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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 70 779 681 23 18 266 16152

Rainer Sauerborn publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Rainer Sauerborn between 1987 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Rainer Sauerborn published across 39 years, from 1987 to 2025, averaging 7.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 26 publications in 2016. 10 of the 308 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1987 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 26. Peak 26 publications in 2016. 1987: 1 publication 1988: 0 publications 1989: 5 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 3 publications 1992: 1 publication 1993: 0 publications 1994: 1 publication 1995: 2 publications 1996: 5 publications 1997: 3 publications 1998: 3 publications 1999: 1 publication 2000: 4 publications 2001: 5 publications 2002: 9 publications 2003: 6 publications 2004: 11 publications 2005: 6 publications 2006: 10 publications 2007: 12 publications 2008: 5 publications 2009: 12 publications 2010: 9 publications 2011: 7 publications 2012: 18 publications 2013: 12 publications 2014: 21 publications 2015: 15 publications 2016: 26 publications 2017: 10 publications 2018: 19 publications 2019: 10 publications 2020: 13 publications 2021: 13 publications 2022: 8 publications 2023: 11 publications 2024: 5 publications 2025: 5 publications
1987 2025

308 publications in total across all disciplines

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Rainer Sauerborn: publications per year, 1987 to 2025
Year Publications
1987 1
1988 0
1989 5
1990 1
1991 3
1992 1
1993 0
1994 1
1995 2
1996 5
1997 3
1998 3
1999 1
2000 4
2001 5
2002 9
2003 6
2004 11
2005 6
2006 10
2007 12
2008 5
2009 12
2010 9
2011 7
2012 18
2013 12
2014 21
2015 15
2016 26
2017 10
2018 19
2019 10
2020 13
2021 13
2022 8
2023 11
2024 5
2025 5
Total 308
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Rainer Sauerborn 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 Rainer Sauerborn sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 264–273 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 266 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138 266
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Rainer Sauerborn 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 Rainer Sauerborn sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 70 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 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: 70 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43 70
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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Overview

Rainer Sauerborn is affiliated with the University Hospital Heidelberg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Medicine, with a significant focus on health-related impacts of environmental factors.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Medicine

Within these broad fields, the subfields of study they focus on cover:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • General Health Professions
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Rainer Sauerborn's research topics include:

  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture

Notable recent publications by Rainer Sauerborn encompass:

  • The Impact of Wearable Technologies in Health Research: Scoping Review (2022), published in JMIR mhealth and uhealth
  • Health and migration in the context of a changing climate: a systematic literature assessment (2020), published in Environmental Research Letters
  • Climate Change Policies in 16 West African Countries: A Systematic Review of Adaptation with a Focus on Agriculture, Food Security, and Nutrition (2020), published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Feasibility, acceptability and validation of wearable devices for climate change and health research in the low-resource contexts of Burkina Faso and Kenya: Study protocol (2021), published in PLoS ONE
  • 'Climate change mitigation is a hot topic, but not when it comes to hospitals': a qualitative study on hospital stakeholders' perception and sense of responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions (2022), published in Journal of Medical Ethics

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Ina Danquah
  • Ali Sié
  • Till Bärnighausen
  • Sandra Barteit
  • Isabel Mank

Rainer Sauerborn has contributed to several publication venues multiple times. These include:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Frontiers in Public Health
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • PLoS ONE
  • Global Health Action

Best Publications

  • Human health: impacts, adaptation, and co-benefits

    K Smith;A Woodward;Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum;D Chadee

  • Effects of Air Temperature on Climate-Sensitive Mortality and Morbidity Outcomes in the Elderly; a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Epidemiological Evidence

    Aditi Bunker;Jan Wildenhain;Alina Vandenbergh;Nicholas Henschke

  • It starts at home? Climate policies targeting household consumption and behavioral decisions are key to low-carbon futures

    Ghislain Dubois;Benjamin Sovacool;Benjamin Sovacool;Carlo Aall;Maria Nilsson

  • Household strategies to cope with the economic costs of illness

    R. Sauerborn;A. Adams;M. Hien

  • Design and Implementation of Health Information Systems

    Theo Lippeveld;Rainer Sauerborn;Claude Bodart

  • Perceived quality of care of primary health care services in Burkina Faso

    R M P M Baltussen;Y Yé;S Haddad;R S Sauerborn

  • Climate change and health: on the latest IPCC report

    Alistair Woodward;Kirk R Smith;Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum;Dave D Chadee

  • The Impact of Wearable Technologies in Health Research: Scoping Review

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  • One hundred and eighteen years of the German health insurance system: are there any lessons for middle- and low-income countries?

    Till Bärnighausen;Rainer Sauerborn

  • Systematic review of current efforts to quantify the impacts of climate change on undernutrition

    Revati K. Phalkey;Revati K. Phalkey;Clara Aranda-Jan;Sabrina Marx;Bernhard Höfle

  • Climate variability and increase in intensity and magnitude of dengue incidence in Singapore

    Yien Ling Hii;Joacim Rocklöv;Nawi Ng;Choon Siang Tang

  • Drop-out analysis of community-based health insurance membership at Nouna, Burkina Faso.

    Hengjin Dong;Manuela De Allegri;Devendra Gnawali;Aurélia Souares

  • Willingness‐to‐pay for community‐based insurance in Burkina Faso

    Hengjin Dong;Bocar Kouyate;John Cairns;Frederick Mugisha

  • Seasonal variations of household costs of illness in Burkina Faso.

    R. Sauerborn;A. Nougtara;M. Hien;H.J. Diesfeld

  • Understanding enrolment in community health insurance in sub-Saharan Africa: a population-based case-control study in rural Burkina Faso

    Manuela De Allegri;Bocar Kouyaté;Heiko Becher;Adjima Gbangou

  • The effect of community-based health insurance on the utilization of modern health care services: evidence from Burkina Faso.

    Devendra Prasad Gnawali;Subhash Pokhrel;Ali Sié;Mamadou Sanon

  • The elasticity of demand for health care in Burkina Faso: differences across age and income groups

    Rainer Sauerborn;Adrien Nougtara;Eric Latimer

  • Understanding consumers’ preferences and decision to enrol in community-based health insurance in rural West Africa

    Manuela De Allegri;Mamadou Sanon;John Bridges;Rainer Sauerborn

  • Potential Distribution of Dengue Fever Under Scenarios of Climate Change and Economic Development

    Christofer Åström;Joacim Rocklöv;Simon Hales;Andreas Béguin

  • "To enrol or not to enrol?": A qualitative investigation of demand for health insurance in rural West Africa.

    Manuela De Allegri;Mamadou Sanon;Rainer Sauerborn

  • The economic cost of malaria in Africa.

    D S Shepard;M B Ettling;U Brinkmann;R Sauerborn

  • Households' perception of climate change and human health risks: A community perspective

    Aminul Haque;Aminul Haque;Shelby Suzanne Yamamoto;Ahmad Azam Malik;Rainer Sauerborn

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuela De Allegri
Manuela De Allegri Heidelberg University
Joacim Rocklöv
Joacim Rocklöv Umeå University
Paul Wilkinson
Paul Wilkinson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Till Bärnighausen
Till Bärnighausen Heidelberg University
Shafiu Mohammed
Shafiu Mohammed Ahmadu Bello University
Catherine Kyobutungi
Catherine Kyobutungi Heidelberg University
Göran Tomson
Göran Tomson Karolinska Institute
Osman Sankoh
Osman Sankoh University of the Witwatersrand
John Cairns
John Cairns London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Simon Hales
Simon Hales University of Otago

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