Aart C. Liefbroer

9.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
185 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

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Aart C. Liefbroer is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Demography and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Aart C. Liefbroer has authored 185 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 89 papers in Demography and 58 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Aart C. Liefbroer's work include Family Dynamics and Relationships (78 papers), Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (71 papers) and Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (32 papers). Aart C. Liefbroer is often cited by papers focused on Family Dynamics and Relationships (78 papers), Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (71 papers) and Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (32 papers). Aart C. Liefbroer collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Italy and Germany. Aart C. Liefbroer's co-authors include Francesco C. Billari, Cees H. Elzinga, Matthijs Kalmijn, Martine Corijn, H.A.G. de Valk, Anne‐Rigt Poortman, Jenny de Jong Gierveld, Pearl A. Dykstra, Arieke J. Rijken and Nicole Hiekel and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Social Science & Medicine and Social Forces.

In The Last Decade

Aart C. Liefbroer

172 papers receiving 5.4k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Towards a new pattern of transition to adulthood?

2010 376 citations Francesco C. Billari, Aart C. Liefbroer Advances in Life Course Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aart C. Liefbroer Netherlands	44	4.0k	3.6k	2.0k	700	697	185	6.0k
Frances Goldscheider United States	42	4.1k 1.0×	3.2k 0.9×	2.4k 1.2×	587 0.8×	422 0.6×	109	5.4k
Kathleen Kiernan United Kingdom	39	2.7k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	841 1.2×	660 0.9×	89	5.3k
Jay D. Teachman United States	38	2.9k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	1.7k 0.9×	766 1.1×	444 0.6×	123	5.1k
Wei‐Jun Jean Yeung Singapore	30	2.8k 0.7×	1.5k 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	705 1.0×	578 0.8×	98	5.4k
Pamela J. Smock United States	33	3.4k 0.8×	3.4k 1.0×	2.4k 1.2×	395 0.6×	338 0.5×	52	4.5k
Gary D. Sandefur United States	26	3.1k 0.8×	1.9k 0.5×	1.5k 0.7×	802 1.1×	468 0.7×	77	4.9k
Karsten Hank Germany	28	2.4k 0.6×	2.0k 0.6×	917 0.4×	865 1.2×	1.2k 1.7×	110	3.8k
Irwin Garfinkel United States	41	3.7k 0.9×	1.9k 0.5×	2.5k 1.2×	2.1k 3.1×	641 0.9×	181	6.9k
Toby L. Parcel United States	30	3.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.4×	1.4k 0.7×	904 1.3×	390 0.6×	88	5.6k
Kathryn Edin United States	38	2.9k 0.7×	1.6k 0.4×	1.8k 0.9×	1.6k 2.2×	467 0.7×	84	4.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liefbroer, Aart C., et al.. (2025). Chronotype as a potential risk factor for cognitive decline: The mediating role of sleep quality and health behaviours in a 10-year follow-up study. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease. 12(6). 100168–100168. 1 indexed citations

Bernasco, Wim, et al.. (2024). The Anticipatory, Short-Term, and Long-Term Effects of Parental Separation and Parental Death on Adolescent Delinquency. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology. 10(2). 288–308. 1 indexed citations

Liefbroer, Aart C., et al.. (2023). Comparing marriage and cohabitation dissolution risks across municipalities: Which characteristics matter?. Population Space and Place. 29(5). 1 indexed citations

Liefbroer, Aart C., et al.. (2023). Religion and union dissolution: Effects of couple and municipal religiosity on divorce and separation. Demographic Research. 49. 513–542.

Liefbroer, Aart C., et al.. (2023). Life-course insecurity among young adults: Evidence for variation by employment status?. Advances in Life Course Research. 57. 100562–100562. 7 indexed citations

Bernasco, Wim, et al.. (2020). Growing up in single-parent families and the criminal involvement of adolescents: a systematic review. Psychology Crime and Law. 27(1). 61–75. 32 indexed citations

Liefbroer, Aart C., et al.. (2019). Translation and Validation of the Volunteer Functions Inventory (VFI) among the General Dutch Older Population. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16(17). 3106–3106. 11 indexed citations

Billari, Francesco C. & Aart C. Liefbroer. (2016). Why still marry? The role of feelings in the persistence of marriage as an institution ¹. British Journal of Sociology. 67(3). 516–540. 12 indexed citations

Fokkema, Tineke, et al.. (2016). Generations and Gender Programme Wave 1 data collection. Demographic Research. 34. 499–524. 45 indexed citations

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Fokkema, Tineke & Aart C. Liefbroer. (2015). Brengt werken echtscheiding dichterbij? De invloed van economische onafhankelijkheid op de echtscheidingskans van vrouwen geboren in de periode 1903-1937. Mens en Maatschappij. 74(1). 62–81.

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Poppel, Frans van, David Reher, & Aart C. Liefbroer. (2012). The relationship between infant and child mortality and fertility in the Netherlands. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 1 indexed citations

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Billari, Francesco C., Alice Goisis, Aart C. Liefbroer, et al.. (2010). Social age deadlines for the childbearing of women and men. Human Reproduction. 26(3). 616–622. 127 indexed citations

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Knijn, Trudie & Aart C. Liefbroer. (2007). More kin than kind: instrumental support in families. Population Studies. 47 indexed citations

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Dykstra, Pearl A., Aafke Komter, Matthijs Kalmijn, et al.. (2007). The Netherlands Kinship Panel Study: an introduction. Population Studies. 3 indexed citations

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Dykstra, Pearl A., Matthijs Kalmijn, Trudie Knijn, et al.. (2006). Family solidarity in the Netherlands. Population Studies. 143 indexed citations

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Liefbroer, Aart C., et al.. (2005). De transitie naar volwassenheid en de rol van het overheidsbeleid: een vergelijking van institutionele arrangementen in Nederland, Zweden, Groot-Brittannië en Spanje - 11. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 2 indexed citations

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Dykstra, Pearl A., Matthijs Kalmijn, Trudie Knijn, et al.. (2004). Codebook of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study, A multi-actor, multi-method panel study on solidarity in family relationships. Wave 2. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 159 indexed citations

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Poppel, Frans van, Aart C. Liefbroer, Jeroen K. Vermunt, & Wilma Smeenk. (2001). Love, necessity and opportunity: Changing patterns of marital age homogamy in the Netherlands, 1850–1993. Population Studies. 55(1). 1–13. 72 indexed citations

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Gierveld, Jenny de Jong & Aart C. Liefbroer. (1998). Sociale herkomst, opvattingen over relaties en gezin en leefvormkeuzes van jongvolwassenen : Resultaten van een panelstudie. 45(2). 127–128. 1 indexed citations

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Jong-Gierveld, J. de, Aart C. Liefbroer, & E. Beekink. (1991). De invloed van materiële en immateriële ouderlijke hulpbronnen op het verlaten van het ouderlijk huis. Mens en Maatschappij. 66(1). 25–53. 2 indexed citations

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