2026 Tarani Chandola: 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	69	806	702	11	10	225	20811

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

3087
Citations
Chronic stress at work and the metabolic syndrome: prospective study

Tarani Chandola;Eric Brunner;Michael Marmot

1577
Citations
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

1008
Citations
Work stress and coronary heart disease: what are the mechanisms?

Tarani Chandola;Annie Britton;Eric Brunner;Harry Hemingway

961
Citations
Association between fear of crime and mental health and physical functioning.

Mai Stafford;Tarani Chandola;Michael Marmot

749
Citations
Prospective Effect of Job Strain on General and Central Obesity in the Whitehall II Study

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

520
Citations
Validating self-rated health in different ethnic groups.

Tarani Chandola;Crispin Jenkinson

452
Citations
Psychophysiological biomarkers of workplace stressors

Tarani Chandola;Alexandros Heraclides;Meena Kumari

403
Citations
Social Gradients in Oral and General Health

Wael Sabbah;G Tsakos;T Chandola;A Sheiham

402
Citations
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

360
Citations
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

338
Citations
Social inequalities in self reported health in early old age: follow-up of prospective cohort study

Tarani Chandola;Jane Ferrie;Amanda Sacker;Michael Marmot

325
Citations
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

298
Citations
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

292
Citations
Socio-demographic predictors of quitting smoking: How important are household factors?

Tarani Chandola;Jenny Head;Mel Bartley

284
Citations
Unfairness and health: evidence from the Whitehall II Study

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

276
Citations
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

273
Citations
The fear of crime and area differences in health.

Tarani Chandola

264
Citations
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

257
Citations
Negative aspects of close relationships and heart disease.

Roberto De Vogli;Tarani Chandola;Michael Gideon Marmot

254
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Pekka Martikainen University of Helsinki

Meena Kumari University of Essex

Eero Lahelma University of Helsinki

Jane E. Ferrie University College London

Laia Bécares King's College London

James Nazroo University of Manchester

Kamaldeep Bhui University of Oxford

Amanda Sacker University College London

Mikko Laaksonen University of Helsinki

Mai Stafford University College London

External Links

Personal website of Tarani Chandola Google Scholar page

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