Boro, B. and Saikia, N. (2020). A qualitative study of the barriers to utilizing health-care services among the tribal population in Assam. Plosone. Publisher: Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0240096
Baruah S., Saikia. N. and Sk, R. (2020). Spatial Pattern and determinants of diagnosed Diabetes in Southern India: Evidence from a population-based survey. Journal of Biosocial Science Publisher: Cambridge University press. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932020000449
Saikia, N. and Debbarma, B. (2019). The socioeconomic correlates of substance use among male adults in Northeast India. Clinical Epidemiology and global health. Publisher: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2019.06.004
Chisumpa VH, Odimegwu, CO and Saikia N. (2019). Adult mortality in sub‐Saharan Africa: Cross‐sectional study of causes of death in Zambia. Tropical Medicine and International Health DOI:1111/tmi.13302.
Diamond-Smith, N., Saikia, N., Bishai, B., and Canudas-Romo, V., (2019).What has contributed to improvements in the child sex ratio in select districts of India? A decomposition of the sex ratio at birth and child mortality. Journal of biosocial science. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932019000221
Saikia, N., Moradhvaj, Saha, A. and Chutia, U. (2019). Actual and ideal fertility differential among natives, immigrants, and descendants of immigrants in a northeastern state of India. Population, Space, and Place. Publisher: Wiley. https://onlinelibrary. wiley.com/doi/epdf/ 10.1002/psp.2238. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2238
Moradhvaj and Saikia, N. (2019). Gender Disparities in Health-care Expenditure and Financing Strategies (HCFS) for In-patient Care in India. SSM-Population Health. Publisher: Elsevier. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827318302787
Saikia, N., Bora, J. & Luy, M. (2019). Socioeconomic disparity in adult mortality in India: estimations using orphanhood method. Genus. Volume 75 Number 7 Publisher: Springer Open: https://rdcu.be/bjW6W
Saikia, N., Sehgal, S., Bora, J. & Dimondsmith. N. (2018). Experiences of neonatal deaths among Urban poor in metropolitan delhi: Commination, poor quality, And overwhelmed system. Journal of Social Inclusion Studies. Volume03, Number 1&2. Publisher: Sage: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2394481120170101
Parmer, M. and Saikia. N. (2018). Chronic Morbidity and Reported Disability among Older Persons from the India Human Development Survey. BMC Geriatrics Publisher:BMC part of Springer Nature. https://bmcgeriatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12877-018-0979-9
Bora, J. and Saikia, N. (2018). Neonatal and under-five mortality rate in Indian districts with reference to Sustainable Development Goal 3: An analysis of the National Family Health Survey of India (NFHS), 2015–2016. LoS ONE: Publisher: Public Library of Science: PLoS ONE 13(7): e0201125. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0201125 http://journals.plos.org/ plosone/article/authors?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201125
Guilmoto, C.Z., Saikia, N., Tamrakar, V. and Bora, J.K. (2018). Excess under-5 female mortality across India:a spatial analysis using 2011 census data. Lancet Global Health: Publisher:Elsevier https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30184-0 https://www.thelancet. com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(18)30184-0/fulltext
Saikia, N., Bora, J. K. Jasilionis, D and Shkolnikov, (2016). Disability Divide in India: Evidence from 2011 Census. PLoS ONE: Publisher: Public Library of Science: PLoS ONE 11(8): e0159809. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0159809 Publisher: Public Library of Science.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4973875/
Saikia, N., Moradhvaj and Bora, J.K. (2016). Gender Difference in Health-Care Expenditure: Evidence from India Human Development Survey. PLoS ONE 11(7): e0158332. doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0158332, Publisher: Public Library of Science. http://www.ncbi. nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4938214/
Saikia, N. and Kulkarni, P.M. (2016). On data availability for health inequality research in India Economic and political weekly. Vol LI Nos 26 & 27. http://www.epw.in /journal/2016/26-27/notes/data-research-health-inequality-india.html
Saikia N and Bora, J.K. (2016). Does increasing longevity lead increasing disability? Evidence from the Indian States. Social Change and Development Vol XIII. Publisher: OKD Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati. http://www.okd.in/downloads/jr_16_july/article-3.pdf
Saikia, N., Shkolnikov, V., Jasilionis, D., and Chandrasekhar (2016) Trends and sub-national disparities in neonatal mortality in India from 1981 to 2011. Asian Population Studies, Vol 12 (1) Publisher: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group.http://www.tandfonline .com/doi/pdf /10.1080/17441730.2015.1130325
Canudas-Romo, V. Saikia, N., and Diamond-Smith, N. (2015). The contribution of age-specific mortality towards male and female life expectancy differentials in India and selected States, 1970-2013. Asia-Pacific Population Journal, Vol 30, Number 2 Publisher: United Nations ESCAP.https://www.popline.org/node/654601
Bora, J.K. and Saikia N. (2015). Gender differentials in Self-rated Health and Self-reported disability among adults in India. PLoS ONE 10(11): e0141953. doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0141953, Publisher: Public Library of Science.http://www.ncbi.nlm. nih.gov/pubmed /26536133
Husain, Z., Saikia, N., and Bora, R.S. (2014). “Health Mission: Lost Opportunities in Uttarakhand” Journal of the National Human Rights Commission India, 13.
Saikia, N., Singh, A., Jasilionis, D. and Ram, F. (2013). “Explaining the trends in the rural-urban gap in infant mortality in India” Demographic Research 29(18):473-506, Publisher: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol29/18/default.htm
Saikia, N.,Singh, A. and Ram, F.(2013). “Adult male mortality in India since independence: An application of widowhood method” Asian Population Studies). DOI:10.1080/17441730.2013.785720;Publisher: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group.http:// www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17441730.2013.785720?needAccess=true
Saikia, N., Jasilionis, D., Ram, F. and Shkolnikov, V. (2011) “Trends and geographic differentials in mortality under age 60 in India” Population Studies 65(1):73-89. DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2010.534642; Publisher: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21240833
Saikia, N., Singh, A. and Ram, F. (2010) “Has child mortality in India really increased in last two decades? Economic and Political Weekly” Vol.XLV, 51.http://www.epw.in/ system/files/pdf/2010_45/51/Has_Child_Mortality_in_India_Really_Increased_i n_the_Last_ Two_Decades.pdf
Saikia, N. and Ram, F. (2010) “Determinants of adult mortality in India” Asian Population Studies 6(2). Publisher: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group http://www.tandfonline.com /doi/pdf/10.1080/17441730.2010.494441?needAccess=true
Saikia, N. and Singh, A. (2009) “Does the type of family affect maternal health? Evidence from India” Journal of Bio-social Sciences 41(3):329-353.Publisher: Cambridge University Press. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2ece/463397868492798d0ef3382a1cc2a537b6c8.pdf
Saikia, N. and Bhat, P.N. Mari (2008) “Factors Affecting Adult Mortality in India: An Analysis of National Family Health Surveys of 1992-1993 & 1998-1999 (NFHS I and II) ” Demography India 37 (2):291-302. Publisher: Indian Association for Study of Population.http://citeseerx.ist .psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=705498ABD72E4326127C7A6D8FB92E42?doi=10.1.1.610.3814&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Ram, F. Singh, A. and Saikia N. (2010). Comment on Paper entitled “Mortality Transition in India 1970-2005” by Aalok Ranjan Chaurasia published online in Asian Population Studies” Asian Population Studies 6(1): 347 – 351 Publisher: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group.http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17441730.2010.512765
Chapters in edited books (Peer Reviewed)
Saikia, N., Saha, A., Bora, J.K. and Joe, W. (2020). “Immigration and Bengali population in Assam: Evidence from Direct and Indirect Demographic Estimation”in Population Dynamics in Eastern India and Bangladesh, Springer Publication, by Chattopadhyay, Aparajita, Ghosh, Saswata (Eds.)
Saikia, N., Trends in Mortality Differentials in India (2016) in “Contemporary Demographic Transformations in China, India and Indonesia”, Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development 5, ed. by Christophe Z Guilmoto and Gavin Jones, Publisher: Springer.http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319247816
Saikia, N., Bora, J.K. and Ram, F. (2013). Who Gets Education in Uttarakhand? In Population, Health and Development: Perspectives on Uttarakhand, Eds.T.V. Sekher, A.Singh and S. Parasuraman, Academic Foundation, New Delhi.
Working/Occasional papers
Saikia N. and Moradhvaj (2020). Socioeconomic patterns and determinants of adult mortality due to external-causes in india: analysis of nationally-representative, population-based survey data. Working paper Vienna Institute of Demography. 04/2020 available at: https:// www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Institute/VID/PDF/Publications/Working_Papers/WP2 02 0_04.pdf
Bora, J.K., Saikia, N. and Lutz, W. (2019). Revisiting the causes of fertility decline in Bangladesh: Family planning program or female education. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-19-011 http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/ eprint/16200/?fbclid=IwAR 2HfxjbfDm9LHEw-J_bd1YeDoturtH6Y1PQOtv9rJEXgNF_aviCOimcflM
Chisumpa, V.S., Odimegwu, C.O. and Saikia N. (2019). Mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: What is killing adults aged 15-59 years in Zambia?. Vienna Institute of demography working paper, 04/2019.WP2019_04
Saikia N. and Kulkarni P. M. (2017). Tracking SDGs on Health and Nutrition Metrics: India Needs Data Revolution. Observer Research Foundation Occasional Paper (prepared for NITI Ayog, Government of India). http://www.orfonline.org/research/an-assessment-of-indias-readiness-for-tracking-sdg-targets-on-health-and-nutrition/
Saikia N, Saha, A, Bora, J.K., and Joe, W. (2016). IMMIGRATION FROM BANGLADESH TO ASSAM Working paper no 91. ISSN 0976-271X published by IMDS project, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, JNU, New Delhi.
Hussain, Z. Saikia, N., and Bora R.S. (2012). Opportunities and challenges of the health management information system in India: a case study of Uttarakhand. MPRA Paper No. 40014, posted 11. July 2012 13:57 UTC https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/40014 /1/MPRA_ paper_40014.pdf
Canudas-Romo, V., and Saikia, N. (2013). “The gender gap in life expectancy in India 1970-2006” working paper no 322, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. http://www.iegindia.org /upload/publication/Workpap/wp322.pdf
Saikia, N., Jasilionis, D., Ram, F., and Shkolnikov, V. (2010). “Estimates of mortality under age 60 in India and its states, 1970-2004” MPIDR Technical Report TR-2010-006, Rostock: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. http://www.demogr.mpg. de/papers/ technicalreports/tr-2010-006.pdf
Saikia, N., Jasilionis, D., Ram, F., and Shkolnikov, V. (2009). “Trends in geographic mortality differentials in India”. A working paper in Max Planck Institute of Demographic Research, Germany WP-2009-13. http://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working/wp-2009-013.pdf
Policy Brief
Hussain, Z. Saikia N., and Bora R.S. (2013). Challenges in HMIS in India: A case study of Udham Singh Nagar Uttarakhand. Policy Brief Institute of Economic Growth; 1/2013. http://162.144.90.128/IEGIndia/upload/pdf/IEGpolicybriefNo1.pdf
Pre-prints
Srivastava, A., Tamrakar, V., Moradhvaj, M., Akhtar, S. N., Kumar, K., Saini, T. C., … & Saikia, N. (2020). Geographical Variation in COVID-19 Cases, Prevalence, Recovery, and Fatality Rate by Phase of National Lockdown in India, March 14-May 29, 2020. medRxiv. . Available at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.04.20122028v1
N. Saikia and Tamrakar (2020). Trend and the pattern in excess female under-5 mortality in India, 1987-1993—2010-2016
Tamrakar, V., Srivastava, A., Parmar, M., Shukla, S.K., Shabnam, S., Bodo, B., Saha., A., Debbarma, B., and Saikia, N. (2020). District level correlates of COVID-19 Pandemic in India doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.08.20208447