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2023

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D-Index
109
Citations
213960
World Ranking
5637
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Colin Mathers publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Colin Mathers sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 245 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Colin Mathers D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Colin Mathers sits on this spectrum.

70–71 D-Index: 226 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 391 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 574 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 730 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 891 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 972 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 1,027 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 1,003 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 960 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 970 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 922 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 839 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 808 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 779 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 668 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 611 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 630 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 513 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 541 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 445 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 429 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 400 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 393 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 318 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 302 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 287 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 255 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 256 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 252 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 230 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 179 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 168 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 163 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 159 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 134 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 134 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 118 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 109 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 106 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 74 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 79 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 80 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 87 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 57 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 74 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 69 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 60 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 53 scientists 166–167 D-Index: 39 scientists 168–169 D-Index: 42 scientists 170–171 D-Index: 32 scientists 172–173 D-Index: 39 scientists 174–175 D-Index: 40 scientists 176–177 D-Index: 28 scientists 178–179 D-Index: 19 scientists 180–181 D-Index: 23 scientists 182–183 D-Index: 31 scientists 184–185 D-Index: 18 scientists 186–187 D-Index: 20 scientists 188–189 D-Index: 22 scientists 190–191 D-Index: 13 scientists 192–193 D-Index: 21 scientists 194–195 D-Index: 12 scientists 196–197 D-Index: 12 scientists 198–199 D-Index: 14 scientists 200–201 D-Index: 15 scientists 202–203 D-Index: 13 scientists 204–205 D-Index: 10 scientists 206–207 D-Index: 8 scientists 208–209 D-Index: 4 scientists 210–211 D-Index: 12 scientists 212–213 D-Index: 11 scientists 214–215 D-Index: 10 scientists 216 D-Index: 4 scientists 217+ D-Index: 98 scientists
70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 109 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Colin Mathers is affiliated with the World Health Organization in Switzerland. Their research focuses largely on health professions and medicine, with significant contributions in the subfields of general health professions, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, oncology, organizational behavior and human resource management, and economics and econometrics.

Their main topics of work encompass:

  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes
  • Global Maternal and Child Health

Mathers has published in a range of scientific venues, frequently appearing in:

  • Nature Medicine
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • The Lancet

Colin Mathers' recent papers include:

  • Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialized countries, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • NCD Countdown 2030: pathways to achieving Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4, 2020, The Lancet
  • History of global burden of disease assessment at the World Health Organization, 2020, Archives of Public Health
  • Global and regional levels and trends of child and adolescent morbidity from 2000 to 2016: an analysis of years lost due to disability (YLDs), 2021, BMJ Global Health
  • Global, regional, and national mortality trends in youth aged 15-24 years between 1990 and 2019: a systematic analysis, 2021, The Lancet Global Health

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Vasilis Kontis (8 co-authored works)
  • Majid Ezzati (8 co-authored works)
  • James E. Bennett (7 co-authored works)
  • Michel Guillot (7 co-authored works)
  • Theo Rashid (6 co-authored works)

Best Publications

  • Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012.

    Jacques Ferlay;Isabelle Soerjomataram;Rajesh Dikshit;Sultan Eser

  • Estimates of worldwide burden of cancer in 2008: GLOBOCAN 2008.

    Jacques Ferlay;Hai-Rim Shin;Freddie Bray;David Forman

  • Projections of Global Mortality and Burden of Disease from 2002 to 2030

    Colin D Mathers;Dejan Loncar

  • GLOBOCAN 2012 v1.0, Cancer Incidence and Mortality Worldwide: IARC CancerBase No. 11 [Internet]. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer

    J Ferlay;I Soerjomataram;M Ervik;R Dikshit

  • Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences

    Robert E. Black;Lindsay H. Allen;Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta;Laura E. Caulfield

  • Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data

    Alan D Lopez;Colin D Mathers;Majid Ezzati;Dean T Jamison;Dean T Jamison

  • Global prevalence of dementia: a Delphi consensus study

    Cleusa P Ferri;Martin Prince;Carol Brayne;Henry Brodaty

  • Estimating the global cancer incidence and mortality in 2018: GLOBOCAN sources and methods

    J. Ferlay;M. Colombet;I. Soerjomataram;C. Mathers

  • Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: An updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000

    Li Liu;Hope L Johnson;Simon Cousens;Jamie Perin

  • Global burden of disease and injury and economic cost attributable to alcohol use and alcohol-use disorders.

    Jürgen T. Rehm;Colin Mathers;Svetlana Popova;Svetlana Popova;Montarat Thavorncharoensap;Montarat Thavorncharoensap

  • Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2008: a systematic analysis

    Robert E Black;Simon Cousens;Hope L Johnson;Joy E Lawn

  • Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2000-13, with projections to inform post-2015 priorities: an updated systematic analysis.

    Lei Liu;Shefali Oza;Daniel Hogan;Jamie Perin

  • Global, regional, and national causes of under-5 mortality in 2000–15: an updated systematic analysis with implications for the Sustainable Development Goals

    Li Liu;Shefali Oza;Dan Hogan;Yue Chu

  • Global burden of disease and risk factors

    Alan D. Lopez;Colin D. Mathers;Majid Ezzati;Dean T. Jamison

  • Global burden of depressive disorders in the year 2000

    T. B. Üstün;J. L. Ayuso-Mateos;S. Chatterji;C. Mathers

  • Global burden of disease in young people aged 10–24 years: a systematic analysis

    Fiona M. Gore;Paul J. N. Bloem;George C. Patton;George C. Patton;Jane Ferguson

  • The burden and costs of chronic diseases in low-income and middle-income countries

    Dele O Abegunde;Colin D Mathers;Taghreed Adam;Monica Ortegon

  • Global, regional, and national levels and trends in maternal mortality between 1990 and 2015, with scenario-based projections to 2030: a systematic analysis by the UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group

    Leontine Alkema;Doris Chou;Daniel Hogan;Sanqian Zhang

  • GLOBOCAN 2012: Estimated cancer incidence, mortality and prevalence worldwide in 2012

    J Ferlay;I Soerjomataram;M Ervik;R Dikshit

  • GLOBOCAN 2012 v1.0, Cancer Incidence and Mortality Worldwide: IARC Cancer Base No. 11 [Internet]

    J Ferlay;I Soerjomataram;M Ervik;R Dikshit

Frequent Co-Authors

Majid Ezzati
Majid Ezzati Imperial College London
Alan D. Lopez
Alan D. Lopez University of Melbourne
Christopher J L Murray
Christopher J L Murray University of Washington
Joshua A. Salomon
Joshua A. Salomon Stanford University
Joy E Lawn
Joy E Lawn London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Simon Cousens
Simon Cousens London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Arie H. Havelaar
Arie H. Havelaar University of Florida
Dean T. Jamison
Dean T. Jamison University of California, San Francisco
Jürgen Rehm
Jürgen Rehm University of Toronto
Theo Vos
Theo Vos Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

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