John C. Caldwell

15.1k citations
204 papers · 9.7k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 50

Impact in

  • Gender Studies top 0.02%
    • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
    • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
    • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Papers in

    • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences 40
    • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics 13
    • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare 27

John C. Caldwell

194 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

The Cultural Context of High Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa 1987 · 499 citations
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John C. Caldwell
Comparison fields: 5 of 167
  • Gender Studies 3.5k
  • Safety Research 1.7k
  • Demography 2.4k
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 2.7k
  • General Health Professions 2.8k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside John C. Caldwell, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 200241
2 200117
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The impact of the African AIDS epidemic
199738
4 19975
5 19961
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The cultural social and attitudinal context of male sexual behaviour in urban south-west Nigeria.
199516
7
A note on suspect practices during the AIDS epidemic: vaginal drying and scarification in southwest Nigeria
199516
8
Intervention strategies suggested by the Nigerian segment of the SAREC program on sexual networking, STDs and AIDS
19951
9
How is greater maternal education translated into lower child mortality
199468
10
Sexual Networking and HIV/AIDS in West Africa
199314
11 199389
12
Old and new factors in health transitions
199211
13
The impact of family and budget structure on health treatment in Nigeria.
199125
14 1983217
15
Methods of Population and Family Planning Research: Problems in Their Application in Africa
19712
16
The population of Tropical Africa : [proceedings of the First African Population Conference sponsored by the University of Ibadan in co-operation with the Population Council and held at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 3-7 Jan 1966]
19682
17
Communism in our world
19620
18
Let's visit Indonesia
19600
19
Let's visit West Africa
19600
20
Children of calamity
19571

About John C. Caldwell

John C. Caldwell is a scholar working on Gender Studies, Safety Research, Demography, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and General Health Professions, having authored 204 papers that have together received 9.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Global Maternal and Child Health (48 papers), Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (40 papers), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (27 papers), Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (26 papers), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (25 papers), HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses (23 papers), Global Health Care Issues (18 papers) and Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Gender Studies (3.5k citations), Safety Research (1.7k citations), Demography (2.4k citations), Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (2.7k citations) and General Health Professions (2.8k citations). John C. Caldwell has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, Nigeria and France. Frequent co-authors include Pat Caldwell, Tanja Schultz, I. O. Orubuloye, P. H. Reddy, Pat Quiggin, Bruce Caldwell, J. Richard Udry, Tim Dyson, Gavin W. Jones and Robert M. Douglas. Their work appears in journals such as Population Studies, Population and Development Review, Studies in Family Planning, Social Science & Medicine and Population Research and Policy Review.

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