BMJ Global Health

Article	Citations
Social media and vaccine hesitancy	546
Characterising long COVID: a living systematic review	505
Trends and projections of caesarean section rates: global and regional estimates	401
Infection and mortality of healthcare workers worldwide from COVID-19: a systematic review	400
YouTube as a source of information on COVID-19: a pandemic of misinformation?	386
Reduction of secondary transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in households by face mask use, disinfection and social distancing: a cohort study in Beijing, China	348
Community engagement for COVID-19 prevention and control: a rapid evidence synthesis	229
Lockdown measures in response to COVID-19 in nine sub-Saharan African countries	215
Impact of the societal response to COVID-19 on access to healthcare for non-COVID-19 health issues in slum communities of Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan: results of pre-COVID and COVID-19 loc	200
Voices from the frontline: findings from a thematic analysis of a rapid online global survey of maternal and newborn health professionals facing the COVID-19 pandemic	174
Decolonising global health: if not now, when?	170
Unprecedented reduction in births of very low birthweight (VLBW) and extremely low birthweight (ELBW) infants during the COVID-19 lockdown in Ireland: a ‘natural experiment’ allowing analysis of data	162
Where are the women? Gender inequalities in COVID-19 research authorship	156
Ethnic and racial disparities in COVID-19-related deaths: counting the trees, hiding the forest	155
The isolated effect of age on the risk of COVID-19 severe outcomes: a systematic review with meta-analysis	149
The relatively young and rural population may limit the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Africa: a modelling study	137
Prioritising the role of community health workers in the COVID-19 response	135
The unintended consequences of COVID-19 vaccine policy: why mandates, passports and restrictions may cause more harm than good	125
The global health workforce stock and distribution in 2020 and 2030: a threat to equity and ‘universal’ health coverage?	124
The COVID-19 pandemic and healthcare systems in Africa: a scoping review of preparedness, impact and response	121
Decolonising global health in 2021: a roadmap to move from rhetoric to reform	121
Community health workers for pandemic response: a rapid evidence synthesis	119
COVID-19: maintaining essential rehabilitation services across the care continuum	117
The COVID-19 pandemic: diverse contexts; different epidemics—how and why?	117
Governance of the Covid-19 response: a call for more inclusive and transparent decision-making	113

Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls: a systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in undernutrition	111
Economic impacts of overweight and obesity: current and future estimates for eight countries	106
Assessing the burden of COVID-19 in developing countries: systematic review, meta-analysis and public policy implications	102
Facial protection for healthcare workers during pandemics: a scoping review	96
The potential effects of widespread community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the World Health Organization African Region: a predictive model	93
Large-scale public venues as medical emergency sites in disasters: lessons from COVID-19 and the use of Fangcang shelter hospitals in Wuhan, China	92
Media trust and infection mitigating behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA	92
A double-edged sword—telemedicine for maternal care during COVID-19: findings from a global mixed-methods study of healthcare providers	87
Evidence of the effectiveness of travel-related measures during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: a rapid systematic review	82
Indirect effects of COVID-19 on maternal, neonatal, child, sexual and reproductive health services in Kampala, Uganda	80
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	80
Severe malnutrition or famine exposure in childhood and cardiometabolic non-communicable disease later in life: a systematic review	79
Global developments in social prescribing	77
Nudging toward vaccination: a systematic review	77
The impact of war on the health system of the Tigray region in Ethiopia: an assessment	76
Decolonising Global (Public) Health: from Western universalism to Global pluriversalities	74
Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Asia: a systematic review and analysis	72
Use of interrupted time series methods in the evaluation of health system quality improvement interventions: a methodological systematic review	72
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on movement behaviours of children and adolescents: a systematic review	69
Health system resilience in managing the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from Singapore	68
Responding to the COVID-19 second wave in Thailand by diversifying and adapting lessons from the first wave	66
Predicted COVID-19 fatality rates based on age, sex, comorbidities and health system capacity	65
Unravelling ‘low-resource settings’: a systematic scoping review with qualitative content analysis	65
Examining the level and inequality in health insurance coverage in 36 sub-Saharan African countries	65
Adverse maternal, fetal, and newborn outcomes among pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 infection: an individual participant data meta-analysis	65
No Jab, No Job? Ethical Issues in Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination of Healthcare Personnel	65
HPV self-sampling for cervical cancer screening: a systematic review of values and preferences	65
Protecting hard-won gains for mothers and newborns in low-income and middle-income countries in the face of COVID-19: call for a service safety net	64
Natural hazards, disasters and violence against women and girls: a global mixed-methods systematic review	64
Disruption in essential health services in Mexico during COVID-19: an interrupted time series analysis of health information system data	63
An analysis of International Health Regulations Emergency Committees and Public Health Emergency of International Concern Designations	63
Using implementation science theories and frameworks in global health	63
How we classify countries and people—and why it matters	62
Impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on adolescent pregnancy and school dropout among secondary schoolgirls in Kenya	61
Country-specific estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion incidence: a global comparative analysis of levels in 2015–2019	61
SARS-CoV-2 infection in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of standardised seroprevalence studies, from January 2020 to December 2021	61
COVID-19: time for paradigm shift in the nexus between local, national and global health	60
Symptoms of a broken system: the gender gaps in COVID-19 decision-making	60
Conceptualising Long COVID as an episodic health condition	60
Reduction in healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic in China	59
Whole-genome sequencing as part of national and international surveillance programmes for antimicrobial resistance: a roadmap	58
Antibiotic overuse in the primary health care setting: a secondary data analysis of standardised patient studies from India, China and Kenya	56
Managing outbreaks of highly contagious diseases in prisons: a systematic review	56
Conference equity in global health: a systematic review of factors impacting LMIC representation at global health conferences	56
Selfie consents, remote rapport, and Zoom debriefings: collecting qualitative data amid a pandemic in four resource-constrained settings	55
Words matter: political and gender analysis of speeches made by heads of government during the COVID-19 pandemic	55
COVID-19 stressors on migrant workers in Kuwait: cumulative risk considerations	54
How global is global health research? A large-scale analysis of trends in authorship	53
A vulnerability index for COVID-19: spatial analysis at the subnational level in Kenya	52
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	52

The Global Health Security Index: what value does it add?	51
The community health worker as service extender, cultural broker and social change agent: a critical interpretive synthesis of roles, intent and accountability	51
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	50
Higher risk of death from COVID-19 in low-income and non-White populations of São Paulo, Brazil	50
The uses of knowledge in global health	50
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	50
A checklist to improve health system resilience to infectious disease outbreaks and natural hazards	50
A health systems resilience research agenda: moving from concept to practice	50
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	50
Small and sick newborn care during the COVID-19 pandemic: global survey and thematic analysis of healthcare providers’ voices and experiences	50
TikTok and public health: a proposed research agenda	50
Prevalence of Long COVID symptoms in Bangladesh: a prospective Inception Cohort Study of COVID-19 survivors	49
Is the cure really worse than the disease? The health impacts of lockdowns during COVID-19	49
Gender-transformative programming with men and boys to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights: a systematic review of intervention studies	49
Economic impacts of overweight and obesity: current and future estimates for 161 countries	48
Incentivising wealthy nations to participate in the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility (COVAX): a game theory perspective	48
The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection	47
Effect of micronutrient supplements on influenza and other respiratory tract infections among adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	47
Global vaccine equity demands reparative justice — not charity	47
Impact of social isolation on mortality and morbidity in 20 high-income, middle-income and low-income countries in five continents	47
Does women’s mobile phone ownership matter for health? Evidence from 15 countries	47
Advancing alcohol research in low-income and middle-income countries: a global alcohol environment framework	47
High excess mortality in areas with young and socially vulnerable populations during the COVID-19 outbreak in Stockholm Region, Sweden	46
The need to reshape global food processing: a call to the United Nations Food Systems Summit	46
The promise and perils of Unit 731 data to advance COVID-19 research	46
Reclaiming comprehensive public health	45
Power and politics: the case for linking resilience to health system governance	45
The economic burden of dementia in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): a systematic review	45
The principles of Nurturing Care promote human capital and mitigate adversities from preconception through adolescence	45
Health system redesign for maternal and newborn survival: rethinking care models to close the global equity gap	44
Off the back burner: diverse and gender-inclusive decision-making for COVID-19 response and recovery	44
In pursuit of ‘safe’ water: the burden of personal injury from water fetching in 21 low-income and middle-income countries	44
Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: a geospatial and statistical analysis in Aden governorate, Yemen	44
The good and the bad: using C reactive protein to distinguish bacterial from non-bacterial infection among febrile patients in low-resource settings	44
Setting the standard: multidisciplinary hallmarks for structural, equitable and tracked antibiotic policy	44
Effective prevention of intimate partner violence through couples training: a randomised controlled trial of Indashyikirwa in Rwanda	44
A bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 research in Africa	44
Protecting essential health services in low-income and middle-income countries and humanitarian settings while responding to the COVID-19 pandemic	43
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	43
Essential Emergency and Critical Care: a consensus among global clinical experts	43
Modelling the COVID-19 pandemic in context: an international participatory approach	43
Short-term, medium-term and long-term effects of early parenting interventions in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review	42
The health workforce status in the WHO African Region: findings of a cross-sectional study	42
Lowering drug prices and enhancing pharmaceutical affordability: an analysis of the national volume-based procurement (NVBP) effect in China	42
The human toll and humanitarian crisis of the Russia-Ukraine war: the first 162 days	42
YouTube as a source of misinformation on COVID-19 vaccination: a systematic analysis	41
Health and human rights are inextricably linked in the COVID-19 response	41
Oxygen provision to fight COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa	41
Power analysis in health policy and systems research: a guide to research conceptualisation	41
Navigating inequities: a roadmap out of the pandemic	40
Modelling the pandemic: attuning models to their contexts	40
Cash transfers and child nutritional outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis	39
Integration of non-communicable disease and HIV/AIDS management: a review of healthcare policies and plans in East Africa	39
Decolonising human rights: how intellectual property laws result in unequal access to the COVID-19 vaccine	39
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	39
Stop ‘controlling’ for sex and gender in global health research	39
In the interest of public safety: rapid response to the COVID-19 epidemic in Vietnam	39
India’s syndemic of tuberculosis and COVID-19	38
The use, misuse and overuse of the ‘low-income and middle-income countries’ category	38
Safe management of bodies of deceased persons with suspected or confirmed COVID-19: a rapid systematic review	38
Availability and funding of clinical genomic sequencing globally	37
Categorisation and Minoritisation	37
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	37
Patterns and trends in causes of child and adolescent mortality 2000–2016: setting the scene for child health redesign	37
Article processing charges are stalling the progress of African researchers: a call for urgent reforms	37
Progress on sodium reduction in South Korea	36
A systematic review of substandard, falsified, unlicensed and unregistered medicine sampling studies: a focus on context, prevalence, and quality	36
Herpes simplex virus type 1 in Europe: systematic review, meta-analyses and meta-regressions	36
Community engagement in outbreak response: lessons from the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone	36
Availability, scope and quality of monkeypox clinical management guidelines globally: a systematic review	36
A partisan pandemic: state government public health policies to combat COVID-19 in Brazil	36
Decolonising global health: beyond ‘reformative’ roadmaps and towards decolonial thought	36
Factors influencing inappropriate use of antibiotics in outpatient and community settings in China: a mixed-methods systematic review	36
Availability and affordability of medicines and cardiovascular outcomes in 21 high-income, middle-income and low-income countries	36
What was right about Kerala’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic?	36
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital utilisation in Sierra Leone	35
The cost-effectiveness of hypertension management in low-income and middle-income countries: a review	35
The empirical evidence underpinning the concept and practice of person-centred care for serious illness: a systematic review	35
Engaging men to transform inequitable gender attitudes and prevent intimate partner violence: a cluster randomised controlled trial in North and South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo	35
The health policy response to COVID-19 in Malawi	35

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	35
Plasmodium falciparum resistance to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in Africa: a systematic analysis of national trends	35
Ethical considerations in global surgery: a scoping review	35
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	35
The remaining unknowns: a mixed methods study of the current and global health research priorities for COVID-19	34
Arts-based approaches to promoting health in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review	34
‘Severe malnutrition’: thinking deeplyS, communicating simply	34
Missing men with tuberculosis: the need to address structural influences and implement targeted and multidimensional interventions	34
Mobile applications addressing violence against women: a systematic review	33
Are asylum seekers, refugees and foreign migrants considered in the COVID-19 vaccine discourse?	33
Shifting the paradigm: using disease outbreaks to build resilient health systems	33
Early childhood development and parental training interventions in rural China: a systematic review and meta-analysis	33
Barriers to maternal health services during the Ebola outbreak in three West African countries: a literature review	33
Completeness and quality of low back pain prevalence data in the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017	33
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	33
A cluster randomised trial of cookstove interventions to improve infant health in Ghana	32
Building resilient health systems in Africa beyond the COVID-19 pandemic response	32
Defining global health: findings from a systematic review and thematic analysis of the literature	32
Safety decision-making and planning mobile app for intimate partner violence prevention and response: randomised controlled trial in Kenya	32
The value proposition of the Global Health Security Index	32
Who funded the research behind the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine?	32
Time to stop the use of ‘Wuhan virus’, ‘China virus’ or ‘Chinese virus’ across the scientific community	32
Global seroprevalence and sociodemographic characteristics ofBorrelia burgdorferi sensu latoin human populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis	31
The case for developing a cohesive systems approach to research across unhealthy commodity industries	31
Magnitude, temporal trends and inequality in global burden of tracheal, bronchus and lung cancer: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017	31
“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	31
Examining unit costs for COVID-19 case management in Kenya	31
Scaling up Kangaroo Mother Care in Ethiopia and India: a multi-site implementation research study	31
Parent-level barriers to uptake of childhood vaccination: a global overview of systematic reviews	30
COVID-19 vaccine wastage in the midst of vaccine inequity: causes, types and practical steps	30
Threats by artificial intelligence to human health and human existence	30
Build back stronger universal health coverage systems after the COVID-19 pandemic: the need for better governance and linkage with universal social protection	30
The gender and geography of publishing: a review of sex/gender reporting and author representation in leading general medical and global health journals	30
Leapfrogging laboratories: the promise and pitfalls of high-tech solutions for antimicrobial resistance surveillance in low-income settings	30
Community-based interventions for detection and management of diabetes and hypertension in underserved communities: a mixed-methods evaluation in Brazil, India, South Africa and the USA	30
New waves, new variants, old inequity: a continuing COVID-19 crisis	30
Bridging a false dichotomy in the COVID-19 response: a public health approach to the ‘lockdown’ debate	30
Shortage of essential antimicrobials: a major challenge to global health security	30
Social and political determinants of health in the occupied Palestine territory (oPt) during the COVID-19 pandemic: who is responsible?	29
Effectiveness, safety and acceptability of medical abortion at home versus in the clinic: a systematic review and meta-analysis in response to COVID-19	29
The WHO Global Benchmarking Tool: a game changer for strengthening national regulatory capacity	29
Using critical information to strengthen pandemic preparedness: the role of national public health agencies	29
Smokeless tobacco control in India: policy review and lessons for high-burden countries	29
Effects of food policy actions on Indigenous Peoples’ nutrition-related outcomes: a systematic review	29
COVID-19: transformative actions for more equitable, resilient, sustainable societies and health systems in the Americas	29
Does retraction after misconduct have an impact on citations? A pre–post study	29
Timing and determinants of age at menarche in low-income and middle-income countries	29
The impacts of government reimbursement negotiation on targeted anticancer medication price, volume and spending in China	29
Income security during public health emergencies: the COVID-19 poverty trap in Vietnam	29
The magnitude and determinants of violence against healthcare workers in Pakistan	29
Hypothesis to explain the severe form of COVID-19 in Northern Italy	29
Intimate partner violence among women with and without disabilities: a pooled analysis of baseline data from seven violence-prevention programmes	29
For malaria elimination India needs a platform for data integration	29
African authorship on African papers during the COVID-19 pandemic	29
Covid-19 and mobile phone hygiene in healthcare settings	28
Forest malaria: the prevailing obstacle for malaria control and elimination in India	28
Implementation of health and health-related sustainable development goals: progress, challenges and opportunities – a systematic literature review	28
Gendered implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for policies and programmes in humanitarian settings	28
Combating hepatitis B and C by 2030: achievements, gaps, and options for actions in China	28
COVID-19: lessons and experiences from South Africa’s first surge	28
Implementation of the new WHO antenatal care model for a positive pregnancy experience: a monitoring framework	28
Global disparities in public health guidance for the use of COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy	27
Enhancing the use of stakeholder analysis for policy implementation research: towards a novel framing and operationalised measures	27
Factors influencing diagnosis and treatment initiation for multidrug-resistant/rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in six sub-Saharan African countries: a mixed-methods systematic review	27
Rift valley fever: diagnostic challenges and investment needs for vaccine development	27
COVID-19 response: mitigating negative impacts on other areas of health	27
‘I do what a woman should do’: a grounded theory study of women’s menstrual experiences at work in Mukono District, Uganda	27
Diversification in causes of death in low-mortality countries: emerging patterns and implications	27
SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in Sierra Leone, March 2021: a cross-sectional, nationally representative, age-stratified serosurvey	27
COVID-19 travel restrictions and theInternational Health Regulations (2005)	26
Effect of a home-visiting parenting program to promote early childhood development and prevent violence: a cluster-randomized trial in Rwanda	26
Making sense of the evidence in population health intervention research: building a dry stone wall	26
Just allocation of COVID-19 vaccines	26
Association between early essential newborn care and breastfeeding outcomes in eight countries in Asia and the Pacific: a cross-sectional observational -study	26
Health systems strengthening to arrest the global disability burden: empirical development of prioritised components for a global strategy for improving musculoskeletal health	26
Systematic analysis of authorship demographics in global surgery	26
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	26
The role of gender inclusive leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic to support vulnerable populations in conflict settings	26
Combining parenting and economic strengthening programmes to reduce violence against children: a cluster randomised controlled trial with predominantly male caregivers in rural Tanzania	26
Global health degrees: at what cost?	26
An urgent call to collect data related to COVID-19 and Indigenous populations globally	26
Community engagement for successful COVID-19 pandemic response: 10 lessons from Ebola outbreak responses in Africa	26
Defining service catchment areas in low-resource settings	26
Precision shielding for COVID-19: metrics of assessment and feasibility of deployment	26
Power and the commercial determinants of health: ideas for a research agenda	26
Why do people purchase antibiotics over-the-counter? A qualitative study with patients, clinicians and dispensers in central, eastern and western Nepal	26
Spatial and spatio-temporal methods for mapping malaria risk: a systematic review	26
Excess deaths reveal unequal impact of COVID-19 in Ecuador	25
Health of transgender men in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review	25
On the importance of primary and community healthcare in relation to global health and environmental threats: lessons from the COVID-19 crisis	25
Big food and the World Health Organization: a qualitative study of industry attempts to influence global-level non-communicable disease policy	25
‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a rapid qualitative study	25
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	25
Medical costs and out-of-pocket expenditures associated with multimorbidity in China: quantile regression analysis	25
Towards a socially just model: balancing hunger and response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh	25