Ilona Kickbusch publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Ilona Kickbusch between 1977 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Ilona Kickbusch published across 50 years, from 1977 to 2026, averaging 5.6 papers a year. Output peaked at 17 publications in 2014. 13 of the 278 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications

5 10 15

1977 2026

278 publications in total across all disciplines

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Ilona Kickbusch: publications per year, 1977 to 2026
Year	Publications
1977	1
1978	0
1979	0
1980	0
1981	1
1982	0
1983	2
1984	0
1985	0
1986	4
1987	0
1988	2
1989	4
1990	1
1991	1
1992	1
1993	2
1994	3
1995	8
1996	4
1997	3
1998	2
1999	2
2000	2
2001	7
2002	3
2003	2
2004	4
2005	5
2006	4
2007	14
2008	7
2009	8
2010	7
2011	7
2012	13
2013	12
2014	17
2015	17
2016	13
2017	13
2018	16
2019	7
2020	9
2021	11
2022	8
2023	8
2024	10
2025	12
2026	1
Total	278

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Ilona Kickbusch 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 Ilona Kickbusch sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300 400

44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 239 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications	Scientists	This scientist
44–53	28
54–63	61
64–73	161
74–83	225
84–93	301
94–103	390
104–113	406
114–123	474
124–133	453
134–143	434
144–153	407
154–163	411
164–173	391
174–183	313
184–193	319
194–203	304
204–213	285
214–223	246
224–233	213
234–243	170	239
244–253	167
254–263	162
264–273	138
274–283	138
284–293	113
294–303	106
304–313	95
314–323	101
324–333	81
334–343	69
344–353	56
354–363	36
364–373	42
374–383	41
384–393	44
394–403	27
404–413	30
414–423	20
424–433	29
434–443	29
444–453	25
454–463	19
464–473	21
474–483	11
484–493	17
494–503	7
504–513	6
514–523	12
524–533	10
534–543	7
544–553	6
554–563	12
564–569	8
570+	100

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Ilona Kickbusch 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 Ilona Kickbusch sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index	Scientists	This scientist
30	177
31	210
32	222
33	188
34	181
35	243
36	261
37	272
38	278
39	300
40	297
41	308
42	313
43	300
44	269
45	260
46	228
47	251
48	203
49	186
50	187
51	166
52	138
53	141
54	131
55	137
56	109
57	129	57
58	95
59	105
60	106
61	86
62	94
63	77
64	79
65	59
66	68
67	51
68	49
69	40
70	43
71	40
72	50
73	46
74	43
75	45
76	45
77	30
78	25
79	31
80	29
81	18
82	21
83	26
84	15
85	15
86	19
87	19
88	12
89	7
90	19
91	20
92	13
93	9
94	13
95	8
96	7
97	6
98	6
99	6
100+	97

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Research.com Recognitions

2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Ilona Kickbusch is affiliated with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland. Their research mainly focuses on health professions, with a strong emphasis on global public health policies and epidemiology. Their work spans several subfields, including general health professions, organizational behavior and human resource management, sociology and political science, public health, environmental and occupational health, and infectious diseases.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as global public health policies and epidemiology, mobile health and mHealth applications, health literacy and information accessibility, global security and public health, global health and surgery, health and conflict studies, and global health care issues.

Notable recent papers include:

The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world (2021, The Lancet)
SARS-CoV-2 elimination, not mitigation, creates best outcomes for health, the economy, and civil liberties (2021, The Lancet)
Covid-19: how a virus is turning the world upside down (2020, BMJ)
Response to the emerging novel coronavirus outbreak (2020, BMJ)
Global health diplomacy-reconstructing power and governance (2022, The Lancet)

Frequent co-authors include:

Louise Holly
Barbara Prainsack
Christian Franz
Anurag Agrawal
Njide Ndili

The scientist has published primarily in the following venues:

BMJ (10 publications)
The Lancet (9 publications)
Health Promotion International (5 publications)
Global Policy (4 publications)
Graduate Institute Geneva Institutional Repository (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) (3 publications)

Best Publications

Health literacy: addressing the health and education divide

Ilona S. Kickbusch

921
Citations
The commercial determinants of health

Ilona Kickbusch;Luke Allen;Christian Franz

699
Citations
Health literacy : the solid facts

Ilona Kickbusch;Jürgen M. Pelikan;Franklin Apfel Agis D. Tsouros

682
Citations
The Contribution of the World Health Organization to a New Public Health and Health Promotion

Ilona Kickbusch

472
Citations
Advancing health literacy: a global challenge for the 21st century

Don Nutbeam;Ilona Kickbusch

421
Citations
The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world

Ilona Kickbusch;Dario Piselli;Anurag Agrawal;Anurag Agrawal;Ran Balicer

366
Citations
Global health diplomacy: the need for new perspectives, strategic approaches and skills in global health

Ilona Kickbusch;Gaudenz Silberschmidt;Paulo Buss

336
Citations
Health literacy: A new concept for general practice?

Robert John Adams;Nigel P. Stocks;David H. Wilson;Catherine L. Hill

274
Citations
Governance for health in the 21st century

Ilona Kickbusch;David Eric Gleicher

257
Citations
The political determinants of health—10 years on

Ilona Kickbusch

212
Citations
How to achieve international action on falsified and substandard medicines.

Amir Attaran;Donna Barry;Shamnad Basheer;Roger Bate

202
Citations
SARS-CoV-2 elimination, not mitigation, creates best outcomes for health, the economy, and civil liberties.

Miquel Oliu-Barton;Bary S R Pradelski;Bary S R Pradelski;Philippe Aghion;Patrick Artus

183
Citations
Evaluation of Health in All Policies: concept, theory and application

Fran Baum;Angela Lawless;Toni Delany;Colin Macdougall

175
Citations
The development of international health policies--accountability intact?

Ilona Kickbusch

170
Citations
Covid-19: how a virus is turning the world upside down.

Ilona Kickbusch;Gabriel M Leung;Zulfiqar A Bhutta;Malebona Precious Matsoso

167
Citations
Health and Modernity: The Role of Theory in Health Promotion

David McQueen;Ilona Kickbusch;Louise Potvin

146
Citations
Self-care in health promotion

Ilona Kickbusch

144
Citations
Response to the emerging novel coronavirus outbreak.

Ilona Kickbusch;Gabriel Leung

143
Citations
IUHPE Position statement on health literacy: a practical vision for a health literate world

Janine Bröder;Peter Chang;Ilona Kickbusch;Diane Levin-Zamir

141
Citations
Time to deliver: report of the WHO Independent High-Level Commission on NCDs

Sania Nishtar;Sauli Niinistö;Maithripala Sirisena;Tabaré Vázquez

128
Citations
Approaches to an ecological base for public health

Ilona Kickbusch

126
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ashish K. Jha Brown University

Peter J. Hotez Baylor College of Medicine

Don Nutbeam University of Sydney

Peter Piot London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

David L. Heymann London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Marcel Tanner Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

Eugene Kolker New York University

Devi Sridhar University of Edinburgh

Paul N. Newton University of Oxford

Charles N. Rotimi National Institutes of Health

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