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2022

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D-Index
57
Citations
12213
World Ranking
1790
National Ranking
13

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.

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44 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.

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.

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
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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.

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

  • The commercial determinants of health

    Ilona Kickbusch;Luke Allen;Christian Franz

  • Health literacy : the solid facts

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

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

    Ilona Kickbusch

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

    Don Nutbeam;Ilona Kickbusch

  • 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

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

    Ilona Kickbusch;Gaudenz Silberschmidt;Paulo Buss

  • Health literacy: A new concept for general practice?

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

  • Governance for health in the 21st century

    Ilona Kickbusch;David Eric Gleicher

  • The political determinants of health—10 years on

    Ilona Kickbusch

  • How to achieve international action on falsified and substandard medicines.

    Amir Attaran;Donna Barry;Shamnad Basheer;Roger Bate

  • 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

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

    Fran Baum;Angela Lawless;Toni Delany;Colin Macdougall

  • The development of international health policies--accountability intact?

    Ilona Kickbusch

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

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

  • Health and Modernity: The Role of Theory in Health Promotion

    David McQueen;Ilona Kickbusch;Louise Potvin

  • Self-care in health promotion

    Ilona Kickbusch

  • Response to the emerging novel coronavirus outbreak.

    Ilona Kickbusch;Gabriel Leung

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

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

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

    Sania Nishtar;Sauli Niinistö;Maithripala Sirisena;Tabaré Vázquez

  • Approaches to an ecological base for public health

    Ilona Kickbusch

Frequent Co-Authors

Ashish K. Jha
Ashish K. Jha Brown University
Peter J. Hotez
Peter J. Hotez Baylor College of Medicine
Don Nutbeam
Don Nutbeam University of Sydney
Peter Piot
Peter Piot London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
David L. Heymann
David L. Heymann London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Marcel Tanner
Marcel Tanner Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Eugene Kolker
Eugene Kolker New York University
Devi Sridhar
Devi Sridhar University of Edinburgh
Paul N. Newton
Paul N. Newton University of Oxford
Charles N. Rotimi
Charles N. Rotimi National Institutes of Health

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