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S. V. Subramanian

S. V. Subramanian

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Social Sciences and Humanities
USA
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
105
Citations
40343
World Ranking
71
National Ranking
35

S. V. Subramanian 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 S. V. Subramanian sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 540 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

S. V. Subramanian 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 S. V. Subramanian sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 105 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% 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

  • 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

  • The local food environment and diet: A systematic review

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

  • A glossary for health inequalities

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

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

    S. V. Subramanian;Ichiro Kawachi

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

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

  • Inequalities in health: definitions, concepts, and theories

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

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Commentary: Reconciling the three accounts of social capital

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

  • Poverty, child undernutrition and morbidity: new evidence from India

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Adult height, nutrition, and population health.

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Domestic Violence and Chronic Malnutrition among Women and Children in India

    Leland K. Ackerson;S. V. Subramanian

  • 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

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

    S.V Subramanian

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Ichiro Kawachi
Ichiro Kawachi Harvard University
Jussi Vahtera
Jussi Vahtera Turku University Hospital
Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
George Davey Smith
George Davey Smith University of Bristol
Lisa F. Berkman
Lisa F. Berkman Harvard University
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia Brandeis University
Sebastian Vollmer
Sebastian Vollmer University of Göttingen
M. Maria Glymour
M. Maria Glymour Boston University
Mauricio Avendano
Mauricio Avendano King's College London
Nancy Krieger
Nancy Krieger Harvard University

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