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Citations
10288
World Ranking
4072
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Richard H. Steckel is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the social sciences and medicine, demonstrating interdisciplinary approaches to historical and safety-related topics.

The primary fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Medicine

Within these fields, Steckel's work focuses on several subfields:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • History
  • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
  • Radiological and Ultrasound Technology

The main topics covered in their research encompass:

  • Historical Economic and Social Studies
  • Australian History and Society
  • Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
  • Risk and Safety Analysis
  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy
  • Birth, Development, and Health

Recent publications by Steckel include:

  • The Short and the Tall: Comparing Stature and Socioeconomic Status for Male Prison and Military Populations, 2020, Social Science History
  • Assessing Past Airworthiness Directives And How Safety Management Systems May Benefit Aviation Product Design And Manufacturing, 2024, The Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education and Research

Frequent collaborators in their recent research work are:

  • Kris Inwood
  • Rebecca Kippen
  • Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
  • Damon Lercel
  • Manoj S. Patankar

The publication venues where Steckel has contributed include:

  • Social Science History
  • The Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education and Research

In 2011, Steckel was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Stature and the Standard of Living

    Richard H. Steckel

  • Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States

    Dora L. Costa;Richard H. Steckel

  • The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere

    Richard H. Steckel;Jerome Carl Rose

  • Heights and human welfare: Recent developments and new directions

    Richard H. Steckel;Richard H. Steckel

  • Health and Welfare during Industrialization

    Richard H Steckel;Roderick Floud

  • A peculiar population: the nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.

    Richard H. Steckel

  • Height and per capita income.

    Richard H Steckel

  • Biological Measures of the Standard of Living

    Richard H Steckel

  • The heights of American slaves: new evidence on slave nutrition and health.

    Robert A. Margo;Richard H. Steckel

  • Slave height profiles from coastwise manifests.

    Richard H Steckel

  • Heights and Living Standards of English Workers During the Early Years of Industrializations, 1770–1815

    Stephen Nicholas;Richard H. Steckel

  • Heights of native-born whites during the antebellum period.

    Robert A. Margo;Richard H. Steckel

  • Growth depression and recovery: the remarkable case of American slaves.

    Richard H. Steckel

  • Skeletal health in the Western Hemisphere from 4000 B.C. to the present

    Richard H. Steckel;Jerome C. Rose;Clark Spencer Larsen;Phillip L. Walker

  • How Much have Global Problems Cost the World?: Malnutrition: Global Economic Losses Attributable to Malnutrition 1900–2000 and Projections to 2050

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  • The Backbone of History: A Health Index from Skeletal Remains

    Richard H. Steckel;Paul W. Sciulli;Jerome C. Rose

  • New Light on the "Dark Ages": The Remarkably Tall Stature of Northern European Men during the Medieval Era

    Richard Hall Steckel

  • New evidence on the causes of slave and crew mortality in the Atlantic slave trade.

    Richard H. Steckel;Richard A. Jensen

  • A Dreadful Childhood: The Excess Mortality of American Slaves

    Richard H. Steckel

  • Heights and economic history: the Swedish case.

    Lars G. Sandberg;Richard H. Steckel

  • Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century

    Richard H. Steckel;Joseph M. Prince

Frequent Co-Authors

Dora L. Costa
Dora L. Costa University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher B. Ruff
Christopher B. Ruff Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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