Nicoletta Balbo

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 854 citations indexed

About

Nicoletta Balbo is a scholar working on Demography, Sociology and Political Science and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicoletta Balbo has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 854 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Demography, 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 11 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Nicoletta Balbo's work include Family Dynamics and Relationships (13 papers), Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (9 papers) and Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (8 papers). Nicoletta Balbo is often cited by papers focused on Family Dynamics and Relationships (13 papers), Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (9 papers) and Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (8 papers). Nicoletta Balbo collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Netherlands and Germany. Nicoletta Balbo's co-authors include Melinda Mills, Francesco C. Billari, Bruno Arpino, Nicola Barban, Valeria Bordone, Arnstein Aassve, Liesbet Heyse, Katya Ivanova, Rafael Wittek and Alessia Melegaro and has published in prestigious journals such as American Sociological Review, Population and Development Review and Demography.

In The Last Decade

Nicoletta Balbo

20 papers receiving 767 citations

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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.

Fertility in Advanced Societies: A Review of Research

2012 402 citations Nicoletta Balbo, Francesco C. Billari et al. European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicoletta Balbo Italy	10	540	424	355	117	111	21	854
Ann Evans Australia	16	484 0.9×	441 1.0×	342 1.0×	87 0.7×	101 0.9×	55	894
Alessandro Rosina Italy	18	589 1.1×	547 1.3×	342 1.0×	118 1.0×	209 1.9×	93	1.1k
Caroline Berghammer Austria	14	625 1.2×	617 1.5×	486 1.4×	65 0.6×	96 0.9×	32	918
Zsolt Spéder Hungary	12	677 1.3×	524 1.2×	480 1.4×	64 0.5×	91 0.8×	43	943
Yong Cai United States	12	381 0.7×	414 1.0×	506 1.4×	54 0.5×	89 0.8×	18	832
Edith Gray Australia	16	439 0.8×	342 0.8×	367 1.0×	50 0.4×	61 0.5×	52	745
Wendy Sigle‐Rushton United Kingdom	16	812 1.5×	859 2.0×	689 1.9×	87 0.7×	146 1.3×	39	1.3k
Johan Surkyn Belgium	11	763 1.4×	650 1.5×	569 1.6×	68 0.6×	191 1.7×	28	1.2k
Claudia Geist United States	17	258 0.5×	707 1.7×	431 1.2×	68 0.6×	197 1.8×	45	1.1k
Barbara S. Okun Israel	18	331 0.6×	341 0.8×	296 0.8×	54 0.5×	76 0.7×	33	698

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Ivanova, Katya & Nicoletta Balbo. (2024). Societal Pessimism and the Transition to Parenthood: A Future Too Bleak to Have Children?. Population and Development Review. 50(2). 323–342. 6 indexed citations

Ivanova, Katya, et al.. (2023). Repartnering of women in the United States: The interplay between motherhood and socio-economic status. Population Studies. 77(3). 399–416. 5 indexed citations

Balbo, Nicoletta, et al.. (2023). Child disability as a family issue: a study on mothers’ and fathers’ health in Italy. European Journal of Public Health. 34(1). 79–84. 2 indexed citations

Balbo, Nicoletta, et al.. (2023). Heterogeneity in parental time with children: trends by gender and education between 1961 and 2012 across 20 countries. European Sociological Review. 40(5). 786–801. 1 indexed citations

Trentini, Filippo, Nicoletta Balbo, Valentina Marziano, et al.. (2022). Investigating the relationship between interventions, contact patterns, and SARS-CoV-2 transmissibility. Epidemics. 40. 100601–100601. 13 indexed citations

Anelli, Massimo & Nicoletta Balbo. (2021). Fertility Drain or Fertility Gain? Emigration and Fertility During the Great Recession in Italy. Demography. 58(2). 631–654. 1 indexed citations

Meazzini, Maria Costanza, et al.. (2020). Comparison of the psychosocial impact on patients affected by cranio facial anomalies between traditional orthodontic brackets and aligners. International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health. 34(5). 357–365. 3 indexed citations

Balbo, Nicoletta, et al.. (2020). Trends in the use of mind-altering drugs among European adolescents during the Great Recession. Health Policy. 124(5). 568–574. 3 indexed citations

Balbo, Nicoletta, Ilya Kashnitsky, Alessia Melegaro, et al.. (2020). Demography and the Coronavirus Pandemic. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 6 indexed citations

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Ivanova, Katya & Nicoletta Balbo. (2019). Cementing the Stepfamily? Biological and Stepparents’ Relationship Satisfaction After the Birth of a Common Child in Stepfamilies. Journal of Family Issues. 40(10). 1346–1363. 7 indexed citations

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Arpino, Bruno, Valeria Bordone, & Nicoletta Balbo. (2018). Grandparenting, education and subjective well-being of older Europeans. European Journal of Ageing. 15(3). 251–263. 72 indexed citations

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Balbo, Nicoletta, et al.. (2017). Programa de cribado para el déficit De alfa 1-antitripsina en el servicio de neumonología del Hospital Tránsito Cáceres de Allende. Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México). 17(1). 38–45. 1 indexed citations

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Balbo, Nicoletta & Bruno Arpino. (2016). The Role of Family Orientations in Shaping the Effect of Fertility on Subjective Well-being: A Propensity Score Matching Approach. Demography. 53(4). 955–978. 48 indexed citations

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Aassve, Arnstein, Bruno Arpino, & Nicoletta Balbo. (2016). It Takes Two to Tango: Couples’ Happiness and Childbearing. European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie. 32(3). 339–354. 37 indexed citations

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Balbo, Nicoletta, et al.. (2015). The impact of humanitarian context conditions and individual characteristics on aid worker retention. Disasters. 39(3). 522–545. 42 indexed citations

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Balbo, Nicoletta & Nicola Barban. (2014). Does Fertility Behavior Spread among Friends?. American Sociological Review. 79(3). 412–431. 91 indexed citations

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Balbo, Nicoletta, Francesco C. Billari, & Melinda Mills. (2012). Fertility in Advanced Societies: A Review of Research. European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie. 29(1). 1–38. 402 indexed citations breakdown →

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Balbo, Nicoletta. (2012). Family, Friends and Fertility. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 13 indexed citations

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Balbo, Nicoletta. (2012). The influence of the family network on the realisation of fertility intentions. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research. 9. 179–206. 35 indexed citations

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Balbo, Nicoletta & Melinda Mills. (2011). The effects of social capital and social pressure on the intention to have a second or third child in France, Germany, and Bulgaria, 2004–05. Population Studies. 65(3). 335–351. 61 indexed citations

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