 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Nathan Keyfitz was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their career included recognition through several notable awards and honors.

Keyfitz was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1952. The same year, they were also named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Later, in 1959, Keyfitz became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada within the Academy of Social Sciences. In 1977, they were inducted as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Throughout their career, Keyfitz contributed to the scientific community primarily through work connected to these affiliations and honors, reflecting a longstanding engagement with the advancement of statistical and demographic science. Their scholarly contributions, while not itemized in available sources, positioned them within a scholarly context grounded in these professional communities.

Best Publications

  • Applied Mathematical Demography

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • Introduction to the mathematics of population

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • Causes of death : life tables for national populations

    Samuel H. Preston;Nathan Keyfitz;Robert Schoen

  • The limits of population forecasting.

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • ON THE MOMENTUM OF POPULATION GROWTH

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • On future population.

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • 3. Sampling variance of standardized mortality rates.

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • Population : facts and methods of demography

    Gordon F. Sutton;Nathan Keyfitz;Wilhelm Flieger

  • What difference would it make if cancer were eradicated? An examination of the taeuber paradox

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • Family formation and the frequency of various kinship relationships.

    Leo A. Goodman;Nathan Keyfitz;Thomas W. Pullum

  • The mathematics of sex and marriage

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • Introduction to the mathematics of population: with revisions

    Keyfitz N

  • World Population Growth and Aging: Demographic Trends in the Late Twentieth Century

    Nathan Keyfitz;Wilhelm Flieger

  • Consumerism and the new poor

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • Choice of function for mortality analysis: Effective forecasting depends on a minimum parameter representation

    Nathan Keyfitz;Nathan Keyfitz

  • Can Knowledge Improve Forecasts

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History.

    Nathan Keyfitz;William H. McNeill

  • The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work.@@@Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time.

    Nathan Keyfitz;Arlie Russell Hochschild;John P. Robinson;Geoffrey Godbey

  • Regional Model Life Tables and Stable Populations.

    Nathan Keyfitz;Ansley J. Coale;Paul Demeny;Barbara Vaughan

  • Indian Nationalism and Hindu Social Reform

    Nathan Keyfitz;Charles H. Heimsath

  • Spatial Population Analysis.

    Nathan Keyfitz;P. H. Rees;A. G. Wilson

  • The Politics of Modernization

    Nathan Keyfitz;David E. Apter

  • On the Nature of the Function Expressive of the Law of Human Mortality

    David P. Smith;Nathan Keyfitz

  • World Population: An Analysis of Vital Data.

    Z. M. Sykes;N. Keyfitz;W. Flieger

  • Population: Facts and Methods of Demography

    Bernard Benjamin;Nathan Keyfitz;Whilhelm Flieger

  • Applied Mathematical Demography.

    T. James Trussell;Nathan Keyfitz

  • World Population: An Analysis of Vital Data.

    Beverley Rowe;Nathan Keyfitz;Wilhelm Flieger

Frequent Co-Authors

Leo A. Goodman
Leo A. Goodman University of California, Berkeley
Samuel H. Preston
Samuel H. Preston University of Pennsylvania
Jane Menken
Jane Menken University of Colorado Boulder
John Bongaarts
John Bongaarts Population Council
Wolfgang Lutz
Wolfgang Lutz University of Trier
Sergei Scherbov
Sergei Scherbov International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Andrei Rogers
Andrei Rogers University of Colorado Boulder
Robert Schoen
Robert Schoen Pennsylvania State University
John P. Robinson
John P. Robinson University of Maryland, College Park
James W. Vaupel
James W. Vaupel University of Southern Denmark

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