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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 38 5809 5392 343 328 169 9870

Robert G. Evans publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Robert G. Evans between 1970 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Robert G. Evans published across 56 years, from 1970 to 2025, averaging 3.6 papers a year. Output peaked at 13 publications in 2025. 20 of the 203 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1970 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 13. Peak 13 publications in 2025. 1970: 2 publications 1971: 2 publications 1972: 3 publications 1973: 1 publication 1974: 1 publication 1975: 3 publications 1976: 1 publication 1977: 1 publication 1978: 1 publication 1979: 1 publication 1980: 0 publications 1981: 0 publications 1982: 1 publication 1983: 2 publications 1984: 3 publications 1985: 4 publications 1986: 2 publications 1987: 8 publications 1988: 3 publications 1989: 8 publications 1990: 7 publications 1991: 4 publications 1992: 4 publications 1993: 9 publications 1994: 1 publication 1995: 9 publications 1996: 2 publications 1997: 7 publications 1998: 5 publications 1999: 6 publications 2000: 6 publications 2001: 5 publications 2002: 4 publications 2003: 6 publications 2004: 3 publications 2005: 6 publications 2006: 5 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 4 publications 2010: 4 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 5 publications 2013: 2 publications 2014: 3 publications 2015: 1 publication 2016: 2 publications 2017: 4 publications 2018: 0 publications 2019: 0 publications 2020: 0 publications 2021: 0 publications 2022: 5 publications 2023: 5 publications 2024: 7 publications 2025: 13 publications
1970 2025

203 publications in total across all disciplines

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Robert G. Evans: publications per year, 1970 to 2025
Year Publications
1970 2
1971 2
1972 3
1973 1
1974 1
1975 3
1976 1
1977 1
1978 1
1979 1
1980 0
1981 0
1982 1
1983 2
1984 3
1985 4
1986 2
1987 8
1988 3
1989 8
1990 7
1991 4
1992 4
1993 9
1994 1
1995 9
1996 2
1997 7
1998 5
1999 6
2000 6
2001 5
2002 4
2003 6
2004 3
2005 6
2006 5
2007 3
2008 4
2009 4
2010 4
2011 5
2012 5
2013 2
2014 3
2015 1
2016 2
2017 4
2018 0
2019 0
2020 0
2021 0
2022 5
2023 5
2024 7
2025 13
Total 203
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Robert G. Evans publications per year - data summary

  • Robert G. Evans, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from University of British Columbia, has 203 publications recorded across 56 years, from 1970 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1970 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2025, with 13 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977 and others, with 1 publication each.
  • 6 of the 56 years in the span carry no publications at all (1980, 1981, 2018, 2019 and others).
  • The rate of publication averages 3.6 papers per year over the whole span, or 4.1 per year counting only the 50 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 30 publications, 15% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1970-1988: 39 publications (2.1 per year); 1989-2007: 100 publications (5.3 per year); 2008-2025: 64 publications (3.6 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Robert G. Evans 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 Robert G. Evans 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, 164–173 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: 169 publications — 51st percentile

51% 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
164–173 391 169
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
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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Robert G. Evans publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 7,777 Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 54 ranges running from 44–53 to 570+ publications.
  • Robert G. Evans, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from University of British Columbia, records 169 publications - the 51st percentile of the discipline.
  • 51% of ranked Social Sciences and Humanities scientists score the same or lower than Robert G. Evans, and about 49% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 164–173 publications range, and Robert G. Evans falls inside that same range.
  • The most crowded range is 114–123 publications, holding 474 scientists (6% of the field).
  • 57% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 174–183 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 570 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Robert G. Evans 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 Robert G. Evans 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, 38 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: 38 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% 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 38
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
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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Robert G. Evans D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 7,777 Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 71 ranges running from 30 to 100+ D-Index.
  • Robert G. Evans, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from University of British Columbia, records 38 D-Index - the 26th percentile of the discipline.
  • 26% of ranked Social Sciences and Humanities scientists score the same or lower than Robert G. Evans, and about 74% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 45 D-Index range, and Robert G. Evans ranks below the median.
  • The most crowded range is 42 D-Index, holding 313 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 59% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 47 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more, 97 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Overview

Robert G. Evans is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans extensive work in medicine and social sciences, evident from a strong publication record in these fields.

The primary fields of study for Evans include:

  • Medicine
  • Social Sciences

The subfields in which they have made significant contributions are:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • General Health Professions
  • Health
  • Surgery
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health

Evans's research focuses on a range of topics including:

  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Health Disparities and Outcomes
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders

Among the frequent publication venues for Evans are:

  • Health Economics
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • HRB Open Research
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Evans include:

  • Johan Jarl
  • Sanjib Saha
  • Gawain Heckley
  • Anna Linder
  • Ann I. Alriksson-Schmidt

Recent notable papers by Evans demonstrate a focus on health economics, quality of life measurement, and healthcare cost analysis. These include:

  • Experience-Based Swedish TTO and VAS Value Sets for EQ-5D-5L Health States, 2020, PharmacoEconomics
  • Inequality and heterogeneity in health-related quality of life: findings based on a large sample of cross-sectional EQ-5D-5L data from the Swedish general population, 2021, Quality of Life Research
  • Healthcare costs of dementia diseases before, during and after diagnosis: Longitudinal analysis of 17 years of Swedish register data, 2022, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Healthcare costs after kidney transplantation compared to dialysis based on propensity score methods and real world longitudinal register data from Sweden, 2023, Scientific Reports
  • Education, immigration and rising mental health inequality in Sweden, 2020, Social Science & Medicine

Best Publications

  • Why are some people healthy and others not? : the determinants of health of populations

    Robert G. Evans;Morris L. Barer;Theodore R. Marmor

  • Producing Health, Consuming Health Care

    R.G. Evans;G.L. Stoddart

  • Why are Some People Healthy and Others Not? The Determinants of the Health of Populations.

    Constance A. Nathanson;Robert G. Evans;Morris L. Barer;Theodore R. Marmor

  • How does direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) affect prescribing? A survey in primary care environments with and without legal DTCA

    Barbara Mintzes;Morris L. Barer;Richard L. Kravitz;Ken Bassett

  • Strained mercy : the economics of Canadian health care

    J.A. Boan;Robert G. Evans

  • Influence of direct to consumer pharmaceutical advertising and patients' requests on prescribing decisions: two site cross sectional survey

    Barbara Mintzes;Morris L Barer;Richard L Kravitz;Arminée Kazanjian

  • Controlling health expenditures--the Canadian reality.

    Robert G. Evans;Jonathan Lomas;Morris L. Barer;Roberta J. Labelle

  • APOCALYPSE NO: Population Aging and The Future of Health Care Systems

    Robert G. Evans;Kimberlyn M. McGrail;Steven G. Morgan;Morris L. Barer

  • Age, costs of acute and long-term care and proximity to death: evidence for 1987-88 and 1994-95 in British Columbia.

    K Mcgrail;B Green;M L Barer;R G Evans

  • Heterogeneities in Health Status and the Determinants of Population Health

    C. Hertzman;J. Frank;R. G. Evans

  • “Breakthrough” drugs and growth in expenditure on prescription drugs in Canada

    Steven G Morgan;Kenneth L Bassett;James M Wright;Robert G Evans

  • Going for the gold: the redistributive agenda behind market-based health care reform.

    Robert G. Evans

  • Consuming Research, Producing Policy?

    Robert G. Evans;Greg L. Stoddart

  • Aging and health care utilization: New evidence on old fallacies

    Morris L. Barer;Robert G. Evans;Clyde Hertzman;Jonathan Lomas

  • Avalanche or Glacier?: Health Care and the Demographic Rhetoric

    Morris L. Barer;Robert G. Evans;Clyde Hertzman

  • Fee controls as cost control: tales from the frozen North.

    Morris L. Barer;Robert G. Evans;Roberta J. Labelle

  • Dancing with the porcupine: rules for governing the university–industry relationship

    Steven Lewis;Patricia Baird;Robert G. Evans;William A. Ghali

  • Conspicuous consumption: characterizing high users of physician services in one Canadian province.

    Robert Reid;Robert Evans;Morris Barer;Samuel Sheps

  • Information Theory and the Analysis of Hospital Cost Structure

    Robert G. Evans;Hugh D. Walker

  • Finding the levers, finding the courage: lessons from cost containment in North America.

    Robert G. Evans

  • Strained Mercy: The Economics of Canadian Health Care

    J. J. Madden;Robert G. Evans

Frequent Co-Authors

Clyde Hertzman
Clyde Hertzman University of British Columbia
David Feeny
David Feeny McMaster University
Amiram Gafni
Amiram Gafni McMaster University
Richard L. Kravitz
Richard L. Kravitz University of California, Davis
Anthony J. Culyer
Anthony J. Culyer University of York
Steven J. Katz
Steven J. Katz University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Noralou P. Roos
Noralou P. Roos University of Manitoba
Timothy G. Evans
Timothy G. Evans McGill University
Aleck Ostry
Aleck Ostry University of Victoria
Daniel Callahan
Daniel Callahan Hastings Center

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