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PLOS Global Public Health
H-index 28

PLOS Global Public Health

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 101 182 332 19
Medicine 1032 298 424 22

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 745
Documents by Best Scientists*: 893
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 23
SCIMAGO H-index: 24
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.908
Impact Factor: 2.5

Top Publications

  • Funders: The missing link in equitable global health research?

    (2022)
    98 Citations
  • Effectiveness of government policies in response to the first COVID-19 outbreak

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    (2022)
    77 Citations
  • Suicide and self-harm in low- and middle- income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review

    (2021)
    73 Citations
  • Use of race, ethnicity, and ancestry data in health research

    (2022)
    70 Citations
  • Plasmodium falciparum parasite prevalence in East Africa: Updating data for malaria stratification

    (2021)
    69 Citations
  • Prevalence of microvascular and macrovascular complications of diabetes in newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes in low-and-middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    (2022)
    55 Citations
  • Resurgence of malaria in Uganda despite sustained indoor residual spraying and repeated long lasting insecticidal net distributions

    (2022)
    52 Citations
  • A PRISMA systematic review of adolescent gender dysphoria literature: 1) Epidemiology

    (2022)
    49 Citations
  • Variation in the incidence of type 1 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents by world region and country income group: A scoping review

    (2022)
    48 Citations

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