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Tarani Chandola

Tarani Chandola

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Social Sciences and Humanities
China
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
69
Citations
20811
World Ranking
806
National Ranking
11

Tarani Chandola 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 Tarani Chandola sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 225 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tarani Chandola 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 Tarani Chandola sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 261 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% 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 China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in China Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Tarani Chandola is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China. Their research interests span multiple fields within social sciences, health professions, and psychology. They have contributed extensively to areas such as general health professions, demography, clinical psychology, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics, including:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Employment and welfare studies
  • Workplace health and well-being
  • COVID-19 and mental health
  • Migration, aging, and tourism studies
  • Retirement, disability, and employment
  • Psychological well-being and life satisfaction

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Tarani Chandola are:

  • The mental health impact of COVID-19 and lockdown-related stressors among adults in the UK, 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • The longitudinal relationship between loneliness, social isolation, and frailty in older adults in England: a prospective analysis, 2021, The Lancet Healthy Longevity
  • Frailty among Older Adults and Its Distribution in England, 2021, The Journal of Frailty & Aging
  • The validity of the residuals approach to measuring resilience to adverse childhood experiences, 2022, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Genetic Variants Associated With Resilience in Human and Animal Studies, 2022, Frontiers in Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Chandola include:

  • Neil Pendleton
  • Peter Bower
  • Patrick Rouxel
  • Meena Kumari
  • Asri Maharani

Publication venues where Chandola has appeared multiple times include:

  • Age and Ageing
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  • Social Science & Medicine

Chandola has also contributed to book publications with Springer International Publishing, including the 2023 title "Handbook of Life Course Occupational Health."

Recognition for Chandola's work includes being named a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • The measurement of effort-reward imbalance at work: European comparisons.

    Johannes Siegrist;Dagmar Starke;Tarani Chandola;Isabelle Godin

  • Chronic stress at work and the metabolic syndrome: prospective study

    Tarani Chandola;Eric Brunner;Michael Marmot

  • Patients’ experiences and satisfaction with health care: results of a questionnaire study of specific aspects of care

    Crispin Jenkinson;A. Coulter;S. Bruster;N. Richards

  • Work stress and coronary heart disease: what are the mechanisms?

    Tarani Chandola;Annie Britton;Eric Brunner;Harry Hemingway

  • Association between fear of crime and mental health and physical functioning.

    Mai Stafford;Tarani Chandola;Michael Marmot

  • Prospective Effect of Job Strain on General and Central Obesity in the Whitehall II Study

    Eric J. Brunner;Tarani Chandola;Michael G. Marmot

  • Validating self-rated health in different ethnic groups.

    Tarani Chandola;Crispin Jenkinson

  • Psychophysiological biomarkers of workplace stressors

    Tarani Chandola;Alexandros Heraclides;Meena Kumari

  • Social Gradients in Oral and General Health

    Wael Sabbah;G Tsakos;T Chandola;A Sheiham

  • Psychosocial Stress at Work Doubles the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Middle-Aged Women: Evidence from the Whitehall II Study

    Alexandros Heraclides;Tarani Chandola;Daniel R. Witte;Eric J. Brunner

  • The Effect of Short Sleep Duration on Coronary Heart Disease Risk is Greatest Among Those with Sleep Disturbance: A Prospective Study from the Whitehall II Cohort

    Tarani Chandola;Jane E. Ferrie;Aleksander Perski;Tasnime Akbaraly;Tasnime Akbaraly

  • Social inequalities in self reported health in early old age: follow-up of prospective cohort study

    Tarani Chandola;Jane Ferrie;Amanda Sacker;Michael Marmot

  • Socioeconomic trajectories across the life course and health outcomes in midlife: evidence for the accumulation hypothesis?

    Archana Singh-Manoux;Jane E Ferrie;Tarani Chandola;Michael Marmot

  • Does conflict between home and work explain the effect of multiple roles on mental health? A comparative study of Finland, Japan, and the UK

    Tarani Chandola;Pekka Martikainen;Mel Bartley;Eero Lahelma

  • Socio-demographic predictors of quitting smoking: How important are household factors?

    Tarani Chandola;Jenny Head;Mel Bartley

  • Unfairness and health: evidence from the Whitehall II Study

    Roberto De Vogli;Jane E Ferrie;Tarani Chandola;Mika Kivimäki

  • Self-Reported Sleep Duration and Sleep Disturbance Are Independently Associated with Cortisol Secretion in the Whitehall II Study

    Meena Kumari;Ellena Badrick;Jane Ferrie;Aleksander Perski

  • The fear of crime and area differences in health.

    Tarani Chandola

  • Childhood IQ in relation to obesity and weight gain in adult life: the National Child Development (1958) Study.

    T Chandola;I J Deary;D Blane;G D Batty;G D Batty

  • Negative aspects of close relationships and heart disease.

    Roberto De Vogli;Tarani Chandola;Michael Gideon Marmot

Frequent Co-Authors

Pekka Martikainen
Pekka Martikainen University of Helsinki
Meena Kumari
Meena Kumari University of Essex
Eero Lahelma
Eero Lahelma University of Helsinki
Jane E. Ferrie
Jane E. Ferrie University College London
Laia Bécares
Laia Bécares King's College London
James Nazroo
James Nazroo University of Manchester
Kamaldeep Bhui
Kamaldeep Bhui University of Oxford
Amanda Sacker
Amanda Sacker University College London
Mikko Laaksonen
Mikko Laaksonen University of Helsinki
Mai Stafford
Mai Stafford University College London

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