Longitudinal and Life Course Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Longitudinal and Life Course Studies is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Response to commentaries by Andrew Jenkins and Peter Elias on ‘Social class and sex differences in higher-education attainment among adults in Scotland since the 1960s’25
Commentary on ‘Social class and sex differences in higher-education attainment among adults in Scotland since the 1960s’12
Commentary on ‘Social class and sex differences in higher-education attainment among adults in Scotland since the 1960s’10
Exploring the social power of Christmas: a prospective qualitative study of assigning meaning to Christmas along the life course7
Exploring the effects of socio-economic inequalities on health and disability in Northern Irish adolescents: evidence from a nationally representative longitudinal study7
The life course – not a straight line!7
Language skills in student essays: social disparities and later educational attainment6
Families, finances and status6
The many faces of education within life course studies, changing data collection methods, and a protocol for data linkage and model specification to more holistically improve health and well-being in 5
The early origins of socioeconomic inequalities in inflammation: a scoping review and recommendations for life course and longitudinal studies5
Health, social and economic implications of adolescent risk behaviours/states: protocol for Raine Study Gen2 cohort data linkage study5
Short- and long-distance home-leaving and home-returning: exploring the role of life course transitions5
Longitudinal association between social participation and trajectories of life satisfaction in late middle-aged Korean adults with physical disabilities4
The career history of Chinese entrepreneurs and their life outcomes: a life history study using sequence analysis4
Examining change in migration strategies over the life course of international PhD students4
Korean mothers’ career aspirations in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal qualitative study4
Normalising sequence lengths using the relative duration of episodes: an application to doctoral trajectories in Germany4
Life course trajectories of affective symptoms and their early life predictors4
Does youth matter? Long-term effects of youth characteristics on the diversity of partnership trajectories4
John Bynner obituary: to a pioneer of social research using comparative longitudinal data (28 April 1938 to 22 August 2023)3
Longitudinal studies and the social sciences – time to innovate or replicate? Reflections from Peter Elias, Section Editor for Social and Economic Sciences3
Our changing world3
The ‘lifeworld’ of health and disease and the design of public health interventions3
Social mobility, life course linkages and collecting information on our genes3
Pathways into childbearing delay of men and women in Australia3
Consistency of data collected through online life history calendars3
Studying social change in human lives: a conversation2
Determinants of participation in a longitudinal survey during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of a low-infection country2
Mediation of risk factors for high blood pressure in four racial and ethnic populations2
Living on the Edge: An American Generation’s Journey Through the Twentieth Century2
Non-employment, gender norms and the risk of couple separation in eastern and western Germany2
Social care in childhood and adult outcomes: double whammy for minority children?2
Social origins, tracking and occupational attainment in Italy2
Changes in the returns to education at entry into the labour market in West Germany2
Explaining disparities in cognitive functioning: a test of competing hypotheses2
SHARE Corona Surveys: study profile2
Work and fertility in Taiwan: how do women’s and men’s career sequences associate with fertility outcomes?2
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