George Charles Alter
Research Professor Emeritus of Population Studies Center, Research Professor Emeritus of Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research and Professor Emeritus of History, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
BIO
Dr. Alter’s research interests lie in the history of the family, demography, and economic history. Recent work explores demographic responses to economic hardship in Europe and East Asia, and the effects of childhood experiences on health in old age.
- Kees Mandemakers, George Charles Alter, Hélène Vézina, Paul Puschmann. 2023. Sowing: The Construction of Historical Longitudinal Population Databases.
- Alter, George Charles, Bengtsson, Tommy . 2019. Early-Life Conditions and Old-Age Mortality in a Comparative Perspective: Nineteenth Century Sweden and Belgium. Old and New Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting :335-349.
- Alter, George Charles. 2019. The Evolution of Models in Historical Demography. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 50(3):325-362.
- Alter, George Charles, Song, Jie , Jagadish, H V. 2019. C2Metadata: Automating the Capture of Data Transformations from Statistical Scripts in Data Documentation. the 2019 International Conference :2005-2008.
- Alter, George Charles, Chen, Xiaoling , Gururaj, Anupama E, Ozyurt, Burak , Liu, Ruiling , Soysal, Ergin , Cohen, Trevor , Tiryaki, Firat , Li, Yueling , Zong, Nansu , Jiang, Min , Rogith, Deevakar , Salimi, Mandana , Kim, Hyeon-eui , Rocca-Serra, Philippe , Gonzalez-Beltran, Alejandra , Farcas, Claudiu , Johnson, Todd , Margolis, Ron , Sansone, Susanna-Assunta , Fore, Ian M, Ohno-Machado, Lucila , Grethe, Jeffrey S, Xu, Hua . 2018. DataMed - an open source discovery index for finding biomedical datasets. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 25(3):300-308.
- Alter, George Charles, Gonzalez, Richard D. 2018. Responsible practices for data sharing.. American Psychologist 73(2):146-156.
- Alter, George Charles, Ohno-Machado, Lucila , Sansone, Susanna-Assunta , Fore, Ian , Grethe, Jeffrey , Xu, Hua , Gonzalez-Beltran, Alejandra , Rocca-Serra, Philippe , Gururaj, Anupama E, Bell, Elizabeth , Soysal, Ergin , Zong, Nansu , Kim, Hyeon-eui . 2017. Finding useful data across multiple biomedical data repositories using DataMed. Nature Genetics 49(6):816-819.
- Alter, George Charles, Merchant, Emily Klancher. 2017. IDS Transposer: A Users Guide. Historical Life Course Studies 4:59-96.
- Alter, George Charles, Lyle, Jared Alan, Sansone, Susanna-Assunta , Gonzalez-Beltran, Alejandra , Rocca-Serra, Philippe , Grethe, Jeffrey S, Xu, Hua , Fore, Ian M, Gururaj, Anupama E, Chen, Xiaoling , Kim, Hyeon-eui , Zong, Nansu , Li, Yueling , Liu, Ruiling , Ozyurt, I Burak, Ohno-Machado, Lucila . 2017. DATS, the data tag suite to enable discoverability of datasets. Scientific Data 4
- Alter, George Charles, Lupia, Arthur, Nosek, B A, Banks, G C, Borsboom, D , Bowman, S D, Breckler, S J, Buck, S , Chambers, C D, Chin, G , Christensen, G , Contestabile, M , Dafoe, A , Eich, E , Freese, J , Glennerster, R , Goroff, D , Green, D P, Hesse, B , Humphreys, M , Ishiyama, J , Karlan, D , Kraut, A , Mabry, P , Madon, T , Malhotra, N , Mayo-Wilson, E , McNutt, M , Miguel, E , Paluck, E Levy, Simonsohn, U , Soderberg, C , Spellman, B A, Turitto, J , VandenBos, G , Vazire, S , Wagenmakers, E J, Wilson, R , Yarkoni, T . 2015. Promoting an open research culture. Science 348(6242):1422-1425.