2026 S. V. Subramanian: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	105	71	60	36	33	540	40343

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award

Overview

S. V. Subramanian is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States, contributing extensively to the fields of medicine and social sciences. Their research focuses predominantly on general health professions, nutrition and dietetics, pediatrics, perinatology, and child health, as well as health and sociology-related political science.

Their work spans diverse topics including child nutrition and water access, global maternal and child health, health disparities and outcomes, global health care issues, poverty, education and child welfare, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, and food security and health in diverse populations. This broad scope reflects a multidisciplinary approach aimed at understanding health outcomes in various populations worldwide.

Subramanian has published in a wide array of venues, with a significant number of contributions appearing in:

JAMA Network Open
Harvard Dataverse
Scientific Reports
Social Science & Medicine
SSM - Population Health

Their recent papers include:

Factors Associated With Child Stunting, Wasting, and Underweight in 35 Low- and Middle-Income Countries, 2020, JAMA Network Open
Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States, 2021, European Journal of Epidemiology
Impact of social isolation on mortality and morbidity in 20 high-income, middle-income and low-income countries in five continents, 2021, BMJ Global Health
Mobility restrictions were associated with reductions in COVID-19 incidence early in the pandemic: evidence from a real-time evaluation in 34 countries, 2021, Scientific Reports
Contraceptive Use in Adolescent Girls and Adult Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, 2020, JAMA Network Open

Collaboration is a frequent aspect of Subramanian's research, with regular coauthors including Rockli Kim, Omar Karlsson, Sunil Rajpal, Akhil Kumar, and Zhihui Li.

Best Publications

Geocoding and Monitoring of US Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality and Cancer Incidence: Does the Choice of Area-based Measure and Geographic Level Matter? The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project

Nancy Krieger;Jarvis T. Chen;Pamela D. Waterman;Mah-Jabeen Soobader

1668
Citations
The local food environment and diet: A systematic review

Caitlin E. Caspi;Glorian Sorensen;S.V. Subramanian;Ichiro Kawachi

1612
Citations
A glossary for health inequalities

Ichiro Kawachi;S. V. Subramanian;N. Almeida-Filho

1434
Citations
Income Inequality and Health: What Have We Learned So Far?

S. V. Subramanian;Ichiro Kawachi

1069
Citations
Income inequality, mortality, and self rated health: meta-analysis of multilevel studies

Naoki Kondo;Grace Sembajwe;Ichiro Kawachi;Rob M van Dam

925
Citations
Inequalities in health: definitions, concepts, and theories

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832
Citations
Does social capital enhance health and well-being? Evidence from rural China.

Winnie Yip;S.V. Subramanian;Andrew D. Mitchell;Dominic T.S. Lee

826
Citations
Painting a truer picture of US socioeconomic and racial/ethnic health inequalities: the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project.

Nancy Krieger;Jarvis T. Chen;Pamela D. Waterman;David H. Rehkopf

699
Citations
Future directions in residential segregation and health research: a multilevel approach.

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia;Kimberly A. Lochner;Theresa L. Osypuk;S. V. Subramanian

673
Citations
Commentary: Reconciling the three accounts of social capital

Ichiro Kawachi;Daniel Kim;Adam Coutts;S V Subramanian

661
Citations
Poverty, child undernutrition and morbidity: new evidence from India

Shailen Nandy;Michelle Irving;David Gordon;S V Subramanian

584
Citations
Bonding versus bridging social capital and their associations with self rated health: a multilevel analysis of 40 US communities

D Kim;S V Subramanian;I Kawachi

551
Citations
Research on neighborhood effects on health in the United States: A systematic review of study characteristics

Mariana C. Arcaya;Reginald D. Tucker-Seeley;Rockli Kim;Alina Schnake-Mahl

496
Citations
Zip Code Caveat: Bias Due to Spatiotemporal Mismatches Between Zip Codes and US Census–Defined Geographic Areas—The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project

Nancy Krieger;Pamela Waterman;Jarvis T. Chen;Mah-Jabeen Soobader

481
Citations
Adult height, nutrition, and population health.

Jessica M. Perkins;S.V. Subramanian;George Davey Smith;Emre Özaltin

419
Citations
The relative influence of individual and contextual socio-economic status on consumption of fruit and soft drinks among adolescents in Europe

Carine A. Vereecken;Joanna Inchley;S.V. Subramanian;Anne Hublet

371
Citations
Ethnicity and nativity status as determinants of perceived social support: testing the concept of familism.

Joanna Almeida;Beth E. Molnar;Ichiro Kawachi;S.V. Subramanian

364
Citations
A multilevel approach to modeling health inequalities at the intersection of multiple social identities.

Clare R. Evans;David R. Williams;Jukka-Pekka Onnela;S.V. Subramanian

350
Citations
Domestic Violence and Chronic Malnutrition among Women and Children in India

Leland K. Ackerson;S. V. Subramanian

349
Citations
US state- and county-level social capital in relation to obesity and physical inactivity: A multilevel, multivariable analysis

Daniel Kim;S.V. Subramanian;Steven L. Gortmaker;Ichiro Kawachi

329
Citations
The relevance of multilevel statistical methods for identifying causal neighborhood effects.

S.V Subramanian

315
Citations
Economic Inequalities in Maternal Health Care: Prenatal Care and Skilled Birth Attendance in India, 1992-2006

Praveen Kumar Pathak;Abhishek Singh;S. V. Subramanian

297
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa F. Berkman Harvard University

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia Brandeis University

Sebastian Vollmer University of Göttingen

M. Maria Glymour Boston University

Mauricio Avendano King's College London

Erin C. Dunn Harvard University

Nancy Krieger Harvard University

Glorian Sorensen Harvard University

Karestan C. Koenen Harvard University

Jarvis T. Chen Harvard University

External Links

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