John Hobcraft

4.4k total citations
59 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

John Hobcraft is a scholar working on Demography, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John Hobcraft has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Demography, 17 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in John Hobcraft's work include Global Maternal and Child Health (13 papers), Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (11 papers) and Family Dynamics and Relationships (10 papers). John Hobcraft is often cited by papers focused on Global Maternal and Child Health (13 papers), Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (11 papers) and Family Dynamics and Relationships (10 papers). John Hobcraft collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Iran. John Hobcraft's co-authors include John W. McDonald, Shea O. Rutstein, Kathleen Kiernan, Samuel H. Preston, Jane Menken, Shea Rutstein, Irwin Garfinkel, Jeanne Brooks‐Gunn, Colter Mitchell and Sara McLanahan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and American Journal of Public Health.

In The Last Decade

John Hobcraft

55 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Hobcraft United Kingdom 24 1.1k 824 784 761 714 59 2.9k
Minja Kim Choe United States 26 857 0.8× 912 1.1× 453 0.6× 1.2k 1.6× 919 1.3× 84 2.5k
David Lam United States 27 387 0.4× 582 0.7× 476 0.6× 819 1.1× 1.1k 1.5× 76 2.7k
Judith Blake United States 24 575 0.5× 1.2k 1.4× 361 0.5× 1.3k 1.8× 1.4k 1.9× 48 3.3k
Caroline Bledsoe United States 26 458 0.4× 467 0.6× 417 0.5× 694 0.9× 959 1.3× 63 2.3k
Barbara Miller United States 20 450 0.4× 220 0.3× 270 0.3× 717 0.9× 553 0.8× 52 1.8k
Rodrigo Pinto United States 14 536 0.5× 165 0.2× 550 0.7× 286 0.4× 817 1.1× 42 3.6k
Hope Corman United States 27 482 0.5× 197 0.2× 853 1.1× 352 0.5× 948 1.3× 94 2.5k
Tim B. Heaton United States 34 246 0.2× 1.4k 1.7× 430 0.5× 866 1.1× 2.1k 2.9× 121 3.5k
Ronald Freedman United States 33 831 0.8× 1.4k 1.7× 406 0.5× 1.7k 2.2× 953 1.3× 125 3.2k
Kathleen Kiernan United Kingdom 39 533 0.5× 2.2k 2.7× 841 1.1× 1.3k 1.7× 2.7k 3.9× 89 5.3k

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All Works

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Hobcraft, John. (2008). The timing and partnership context of becoming a parent: Cohort and gender commonalities and differences in childhood antecedents. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations
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Mensah, Fiona & John Hobcraft. (2008). Childhood deprivation, health and development: associations with adult health in the 1958 and 1970 British prospective birth cohort studies. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 62(7). 599–606. 49 indexed citations
3.
Hobcraft, John. (2008). Genomics and Beyond: Improving Understanding and Analysis of Human (Social, Economic, and Demographic) Behavior. 1 indexed citations
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Hobcraft, John & Wendy Sigle-Rushton. (2005). An Exploration of Childhood Antecedents of Female Adult Malaise in Two British Birth Cohorts: Combining Bayesian Model Averaging and Recursive Partitioning. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 3 indexed citations
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Hobcraft, John, Darcy Hango, & Wendy Sigle-Rushton. (2004). Family and childhood origins of adult socioeconomic disadvantage: a cross-cohort comparison. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 1 indexed citations
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Hobcraft, John. (2003). Continuity and Change in Pathways to Young Adult Disadvantage: Results from a British Birth Cohort. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 8 indexed citations
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Hobcraft, John. (2000). The Roles of Schooling and Educational Qualifications in the Emergence of Adult Social Exclusion. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 10 indexed citations
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Hobcraft, John. (1998). Intergenerational and Life-Course Transmission of Social Exclusion: Influences and Childhood Poverty, Family Disruption and Contact with the Police. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 12 indexed citations
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Hobcraft, John. (1996). Fertility in England and Wales: A Fifty-Year Perspective. Population Studies. 50(3). 485–524. 51 indexed citations
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Hobcraft, John. (1994). Why Can't Demographers and Physiologists Agree?. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 709(1). 408–415. 3 indexed citations
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Ryder, Norman B., John Cleland, & John Hobcraft. (1986). Reproductive Change in Developing Countries: Insights from the World Fertility Survey.. Population and Development Review. 12(2). 341–341. 137 indexed citations
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Hobcraft, John & Roderick J. A. Little. (1984). Fertility exposure analysis: A new method for assessing the contribution of proximate determinants to fertility differentials. Population Studies. 38(1). 21–45. 50 indexed citations
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Hobcraft, John, John W. McDonald, & Shea O. Rutstein. (1984). Socio-economic factors in Infant and child mortality: A cross-national comparison. Population Studies. 38(2). 193–223. 264 indexed citations
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Hobcraft, John & John B. Casterline. (1983). Speed of reproduction. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 8 indexed citations
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Hobcraft, John, Noreen Goldman, & Vijay Chidambaram. (1982). Advances in theP/Fratio method for the analysis of birth histories. Population Studies. 36(2). 291–316. 15 indexed citations
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Hobcraft, John & Germán Rodrı́guez. (1982). The Dominican Republic--Trends from Two Fertility Surveys. International Family Planning Perspectives. 8(2). 57–57. 1 indexed citations
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Rodrı́guez, Germán & John Hobcraft. (1980). Life table analysis of birth intervals in Colombia : illustrative analysis. 5 indexed citations
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Hobcraft, John. (1980). Illustrative analysis : evaluating fertility levels and trends in Colombia. 3 indexed citations
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Hollingsworth, T. H., N. H. Carrier, & John Hobcraft. (1972). Demographic Estimation for Developing Societies. A Manual of Techniques for the Detection and Reduction of Errors in Demographic Data.. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General). 135(4). 614–614. 4 indexed citations

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