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Yaohui Zhao

Yaohui Zhao

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
42
Citations
14088
World Ranking
4586
National Ranking
72

Yaohui Zhao 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 Yaohui Zhao sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 103 publications — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yaohui Zhao 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 Yaohui Zhao sits on this spectrum.

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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

Yaohui Zhao is affiliated with Peking University in China and specializes in research within the social sciences, with a focus on health-related areas. The subfields of their work include health, general health professions, sociology and political science, demography, and health, toxicology and mutagenesis.

Their research covers multiple topics, notably:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Global health care issues
  • Intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving
  • Vaccine coverage and hesitancy
  • Air quality and health impacts
  • Retirement, disability, and employment
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Some of the recent papers that Zhao has contributed to include:

  • The path to healthy ageing in China: a Peking University-Lancet Commission (2022, The Lancet)
  • Nowcasting and forecasting the care needs of the older population in China: analysis of data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) (2022, The Lancet Public Health)
  • Determinants of COVID-19 vaccination status and hesitancy among older adults in China (2023, Nature Medicine)
  • Ambient Air Pollution and Socioeconomic Status in China (2022, Environmental Health Perspectives)
  • Associations of long-term exposure to ambient nitrogen dioxide with indicators of diabetes and dyslipidemia in China: A nationwide analysis (2020, Chemosphere)

Frequent publication venues for Zhao's work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Lancet
  • The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • Research Square

Zhao frequently collaborates with several coauthors, among whom are Qinqin Meng, Gewei Wang, Andrew Steptoe, and Yafeng Wang. The number of collaborations ranges from nine to twelve publications with these individuals.

Best Publications

  • Cohort Profile: The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)

    Yaohui Zhao;Yisong Hu;James P Smith;John Strauss

  • The path to healthy ageing in China: a Peking University–Lancet Commission

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  • Economic returns to schooling in urban China, 1988 to 2001

    Junsen Zhang;Yaohui Zhao;Albert Park;Xiaoqing Song

  • Leaving the countryside: rural-to-urban migration decisions in China.

    Yaohui Zhao

  • Labor Migration and Earnings Differences: The Case of Rural China

    Yaohui Zhao

  • Causes and Consequences of Return Migration: Recent Evidence from China☆

    Yaohui Zhao

  • Depressive symptoms and SES among the mid-aged and elderly in China: evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study national baseline.

    Xiaoyan Lei;Xiaoting Sun;John Strauss;Peng Zhang

  • The Chinese Labor Market in the Reform Era

    Fang Cai;Albert Francis Park;Yaohui Zhao

  • Nowcasting and forecasting the care needs of the older population in China: analysis of data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)

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  • The Role of Migrant Networks in Labor Migration: The Case of China

    Yaohui Zhao

  • Venous Blood-Based Biomarkers in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study: Rationale, Design, and Results From the 2015 Wave.

    Xinxin Chen;Eileen Crimmins;Peifeng Perry Hu;Jung Ki Kim

  • Gender Differences in Cognition among Older Adults in China

    Xiaoyan Lei;Yuqing Hu;John J. McArdle;James P. Smith

  • Trends in the Gender Earnings Differential in Urban China, 1988–2004

    Junsen Zhang;Jun Han;Pak-Wai Liu;Yaohui Zhao

  • Health Outcomes and Socio-Economic Status among the Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS Pilot

    John Strauss;Xiaoyan Lei;Albert Park;Yan Shen

  • Associations between long-term exposure to ambient particulate air pollution and type 2 diabetes prevalence, blood glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin levels in China.

    Cong Liu;Changyuan Yang;Yaohui Zhao;Zongwei Ma

  • Gender differences in cognition in China and reasons for change over time: Evidence from CHARLS

    Xiaoyan Lei;James P. Smith;Xiaoting Sun;Yaohui Zhao

  • Determinants of COVID-19 vaccination status and hesitancy among older adults in China

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  • Living Arrangements of the Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS National Baseline

    Xiaoyan Lei;John Strauss;Meng Tian;Yaohui Zhao

  • Labor Migration and Returns to Rural Education in China

    Yaohui Zhao

  • Regional Inequality and Labor Transfers in China

    Justin Y. Lin;Gewei Wang;Yaohui Zhao

  • Health, Height, Height Shrinkage, and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China

    Wei Huang;Xiaoyan Lei;Geert Ridder;John Strauss

  • Healthy Aging in China.

    James P. Smith;John Strauss;Yaohui Zhao

  • Growing old before growing rich: inequality in health service utilization among the mid-aged and elderly in Gansu and Zhejiang Provinces, China

    Yang Wang;Jian Wang;Elizabeth Maitland;Yaohui Zhao

  • The Effects of Childhood Health on Adult Health and SES in China

    James P. Smith;Yan Shen;John Strauss;Yang Zhe

  • Health Insurance and Health Care among the Mid‐Aged and Older Chinese: Evidence from the National Baseline Survey of CHARLS

    Chuanchuan Zhang;Xiaoyan Lei;John Strauss;Yaohui Zhao

  • One-Child Policy and the Rise of Man-Made Twins

    Wei Huang;Xiaoyan Lei;Yaohui Zhao

  • Prevalence, diagnosis, and management of diabetes mellitus among older Chinese: results from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

    Yaohui Zhao;Eileen M. Crimmins;Peifeng Hu;Yang Shen

  • China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)

    Xinxin Chen;Yafeng Wang;John Strauss;Yaohui Zhao

  • Gender Differences in Cognition in China and Reasons for Change Over Time

    Xiaoyan Lei;James P. Smith;Xiaoting Sun;Yaohui Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

James P. Smith
James P. Smith RAND Corporation
Albert Francis Park
Albert Francis Park Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
John Giles
John Giles World Bank
Eileen M. Crimmins
Eileen M. Crimmins University of Southern California
Junsen Zhang
Junsen Zhang Chinese University of Hong Kong
Geert Ridder
Geert Ridder University of Southern California
John J. McArdle
John J. McArdle University of Southern California
Renjie Chen
Renjie Chen Fudan University
Andrew Steptoe
Andrew Steptoe University College London
Haidong Kan
Haidong Kan Fudan University

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