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Sergei Scherbov 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 Sergei Scherbov sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 179 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sergei Scherbov 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 Sergei Scherbov sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 32 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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

  • The end of world population growth

    Wolfgang Lutz;Warren Sanderson;Warren Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

  • Europe's population at a turning point

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

  • Doubling of world population unlikely

    Wolfgang Lutz;Warren Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

  • A new perspective on population aging

    Warren C. Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

  • Average remaining lifetimes can increase as human populations age

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

  • Rethinking age and aging

    W.C. Sanderson;S. Scherbov

  • Demography. Remeasuring aging.

    Warren C Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

  • 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

  • The characteristics approach to the measurement of population aging

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

  • Expert-based probabilistic population projections

    Wolfgang Lutz;Warren C. Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

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

    Warren C. Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

  • A Simple Measure of Human Development: The Human Life Indicator

    Simone Ghislandi;Warren C. Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

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

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

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

    Wolfgang Lutz;Sergei Scherbov

  • Measuring the speed of aging across population subgroups

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

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

    Stuart Basten;Wolfgang Lutz;Sergei Scherbov

  • Can immigration compensate for Europe's low fertility?

    W. Lutz;S. Scherbov

  • 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

  • European Demographic Datasheet 2016

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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Warren C. Sanderson
Warren C. Sanderson Stony Brook University
Wolfgang Lutz
Wolfgang Lutz University of Trier
José Luis Ayuso-Mateos
José Luis Ayuso-Mateos Autonomous University of Madrid
Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos
Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos Harokopio University
Martin Bobak
Martin Bobak University College London
Matilde Leonardi
Matilde Leonardi Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Josep Maria Haro
Josep Maria Haro University of Barcelona
Martin Prince
Martin Prince King's College London
Brian C. O'Neill
Brian C. O'Neill Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jerome Bickenbach
Jerome Bickenbach University of Lucerne

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