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D-Index
70
Citations
25243
World Ranking
759
National Ranking
359

Yu Xie 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 Yu Xie sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 211 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yu Xie 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 Yu Xie sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 261 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2002 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Yu Xie is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the broad field of Social Sciences, with a focus on several key subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, Demography, Education, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main research topics covered by Yu Xie include:

  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Yu Xie has published in a variety of academic journals, with frequent venues including:

  • Chinese Journal of Sociology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Chinese Sociological Review
  • Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
  • China Population and Development Studies

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Yu Xie include:

  • The influence of family background on educational expectations: a comparative study (2020, Chinese Sociological Review)
  • Economic growth, income inequality and life expectancy in China (2020, Social Science & Medicine)
  • Recent trends in the Chinese family: National estimates from 1990 to 2010 (2021, Demographic Research)
  • Is there a Chinese pattern of the second demographic transition? (2022, China Population and Development Studies)
  • Heterogeneous returns to college over the life course (2021, Science Advances)

Frequent collaborators include Jia Yu, Junming Huang, Qian He, Xi Song, and Yue Qian.

Yu Xie has received several honors, such as being named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2009, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004, and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Redefine statistical significance

    Daniel J. Benjamin;James O. Berger;Magnus Johannesson;Magnus Johannesson;Brian A. Nosek;Brian A. Nosek

  • Women in Science: Career Processes and Outcomes

    Yu Xie;Kimberlee A. Shauman

  • Income inequality in today's China.

    Yu Xie;Yu Xie;Xiang Zhou

  • Who Benefits Most from College?: Evidence for Negative Selection in Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Higher Education

    Jennie E. Brand;Yu Xie

  • Sex differences in research productivity : New evidence about an old puzzle

    Yu Xie;Kimberlee A. Shauman

  • Educational expectations of Asian American youths : Determinants and ethnic differences

    Kimberly Goyette;Yu Xie

  • Marriage and Family in East Asia: Continuity and Change

    James M. Raymo;Hyunjoon Park;Yu Xie;Wei Jun Jean Yeung

  • Regional Variation in Earnings Inequality in Reform-Era Urban China

    Yu Xie;Emily Hannum

  • THE LOG-MULTIPLICATIVE LAYER EFFECT MODEL FOR COMPARING MOBILITY TABLES*

    Yu Xie

  • An introduction to the China family panel studies (CFPS)

    Yu Xie;Jingwei Hu

  • Asian-Americans' earnings disadvantage reexamined: The role of place of education

    Zhen Zeng;Yu Xie

  • Explaining Asian Americans’ academic advantage over whites

    Amy Hsin;Yu Xie

  • Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Observational Data

    Yu Xie;Jennie E. Brand;Ben Jann

  • Marriage and Cohabitation

    Arland Thornton;William G. Axinn;Yu Xie

  • The Racial Identification of Biracial Children with One Asian Parent: Evidence from the 1990 Census

    Yu Xie;Kimberly Goyette

  • Economic Potential and Entry into Marriage and Cohabitation

    Yu Xie;James M. Raymo;Kimberly A. Goyette;Arland Thornton

  • Social mobility and the educational choices of Asian Americans

    Yu Xie;Kimberly Goyette

  • The sampling design of the China family panel studies (CFPS)

    Yu Xie;Ping Lu

  • BILINGUALISM AND THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF FIRST- AND SECOND-GENERATION ASIAN AMERICANS: ACCOMMODATION WITH OR WITHOUT ASSIMILATION?*

    Ted Mouw;Yu Xie

  • Does the market pay off? Earnings returns to education in Urban China

    Xiaogang Wu;Yu Xie

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  • The effects of grandparents on children's schooling: evidence from rural China.

    Zhen Zeng;Yu Xie;Yu Xie

Frequent Co-Authors

Arland Thornton
Arland Thornton University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
William G. Axinn
William G. Axinn University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kathryn M. Yount
Kathryn M. Yount Emory University
James M. Raymo
James M. Raymo Princeton University
David Cesarini
David Cesarini New York University
Thomas D. Cook
Thomas D. Cook University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brian A. Nosek
Brian A. Nosek Center for Open Science
Andy P. Field
Andy P. Field University of Sussex
Anthony G. Greenwald
Anthony G. Greenwald University of Washington
Zoltan Dienes
Zoltan Dienes University of Sussex

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