Samuel H. Preston

24.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
227 papers, 15.6k citations indexed

About

Samuel H. Preston is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Demography and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel H. Preston has authored 227 papers receiving a total of 15.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in General Health Professions, 83 papers in Demography and 57 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Samuel H. Preston's work include Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (70 papers), Global Health Care Issues (62 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (55 papers). Samuel H. Preston is often cited by papers focused on Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (70 papers), Global Health Care Issues (62 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (55 papers). Samuel H. Preston collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Samuel H. Preston's co-authors include R. J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray, Irma T. Elo, Andrew Stokes, Michel Guillot, Jacques Véron, Patrick Heuveline, Michael R. Haines, Linda G. Martin and Haidong Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

In The Last Decade

Samuel H. Preston

219 papers receiving 13.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life.

1995 2.5k citations Samuel H. Preston et al. Population and Development Review profile →
Demography, Measuring and Modeling Population Processes

2002 1.2k citations Samuel H. Preston et al. profile →
The Changing Relation between Mortality and level of Economic Development

1975 993 citations Samuel H. Preston Population Studies profile →
Educational differentials in mortality: United States, 1979–1985

1996 502 citations Irma T. Elo, Samuel H. Preston profile →
Effects of Early-Life Conditions on Adult Mortality: A Review

1992 418 citations Irma T. Elo, Samuel H. Preston profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Samuel H. Preston United States	58	6.0k	4.5k	4.2k	3.6k	2.0k	227	15.6k
Anne Case United States	42	3.5k 0.6×	2.4k 0.5×	1.1k 0.3×	3.0k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	79	12.4k
David Cutler United States	76	9.5k 1.6×	3.8k 0.8×	1.9k 0.5×	3.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	392	24.7k
John Bound United States	47	3.7k 0.6×	2.0k 0.4×	1.7k 0.4×	3.5k 1.0×	557 0.3×	119	14.2k
Kenneth C. Land United States	56	3.4k 0.6×	3.0k 0.7×	1.7k 0.4×	7.6k 2.1×	509 0.3×	227	15.7k
Arline T. Geronimus United States	49	4.0k 0.7×	3.5k 0.8×	1.0k 0.2×	3.5k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	97	10.5k
Janet Currie United States	59	4.8k 0.8×	2.0k 0.4×	855 0.2×	3.1k 0.8×	2.1k 1.1×	213	14.4k
James P. Smith United States	44	3.5k 0.6×	3.2k 0.7×	1.6k 0.4×	2.6k 0.7×	584 0.3×	218	11.1k
James S. House United States	62	10.9k 1.8×	9.3k 2.1×	2.4k 0.6×	6.7k 1.8×	695 0.3×	112	24.6k
John Mirowsky United States	60	5.7k 0.9×	6.0k 1.3×	1.7k 0.4×	5.7k 1.6×	508 0.3×	97	14.5k
Linda J. Waite United States	64	5.4k 0.9×	8.2k 1.8×	5.9k 1.4×	8.2k 2.3×	571 0.3×	196	22.1k

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Lundberg, Dielle J., Elizabeth Wrigley‐Field, Elaine O. Nsoesie, et al.. (2023). COVID-19 Mortality by Race and Ethnicity in US Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas, March 2020 to February 2022. JAMA Network Open. 6(5). e2311098–e2311098. 48 indexed citations

Elo, Irma T., et al.. (2023). COVID-19 and All-Cause Mortality by Race, Ethnicity, and Age Across Five Periods of the Pandemic in the United States. Population Research and Policy Review. 42(4). 10 indexed citations

Lundberg, Dielle J., et al.. (2022). County-level estimates of excess mortality associated with COVID-19 in the United States. SSM - Population Health. 17. 101021–101021. 26 indexed citations

Preston, Samuel H., et al.. (2021). The unequal burden of the Covid-19 pandemic: Capturing racial/ethnic disparities in US cause-specific mortality. SSM - Population Health. 17. 101012–101012. 47 indexed citations

Stokes, Andrew & Samuel H. Preston. (2016). How smoking affects the proportion of deaths attributable to obesity: assessing the role of relative risks and weight distributions. BMJ Open. 6(2). e009232–e009232. 13 indexed citations

Preston, Samuel H., Ezra Fishman, & Andrew Stokes. (2015). Effects of categorization and self-report bias on estimates of the association between obesity and mortality. Annals of Epidemiology. 25(12). 907–911.e2. 43 indexed citations

Preston, Samuel H. & Irma T. Elo. (2014). Anatomy of a Municipal Triumph: New York City's Upsurge in Life Expectancy. Population and Development Review. 40(1). 1–29. 23 indexed citations

Ho, Jessica Y. & Samuel H. Preston. (2010). US Mortality in an International Context: Age Variations. Population and Development Review. 36(4). 749–773. 51 indexed citations

Behrman, Jere R., et al.. (2009). Nutritional supplementation in girls influences the growth of their children: prospective study in Guatemala. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 90(5). 1372–1379. 134 indexed citations

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Preston, Samuel H., et al.. (1994). The Elderly and Their Kin: Patterns of Availability and Access. 72 indexed citations

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Preston, Samuel H.. (1991). Mean age and life expectancy at birth in stationary populations: Comment. Biodemography and Social Biology. 38(1-2). 154–154. 1 indexed citations

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Martin, Margaret E., Martin R. Frankel, Noreen Goldman, et al.. (1984). Report of the ASA Technical Panel on the Census Undercount. The American Statistician. 38(4). 252–256. 1 indexed citations

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Preston, Samuel H. & P. N. Mari Bhat. (1984). New Evidence on Fertility and Mortality Trends in India. Population and Development Review. 10(3). 481–481. 23 indexed citations

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Preston, Samuel H. & Neil G. Bennett. (1983). A census-based method for estimating adult mortality. Population Studies. 37(1). 91–104. 42 indexed citations

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Preston, Samuel H.. (1983). An integrated system for demographic estimation from two age distributions. Demography. 20(2). 213–226. 25 indexed citations

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Preston, Samuel H.. (1982). [Who Counts?]: Comment. The American Statistician. 36(3). 203–203. 1 indexed citations

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Preston, Samuel H.. (1980). 5. Causes and Consequences of Mortality Declines in Less Developed Countries during the Twentieth Century. NBER Chapters. 289–360. 145 indexed citations

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Preston, Samuel H., et al.. (1975). The influence of women’s work opportunities on marriage rates. Demography. 12(2). 209–222. 102 indexed citations

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Preston, Samuel H., Evelyn M. Kitagawa, & Philip M. Hauser. (1974). Differential Mortality in the United States: A Study in Socioeconomic Epidemiology.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 69(346). 574–574. 208 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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