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title: "Understanding Society / BHPS: papers using it"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 185 archived papers mentioned Understanding Society / BHPS in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (12)."
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 185 archived papers mentioned Understanding Society / BHPS in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (12). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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---

# Understanding Society / BHPS

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/6.md)

Household panels and surveys of Europe, Australia, Japan and Korea.

- data category: European and other national household panels
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Understanding Society survey, Understanding Society data, Understanding Society panel, UK Household Longitudinal Study, British Household Panel Survey, UKHLS, BHPS

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All European and other national household panels datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/european-and-other-national-household-panels.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 185 archived papers mentioned Understanding Society / BHPS in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (12).
- Understanding Society / BHPS was mentioned in 7 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #43 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Health Economics and Policy (4) and Economics (3).
- Most of them appeared in Social Science & Medicine (4), Resources Policy (1) and Labour Economics (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Understanding Society / BHPS was mentioned in 258 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (110), health economics and policy (88) and operations research (16).
- 51 of them were published in 2025, against 11 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (17), University of Essex (12) and University of York (11).
- The journals publishing most of them were Social Science & Medicine (20), European Economic Review (9) and Economics & Human Biology (8).
- The most-cited of them is “Working parents, financial insecurity, and childcare: mental health in the time of COVID-19 in the UK” (Review of Economics of the Household, 2021), with 234 citations.
- Papers use Understanding Society / BHPS most often with German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) (20), Eurostat (10) and PSID (10); it has 31 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

## Mentions over 36 months

*Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 59 | 52 | 74 | 185 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 7 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 29 | 23 | 32 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 18 | 10 | 13 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 2 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 11 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 66 | 51 | 64 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | 20 |
| 2 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [Economics & Human Biology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-human-biology.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [Transportation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [Review of Economics of the Household](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-economics-of-the-household.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [Journal for Labour Market Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-for-labour-market-research.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [Labour Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/labour-economics.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 4 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IZA - Institute of Labor Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/iza-institute-of-labor-economics.md) | 17 |
| 2 | [University of Essex](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-essex.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [University of York](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-york.md) | 11 |
| 4 | [London School of Economics and Political Science](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-economics-and-political-science.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [The University of Melbourne](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-melbourne.md) | 9 |
| 6 | Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung | 8 |
| 7 | [University of Oxford](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-oxford.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [University College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-london.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [University of Cambridge](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-cambridge.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [University of Leeds](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-leeds.md) | 6 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 102 |
| 2 | Germany | 41 |
| 3 | Australia | 26 |
| 4 | Spain | 22 |
| 5 | Italy | 22 |
| 6 | United States | 22 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 16 |
| 8 | Brazil | 8 |
| 9 | France | 8 |
| 10 | Ireland | 7 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [mental health](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mental-health.md) | 22 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 20 |
| 3 | UK Household Longitudinal Study | 18 |
| 4 | [gender differences](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/gender-differences.md) | 15 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 9 |
| 6 | life satisfaction | 8 |
| 7 | British Household Panel Survey | 7 |
| 8 | [cross-national comparison](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cross-national-comparison.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [educational attainment](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/educational-attainment.md) | 6 |
| 10 | informal care | 6 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 234 | 3.4 | [Working parents, financial insecurity, and childcare: mental health in the time of COVID-19 in the UK](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-020-09538-3) | [Review of Economics of the Household](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-economics-of-the-household.md) | 2021-01-12 | Zhiming Cheng, Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo R. Paloyo et al. |
| 2 | 110 | 1.0 | [The role of personality traits in green decision-making](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2017.06.012) | [Journal of Economic Psychology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-psychology.md) | 2017-06-30 | Ante Busic-Sontic, Natalia V. Czap, Franz Fuerst |
| 3 | 87 | 0.8 | [Does Work-life Balance Affect Pro-environmental Behaviour? Evidence for the UK Using Longitudinal Microdata](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.09.006) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 2017-09-20 | Patrícia C. Melo, Jiaqi Ge, Tony P. Craig et al. |
| 4 | 83 | 0.7 | [The Effects of Health Shocks on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from UK Panel Data](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-018-0985-z) | [The European Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-european-journal-of-health-economics.md) | 2017-01-01 | Otto Lenhart |
| 5 | 68 | 2.1 | [Are they coming for us? Industrial robots and the mental health of workers](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.104956) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2024-02-01 | Ana Lucia Abeliansky, Matthias Beulmann, Klaus Prettner A |

## Used together with

Papers use Understanding Society / BHPS most often with German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) (20), Eurostat (10) and PSID (10); it has 31 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

*What papers use Understanding Society / BHPS together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/german-socio-economic-panel-soep.md) | Dataset | 20 | 12.6 |
| [Eurostat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/eurostat.md) | Dataset | 10 | 1.3 |
| [PSID](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/psid.md) | Dataset | 10 | 9.3 |
| [HILDA](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/hilda.md) | Dataset | 8 | 12.1 |
| [International Energy Agency (IEA)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/international-energy-agency-iea.md) | Dataset | 8 | 1.6 |
| [Marketization index (Fan Gang)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/marketization-index-fan-gang.md) | Dataset | 6 | 1.6 |
| [S&P 500](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/s-p-500.md) | Dataset | 6 | 0.5 |
| [English Longitudinal Study of Ageing](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/english-longitudinal-study-of-ageing.md) | Dataset | 5 | 10.3 |
| [Gallup World Poll](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/gallup-world-poll.md) | Dataset | 5 | 3.6 |
| [Global Burden of Disease](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/global-burden-of-disease.md) | Dataset | 5 | 1.8 |
| [Labour Force Surveys](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/labour-force-surveys.md) | Dataset | 5 | 2.8 |
| [SHARE](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/share.md) | Dataset | 5 | 7.6 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Papers

*Papers mentioning Understanding Society / BHPS in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-28 | [Relevant disruptions in critical mineral supply chain sustainability: A systematic literature review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2026.106082) | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | Muhammad Irfan Kemal, Guilherme Luz Tortorella, Wen Li et al. | The University of Melbourne; Universidad de Jaén; Fundação Dom Cabral |
| 2026-10-16 | [Custody arrangements and the mental health of adolescents and their parents in the United Kingdom: A longitudinal analysis using understanding society](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119944) | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | Dawid Gondek, Laura Bernardi | University of Lausanne |
| 2026-10-14 | [The mediating effect of loneliness in the relationship between disability and health-related quality of life](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119931) | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | Nia Morrish, A. Medina-Lara | University of Exeter |
| 2026-10-13 | [Unemployment and mental health: Evidence of effect heterogeneity by social class in the UK](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119945) | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | Richard Carrere, Pieter‐Paul Verhaeghe, Eva Van Belle | Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Research Foundation - Flanders |
| 2026-10-10 | [Working-time patterns, job-related well-being, and turnover intentions among paid caregivers: a population-based longitudinal study](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119921) | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | Lambert Zixin Li, Xinyuan Xu | National University of Singapore; University of Chicago |
| 2026-10-07 | [Artificial intelligence technologies, skills demand and employment: Evidence from linked job ads](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2026.102974) | [Labour Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/labour-economics.md) | Lennert Peede, Michael Stops | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung |
| 2026-10-07 | [Redefining fuel poverty: Introducing the temporal equity framework (TEF)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115630) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | Torran Semple, J. Harvey, Grazziela Patrocinio Figueredo et al. | University of Oxford; University of Nottingham; Queen's Medical Centre |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Understanding Society / BHPS. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/understanding-society-bhps

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-understanding-society-bhps,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Understanding Society / BHPS},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/understanding-society-bhps}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).