Heather Booth

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Heather Booth is a scholar working on Demography, General Health Professions and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Heather Booth has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Demography, 28 papers in General Health Professions and 17 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Heather Booth's work include Global Health Care Issues (27 papers), Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (25 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (17 papers). Heather Booth is often cited by papers focused on Global Health Care Issues (27 papers), Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (25 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (17 papers). Heather Booth collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and Germany. Heather Booth's co-authors include Leonie Tickle, Rob J. Hyndman, Len Smith, John H. Maindonald, Carol Jagger, Louise Robinson, Martín Knapp, Andrew Kingston, Tina Wallace and Stephen Castles and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, International Journal of Epidemiology and Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.

In The Last Decade

Heather Booth

60 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Projections of multi-morbidity in the older population in England to 2035: estimates from the Population Ageing and Care Simulation (PACSim) model

2017 503 citations Heather Booth et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heather Booth Australia	21	1.6k	1.6k	765	436	419	64	2.8k
Vladimir Canudas‐Romo Australia	27	1.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	902 1.2×	200 0.5×	62 0.1×	96	2.2k
Maria Evandrou United Kingdom	29	1.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	832 1.1×	279 0.6×	58 0.1×	142	3.0k
Jacques Véron France	11	749 0.5×	690 0.4×	513 0.7×	186 0.4×	101 0.2×	69	1.8k
James P. Smith United States	32	1.4k 0.8×	662 0.4×	866 1.1×	867 2.0×	74 0.2×	87	3.6k
Hendrik Jürges Germany	31	1.5k 0.9×	685 0.4×	1.1k 1.4×	619 1.4×	49 0.1×	109	3.3k
Maarten Lindeboom Netherlands	32	2.0k 1.2×	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 1.3×	832 1.9×	58 0.1×	127	3.4k
Emmanuelle Cambois France	24	1.6k 1.0×	655 0.4×	1.3k 1.8×	251 0.6×	27 0.1×	87	2.7k
France Meslé France	27	1.4k 0.8×	920 0.6×	1.0k 1.3×	166 0.4×	25 0.1×	115	2.2k
Mary Shaw United Kingdom	29	1.6k 1.0×	233 0.1×	1.2k 1.6×	261 0.6×	57 0.1×	79	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Heather Booth

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Fields of papers citing papers by Heather Booth

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heather Booth

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Heather Booth. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Heather Booth based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Heather Booth. Heather Booth is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Anson, Jon & Heather Booth. (2024). Capital and Cohesion: A new perspective on the analysis of mortality differentials. Population review. 63(2). 1–34.

Welsh, Jennifer, Grace Joshy, Kay S, et al.. (2021). Education-related inequalities in cause-specific mortality: first estimates for Australia using individual-level linked census and mortality data. International Journal of Epidemiology. 50(6). 1981–1994. 8 indexed citations

Zhao, Jiaying, et al.. (2016). Cardiovascular mortality sex differentials in selected East Asian and Western populations. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 70(10). 983–989. 4 indexed citations

Windsor, Tim D., et al.. (2015). Structural and functional social network attributes moderate the association of self-rated health with mental health in midlife and older adults. International Psychogeriatrics. 28(1). 49–61. 39 indexed citations

Tickle, Leonie & Heather Booth. (2014). The Longevity Prospects of Australian Seniors: An Evaluation of Forecast Method and Outcome. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 8(2). 259–292. 10 indexed citations

Anstey, Kaarin J., Kim M. Kiely, Heather Booth, et al.. (2011). Indigenous Australians are under‐represented in longitudinal ageing studies. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 35(4). 331–336. 10 indexed citations

Booth, Heather. (2010). The Evolution of Epidemic Suicide on Guam: Context and Contagion. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 40(1). 1–13. 21 indexed citations

Anstey, Kaarin J., Julie Byles, Mary A. Luszcz, et al.. (2009). Cohort profile: The Dynamic Analyses to Optimize Ageing (DYNOPTA) project. International Journal of Epidemiology. 39(1). 44–51. 48 indexed citations

Booth, Heather. (2007). Serving teens through readers' advisory. 4 indexed citations

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Booth, Heather, Rob J. Hyndman, Leonie Tickle, & Piet de Jong. (2006). Lee-Carter mortality forecasting: a multi-country comparison of variants and extensions. Demographic Research. 15. 289–310. 180 indexed citations

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Booth, Heather. (2006). Demographic forecasting: 1980 to 2005 in review. International Journal of Forecasting. 22(3). 547–581. 229 indexed citations

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Booth, Heather, John H. Maindonald, & Len Smith. (2002). Applying Lee-Carter under conditions of variable mortality decline. Population Studies. 56(3). 325–336. 332 indexed citations

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Booth, Heather, John H. Maindonald, & Len Smith. (2001). Age-time interactions in mortality projection: Applying Lee-Carter to Australia. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 30 indexed citations

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Evans, Ann, et al.. (2000). Sociodemographic determinants of energy, fat and dietary fibre intake in Australian adults. Public Health Nutrition. 3(1). 67–75. 14 indexed citations

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Booth, Heather. (1999). Gender, power and social change: youth suicide among Fiji Indians and Western Samoans. Journal of the Polynesian Society. 108(1). 39–68. 15 indexed citations

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Booth, Heather. (1999). PACIFIC ISLAND SUICIDE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE. Journal of Biosocial Science. 31(4). 433–448. 47 indexed citations

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Booth, Heather. (1992). The migration process in Britain and West Germany : two demographic studies of migrant populations. Avebury eBooks. 6 indexed citations

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Booth, Heather. (1985). Which ‘Ethnic Question’? The Development of Questions Identifying Ethnic Origin in Official Statistics. The Sociological Review. 33(2). 254–274. 9 indexed citations

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Booth, Heather. (1984). Transforming Gompertz's Function for Fertility Analysis: The Development of a Standard for the Relational Gompertz Function. Population Studies. 38(3). 495–495. 9 indexed citations

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Booth, Heather, et al.. (1983). Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus aureus. Clinical Microbiology Newsletter. 5(21). 144–145. 3 indexed citations

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