2026 Sergei Scherbov: 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	32	7209	6697	30	30	179	8420

Overview

Sergei Scherbov is affiliated with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, medicine, and health professions, with a total of 25 publications in social sciences, 14 in medicine, and 13 in health professions.

Their work spans several subfields, including general health professions, health, demography, health toxicology and mutagenesis, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Sergei Scherbov's main research topics include health disparities and outcomes, global health care issues, insurance, mortality, demography, and risk management, nutritional studies and diet, health, environment, and cognitive aging, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, and climate change and health impacts.

They have contributed to multiple scientific journals and venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

PLoS ONE
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
International Journal of Epidemiology
Scientific Reports
Nutrients

Selected recent papers include:

Measuring inequalities of development at the sub-national level: From the human development index to the human life indicator, 2020, PLoS ONE
COVID-19 and excess mortality in Russia: Regional estimates of life expectancy losses in 2020 and excess deaths in 2021, 2022, PLoS ONE
Assessing the potential impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy, 2020, PLoS ONE
Development of a common scale for measuring healthy ageing across the world: results from the ATHLOS consortium, 2020, International Journal of Epidemiology
Prospects of activity limitations among older adults in 23 low and middle income countries, 2020, Scientific Reports

Throughout their career, Sergei Scherbov has collaborated frequently with coauthors such as Warren C. Sanderson, Albert Sánchez-Niubò, Matthew Prina, Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, and José Luís Ayuso-Mateos.

In addition to articles, they have contributed to the book publication Developments in Demographic Forecasting published in 2020 as part of The Springer series on demographic methods and population analysis.

Best Publications

The coming acceleration of global population ageing

Wolfgang Lutz;Wolfgang Lutz;Warren Sanderson;Warren Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov;Sergei Scherbov

1866
Citations
The end of world population growth

Wolfgang Lutz;Warren Sanderson;Warren Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

1277
Citations
Europe's population at a turning point

Wolfgang Lutz;Brian C. O'Neill;Sergei Scherbov

401
Citations
Doubling of world population unlikely

Wolfgang Lutz;Warren Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

371
Citations
A new perspective on population aging

Warren C. Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

341
Citations
Average remaining lifetimes can increase as human populations age

Warren C. Sanderson;Warren C. Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov;Sergei Scherbov

334
Citations
Rethinking age and aging

W.C. Sanderson;S. Scherbov

326
Citations
Demography. Remeasuring aging.

Warren C Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

283
Citations
Regional, national, and spatially explicit scenarios of demographic and economic change based on SRES

A. Grubler;A. Grubler;B.C. O'Neill;B.C. O'Neill;K. Riahi;V. Chirkov

250
Citations
The characteristics approach to the measurement of population aging

Warren C. Sanderson;Warren C. Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

208
Citations
Expert-based probabilistic population projections

Wolfgang Lutz;Warren C. Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

140
Citations
Faster Increases in Human Life Expectancy Could Lead to Slower Population Aging

Warren C. Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

123
Citations
A Simple Measure of Human Development: The Human Life Indicator

Simone Ghislandi;Warren C. Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

111
Citations
Assessing the potential impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy.

Guillaume Marois;Guillaume Marois;Raya Muttarak;Raya Muttarak;Sergei Scherbov

110
Citations
An expert-based framework for probabilistic national population projections: The example of Austria

Wolfgang Lutz;Sergei Scherbov

107
Citations
Measuring the speed of aging across population subgroups

Warren C. Sanderson;Warren C. Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

92
Citations
Very long range global Population Scenarios to 2300 and the Implications of Sustained low Fertility

Stuart Basten;Wolfgang Lutz;Sergei Scherbov

78
Citations
Can immigration compensate for Europe's low fertility?

W. Lutz;S. Scherbov

75
Citations
Development of a common scale for measuring healthy ageing across the world: results from the ATHLOS consortium.

Albert Sanchez-Niubo;Carlos G Forero;Yu-Tzu Wu;Iago Giné-Vázquez

71
Citations
European Demographic Datasheet 2016

C. Berghammer;R. Gisser;W. Lutz;M. Mamolo

61
Citations
The effects of age structure on economic growth: An application of probabilistic forecasting to India

A. Prskawetz;T. Kögel;W.C. Sanderson;S. Scherbov

60
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Warren C. Sanderson Stony Brook University

Wolfgang Lutz University of Trier

José Luis Ayuso-Mateos Autonomous University of Madrid

Matilde Leonardi Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta

Seppo Koskinen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Jerome Bickenbach University of Lucerne

Arnulf Grubler International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Gustav Feichtinger TU Wien

Keywan Riahi International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Nathan Keyfitz Harvard University

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