Patrick Gerland

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Patrick Gerland is a scholar working on Demography, General Health Professions and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Gerland has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Demography, 22 papers in General Health Professions and 13 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Patrick Gerland's work include Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (24 papers), Global Health Care Issues (21 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (13 papers). Patrick Gerland is often cited by papers focused on Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (24 papers), Global Health Care Issues (21 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (13 papers). Patrick Gerland collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Singapore. Patrick Gerland's co-authors include Adrian E. Raftery, Leontine Alkema, Hana Ševčíková, Nan Li, G.K. Heilig, Jennifer Chunn, Thomas Buettner, John R. Wilmoth, Thomas Spoorenberg and Danan Gu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Gerland

46 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

World population stabilization unlikely this century

2014 921 citations Patrick Gerland, Adrian E. Raftery et al. profile →
Global, regional, and national levels and trends in under-5 mortality between 1990 and 2015, with scenario-based projections to 2030: a systematic analysis by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation

2015 535 citations Danzhen You, Lucia Hug et al. The Lancet profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Patrick Gerland	789	682	667	326	253	49	2.7k
John R. Wilmoth	1.5k 1.9×	530 0.8×	1.4k 2.1×	102 0.3×	201 0.8×	44	3.5k
Barney Cohen	808 1.0×	717 1.1×	282 0.4×	402 1.2×	543 2.1×	82	4.2k
Allan G. Hill	548 0.7×	768 1.1×	181 0.3×	515 1.6×	257 1.0×	107	3.1k
Blessing Mberu	912 1.2×	700 1.0×	153 0.2×	767 2.4×	418 1.7×	97	3.5k
Olivier Deschênes	848 1.1×	268 0.4×	311 0.5×	134 0.4×	2.1k 8.3×	71	6.4k
Un. Population Division	454 0.6×	162 0.2×	358 0.5×	55 0.2×	247 1.0×	17	1.9k
Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa	1.3k 1.6×	288 0.4×	202 0.3×	788 2.4×	294 1.2×	254	6.1k
Alan Barreca	399 0.5×	211 0.3×	150 0.2×	85 0.3×	556 2.2×	28	2.0k
Karen Witten	738 0.9×	236 0.3×	234 0.4×	132 0.4×	241 1.0×	141	6.2k
Robert Hecht	835 1.1×	679 1.0×	66 0.1×	248 0.8×	697 2.8×	94	3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Patrick Gerland

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Fields of papers citing papers by Patrick Gerland

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Gerland

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gerland, Patrick. (2023). What's Beneath the Future: World Population Prospects. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository.

Alam, Nurul, Daniel J. Erchick, Patrick Gerland, et al.. (2022). Divergent age patterns of under-5 mortality in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: a modelling study. The Lancet Global Health. 10(11). e1566–e1574. 8 indexed citations

Chao, Fengqing, Patrick Gerland, Alex R. Cook, Christophe Z. Guilmoto, & Leontine Alkema. (2021). Projecting sex imbalances at birth at global, regional, and national levels from 2021 to 2100: scenario-based Bayesian probabilistic projections of the sex ratio at birth and missing female births. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics.

Masquelier, Bruno, Lucia Hug, David Sharrow, et al.. (2021). Global, regional, and national mortality trends in youth aged 15–24 years between 1990 and 2019: a systematic analysis. The Lancet Global Health. 9(4). e409–e417. 25 indexed citations

Chao, Fengqing, Patrick Gerland, Alex R. Cook, & Leontine Alkema. (2019). Systematic assessment of the sex ratio at birth for all countries and estimation of national imbalances and regional reference levels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(19). 9303–9311. 112 indexed citations

Sanderson, Warren C., Sergei Scherbov, & Patrick Gerland. (2017). Probabilistic population aging. PLoS ONE. 12(6). e0179171–e0179171. 35 indexed citations

Masquelier, Bruno, et al.. (2017). Age patterns and sex ratios of adult mortality in countries with high HIV prevalence. AIDS. 31(Supplement 1). S77–S85. 12 indexed citations

Ram, Usha, Prabhat Jha, Patrick Gerland, et al.. (2015). Age-specific and sex-specific adult mortality risk in India in 2014: analysis of 0·27 million nationally surveyed deaths and demographic estimates from 597 districts. The Lancet Global Health. 3(12). e767–e775. 43 indexed citations

You, Danzhen, Lucia Hug, Daniel Hogan, et al.. (2015). Global, regional, and national levels and trends in under-5 mortality between 1990 and 2015, with scenario-based projections to 2030: a systematic analysis by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. The Lancet. 386(10010). 2275–2286. 535 indexed citations breakdown →

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Raftery, Adrian E., et al.. (2014). Joint probabilistic projection of female and male life expectancy. Demographic Research. 30. 795–822. 51 indexed citations

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Raftery, Adrian E., Leontine Alkema, & Patrick Gerland. (2014). Bayesian Population Projections for the United Nations. Statistical Science. 29(1). 58–68. 64 indexed citations

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Wheldon, Mark C., Adrian E. Raftery, Samuel J. Clark, & Patrick Gerland. (2013). Reconstructing Past Populations With Uncertainty From Fragmentary\nData. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 31 indexed citations

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Guillot, Michel, et al.. (2012). Child Mortality Estimation: A Global Overview of Infant and Child Mortality Age Patterns in Light of New Empirical Data. PLoS Medicine. 9(8). e1001299–e1001299. 40 indexed citations

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Wheldon, Mark C., Adrian E. Raftery, Samuel J. Clark, & Patrick Gerland. (2012). Reconstructing Past Populations With Uncertainty From Fragmentary Data. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 108(501). 96–110. 1 indexed citations

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Alkema, Leontine, Adrian E. Raftery, Patrick Gerland, Samuel J. Clark, & F. Le Pelletier. (2012). Estimating trends in the total fertility rate with uncertainty using imperfect data. Demographic Research. 26(15). 331–362. 27 indexed citations

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Dionne, Kim Yi, Patrick Gerland, & Susan Watkins. (2011). AIDS Exceptionalism: Another Constituency Heard From. AIDS and Behavior. 17(3). 825–831. 16 indexed citations

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Gerland, Patrick, Dominic Groß, Horst Schulte, & Andreas Kroll. (2010). Design of sliding mode observers for TS fuzzy systems with application to disturbance and actuator fault estimation. 4373–4378. 22 indexed citations

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Bongaarts, John, et al.. (2010). How many more AIDS deaths?. The Lancet. 375(9709). 103–104. 4 indexed citations

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Brown, Timothy A., Bao Li, Adrian E. Raftery, et al.. (2010). Modelling HIV epidemics in the antiretroviral era: the UNAIDS Estimation and Projection package 2009. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 86(Suppl 2). ii3–ii10. 67 indexed citations

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Weinreb, Alexander, et al.. (2008). Hotspots and Coldspots: Household and village-level variation in orphanhood prevalence in rural Malawi. Demographic Research. 19(32). 1217–1248. 14 indexed citations

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