BMJ Global Health

Papers
(The median citation count of BMJ Global Health is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
How well do coverage surveys and programmatically reported mass drug administration coverage match? Results from 214 mass drug administration campaigns in 15 countries, 2008–2017631
Health is a bridge for peace: let us make use of it626
Incidence, long-term predictors and progression of chronic kidney disease among African migrants and non-migrants: the transcontinental population-based prospective RODAM cohort study260
Emergent patterns in global health diplomacy: a network analysis of the resolutions adopted by the World Health Assembly from 1948 to 2022211
Alcohol restrictions and suicide rates in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic: results of a natural experiment167
A meta-core outcome set for stillbirth prevention and bereavement care following stillbirth in LMIC163
Build on HIV investments for future pandemic preparedness150
Vaccine equity in COVID-19: a meta-narrative review140
Cost-effectiveness of community health systems strengthening: quality improvement interventions at community level to realise maternal and child health gains in Kenya135
Understanding resilience, self-reliance and increasing country voice: a clash of ideologies in global health120
Evidence of the effectiveness of travel-related measures during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: a rapid systematic review119
Trends of breastfeeding indicators in Brazil from 1996 to 2019 and the gaps to achieve the WHO/UNICEF 2030 targets108
Respectful care an added extra: a grounded theory study exploring intrapartum experiences in Zambia and Tanzania107
Diverse and competing interests around tobacco: qualitative analysis of two decades of parliamentary questions in India107
How to identify epistemic injustice in global health research funding practices: a decolonial guide102
Questioning the ethics of evidence-based practice for Indigenous health and social settings in Australia98
Simplified models to assess newborn gestational age in low-middle income countries: findings from a multicountry, prospective cohort study98
Contact tracing in the context of COVID-19: a case study from Oman97
Occupational health hazards of bidi workers and their families in India: a scoping review96
The downstream effects of COVID-19 on adolescent girls in the Peruvian Amazon: qualitative findings on how the pandemic affected education and reproductive health95
COVID-19 vaccine trials with children: ethics pointers94
Recommendations for developing effective and safe paediatric and congenital heart disease services in low-income and middle-income countries: a public health framework91
Is spurious penicillin allergy a major public health concern only in high-income countries?90
Aspirations and realities of intergovernmental collaboration in national- level interventions: insights from maternal, neonatal and child health policy processes in Nigeria, 2009–201990
Following the science? Views from scientists on government advisory boards during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative interview study in five European countries87
Challenges in maintaining medicine quality while aiming for universal health coverage: a qualitative analysis from Indonesia84
Useful or not? The discussion of traditional Chinese medicine to treat COVID-19 on a Chinese social networking site81
Do various types of prelacteal feeding (PLF) have different associations with breastfeeding duration in Indonesia? A cross-sectional study using Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey datasets80
Understanding the extent of economic evidence usage for informing policy decisions in the context of India’s national health insurance scheme: Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana (PM-JAY78
Monkeypox: balancing response and future preparedness during a global public health emergency78
Innovations in cost-effectiveness analysis that advance equity can expand its use in health policy78
Cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis infection prevention and control interventions in South African clinics: a model-based economic evaluation informed by complexity science methods77
Universal health coverage: the roof has been leaking for far too long76
Beyond HIV prevalence: identifying people living with HIV within underserved areas in South Africa74
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence and mortality of zoonotic diseases in China69
Rethinking trust in the context of mistreatment of women during childbirth: a neglected focus68
The Effect of Adolescent Pregnancy on Child Mortality in 46 Low- and Middle-Income Countries65
A cluster-randomised controlled equivalence trial of the Surprise Soap handwashing intervention among older children living in a refugee settlement in Sudan63
Value for money of medicine sampling and quality testing: evidence from Indonesia61
Rethinking bottled water in public health discourse61
In search of a ‘good number’: knowledge controversy and population estimates in the endgame of hepatitis C elimination60
Reframing the Three Delays framework: factors influencing referrals to facilities by matrones in rural Haiti60
Governance factors that affect the implementation of health financing reforms in Tanzania: an exploratory study of stakeholders’ perspectives60
Monkeypox and the legacy of prejudice in targeted public health campaigns60
The potential impact of novel tuberculosis vaccines on health equity and financial protection in low-income and middle-income countries59
The quality of antiretroviral medicines: an uncertain problem57
The international diffusion of food innovations and the nutrition transition: retrospective longitudinal evidence from country-level data, 1970–201057
Mpox (monkeypox) risk and mortality associated with HIV infection: a national case–control study in Nigeria56
Evaluating primary care networks in low-income and lower middle-income countries: a scoping review56
Long-term retention and positive deviant practices in Uganda’s community client-led antiretroviral distribution groups (CCLADs): a mixed-methods study56
Using routine health data to evaluate the impact of indoor residual spraying on malaria transmission in Madagascar55
Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries54
An exploration of stakeholder views and perceptions on taxing tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages in Ghana54
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care among adolescent girls: a qualitative evidence synthesis53
World TB day: a new opportunity to reimagine workplace health52
Cocreated regional research agenda for evidence-informed policy and advocacy to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights in sub-Saharan Africa52
A guide to systems-level, participatory, theory-informed implementation research in global health51
Strategies used by the soft drink industry to grow and sustain sales: a case-study of The Coca-Cola Company in East Asia51
Under-five malnutrition among Palestine refugee children living in camps in Jordan: a mixed-methods study51
Authorship inequalities in global health research: the IeDEA Southern Africa collaboration49
Assessing vaccine introduction and uptake timelines in Gavi-supported countries: are introduction timelines accelerating across vaccine delivery platforms?49
Mapping regional funding for COVID-19 research in the Asia-Pacific region48
Misguided charity: the bane of global health48
Effectiveness of return-of-service schemes for human resources for health retention: a retrospective cohort study of four Southern African countries47
Third party monitoring for health in Afghanistan: the good, the bad and the ugly47
Public health use of HIV phylogenetic data in sub-Saharan Africa: ethical issues46
Assessing the health benefits of development interventions46
Dissent and the right to protest in context of global health46
Innovations to maximise impact of a data for decision-making training programme in the Federated States of Micronesia46
Policy networks and competing interests in the development of the Mexican sugar-sweetened beverages tax45
Whose voice counts? Achieving better outcomes in global sexual and reproductive health and rights research44
Making health insurance responsive to citizens: the management of members’ complaints by mutual health organisations in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo43
The COVID-19 pandemic death toll in India: can we know better?42
Health systems resilience and preparedness: critical displacements and disruption42
Making food-related health taxes palatable in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Ghana41
Snakebites and COVID-19: two crises, one research and development opportunity41
Implementing maternal and newborn health quality of care standards in healthcare facilities to improve the adoption of respectful maternity care in Bangladesh, Ghana and Tanzania: a controlled before 41
Utilisation, out-of-pocket payments and access before and after COVID-19: Thailand’s Universal Health Coverage Scheme40
Multimethod evaluation of health services integration for neglected tropical diseases requiring case management in Liberia40
Lessons from the development process of the Afghanistan integrated package of essential health services40
Comparing observed occurrence of mistreatment during childbirth with women’s self-report: a validation study in Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria40
Authors’ reply to ‘assessments of the performance of pandemic preparedness measures must properly account for national income’39
Effect of peer-distributed HIV self-test kits on demand for biomedical HIV prevention in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a three-armed cluster-randomised trial comparing social networks versus dire39
Essential public health functions are not enough: fostering linkages between functions through National Public Health Institutes improves public health impact39
Implementing care for healthy ageing39
Creating health by building peace38
Institutional mistrust and child vaccination coverage in Africa38
Ethical considerations of phone-based interviews from three studies of COVID-19 impact in Bihar, India37
Durability of effects from short-term economic incentives for clinic attendance among HIV positive adults in Tanzania: long-term follow-up of a randomised controlled trial37
‘Staying alive’ with antiretroviral therapy: a grounded theory study of people living with HIV in Peru36
Media bias exposure and the incidence of COVID-19 in the USA36
Antibiotic use for acute respiratory infections among under-5 children in Bangladesh: a population-based survey36
COVID-19 vaccination implementation in 52 African countries: trajectory and implications for future pandemic preparedness35
COVID-19 raises a health and human rights imperative to advance a UN Convention on the Rights of Older Persons35
Benefiting the NHS through innovation: how to ensure international health partnerships are genuinely reciprocal35
Reductions in under-5 mortality and public health improvements of the China Healthy Cities (Counties) initiative: a nationwide quasi-experimental study34
Conflicts of interest are harming maternal and child health: time for scientific journals to end relationships with manufacturers of breast-milk substitutes34
Identifying kidney trade networks using web scraping data34
Annual cost savings of US$70 million with similar outcomes: vaccine procurement experience from Iraq34
Aligning the principles and practice of research integrity and research fairness in global health: a mixed-methods study33
Lessons for the HIV response from structural innovations catalysed by COVID-1933
Overlooking the Canadian Indigenous demographic data: a response to Mallardet al's call for data on COVID-19 and Indigenous populations33
Towards comprehensive clinical trials for new tuberculosis drug regimens: policy recommendations from a stakeholder analysis33
Influenza vaccination may have only minimum or no effect on COVID-19 in the aged population33
Landscape of official development assistance for nutrition data and information systems33
Prevalence and associations of COVID-19 testing in an online sample of transgender and non-binary individuals33
Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries: response33
Building confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine in a polio-endemic country: strategic communication lessons from Pakistan32
Health journal coverage of climate change and health: a bibliometric study32
Teaching spirituality to humanitarians32
Increased utilisation and quality: a focus on inequality and a learning health system approach—explaining Nepal’s success in reducing maternal and newborn mortality 2000–202032
ART initiations following community-based distribution of HIV self-tests: meta-analysis and meta-regression of STAR Initiative data32
If we build it, will they come? Results of a quasi-experimental study assessing the impact of maternity waiting homes on facility-based childbirth and maternity care in Zambia32
Transferable data exclusivity vouchers are not the solution to the antimicrobial drug development crisis: a commentary on the proposed EU pharma regulation32
National public health institutes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Insights from experts in the field32
Understanding complexities in the uptake of indigenously developed rapid point-of-care diagnostics for containment of antimicrobial resistance in India32
Relative efficiency of demand creation strategies to increase voluntary medical male circumcision uptake: a study conducted as part of a randomised controlled trial in Zimbabwe32
Mitigating donor interests in the case of COVID-19 vaccine: the implication of COVAX and DAC membership31
The cost of inaction on health equity and its social determinants31
A model-based approach to estimating the prevalence of disease combinations in South Africa31
The role of the private sector in delivering essential packages of health services: lessons from country experiences31
How to better engage the private sector in health service delivery in Africa31
Learning from COVID-19 to prevent and prepare for pandemics in the Eastern Mediterranean Region31
Approaches to improving the efficiency of HIV programme investments31
Patient–physician communication on herbal medicine use during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis30
Mentorship as an overlooked dimension of research capacity strengthening: how to embed value-driven practices in global health30
A hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of application-based tiered care (Mom’s Good Mood) in treating perinatal anxiety within a primary health care system in China30
Using the multiple streams model to elicit an initial programme theory: from policy dialogues to a roadmap for scaling up integrated care30
Institutional leadership afterDobbs: a mixed methods analysis of US medical schools' public statements regarding abortion30
Evaluation of the use of modelling in resource allocation decisions for HIV and TB30
Problematic problem diagnostics: why digital health interventions for community health workers do not always achieve their desired impact30
Ten lessons learnt: scaling and transitioning one of the largest mobile health communication programmes in the world to a national government29
Factors associated with the disbursements of development assistance for health in low-income and middle-income countries, 2002–201729
No time for business as usual: can systems thinking help us to accelerate recovery for early child development?29
Humane shelter at home: a call to reimagine a core pandemic intervention29
Beyond simple disclosure: addressing concerns about industry influence on public health29
How far are we? National preparedness and response capacities for emerging infectious disease outbreaks in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region29
The absurdity of research registration for community-oriented knowledge coproduction29
Monitoring and evaluating the implementation of essential packages of health services29
Data-driven decision-making for district health management: a cluster-randomised study in 24 districts of Ethiopia28
Building implementable packages for universal health coverage28
Influences of community engagement and health system strengthening for cholera control in cholera reporting countries28
Public health emergency operation centres: status, gaps and areas for improvement in the Eastern Mediterranean Region28
Safeguarding HIV prevention and care services amidst military conflict: experiences from Ukraine28
Reimagining human rights in global health: what will it take?28
How to use heat-stable carbetocin and tranexamic acid for the prevention and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage in low-resource settings28
Development and implementation of the maternal and child health Handbook in Angola28
Longitudinal functional status trajectories and its predictors among postpartum women with and without maternal morbidities in Northwest Ethiopia: a group based multi-trajectory modelling28
Human-centred design bolsters vaccine confidence in the Philippines: results of a randomised controlled trial28
How can we better integrate the prevention, treatment, control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases with other health interventions? A systematic review28
Hospital care for critical illness in low-resource settings: lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic27
‘They treat us like machines’: migrant workers’ conceptual framework of labour exploitation for health research and policy27
Interventions to address antimicrobial resistance: an ethical analysis of key tensions and how they apply in low- income and middle-income countries27
Recognising the elephant in the room: the commercial determinants of health27
Intimate partner violence against women and child maltreatment in a Brazilian birth cohort study: co-occurrence and shared risk factors27
Crowdfunding for health research: a qualitative evidence synthesis and a pilot programme27
Trend, regional variation and socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular disease among the elderly population in China: evidence from a nationwide longitudinal study during 2011–201827
Anticipating the future: prognostic tools as a complementary strategy to improve care for patients with febrile illnesses in resource-limited settings27
Levels and determinants of overprescribing of antibiotics in the public and private primary care sectors in South Africa27
Strengthening evidence to inform health systems: opportunities for the WHO and partners to accelerate progress on non-communicable diseases27
Ask the people: developing guidelines for genomic research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples27
SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in Sierra Leone, March 2021: a cross-sectional, nationally representative, age-stratified serosurvey27
Gender equality and the gender gap in life expectancy in the European Union27
Codevelopment of COVID-19 infection prevention and control guidelines in lower-middle-income countries: the ‘SPRINT’ principles26
Overriding drug and medical technology patents for pandemic recovery: a legitimate move for high-income countries, too26
Policing is a threat to public health and human rights26
Research within international non-governmental organisation programmes in low and middle-income countries: challenges amid opportunities26
Geographical and temporal variation in reduction of malaria infection among children under 5 years of age throughout Nigeria26
Climate cardiology26
Women’s report of mistreatment during facility-based childbirth: validity and reliability of community survey measures26
Unequal burden of COVID-19 in Hungary: a geographical and socioeconomic analysis of the second wave of the pandemic26
Four decades of epidemiological data reveal trajectories towards malaria elimination in Kheda district (Gujarat), western part of India26
Compact for care: how the Affordable Care Act marketplaces fell short for a vulnerable population in Hawaii26
Where are the missing people affected by tuberculosis? A programme review of patient-pathway and cascade of care to optimise tuberculosis case-finding, treatment and prevention in Cambodia25
Convergence of HIV and non-communicable disease epidemics: geospatial mapping of the unmet health needs in an HIV hyperendemic community in South Africa25
Mitigating gender-based violence risk in the context of COVID-19: lessons from humanitarian crises25
Revisiting health systems to integrate perinatal mental health into maternal and child health services: perspectives from research, policy and implementation25
A scoping review of paediatric latent tuberculosis infection care cascades: initial steps are lacking25
Scent dogs in detection of COVID-19: triple-blinded randomised trial and operational real-life screening in airport setting25
Smart investment in global childcare requires local solutions and a coordinated research agenda25
A household-based community health worker programme for non-communicable disease, malnutrition, tuberculosis, HIV and maternal health: a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial in Neno Distr25
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and response on the utilisation of health services in public facilities during the first wave in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo25
Inequities in the deployment of COVID-19 vaccine in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, 2020–202125
Israeli necropolitics and the pursuit of health justice in Palestine25
Net Zero is not enough: ratcheting ambition for sustainable health systems through Reduce and Support25
Driving digital transformation of comprehensive primary health services at scale in India: an enterprise architecture framework25
Estimation of country-specific tuberculosis resistance antibiograms using pathogen genomics and machine learning24
Building up a genomic surveillance platform for SARS-CoV-2 in the middle of a pandemic: a true North–South collaboration24
Overview of attacks against civilian infrastructure during the Syrian civil war, 2012–201824
Drivers of antibiotic use in Vietnam: implications for designing community interventions24
Approaching the SDG targets with sustained political commitment: drivers of the notable decline in maternal and neonatal mortality in Morocco24
Toward a more systematic understanding of water insecurity coping strategies: insights from 11 global sites24
Self-management of iron and folic acid supplementation during pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and postnatal periods: a systematic review24
Adolescent birth rates and the urban social environment in 363 Latin American cities24
Reimagining global health systems for the 21st century: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic24
Urgent support mechanism: saving millions of COVID-19 vaccines from expiry in Africa24
Mere rhetoric? Using solidarity as a moral guide for deliberations on border closures, border reopenings and travel restrictions in the age of COVID-1924
Reducing surgical site infections and mortality among obstetric surgical patients in Tanzania: a pre-evaluation and postevaluation of a multicomponent safe surgery intervention23
Exploring the availability of specialist health workforce education in East and Southern Africa: a document analysis23
Cost-effectiveness and sustainability of improved hospital oxygen systems in Nigeria23
Guidance on sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian and fragile settings: a scoping review23
A narrative review of high-level isolation unit operational and infrastructure features23
Use of traditional medicine and control of hypertension in 12 African countries23
Effect of home-based childcare on childhood mortality in rural Maharashtra, India: a cluster randomised controlled trial23
Taking stock of global commitments on antimicrobial resistance23
The use of network meta-analysis in updating WHO living maternal and perinatal health recommendations23
Spatial patterns and inequalities in skilled birth attendance and caesarean delivery in sub-Saharan Africa23
Mapping global trends in vaccine sales before and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional time-series analysis23
Comparison of community-led distribution of HIV self-tests kits with distribution by paid distributors: a cluster randomised trial in rural Zimbabwean communities23
Guideline for feedback of individual genetic research findings for genomics research in Africa22
COVID-19 caused significant declines in regular vitamin A supplementation for young children in 2020: what is next?22
Qualified, skilled or trained delivery care provider: a conundrum of who, where and when22
Colonisation and its aftermath: reimagining global surgery22
WHO’s support for COVID-19 research and knowledge management in the Eastern Mediterranean Region22
The impact of childhood malnutrition on mortality from pneumonia: a systematic review and network meta-analysis22
Performance management in complex adaptive systems: a conceptual framework for health systems22
Global Dietary Database 2017: data availability and gaps on 54 major foods, beverages and nutrients among 5.6 million children and adults from 1220 surveys worldwide22
Understanding why and how youth-friendly health services improve viral load suppression among adolescents and young people living with HIV in Nigeria: realist evaluation with qualitative comparative a22
Core outcome sets for trials of interventions to prevent and to treat multimorbidity in adults in low and middle-income countries: the COSMOS study22
Overcoming challenges across the HIV care continuum in the Asia-Pacific region: expert recommendations22
The cost of public health interventions to respond to the 10th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo22
Health insurance coverage in low-income and middle-income countries: progress made to date and related changes in private and public health expenditure22
Rethinking public health campaigns in the COVID-19 era: a call to improve effectiveness, equity and impact22
Mitigating the effects of COVID-19 on HIV treatment and care in Lusaka, Zambia: a before–after cohort study using mixed effects regression22
Understanding maternity care providers’ use of data in Southern Tanzania22
What works in global health partnerships? Reflections on a collaboration between researchers from Vietnam and Northern Ireland21
How are health workers paid and does it matter? Conceptualising the potential implications of digitising health worker payments21
Past, present and future of living systematic review: a bibliometrics analysis21
Breaking the silence on gendered harassment and assault of community health workers: an analysis of ethnographic studies21
Impact of seasonal malaria chemoprevention on prevalence of malaria infection in malaria indicator surveys in Burkina Faso and Nigeria21
Transforming global health: decoloniality and the human condition21
Sudan virus disease outbreak in Uganda: urgent research gaps21
‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a rapid qualitative study21
Health literacy development is central to the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases21
Aetiology and incidence of diarrhoea requiring hospitalisation in children under 5 years of age in 28 low-income and middle-income countries: findings from the Global Pediatric Diarrhea Surveillance n21
The impact of care environment on the mental health of orphaned, separated and street-connected children and adolescents in western Kenya: a prospective cohort analysis20
Climate change and malaria, dengue and cholera outbreaks in Africa: a call for concerted actions20
ViSHWaS: Violence Study of Healthcare Workers and Systems—a global survey20
Designathons in health research: a global systematic review20
A participatory modelling approach for investigating the spread of COVID-19 in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region to support public health decision-making20
Ethical considerations in international clinical trial site selection20
Strengthening health systems through surgery20
Caught between violence: Mpox virus and the perils of neglect in Africa20
How do tobacco control policies work in low-income and middle-income countries? A realist synthesis20
Maintaining non-communicable disease (NCD) services during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from Thailand20
A framework for managing health research capacity strengthening consortia: addressing tensions and enhancing capacity outcomes20
Establishing cost-effectiveness threshold in China: a community survey of willingness to pay for a healthy life year20
Health impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccination using potential next-generation influenza vaccines in Thailand: a modelling study20
Guidance and conceptual tools to inform the design, selection and evaluation of research capacity strengthening interventions20
The performance of digital technologies for measuring tuberculosis medication adherence: a systematic review20
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