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Shireen J. Jejeebhoy

Shireen J. Jejeebhoy

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
33
Citations
8637
World Ranking
7022
National Ranking
7

Shireen J. Jejeebhoy 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 Shireen J. Jejeebhoy sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 122 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Shireen J. Jejeebhoy 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 Shireen J. Jejeebhoy sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 33 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Shireen J. Jejeebhoy is affiliated with the Population Council in India. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the social sciences and medicine, with a particular focus on gender studies, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, safety research, sociology and political science, and finance.

The core topics covered in their work include demographic trends and gender preferences, global maternal and child health, poverty, education and child welfare, sex work and related issues, healthcare systems and reforms, gender, labor and family dynamics, and energy and environment impacts.

Recent scholarly contributions by Shireen J. Jejeebhoy include the following publications:

  • Marriage Without Meaningful Consent and Compromised Agency in Married Life: Evidence From Married Girls in Jharkhand, India (2022, Journal of Adolescent Health)
  • Revisiting Women's Empowerment and Contraception (2024, Population and Development Review)
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health in India (2020, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health)
  • What Prevents Adolescent Girls from Transitioning from School to Work in India? Insights from an Exploratory Study in Rajasthan (2021, Indian Journal of Human Development)
  • Gender inclusivity in India's National Family Health Survey (2023, The Lancet)

Their work has been cited variously, with some papers gaining more citations such as the 2022 article on marriage consent and agency.

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Mukesh Ravi Raushan
  • Zeba A. Sathar
  • K.G. Santhya
  • A.J. Zavier
  • Abhishek Kumar

Prominent publication venues for their research are:

  • Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Population and Development Review
  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health
  • Indian Journal of Human Development
  • The Lancet

Through these contributions, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy's work addresses intersecting issues around social sciences and medicine with a strong emphasis on gender and reproductive health, education, and child welfare within the Indian context.

Best Publications

  • Women's Education, Autonomy, and Reproductive Behaviour: Experience from Developing Countries

    Shireen J. Jejeebhoy

  • Women's Autonomy in India and Pakistan: The Influence of Religion and Region

    Shireen J. Jejeebhoy;Zeba A. Sathar

  • Individual and Contextual Determinants of Domestic Violence in North India

    Michael A. Koenig;Rob Stephenson;Saifuddin Ahmed;Shireen J. Jejeebhoy

  • Associations between wife-beating and fetal and infant death: impressions from a survey in rural India.

    Shireen J. Jejeebhoy

  • Adolescent sexual and reproductive behavior: a review of the evidence from India.

    Shireen J. Jejeebhoy

  • Wife-Beating in Rural India: A Husband's Right? Evidence from Survey Data

    Shireen J. Jejeebhoy

  • Associations Between Early Marriage and Young Women's Marital and Reproductive Health Outcomes: Evidence from India

    K. G. Santhya;Usha Ram;Rajib Acharya;Shireen J. Jejeebhoy

  • Convergence and divergence in spouses' perspectives on women's autonomy in rural India.

    Shireen J. Jejeebhoy

  • Sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescent girls: Evidence from low- and middle-income countries

    K.G. Santhya;Shireen J. Jejeebhoy

  • Sexual Relations Among Young People in Developing Countries : Evidence from WHO Case Studies

    AnnDenise. Brown;Shireen J. Jejeebhoy;Iqbal Shah

  • State accountability for wife-beating: the Indian challenge

    Shireen J Jejeebhoy;Rebecca J Cook

  • The Association Between Social Support and Mental Health Among Vulnerable Adolescents in Five Cities: Findings From the Study of the Well-Being of Adolescents in Vulnerable Environments

    Yan Cheng;XianChen Li;Chaohua Lou;Freya L. Sonenstein

  • From Family Planning to Reproductive Health: Challenges Facing India

    Leela Visaria;Shireen Jejeebhoy;Tom Merrick

  • Correlates of premarital relationships among unmarried youth in Pune district, Maharashtra, India.

    Mallika Alexander;Laila Garda;Savita Kanade;Shireen Jejeebhoy

  • Women's status and fertility: successive cross-sectional evidence from Tamil Nadu, India, 1970-80.

    Shireen J. Jejeebhoy

  • Investigating women's s gynaecological morbidity in India: Not just another KAP survey

    Michael Koenig;Shireen Jejeebhoy;Sagri Singh;S. Sridhar

  • Non-consensual sexual experiences of young people: a review of the evidence from developing countries.

    Shireen J. Jejeebhoy;Sarah Bott

  • Adolescents' perceptions of health from disadvantaged urban communities: Findings from the WAVE study

    Kristin Mmari;Robert Blum;Freya Sonenstein;Beth Marshall

  • Youth in India: Situation and Needs 2006-2007

    Usha Ram;Abhishek Singh;F. Ram;Shireen J. Jejeebhoy

  • Romance and Sex: Pre-Marital Partnership Formation among Young Women and Men, Pune District, India

    Mallika Alexander;Laila Garda;Savita Kanade;Shireen Jejeebhoy

  • Can nurses perform manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) as safely and effectively as physicians? Evidence from India.

    S. J. Jejeebhoy;Shveta Kalyanwala;A. J. F. Zavier;Rajesh Kumar

  • Women’s Autonomy and Experience of Physical Violence Within Marriage in Rural India: Evidence From a Prospective Study

    Shagun Sabarwal;K. G. Santhya;Shireen J. Jejeebhoy

  • Youth in India: Situation and Needs

    Usha Ram;Abhishek Singh;F. Ram;Rajib Acharya

Frequent Co-Authors

Abhishek Singh
Abhishek Singh International Institute for Population Sciences
Freya L. Sonenstein
Freya L. Sonenstein Johns Hopkins University
Robert W. Blum
Robert W. Blum Johns Hopkins University
Richard A. Easterlin
Richard A. Easterlin University of Southern California
Eileen M. Crimmins
Eileen M. Crimmins University of Southern California
Rob Stephenson
Rob Stephenson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Sanjay K. Mohanty
Sanjay K. Mohanty International Institute for Population Sciences
Jacquelyn C. Campbell
Jacquelyn C. Campbell Johns Hopkins University
Rebecca J. Cook
Rebecca J. Cook University of Toronto

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