2026 Warren C. Sanderson: 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	42	4626	4276	2202	1998	179	11122

Warren C. Sanderson 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 Warren C. Sanderson sits on this spectrum.

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.

Warren C. Sanderson 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 Warren C. Sanderson sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Warren C. Sanderson is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences, Health Professions, and Medicine, with a significant focus on General Health Professions, Health, Demography, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their scholarly output includes a range of topics related to global health care issues, health disparities and outcomes, mortality and demographic risk management, nutritional studies, climate change and health impacts, as well as advanced clustering algorithms research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sanderson include:

Sergei Scherbov
Albert Sánchez-Niubò
Matthew Prina
Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos
José Luís Ayuso-Mateos

Sanderson's research has been published in various academic venues, among which the most frequent include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
PLoS ONE
Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online (Institut für kunst- und musikhistorische Forschungen der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften)
International Journal of Epidemiology
Nutrients

Recent papers by Warren C. Sanderson include:

"Development of a common scale for measuring healthy ageing across the world: results from the ATHLOS consortium," 2020, International Journal of Epidemiology
"COVID-19 and excess mortality in Russia: Regional estimates of life expectancy losses in 2020 and excess deaths in 2021," 2022, PLoS ONE
"Alcohol Drinking and Health in Ageing: A Global Scale Analysis of Older Individual Data through the Harmonised Dataset of ATHLOS," 2020, Nutrients
"A divisive hierarchical clustering methodology for enhancing the ensemble prediction power in large scale population studies: the ATHLOS project," 2022, Health Information Science and Systems
"Choosing between the UN's alternative views of population aging," 2020, PLoS ONE

Sanderson is also the author of a book published within The Springer series on demographic methods and population analysis, titled Developments in Demographic Forecasting (2020).

Best Publications

The coming acceleration of global population ageing

Wolfgang Lutz;Wolfgang Lutz;Warren Sanderson;Warren Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov;Sergei Scherbov

1866
Citations
The end of world population growth

Wolfgang Lutz;Warren Sanderson;Warren Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

1277
Citations
Are User Fees Regressive? The Welfare Implications of Health Care Financing Proposals in Peru

Paul Gertler;Luis Locay;Warren Sanderson

1006
Citations
Doubling of world population unlikely

Wolfgang Lutz;Warren Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

371
Citations
The End of World Population Growth in the 21st Century: New Challenges for Human Capital Formation and Sustainable Development

Warren C. Sanderson

350
Citations
Reconstruction of populations by age, sex and level of educational attainment for 120 countries for 1970-2000

Wolfgang Lutz;Anne Goujon;Warren Sanderson

344
Citations
A new perspective on population aging

Warren C. Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

341
Citations
Projection of Populations by Level of Educational Attainment, Age and Sex for 120 Countries for 2005-2050

Samir Kc;Bilal Barakat;Anne Goujon;Vegard Skirbekk

340
Citations
Average remaining lifetimes can increase as human populations age

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

334
Citations
The Demography of Educational Attainment and Economic Growth

Wolfgang Lutz;Jesus Crespo Cuaresma;Warren Sanderson

331
Citations
Rethinking age and aging

W.C. Sanderson;S. Scherbov

326
Citations
Demography. Remeasuring aging.

Warren C Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

283
Citations
Are user fees regressive

Paul Gertler;Luis Locay;Warren Sanderson

219
Citations
Are Individuals’ Desired Family Sizes Stable? Evidence from West German Panel Data

Frank W. Heiland;Alexia Prskawetz;Warren C. Sanderson;Warren C. Sanderson

218
Citations
The characteristics approach to the measurement of population aging

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

208
Citations
Is the demographic dividend an education dividend

Jesús Crespo Cuaresma;Wolfgang Lutz;Warren Sanderson;Warren Sanderson

199
Citations
Expert-based probabilistic population projections

Wolfgang Lutz;Warren C. Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

140
Citations
Faster Increases in Human Life Expectancy Could Lead to Slower Population Aging

Warren C. Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

123
Citations
On Two Schools of the Economics of Fertility

Warren C. Sanderson

121
Citations
Education rather than age structure brings demographic dividend.

Wolfgang Lutz;Jesus Crespo Cuaresma;Jesus Crespo Cuaresma;Endale Kebede;Alexia Prskawetz;Alexia Prskawetz

113
Citations
Doubling of world population unlikely

W. Lutz;W. Sanderson;A.A. Lew;T.W. Paradis

9
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergei Scherbov International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Wolfgang Lutz University of Trier

Alexia Prskawetz TU Wien

José Luis Ayuso-Mateos Autonomous University of Madrid

Brian C. O'Neill Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Martin Bobak University College London

Seppo Koskinen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Paul J. Gertler University of California, Berkeley

Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos Harokopio University

Paul A. David Stanford University

External Links

Personal website of Warren C. Sanderson

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