Nathan Keyfitz

9.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
231 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Nathan Keyfitz is a scholar working on Demography, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan Keyfitz has authored 231 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Demography, 19 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 18 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Nathan Keyfitz's work include Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (45 papers), Global Health Care Issues (12 papers) and Economic Growth and Productivity (10 papers). Nathan Keyfitz is often cited by papers focused on Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (45 papers), Global Health Care Issues (12 papers) and Economic Growth and Productivity (10 papers). Nathan Keyfitz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and Canada. Nathan Keyfitz's co-authors include Samuel Goldberg, Hal Caswell, Wilhelm Flieger, Samuel H. Preston, Robert Schoen, William H. McNeill, Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Leo A. Goodman, Thomas W. Pullum and David E. Apter and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

In The Last Decade

Nathan Keyfitz

207 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

Introduction to the Mathematics of Population. 1970 2026 1988 2007 1970 200 400 600

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nathan Keyfitz United States 36 2.0k 1.3k 1.2k 954 645 231 5.6k
Ansley J. Coale United States 46 3.4k 1.7× 1.7k 1.3× 1.9k 1.6× 1.6k 1.7× 574 0.9× 137 7.8k
Jacob S. Siegel United States 19 1.2k 0.6× 964 0.7× 938 0.8× 442 0.5× 240 0.4× 39 3.3k
William M. Mason United States 22 499 0.2× 553 0.4× 918 0.8× 451 0.5× 213 0.3× 46 3.0k
Daniel Courgeau France 21 572 0.3× 566 0.4× 1.1k 0.9× 499 0.5× 218 0.3× 123 3.5k
Ronald Lee United States 54 5.3k 2.6× 4.8k 3.6× 1.5k 1.2× 2.9k 3.0× 1.2k 1.9× 274 11.3k
Fred C. Pampel United States 47 953 0.5× 2.1k 1.6× 2.0k 1.7× 740 0.8× 113 0.2× 141 7.1k
Robert W. Fogel United States 31 734 0.4× 874 0.7× 1.2k 1.0× 2.3k 2.4× 84 0.1× 101 5.0k
Ronald R. Rindfuss United States 50 4.3k 2.1× 1.4k 1.0× 4.2k 3.5× 591 0.6× 233 0.4× 152 9.7k
Douglas L. Miller United States 24 881 0.4× 1.7k 1.3× 2.2k 1.8× 3.9k 4.1× 275 0.4× 78 11.0k
Alexia Prskawetz Austria 35 1.5k 0.7× 658 0.5× 1.2k 1.0× 1.1k 1.2× 272 0.4× 150 3.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nathan Keyfitz

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nathan Keyfitz

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Keyfitz, Nathan. (2005). L'exode rural dans la province de Québec,1951-1961. Recherches sociographiques. 3(3). 303–315.
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Keyfitz, Barbara Lee & Nathan Keyfitz. (1997). The McKendrick partial differential equation and its uses in epidemiology and population study. Mathematical and Computer Modelling. 26(6). 1–9. 85 indexed citations
3.
Keyfitz, Nathan. (1994). Influence of Human Reproduction on Environmenta. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 709(1). 331–346. 1 indexed citations
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Keyfitz, Nathan. (1991). Population and Development within the Ecosphere: One View of the Literature. PubMed. 57(1). 5–5. 52 indexed citations
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Keyfitz, Nathan. (1989). Decomposition and reassembly of the age-time distribution. 49. 22. 1 indexed citations
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Keyfitz, Nathan. (1988). A Markov Chain for calculating the durability of marriage. Mathematical Population Studies. 1(1). 101–121. 9 indexed citations
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Keyfitz, Nathan. (1987). Five billion people. 13(1). 1 indexed citations
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Keyfitz, Nathan & Alfred Sauvy. (1983). How Machines Prevent Unemployment. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 12(1). 24–24. 1 indexed citations
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Keyfitz, Nathan. (1980). What Direction of Research?. American Journal of Public Health. 70(11). 1201–1201. 1 indexed citations
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Keyfitz, Nathan. (1979). Information and Allocation: Two Uses of the 1980 Censes. The American Statistician. 33(2). 45–50. 14 indexed citations
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Keyfitz, Nathan. (1979). Introducción a las matemáticas de población. DIGITAL REPOSITORY Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (United Nations). 1 indexed citations
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Keyfitz, Nathan. (1978). The Impending Crisis in American Graduate Schools.. ˜The œPublic interest. 6 indexed citations
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Goodman, Leo A., Nathan Keyfitz, & Thomas W. Pullum. (1975). La formación de la familia y la frecuencia con que se dan diversas relaciones de parentesco. DIGITAL REPOSITORY Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (United Nations). 2 indexed citations
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Keyfitz, Nathan, Samuel H. Preston, & Robert Schoen. (1972). Inferring probabilities from rates: Extension to multiple decrement. Scandinavian Actuarial Journal. 1972(1). 1–13. 16 indexed citations
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Keyfitz, Nathan. (1972). On Future Population. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 67(338). 347–363. 132 indexed citations
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Keyfitz, Nathan. (1971). Linkages of Intrinsic to Age-Specific Rates. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 66(334). 275–281. 44 indexed citations
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Keyfitz, Nathan, et al.. (1968). World Population Growth and Aging. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 3 indexed citations
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Keyfitz, Nathan. (1966). How many people have lived on the earth?. Demography. 3(2). 581–582. 9 indexed citations
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Keyfitz, Nathan, et al.. (1955). Soal penduduk dan pembangunan Indonesia. 4 indexed citations
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Keyfitz, Nathan. (1953). The Population of Indonesia. Economics and Finance in Indonesia. 641–653. 5 indexed citations

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