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Vladimir M. Shkolnikov

Vladimir M. Shkolnikov

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
62
Citations
14960
World Ranking
1268
National Ranking
38

Vladimir M. Shkolnikov 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 Vladimir M. Shkolnikov sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 215 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Vladimir M. Shkolnikov 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 Vladimir M. Shkolnikov sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 62 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Vladimir M. Shkolnikov is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has contributed extensively to research primarily within the fields of Medicine, Social Sciences, and Health Professions. Their work spans multiple subfields, including General Health Professions, Health, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Demography, as well as Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The scientist's research engages with a variety of topics that include Global Health Care Issues, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management, Climate Change and Health Impacts, COVID-19 and Healthcare Impacts, COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies, and Cardiac Health and Mental Health.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Excess deaths associated with covid-19 pandemic in 2020: age and sex disaggregated time series analysis in 29 high income countries (2021, BMJ)
  • COVID-19: a need for real-time monitoring of weekly excess deaths (2020, The Lancet)
  • Effects of covid-19 pandemic on life expectancy and premature mortality in 2020: time series analysis in 37 countries (2021, BMJ)
  • Sensitivity Analysis of Excess Mortality due to the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022, Population and Development Review)
  • An open-sourced, web-based application to analyze weekly excess mortality based on the Short-term Mortality Fluctuations data series (2021, PLoS ONE)

Shkolnikov frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Dmitri A. Jdanov, David A. Leon, S. А. Shalnova, Sergey Timonin, and Evgeny M. Andreev.

Their publications often appear in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), BMJ, Population and Development Review, BMC Public Health, and SSM - Population Health.

Best Publications

  • Huge variation in Russian mortality rates 1984-94: artefact, alcohol, or what?

    David A Leon;Laurent Chenet;Vladimir M Shkolnikov;Sergei Zakharov

  • Economic change, crime, and mortality crisis in Russia: regional analysis

    Peder Walberg;Martin McKee;Vladimir Shkolnikov;Laurent Chenet

  • Hazardous alcohol drinking and premature mortality in Russia: a population based case-control study.

    David A Leon;Lyudmila Saburova;Susannah Tomkins;Evgueny Andreev

  • Changes in life expectancy in Russia in the mid-1990s.

    Vladimir Shkolnikov;Martin McKee;David A Leon

  • Excess deaths associated with covid-19 pandemic in 2020: age and sex disaggregated time series analysis in 29 high income countries.

    Nazrul Islam;Vladimir M Shkolnikov;Vladimir M Shkolnikov;Rolando J Acosta;Ilya Klimkin

  • Causes of the Russian mortality crisis: evidence and interpretations.

    Vladimir M. Shkolnikov;Giovanni A. Cornia;David A. Leon

  • Educational level and adult mortality in Russia : An analysis of routine data 1979 to 1994

    Vladimir M. Shkolnikov;David A. Leon;Sergey Adamets;Eugeniy Andreev

  • Social Stress and the Russian Mortality Crisis

    David A. Leon;Vladimir M. Shkolnikov

  • Mortality trends and setbacks: global convergence or divergence?

    Anthony J McMichael;Martin McKee;Vladimir Shkolnikov;Tapani Valkonen

  • Methods Protocol for the Human Mortality Database

    K. Andreev;D. Jdanov;C. Boe;M. Bubenheim

  • Alcohol and Russian mortality: a continuing crisis

    David A. Leon;Vladimir M. Shkolnikov;Michael McKee

  • COVID-19: a need for real-time monitoring of weekly excess deaths.

    David A Leon;Vladimir M Shkolnikov;Liam Smeeth;Per Magnus

  • Alcohol and cardiovascular mortality in Moscow; new evidence of a causal association.

    Laurent Chenet;Martin McKee;David Leon;Vladimir Shkolnikov

  • The evolving pattern of avoidable mortality in Russia

    Evgueni M Andreev;Ellen Nolte;Vladimir M Shkolnikov;Elena Varavikova

  • Algorithm for decomposition of differences between aggregate demographic measures and its application to life expectancies , healthy life expectancies , parity-progression ratios and total fertility rates

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  • Understanding the toll of premature death among men in eastern Europe

    Martin McKee;Vladimir Shkolnikov

  • World mortality 1950-2000: divergence replaces convergence from the late 1980s.

    Kath Moser;Vladimir M. Shkolnikov;David A. Leon

  • Gini coefficient as a life table function: computation from discrete data, decomposition of differences and empirical examples

    Vladimir M. Shkolnikov;Evgueni M. Andreev;Alexander Z. Begun

  • The changing relation between education and life expectancy in central and eastern Europe in the 1990s

    Vladimir M Shkolnikov;Evgueni M Andreev;Domantas Jasilionis;Mall Leinsalu

  • The contribution of medical care to changing life expectancy in Germany and Poland

    Ellen Nolte;Rembrandt Scholz;Vladimir Shkolnikov;Martin McKee

  • Effects of covid-19 pandemic on life expectancy and premature mortality in 2020: time series analysis in 37 countries.

    Nazrul Islam;Dmitri A Jdanov;Dmitri A Jdanov;Vladimir M Shkolnikov;Vladimir M Shkolnikov;Kamlesh Khunti;Kamlesh Khunti

  • Human Mortality Database

    Dmitri A. Jdanov;Domantas Jasilionis;Vladimir M. Shkolnikov;Magali Barbieri

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Leon
David A. Leon London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Domantas Jasilionis
Domantas Jasilionis Vytautas Magnus University
James W. Vaupel
James W. Vaupel University of Southern Denmark
Dana A. Glei
Dana A. Glei Georgetown University
Ellen Nolte
Ellen Nolte London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Michael McKee
Michael McKee Appalachian State University
Tapani Valkonen
Tapani Valkonen University of Helsinki
Kaare Christensen
Kaare Christensen University of Southern Denmark
William Alex Pridemore
William Alex Pridemore University of Georgia

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