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57
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14586
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1757
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845

William C. Hsiao 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 William C. Hsiao sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 141 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William C. Hsiao 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 William C. Hsiao sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 57 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

William C. Hsiao is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States, focusing on research at the intersection of health economics and healthcare systems. Their work primarily spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance as well as Health Professions, with specific emphasis on General Health Professions, Finance, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's recent publications cover a range of topics related to global health care issues, health care system reforms, and healthcare policy and management. Notable papers include:

  • The Case Against Labor-Tax-Financed Social Health Insurance For Low- And Low-Middle-Income Countries, 2020, Health Affairs
  • Financing and provision of healthcare for two billion people in low-income nations: Is the cooperative healthcare model a solution?, 2023, Social Science & Medicine
  • Comprehensive Assessment of Health System Performance in Odisha, India, 2022, Health Systems & Reform
  • PHA4GE Quality Control Contextual Data Tags: Standardized Annotations for Sharing Public Health Sequence Datasets with Known Quality Issues to Facilitate Testing and Training, 2023, Preprints.org
  • Comments on Abdo Yazbeck et al. paper: Contributory health insurance, 2023, Social Science & Medicine

William C. Hsiao's research frequently investigates topics such as global maternal and child health, patient satisfaction in healthcare, genomics and phylogenetic studies, as well as biomedical text mining and ontologies. Their work has appeared predominantly in the journal Social Science & Medicine, along with publications in Health Affairs, Health Systems & Reform, Preprints.org, and Population Medicine.

  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies

Frequent collaborators include Winnie Yip, Emma Griffiths, Abdo S. Yazbeck, William D. Savedoff, and Joseph Kutzin. These co-authors reflect a network engaged in diverse aspects of health systems analysis and public health research.

Best Publications

  • Early appraisal of China's huge and complex health-care reforms

    Winnie Chi-Man Yip;William C Hsiao;Wen Chen;Shanlian Hu

  • Privatization and Its Discontents — The Evolving Chinese Health Care System

    David Blumenthal;William Hsiao

  • Does Universal Health Insurance Make Health Care Unaffordable? Lessons From Taiwan

    Jui-Fen Rachel Lu;William C. Hsiao

  • The Chinese Health System At A Crossroads

    Winnie Yip;William C. Hsiao

  • Estimating Physicians' Work for a Resource-Based Relative-Value Scale

    William C. Hsiao;Peter Braun;Douwe Yntema;Edmund R. Becker

  • Harnessing the privatisation of China's fragmented health-care delivery

    Winnie Yip;William Hsiao

  • Realignment of incentives for health-care providers in China

    Winnie Chi-Man Yip;William Hsiao;Qingyue Meng;Wen Chen

  • Equity in health and health care: the Chinese experience.

    Yuanli Liu;William C Hsiao;Karen Eggleston

  • Resource-based relative values. An overview.

    William C. Hsiao;Peter Braun;Daniel Dunn;Edmund R. Becker

  • THE CHINESE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM: LESSONS FOR OTHER NATIONS

    William C.L. Hsiao

  • China's health care reform: A tentative assessment

    Winnie Yip;William Hsiao

  • China's Health System and Its Reform : A Review of Recent Studies

    Adam Wagstaff;Winnie Yip;Magnus Lindelow;William C. Hsiao

  • Non-evidence-based policy: how effective is China's new cooperative medical scheme in reducing medical impoverishment?

    Winnie Yip;William C. Hsiao

  • Getting Health Reform Right

    Marc Roberts;William Hsiao;Peter Berman;Michael Reich

  • Social health insurance for developing nations

    William C. Hsiao;R. Paul Shaw

  • Results and policy implications of the resource-based relative-value study.

    William C. Hsiao;Peter Braun;Daniel Dunn;Edmund R. Becker

  • Effectiveness of community health financing in meeting the cost of illness.

    Alexander S. Preker;Guy Carrin;David Dror;Melitta Jakab

  • Lessons from the East — China's Rapidly Evolving Health Care System

    David Blumenthal;William C. Hsiao

  • Medical expenditure and rural impoverishment in China.

    Yuanli Liu;Keqin Rao;William C. Hsiao

  • Community-based health insurance in poor rural China: the distribution of net benefits.

    Hong Wang;Winnie Yip;Licheng Zhang;Lusheng Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Winnie Yip
Winnie Yip Harvard University
Edmund R. Becker
Edmund R. Becker Emory University
Peter Berman
Peter Berman University of British Columbia
Adam Wagstaff
Adam Wagstaff World Bank
Gary Van Domselaar
Gary Van Domselaar Public Health Agency of Canada
Alan Maynard
Alan Maynard University of York
David Blumenthal
David Blumenthal Harvard University
Fiona S. L. Brinkman
Fiona S. L. Brinkman Simon Fraser University
Danuta M. Skowronski
Danuta M. Skowronski University of British Columbia
Mel Krajden
Mel Krajden University of British Columbia

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