Jessica Y. Ho

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Jessica Y. Ho is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, Jessica Y. Ho has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in General Health Professions, 15 papers in Health and 11 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in Jessica Y. Ho's work include Health disparities and outcomes (15 papers), Global Health Care Issues (14 papers) and Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (8 papers). Jessica Y. Ho is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (15 papers), Global Health Care Issues (14 papers) and Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (8 papers). Jessica Y. Ho collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Finland. Jessica Y. Ho's co-authors include J. Nemeskéri, Arun S. Hendi, Irma T. Elo, Samuel H. Preston, W. Grant Dahlstrom, E. Earl Baughman, Andrew Fenelon, Pekka Martikainen, Yana C. Vierboom and Nikkil Sudharsanan and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Cell Metabolism and BMJ.

In The Last Decade

Jessica Y. Ho

30 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

History of Human Life Span and Mortality

1971 765 citations Jessica Y. Ho et al. Population profile →
Recent trends in life expectancy across high income countries: retrospective observational study

2018 269 citations Jessica Y. Ho, Arun S. Hendi BMJ profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jessica Y. Ho United States	16	585	538	451	215	198	31	1.7k
Howard L. Bailit United States	34	459 0.8×	1.4k 2.6×	87 0.2×	35 0.2×	332 1.7×	145	3.4k
Corey Sparks United States	15	92 0.2×	160 0.3×	137 0.3×	23 0.1×	106 0.5×	50	741
Jason Last Ireland	19	290 0.5×	267 0.5×	130 0.3×	10 0.0×	114 0.6×	44	1.5k
Lorna J. Martin South Africa	18	50 0.1×	273 0.5×	478 1.1×	18 0.1×	50 0.3×	69	1.1k
Melissa A. Clark United States	16	43 0.1×	319 0.6×	112 0.2×	91 0.4×	86 0.4×	42	939
Sherry Saggers Australia	19	72 0.1×	551 1.0×	309 0.7×	16 0.1×	6 0.0×	73	1.4k
Zaneta M. Thayer United States	24	43 0.1×	252 0.5×	221 0.5×	23 0.1×	178 0.9×	68	1.7k
David Wilson United Kingdom	15	28 0.0×	191 0.4×	108 0.2×	78 0.4×	16 0.1×	51	1.1k
Tadeusz Bielicki Poland	20	31 0.1×	130 0.2×	138 0.3×	28 0.1×	124 0.6×	56	1.1k
David W. Lawson United States	25	14 0.0×	205 0.4×	115 0.3×	431 2.0×	67 0.3×	64	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Jessica Y. Ho

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jessica Y. Ho

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ho, Jessica Y., et al.. (2025). Dynamics and discrepancies in rural–urban village regeneration: A case study of a coastal community in Hong Kong SAR, China. 7(3). 4992–4992.

Ho, Jessica Y. & Arun S. Hendi. (2024). Inequalities in life expectancy and cardiometabolic disease mortality across and within high-income countries. Cell Metabolism. 36(2). 224–228. 3 indexed citations

Ho, Jessica Y., et al.. (2024). Life expectancy and geographic variation in mortality: an observational comparison study of six high-income Anglophone countries. BMJ Open. 14(7). e079365–e079365. 3 indexed citations

Ho, Jessica Y., Sicong Liu, Zeyu Feng, & Lawrence G. Appelbaum. (2023). Psychomotor and visual skills underlying position specialization in 1352 elite youth baseball players. PLoS ONE. 18(1). e0278689–e0278689. 4 indexed citations

Ho, Jessica Y.. (2023). Life Course Patterns of Prescription Drug Use in the United States. Demography. 60(5). 1549–1579. 3 indexed citations

Hendi, Arun S. & Jessica Y. Ho. (2022). Smoking and the widening inequality in life expectancy between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Frontiers in Public Health. 10. 942842–942842. 5 indexed citations

Ho, Jessica Y., et al.. (2022). The rising burden of Alzheimer's disease mortality in rural America. SSM - Population Health. 17. 101052–101052. 21 indexed citations

Hendi, Arun S. & Jessica Y. Ho. (2021). Immigration and improvements in American life expectancy. SSM - Population Health. 15. 100914–100914. 22 indexed citations

Ho, Jessica Y.. (2021). Causes of America’s Lagging Life Expectancy: An International Comparative Perspective. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 77(Supplement_2). S117–S126. 15 indexed citations

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Ho, Jessica Y.. (2020). Cycles of Gender Convergence and Divergence in Drug Overdose Mortality. Population and Development Review. 46(3). 443–470. 23 indexed citations

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Elo, Irma T., Arun S. Hendi, Jessica Y. Ho, Yana C. Vierboom, & Samuel H. Preston. (2019). Trends in Non‐Hispanic White Mortality in the United States by Metropolitan‐Nonmetropolitan Status and Region, 1990–2016. Population and Development Review. 45(3). 549–583. 55 indexed citations

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Ho, Jessica Y.. (2019). The Contemporary American Drug Overdose Epidemic in International Perspective. Population and Development Review. 45(1). 7–40. 56 indexed citations

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Ho, Jessica Y. & Arun S. Hendi. (2018). Recent trends in life expectancy across high income countries: retrospective observational study. BMJ. 362. k2562–k2562. 269 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ho, Jessica Y., et al.. (2017). Contribution of smoking-attributable mortality to life-expectancy differences by marital status among Finnish men and women, 1971-2010. Demographic Research. 36. 255–280. 5 indexed citations

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Ho, Jessica Y., et al.. (2016). Intra-arterial contrast-enhanced ultrasound (IA CEUS) for localization of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) supply during transarterial chemoembolization (TACE): a case series. Abdominal Radiology. 42(5). 1400–1407. 8 indexed citations

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Ho, Jessica Y.. (2015). Early-Life Environmental Exposures and Height, Hypertension, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Older Adults in India. Biodemography and Social Biology. 61(2). 121–146. 7 indexed citations

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Ho, Jessica Y.. (2013). Mortality Under Age 50 Accounts For Much Of The Fact That US Life Expectancy Lags That Of Other High-Income Countries. Health Affairs. 32(3). 459–467. 52 indexed citations

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Ho, Jessica Y. & Irma T. Elo. (2012). The Contribution of Smoking to Black-White Differences in U.S. Mortality. Demography. 50(2). 545–568. 75 indexed citations

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Ho, Jessica Y. & Samuel H. Preston. (2010). US Mortality in an International Context: Age Variations. Population and Development Review. 36(4). 749–773. 51 indexed citations

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Ho, Jessica Y., et al.. (1971). Mortality Decline and Its Demographic Effects in Latin America. Population. 26(2). 398–398. 20 indexed citations

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