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36
Citations
6523
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6446
National Ranking
1041

Gerald Bloom publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gerald Bloom sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 121 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Gerald Bloom D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gerald Bloom sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Gerald Bloom is affiliated with the Institute of Development Studies in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, focusing on various subfields including Finance, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Infectious Diseases.

The main topics covered in their work include Healthcare Systems and Reforms, Global Maternal and Child Health, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Antibiotic Use and Resistance, and COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Gerald Bloom feature a range of public health and healthcare system topics. These include:

  • The COVID-19 pandemic: diverse contexts; different epidemics-how and why? (2020), published in BMJ Global Health
  • Digital Health and Inequalities in Access to Health Services in Bangladesh: Mixed Methods Study (2020), JMIR mhealth and uhealth
  • Understanding China's growing involvement in global health and managing processes of change (2020), Globalization and Health
  • The COVID-19 Pandemic: Diverse Contexts; Different Epidemics-How and Why? (2020), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Building policy capacity for managing rapid, complex change in China's health system (2021), Policy and Society

Gerald Bloom collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Lewis Husain, Wim Van Damme, Ritwik Dahake, Brecht Ingelbeen, and Edwin Wouters. These collaborations are reflected in their publications across multiple research themes.

The publication venues where Gerald Bloom's work appears most frequently include BMJ Global Health, Policy and Society, Health Policy and Planning, JMIR mhealth and uhealth, and Globalization and Health.

Best Publications

  • Poverty and access to health care in developing countries.

    David H. Peters;Anu Garg;Gerry Bloom;Damian G. Walker

  • Markets, information asymmetry and health care: towards new social contracts.

    Gerald Bloom;Hilary Standing;Robert Lloyd

  • Health sector reform: lessons from China.

    Gerald Bloom;Gu Xingyuan

  • Impact of user charges on vulnerable groups: The case of Kibwezi in rural Kenya

    J.Karanja Mbugua;Gerald H. Bloom;Malcolm M. Segall

  • Understanding Governance: pathways to sustainability

    Melissa Leach;Gerald Bloom;Adrian Ely;Paul Nightingale

  • Making health markets work better for poor people: the case of informal providers

    Gerald Bloom;Hilary Standing;Henry Lucas;Abbas Bhuiya

  • The COVID-19 pandemic: diverse contexts; different epidemics-how and why?

    Wim Van Damme;Ritwik Dahake;Alexandre Delamou;Brecht Ingelbeen

  • Cooperative medical schemes in contemporary rural China.

    Feng Xueshan;Tang Shenglan;Gerald Bloom;Malcolm Segall

  • Stakeholder analysis for health research: Case studies from low- and middle-income countries

    A.A. Hyder;S. Syed;P. Puvanachandra;G. Bloom

  • Editorial: Iatrogenic poverty

    Bruno Meessen;Zhang Zhenzhong;Wim Van Damme;Narayanan Devadasan

  • Informal rural healthcare providers in North and South India

    Meenakshi Gautham;K M Shyamprasad;Rajesh Singh;Anshi Zachariah

  • Future health systems: Why future? Why now?

    Gerald Bloom;Hilary Standing

  • Decentralizing rural health services: a case study in China.

    Shenglan Tang;Gerald Bloom

  • Pluralism and marketisation in the health sector : meeting health needs in contexts of social change in low and middle-income countries

    Gerald Bloom;Hilary Standing

  • Building institutions for an effective health system: Lessons from China’s experience with rural health reform

    Gerald Bloom

  • How Health Workers Earn a Living in China

    Gerald Bloom;Leiya Han;Xiang Li

  • Antimicrobial resistance and universal health coverage.

    Gerald Bloom;Gerald Bloom;Gemma Buckland Merrett;Annie Wilkinson;Annie Wilkinson;Vivian Lin

  • Primary health care meets the market in China and Vietnam.

    Gerald Bloom

  • Financing health care in rural China: preliminary report of a nationwide study.

    Gu Xingyuan;Gerald Bloom;Tang Shenglan;Zhu Yingya

  • Exploring health systems research and its influence on policy processes in low income countries

    Adnan A Hyder;Gerald Bloom;Melissa Leach;Shamsuzzoha B Syed

  • Equity in health in unequal societies: meeting health needs in contexts of social change

    Gerald Bloom

Frequent Co-Authors

David H. Peters
David H. Peters Johns Hopkins University
Abbas Bhuiya
Abbas Bhuiya International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Melissa Leach
Melissa Leach Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI)
Wim Van Damme
Wim Van Damme Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
George Pariyo
George Pariyo Johns Hopkins University
Bruno Meessen
Bruno Meessen Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Spencer Henson
Spencer Henson University of Guelph
Shenglan Tang
Shenglan Tang Duke University
Ian Scoones
Ian Scoones University of Sussex
Helmut Kloos
Helmut Kloos University of California, San Francisco

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