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Wim van Oorschot

Wim van Oorschot

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
41
Citations
8435
World Ranking
4978
National Ranking
60

Wim van Oorschot 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 Wim van Oorschot sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 110 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wim van Oorschot 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 Wim van Oorschot sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Wim van Oorschot is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and is active in research primarily within the fields of social sciences and health professions.

The scientist's research spans several subfields, including political science and international relations, general health professions, sociology and political science, gender studies, and communication.

Van Oorschot's work covers diverse topics, such as social policy and reform studies, employment and welfare studies, gender, labor, and family dynamics, global health care issues, social and cultural dynamics, social media and politics, and migration and labor dynamics.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by van Oorschot include:

  • Welfare solidarities in the age of mass migration: evidence from European Social Survey 2016 (2021, Acta Politica)
  • Popular preferences for a fully means-tested welfare provision model: social and cross-national divides in Europe (2020, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy)
  • The social legitimacy of basic income: a multidimensional and cross-national perspective. An introduction to the special issue (2020, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy)
  • Perceived welfare deservingness of needy people in transition countries: Comparative evidence from the Life in Transition Survey 2016 (2021, Global Social Policy)
  • Perceived Welfare Deservingness of the Unemployed in Eastern versus Western Europe: Similar Levels but Different Degrees of Polarization? (2020, Problems of Post-Communism)

Van Oorschot frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Tijs Laenen
  • Dimitri Gugushvili
  • Bart Meuleman
  • Femke Roosma
  • Martin Lukáč

The scientist's publications appear in peer-reviewed journals such as Acta Politica, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, Global Social Policy, and Problems of Post-Communism.

Best Publications

  • Making the difference in social Europe: deservingness perceptions among citizens of European welfare states

    Wim van Oorschot

  • The social capital of European welfare states: the crowding out hypothesis revisited

    Wim van Oorschot;Wil Arts

  • Social Capital in Europe Measurement and Social and Regional Distribution of a Multifaceted Phenomenon

    Wim van Oorschot;Wil Arts;John Gelissen

  • Disentangling the 'New Liberal Dilemma': on the relation between general welfare redistribution preferences and welfare chauvinism

    Tim Reeskens;Wim van Oorschot

  • Three Worlds of Welfare Chauvinism? How Welfare Regimes Affect Support for Distributing Welfare to Immigrants in Europe

    Jeroen Van Der Waal;Willem De Koster;Wim Van Oorschot

  • The Multidimensionality of Welfare State Attitudes: A European Cross-National Study

    Femke Roosma;John Gelissen;Wim van Oorschot

  • Non-take-up of social security benefits in Europe

    Wim van Oorschot

  • Solidarity towards immigrants in European welfare states

    Wim van Oorschot

  • Blame or fate, individual or social? An international comparison of popular explanations of poverty

    Wim Van Oorschot;Loek Halman

  • The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare

    Wim van Oorschot;Femke Roosma;Bart Meuleman;Tim Reeskens

  • Institutions versus market forces: Explaining the employment insecurity of European individuals during (the beginning of) the financial crisis:

    Heejung Chung;Wim van Oorschot

  • Changing Principles in European Social Security

    Jochen Clasen;Wim Van Oorschot

  • Equity, equality, or need? A study of popular preferences for welfare redistribution principles across 24 European countries

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  • Popular Explanations of Poverty: A Critical Discussion of Empirical Research

    Dorota Lepianka;Wim Van Oorschot;John Gelissen

  • Public opinion on basic income: Mapping European support for a radical alternative for welfare provision

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  • Popular perceptions of welfare state consequences: a multi-level, cross-national analysis of 25 European countries

    Wim van Oorschot;Tim Reeskens;Bart Meuleman

  • The Dutch welfare state: Recent trends and challenges in historical perspective

    Wim van Oorschot

  • Miracle or Nightmare? A Critical Review of Dutch Activation Policies and their Outcomes

    Wim Van Oorschot

  • The preferred role and perceived performance of the welfare state: European welfare attitudes from a multidimensional perspective.

    Femke Roosma;Wim van Oorschot;John Gelissen

  • Culture and social policy: a developing field of study

    Wim van Oorschot

  • Popular explanations of poverty in Europe : Effects of contextual and individual characteristics across 28 European countries

    Dorota Lepianka;John Gelissen;Wim van Oorschot

  • Welfarism and the multidimensionality of welfare state legitimacy: Evidence from The Netherlands, 2006

    Wim van Oorschot;Bart Meuleman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jørgen Goul Andersen
Jørgen Goul Andersen Aalborg University
Jochen Clasen
Jochen Clasen University of Edinburgh
Svend-Erik Skaaning
Svend-Erik Skaaning Aarhus University
Patrick Emmenegger
Patrick Emmenegger University of St. Gallen

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