Steven Ruggles

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
124 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Steven Ruggles is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Demography and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven Ruggles has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 32 papers in Demography and 32 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Steven Ruggles's work include Census and Population Estimation (32 papers), Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (25 papers) and demographic modeling and climate adaptation (25 papers). Steven Ruggles is often cited by papers focused on Census and Population Estimation (32 papers), Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (25 papers) and demographic modeling and climate adaptation (25 papers). Steven Ruggles collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Steven Ruggles's co-authors include Sheela Kennedy, Catherine A Fitch, Misty L. Heggeness, Matthew Sobek, Michael R. Haines, Miriam King, Evan Roberts, Robert McCaa, Kenneth C. W. Kammeyer and Russell R. Menard and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Steven Ruggles

117 papers receiving 2.9k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Steven Ruggles United States	29	2.0k	1.3k	987	632	400	124	3.3k
Jan M. Hoem Germany	32	1.5k 0.8×	2.3k 1.7×	1.5k 1.5×	214 0.3×	502 1.3×	90	3.2k
Jay D. Teachman United States	38	2.9k 1.5×	2.2k 1.7×	1.7k 1.8×	318 0.5×	766 1.9×	123	5.1k
Kerwin Kofi Charles United States	27	1.5k 0.8×	608 0.5×	521 0.5×	1.5k 2.3×	768 1.9×	56	3.3k
Seymour Spilerman United States	24	1.6k 0.8×	331 0.2×	352 0.4×	717 1.1×	366 0.9×	54	2.8k
Glenn Firebaugh United States	34	3.1k 1.6×	550 0.4×	383 0.4×	1.2k 1.9×	1.0k 2.6×	77	5.3k
Hans-Peter Blossfeld Germany	25	1.6k 0.8×	918 0.7×	821 0.8×	512 0.8×	496 1.2×	53	2.8k
John Komlos Germany	34	812 0.4×	408 0.3×	267 0.3×	1.9k 3.1×	476 1.2×	185	3.6k
Christopher Blattman United States	20	2.4k 1.2×	614 0.5×	414 0.4×	616 1.0×	413 1.0×	57	3.9k
Cecilia Elena Rouse United States	35	1.5k 0.8×	463 0.3×	801 0.8×	1.6k 2.5×	292 0.7×	85	5.3k
Stephen L. Morgan United States	18	1.5k 0.8×	272 0.2×	332 0.3×	631 1.0×	400 1.0×	39	3.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ruggles, Steven, et al.. (2026). ‘I don’t trust you’: American Response to US Census Bureau Privacy and Disclosure Control, 1960–1970. Social Science History. 1–20.

Muralidhar, Krishnamurty, Josep Domingo‐Ferrer, David Sánchez, & Steven Ruggles. (2025). Protecting Vulnerable Respondents: A Critical Analysis of the Privacy-Preserving Methods of the 2010 and 2020 Decennial Census. Population Research and Policy Review. 44(1). 1 indexed citations

Hacker, J. David, et al.. (2025). New data sources for research on the nineteenth-century United States: IPUMS full count datasets of the censuses of population 1850–1880. Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. 58(4). 199–213. 1 indexed citations

Ruggles, Steven, Catherine A Fitch, J. David Hacker, et al.. (2025). The IPUMS multigenerational longitudinal panel: progress and prospects. Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. 58(4). 258–271. 2 indexed citations

Ruggles, Steven. (2025). The shortcomings of synthetic census microdata. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(11). e2424655122–e2424655122. 1 indexed citations

Ruggles, Steven. (2023). Collaborations between IPUMS and genealogical organizations, 1999-2022. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13. 1–8. 15 indexed citations

Ruggles, Steven. (2022). Race, class, and marriage: Components of race differences in men’s first marriage rates, United States, 1960–2019. Demographic Research. 46. 1163–1186. 4 indexed citations

Ruggles, Steven, et al.. (2019). The History of Quantification in History: The JIH as a Case Study. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 50(3). 363–381. 2 indexed citations

Ruggles, Steven, et al.. (2011). Frozen Film and FOSDIC Forms: Restoring the 1960 U.S. Census of Population and Housing. Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. 44(2). 69–78. 8 indexed citations

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Sobek, Matthew, et al.. (2011). Big Data: Large-Scale Historical Infrastructure from the Minnesota Population Center. Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. 44(2). 61–68. 25 indexed citations

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Riper, David Van, et al.. (2011). Harmonizing Disparate Data across Time and Place: The Integrated Spatio-Temporal Aggregate Data Series. Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. 44(2). 79–85. 6 indexed citations

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Ruggles, Steven. (2011). Intergenerational Coresidence and Family Transitions in the United States, 1850-1880. Journal of Marriage and the Family. 73(1). 136–148. 26 indexed citations

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McCaa, Robert, et al.. (2010). IPUMS-International Statistical Disclosure Controls: 159 Census Microdata Samples in Dissemination, 100+ in Preparation. Lecture notes in computer science. 6344. 74–84. 3 indexed citations

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Ruggles, Steven. (2010). Stem Families and Joint Families in Comparative Historical Perspective. Population and Development Review. 36(3). 563–577. 52 indexed citations

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Johnson, Pamela Jo, Lynn A. Blewett, Steven Ruggles, Michael E. Davern, & Miriam King. (2008). Four Decades of Population Health Data. Epidemiology. 19(6). 872–875. 25 indexed citations

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McCaa, Robert, Steven Ruggles, Michael Davern, Tami Swenson, & Krishna Palipudi. (2006). IPUMS-International High Precision Population Census Microdata Samples: Balancing the Privacy-Quality Tradeoff by Means of Restricted Access Extracts. Lecture notes in computer science. 4302. 375–382. 9 indexed citations

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Ruggles, Steven, et al.. (2004). Restless in the midst of their prosperity. Journal of American History. 91(3). 4 indexed citations

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Ruggles, Steven. (2003). Multigenerational families in nineteenth-century America. Continuity and Change. 18(1). 139–165. 53 indexed citations

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McCaa, Robert & Steven Ruggles. (2002). The Census in Global Perspective and the Coming Microdata Revolution. Poultry Science. 13(8). 7–30. 13 indexed citations

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Ruggles, Steven. (1999). The limitations of English family reconstitution: English population history from family reconstitution 1580–1837. Continuity and Change. 14(1). 105–130. 27 indexed citations

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