BMJ Global Health

Article	Citations
Characterising long COVID: a living systematic review	590
Trends and projections of caesarean section rates: global and regional estimates	535
Infection and mortality of healthcare workers worldwide from COVID-19: a systematic review	438
The global health workforce stock and distribution in 2020 and 2030: a threat to equity and ‘universal’ health coverage?	204
The isolated effect of age on the risk of COVID-19 severe outcomes: a systematic review with meta-analysis	187
The unintended consequences of COVID-19 vaccine policy: why mandates, passports and restrictions may cause more harm than good	153
The COVID-19 pandemic and healthcare systems in Africa: a scoping review of preparedness, impact and response	150
Economic impacts of overweight and obesity: current and future estimates for eight countries	142
Decolonising global health in 2021: a roadmap to move from rhetoric to reform	140
Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls: a systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in undernutrition	131
Assessing the burden of COVID-19 in developing countries: systematic review, meta-analysis and public policy implications	120
Global developments in social prescribing	117
Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Asia: a systematic review and analysis	109
Economic impacts of overweight and obesity: current and future estimates for 161 countries	108
Indirect effects of COVID-19 on maternal, neonatal, child, sexual and reproductive health services in Kampala, Uganda	102
Disruptions in maternal health service use during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020: experiences from 37 health facilities in low-income and middle-income countries	96
A double-edged sword—telemedicine for maternal care during COVID-19: findings from a global mixed-methods study of healthcare providers	94
Severe malnutrition or famine exposure in childhood and cardiometabolic non-communicable disease later in life: a systematic review	92
Nudging toward vaccination: a systematic review	92
How we classify countries and people—and why it matters	91
Evidence of the effectiveness of travel-related measures during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: a rapid systematic review	90
HPV self-sampling for cervical cancer screening: a systematic review of values and preferences	88
The impact of war on the health system of the Tigray region in Ethiopia: an assessment	87
Adverse maternal, fetal, and newborn outcomes among pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 infection: an individual participant data meta-analysis	87
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on movement behaviours of children and adolescents: a systematic review	86

Natural hazards, disasters and violence against women and girls: a global mixed-methods systematic review	82
Country-specific estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion incidence: a global comparative analysis of levels in 2015–2019	82
Unravelling ‘low-resource settings’: a systematic scoping review with qualitative content analysis	81
Examining the level and inequality in health insurance coverage in 36 sub-Saharan African countries	78
SARS-CoV-2 infection in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of standardised seroprevalence studies, from January 2020 to December 2021	76
Disruption in essential health services in Mexico during COVID-19: an interrupted time series analysis of health information system data	76
Conceptualising Long COVID as an episodic health condition	74
Global burden of post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression in countries affected by war between 1989 and 2019: a systematic review and meta-analysis	72
Responding to the COVID-19 second wave in Thailand by diversifying and adapting lessons from the first wave	71
Whole-genome sequencing as part of national and international surveillance programmes for antimicrobial resistance: a roadmap	71
Impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on adolescent pregnancy and school dropout among secondary schoolgirls in Kenya	70
No Jab, No Job? Ethical Issues in Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination of Healthcare Personnel	68
The health workforce status in the WHO African Region: findings of a cross-sectional study	68
Conference equity in global health: a systematic review of factors impacting LMIC representation at global health conferences	67
How global is global health research? A large-scale analysis of trends in authorship	66
Reduction in healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic in China	65
Selfie consents, remote rapport, and Zoom debriefings: collecting qualitative data amid a pandemic in four resource-constrained settings	64
Words matter: political and gender analysis of speeches made by heads of government during the COVID-19 pandemic	64
Managing outbreaks of highly contagious diseases in prisons: a systematic review	64
The human toll and humanitarian crisis of the Russia-Ukraine war: the first 162 days	61
TikTok and public health: a proposed research agenda	61
Impact of social isolation on mortality and morbidity in 20 high-income, middle-income and low-income countries in five continents	60
Ethnic minority status as social determinant for COVID-19 infection, hospitalisation, severity, ICU admission and deaths in the early phase of the pandemic: a meta-analysis	60
A health systems resilience research agenda: moving from concept to practice	60
Threats by artificial intelligence to human health and human existence	60
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 Congo	59
The uses of knowledge in global health	59
The impact of cash transfers on mental health in children and young people in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis	57
Prevalence of Long COVID symptoms in Bangladesh: a prospective Inception Cohort Study of COVID-19 survivors	56
Small and sick newborn care during the COVID-19 pandemic: global survey and thematic analysis of healthcare providers’ voices and experiences	56
Is the cure really worse than the disease? The health impacts of lockdowns during COVID-19	56
The principles of Nurturing Care promote human capital and mitigate adversities from preconception through adolescence	55
The economic burden of dementia in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): a systematic review	55
Higher risk of death from COVID-19 in low-income and non-White populations of São Paulo, Brazil	55
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 n	54
Integration of non-communicable disease and HIV/AIDS management: a review of healthcare policies and plans in East Africa	54
Effect of micronutrient supplements on influenza and other respiratory tract infections among adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	53
Essential Emergency and Critical Care: a consensus among global clinical experts	52
Global vaccine equity demands reparative justice — not charity	52
Lowering drug prices and enhancing pharmaceutical affordability: an analysis of the national volume-based procurement (NVBP) effect in China	52
Effective prevention of intimate partner violence through couples training: a randomised controlled trial ofIndashyikirwain Rwanda	51
Incentivising wealthy nations to participate in the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility (COVAX): a game theory perspective	51
The need to reshape global food processing: a call to the United Nations Food Systems Summit	51
Short-term, medium-term and long-term effects of early parenting interventions in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review	50
Cash transfers and child nutritional outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis	49
Power analysis in health policy and systems research: a guide to research conceptualisation	49
The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection	49
The use, misuse and overuse of the ‘low-income and middle-income countries’ category	48
The empirical evidence underpinning the concept and practice of person-centred care for serious illness: a systematic review	48
Health service utilisation during the COVID-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020: a multicountry empirical assessment with a focus on maternal, newborn and child health services	48

A bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 research in Africa	47
India’s syndemic of tuberculosis and COVID-19	47
The promise and perils of Unit 731 data to advance COVID-19 research	47
YouTube as a source of misinformation on COVID-19 vaccination: a systematic analysis	47
Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: a geospatial and statistical analysis in Aden governorate, Yemen	46
Global, regional and national burden of bladder cancer and its attributable risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2019	46
Patterns and trends in causes of child and adolescent mortality 2000–2016: setting the scene for child health redesign	46
Stop ‘controlling’ for sex and gender in global health research	46
Availability and funding of clinical genomic sequencing globally	46
Modelling the COVID-19 pandemic in context: an international participatory approach	46
Access to personal protective equipment in exposed healthcare workers and COVID-19 illness, severity, symptoms and duration: a population-based case-control study in six countries	45
Decolonising human rights: how intellectual property laws result in unequal access to the COVID-19 vaccine	45
Categorisation and Minoritisation	44
Global seroprevalence and sociodemographic characteristics ofBorrelia burgdorferi sensu latoin human populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis	44
In the interest of public safety: rapid response to the COVID-19 epidemic in Vietnam	43
Availability and affordability of medicines and cardiovascular outcomes in 21 high-income, middle-income and low-income countries	43
Plasmodium falciparum resistance to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in Africa: a systematic analysis of national trends	41
Navigating inequities: a roadmap out of the pandemic	41
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital utilisation in Sierra Leone	41
Decolonising global health: beyond ‘reformative’ roadmaps and towards decolonial thought	41
The health policy response to COVID-19 in Malawi	40
Factors influencing inappropriate use of antibiotics in outpatient and community settings in China: a mixed-methods systematic review	40
Characterising the impact of COVID-19 environment on mental health, gender affirming services and socioeconomic loss in a global sample of transgender and non-binary people: a structural equation mode	40
Availability, scope and quality of monkeypox clinical management guidelines globally: a systematic review	39
Parent-level barriers to uptake of childhood vaccination: a global overview of systematic reviews	39
A partisan pandemic: state government public health policies to combat COVID-19 in Brazil	39
Racial discrimination and adverse pregnancy outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis	39
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 worldwide	39
Neurodevelopmental, cognitive, behavioural and mental health impairments following childhood malnutrition: a systematic review	38
Timing and determinants of age at menarche in low-income and middle-income countries	38
Defining global health: findings from a systematic review and thematic analysis of the literature	38
Shortage of essential antimicrobials: a major challenge to global health security	38
COVID-19 vaccine wastage in the midst of vaccine inequity: causes, types and practical steps	37
“In cities, it’s not far, but it takes long”: comparing estimated and replicated travel times to reach life-saving obstetric care in Lagos, Nigeria	37
Early childhood development and parental training interventions in rural China: a systematic review and meta-analysis	37
Building resilient health systems in Africa beyond the COVID-19 pandemic response	37
‘Severe malnutrition’: thinking deeply, communicating simply	37
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to and utilisation of services for sexual and reproductive health: a scoping review	37
A cluster randomised trial of cookstove interventions to improve infant health in Ghana	36
Who funded the research behind the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine?	36
Completeness and quality of low back pain prevalence data in the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017	36
Scaling up Kangaroo Mother Care in Ethiopia and India: a multi-site implementation research study	36
Assessing trauma care systems in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and evidence synthesis mapping the Three Delays framework to injury health system assessments	36
COVID-19: lessons and experiences from South Africa’s first surge	35
Effect of a home-visiting parenting program to promote early childhood development and prevent violence: a cluster-randomized trial in Rwanda	35
The impacts of government reimbursement negotiation on targeted anticancer medication price, volume and spending in China	35
Intimate partner violence among women with and without disabilities: a pooled analysis of baseline data from seven violence-prevention programmes	35
Leapfrogging laboratories: the promise and pitfalls of high-tech solutions for antimicrobial resistance surveillance in low-income settings	34
The case for developing a cohesive systems approach to research across unhealthy commodity industries	34
The gender and geography of publishing: a review of sex/gender reporting and author representation in leading general medical and global health journals	34
New waves, new variants, old inequity: a continuing COVID-19 crisis	33
Does retraction after misconduct have an impact on citations? A pre–post study	33
Health systems strengthening to arrest the global disability burden: empirical development of prioritised components for a global strategy for improving musculoskeletal health	33
Effectiveness, safety and acceptability of medical abortion at home versus in the clinic: a systematic review and meta-analysis in response to COVID-19	33
Situation of snakebite, antivenom market and access to antivenoms in ASEAN countries	33
Examining unit costs for COVID-19 case management in Kenya	33
Are asylum seekers, refugees and foreign migrants considered in the COVID-19 vaccine discourse?	33
COVID-19 response: mitigating negative impacts on other areas of health	32
SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in Sierra Leone, March 2021: a cross-sectional, nationally representative, age-stratified serosurvey	32
A network meta-analysis of psychosocial interventions for refugees and asylum seekers with PTSD	32
Global disparities in public health guidance for the use of COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy	32
Grandmothers — a neglected family resource for saving newborn lives	32
Implementing care for healthy ageing	32
Making sense of the evidence in population health intervention research: building a dry stone wall	32
The influence of the urban food environment on diet, nutrition and health outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review	32
Health insurance coverage in low-income and middle-income countries: progress made to date and related changes in private and public health expenditure	32
Forest malaria: the prevailing obstacle for malaria control and elimination in India	31
Analysis of clinical knowledge, absenteeism and availability of resources for maternal and child health: a cross-sectional quality of care study in 10 African countries	31
African authorship on African papers during the COVID-19 pandemic	31
Universal health insurance in Africa: a narrative review of the literature on institutional models	31
Enhancing the use of stakeholder analysis for policy implementation research: towards a novel framing and operationalised measures	31
Systematic analysis of authorship demographics in global surgery	31
On the importance of primary and community healthcare in relation to global health and environmental threats: lessons from the COVID-19 crisis	31
Why do people purchase antibiotics over-the-counter? A qualitative study with patients, clinicians and dispensers in central, eastern and western Nepal	31
‘I do what a woman should do’: a grounded theory study of women’s menstrual experiences at work in Mukono District, Uganda	30
Towards attainment of Indigenous health through empowerment: resetting health systems, services and provider approaches	30
For malaria elimination India needs a platform for data integration	30
A framework for the promotion of ethical benefit sharing in health research	30
Identification and inclusion of gender factors in retrospective cohort studies: the GOING-FWD framework	30
A growing disadvantage of being born in an urban area? Analysing urban–rural disparities in neonatal mortality in 21 African countries with a focus on Tanzania	30

Gestational weight gain in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling analysis using nationally representative data	30
Strengthening research capacity: a systematic review of manuscript writing and publishing interventions for researchers in low-income and middle-income countries	30
Risk factors for violence against women in high-prevalence settings: a mixed-methods systematic review and meta-synthesis	29
The Individual Water Insecurity Experiences (IWISE) Scale: reliability, equivalence and validity of an individual-level measure of water security	29
Ultra-processed foods should be central to global food systems dialogue and action on biodiversity	29
Power and the commercial determinants of health: ideas for a research agenda	29
Big food and the World Health Organization: a qualitative study of industry attempts to influence global-level non-communicable disease policy	29
Indirect effects of COVID-19 on child and adolescent mental health: an overview of systematic reviews	29
Socioeconomic risk markers of arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) infections: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis	29
Defining service catchment areas in low-resource settings	29
Impact of war on the dynamics of COVID-19 in Ukraine	29
Institutional mistrust and child vaccination coverage in Africa	29
‘You want to deal with power while riding on power’: global perspectives on power in participatory health research and co-production approaches	29
Workforce capacity for the care of patients with kidney failure across world countries and regions	29
Waves of attention: patterns and themes of international antimicrobial resistance reports, 1945–2020	29
Just allocation of COVID-19 vaccines	29
Challenges in reported COVID-19 data: best practices and recommendations for future epidemics	28
Changes in marriage, divorce and births during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	28
Vaccine safety issues at the turn of the 21st century	28
‘We are not going to shut down, because we cannot postpone pregnancy’: a mixed-methods study of the provision of maternal healthcare in six referral maternity wards in four sub-Saharan African countri	28
Following the science? Views from scientists on government advisory boards during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative interview study in five European countries	28
Unique knowledge, unique skills, unique role: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers in Queensland, Australia	28
Equity of geographical access to public health facilities in Nepal	28
Preceding group A streptococcus skin and throat infections are individually associated with acute rheumatic fever: evidence from New Zealand	28
Decolonising global health: where are the Southern voices?	28
Analysing COVID-19 outcomes in the context of the 2019 Global Health Security (GHS) Index	28
Combating the COVID-19 infodemic: a three-level approach for low and middle-income countries	28
Short message service (SMS) reminders for childhood immunisation in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis	28
COVID-19 mortality in women and men in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional study	28
Substandard and falsified antibiotics: neglected drivers of antimicrobial resistance?	28
Prevalence and global estimates of unsafe listening practices in adolescents and young adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	27
Recent sex ratio at birth in China	27
Adaptive health technology assessment to facilitate priority setting in low- and middle-income countries	27
Building a multisystemic understanding of societal resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic	27
Using scientific authorship criteria as a tool for equitable inclusion in global health research	27
Medical costs and out-of-pocket expenditures associated with multimorbidity in China: quantile regression analysis	27
Tracking the uptake and trajectory of COVID-19 vaccination coverage in 15 West African countries: an interim analysis	27
Spatial clustering and contextual factors associated with hospitalisation and deaths due to COVID-19 in Sweden: a geospatial nationwide ecological study	27
Precision shielding for COVID-19: metrics of assessment and feasibility of deployment	27
A systematic review on ethical challenges of ‘field’ research in low-income and middle-income countries: respect, justice and beneficence for research staff?	27
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 dire	27
Structural vulnerability: migration and health in social context	27
Towards universal health coverage in the WHO African Region: assessing health system functionality, incorporating lessons from COVID-19	27
A mixed-methods study of maternal health care utilisation in six referral hospitals in four sub-Saharan African countries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	27
Gender-based violence during COVID-19 among adolescent girls and young women in Nairobi, Kenya: a mixed-methods prospective study over 18 months	26
Measuring experiences of facility-based care for pregnant women and newborns: a scoping review	26
Initial success from a public health approach to hepatitis C testing, treatment and cure in seven countries: the road to elimination	26
Beyond HIV prevalence: identifying people living with HIV within underserved areas in South Africa	26
The effectiveness of training strategies to improve healthcare provider practices in low-income and middle-income countries	26
An urgent call to collect data related to COVID-19 and Indigenous populations globally	26
Global red and processed meat trade and non-communicable diseases	26
Health and well-being of rotation workers in the mining, offshore oil and gas, and construction industry: a systematic review	26
Health of transgender men in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review	26
Severity and outcomes of Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 compared to Delta variant and severity of Omicron sublineages: a systematic review and metanalysis	26
Conceptualising the episodic nature of disability among adults living with Long COVID: a qualitative study	26
The impact of the DREAMS partnership on HIV incidence among young women who sell sex in two Zimbabwean cities: results of a non-randomised study	26
Excess deaths reveal unequal impact of COVID-19 in Ecuador	26
‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a rapid qualitative study	26
Modelling interventions to control COVID-19 outbreaks in a refugee camp	25
Employing learning health system principles to advance research on severe neonatal and paediatric illness in Kenya	25
Deservingness: migration and health in social context	25
Combating the COVID-19 pandemic in a resource-constrained setting: insights from initial response in India	25
Ghana’s COVID-19 response: the Black Star can do even better	25
Mental health conditions after snakebite: a scoping review	25
Psychosocial influences on help-seeking behaviour for cancer in low-income and lower middle-income countries: a mixed-methods systematic review	25
When technology precedes regulation: the challenges and opportunities of e-pharmacy in low-income and middle-income countries	25
Global and regional levels and trends of child and adolescent morbidity from 2000 to 2016: an analysis of years lost due to disability (YLDs)	25
Neonatal mortality in Kenyan hospitals: a multisite, retrospective, cohort study	25
COVID-19 rise in Bangladesh correlates with increasing detection of B.1.351 variant	25
Fifth anniversary of the Sex And Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) guidelines: taking stock and looking ahead	25
Freedom within a cage: how patriarchal gender norms limit women’s use of mobile phones in rural central India	25
Antibiotic stories: a mixed-methods, multi-country analysis of household antibiotic use in Malawi, Uganda and Zimbabwe	25
Inadequate reporting of COVID-19 clinical studies: a renewed rationale for the Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) guidelines	24
Understanding abortion-related complications in health facilities: results from WHO multicountry survey on abortion (MCS-A) across 11 sub-Saharan African countries	24
Readiness and early response to COVID-19: achievements, challenges and lessons learnt in Ethiopia	24
Meaningful and deep community engagement efforts for pragmatic research and beyond: engaging with an immigrant/racialised community on equitable access to care	24
Kangaroo mother care for preterm or low birth weight infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis	24
Decomposing the rural–urban gap in factors associated with childhood immunisation in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from surveys in 23 countries	24
Delivering maternal and neonatal health interventions in conflict settings: a systematic review	24
Intellectual property rights need to be subverted to ensure global vaccine access	24
Where there is no local author: a network bibliometric analysis of authorship parasitism among research conducted in sub-Saharan Africa	24
Community interventions with women’s groups to improve women’s and children’s health in India: a mixed-methods systematic review of effects, enablers and barriers	24
The implicit ideological function of the global health field and its role in maintaining relations of power	24
Weaponised uranium and adverse health outcomes in Iraq: a systematic review	24
Stark choices: exploring health sector costs of policy responses to COVID-19 in low-income and middle-income countries	24
Impact of free maternity policies in Kenya: an interrupted time-series analysis	23
Safer primary healthcare facilities are needed to protect healthcare workers and maintain essential services: lessons learned from a multicountry COVID-19 emergency response initiative	23
Travel time and perinatal mortality after emergency caesarean sections: an evaluation of the 2-hour proximity indicator in Sierra Leone	23
Unequal burden of COVID-19 in Hungary: a geographical and socioeconomic analysis of the second wave of the pandemic	23
Adolescent health in the Sustainable Development Goal era: are we aligned for multisectoral action?	23
Fighting non-communicable diseases in East Africa: assessing progress and identifying the next steps	23
Addressing disruptions in childhood routine immunisation services during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives from Nepal, Senegal and Liberia	23
Health literacy measurement: embracing diversity in a strengths-based approach to promote health and equity, and avoid epistemic injustice	23
Labour companionship and women’s experiences of mistreatment during childbirth: results from a multi-country community-based survey	23
Targeting anticorruption interventions at the front line: developmental governance in health systems	23