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Social Sciences and Humanities
New Zealand
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
65
Citations
27400
World Ranking
1010
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in New Zealand Leader Award

Overview

Nick Wilson is affiliated with the University of Otago in New Zealand. Their research spans a multidisciplinary scope within the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with significant contributions across various subfields including Accounting, General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Finance, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The researcher's main topics of work reflect a blend of financial, health, and policy-related interests. These include:

  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency

Nick Wilson has contributed to several peer-reviewed papers. Notable publications include:

  • The effect of food taxes and subsidies on population health and health costs: a modelling study, 2020, The Lancet Public Health
  • Failures of quarantine systems for preventing COVID-19 outbreaks in Australia and New Zealand, 2021, The Medical Journal of Australia
  • The probability of the 6-week lockdown in Victoria (commencing 9 July 2020) achieving elimination of community transmission of SARS-CoV-2, 2020, The Medical Journal of Australia
  • Progress in the Pacific on sugar-sweetened beverage taxes: a systematic review of policy changes from 2000 to 2019, 2021, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
  • Relative contribution of trends in myocardial infarction event rates and case fatality to declines in mortality: an international comparative study of 1·95 million events in 80·4 million people in four countries, 2022, The Lancet Public Health

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Tony Blakely
  • Marek Káčer
  • Michael G. Baker
  • Marc Cowling
  • Nhung Nghiem

Nick Wilson's works have been published in a range of venues, particularly journals and platforms known for public health and scientific research. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Stephen S. Lim;Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Goodarz Danaei

  • Impact of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes on purchases and dietary intake: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Andrea M. Teng;Amanda C. Jones;Anja Mizdrak;Louise Signal

  • Impact of graphic and text warnings on cigarette packs: findings from four countries over five years

    R Borland;N Wilson;G T Fong;D Hammond

  • How reactions to cigarette packet health warnings influence quitting: findings from the ITC Four-Country survey.

    Ron Borland;Hua-Hie Yong;Nick Wilson;Geoffrey T. Fong;Geoffrey T. Fong

  • Case-Fatality Risk Estimates for COVID-19 Calculated by Using a Lag Time for Fatality

    Nick Wilson;Amanda Kvalsvig;Lucy Telfar Barnard;Michael G. Baker

  • Increasing incidence of serious infectious diseases and inequalities in New Zealand: a national epidemiological study

    Michael G Baker;Lucy Telfar Barnard;Amanda Kvalsvig;Ayesha Verrall

  • The Perception and Effects of Share Ownership: Empirical Evidence from Employee Buy-Outs

    Andrew Pendleton;Nicholas Wilson;Mike Wright

  • Pandemic influenza A(H1N1)v in New Zealand: the experience from April to August 2009.

    M G Baker;N Wilson;Q S Huang;S Paine

  • Family Business Survival and the Role of Boards

    Nick Wilson;Mike Wright;Louise Scholes

  • Systematic review of the use of Google Street View in health research: Major themes, strengths, weaknesses and possibilities for future research.

    Amanda Rzotkiewicz;Amber L. Pearson;Benjamin V. Dougherty;Ashton Shortridge

  • Potential lessons from the Taiwan and New Zealand health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

    Jennifer Summers;Hao Yuan Cheng;Hao Yuan Cheng;Hsien Ho Lin;Lucy Telfar Barnard

  • After the smoke has cleared: evaluation of the impact of a new national smoke-free law in New Zealand

    R Edwards;G Thomson;N Wilson;A Waa

  • Elimination could be the optimal response strategy for covid-19 and other emerging pandemic diseases.

    Michael G Baker;Nick Wilson;Tony Blakely;Tony Blakely

  • Foods and Dietary Patterns That Are Healthy, Low-Cost, and Environmentally Sustainable: A Case Study of Optimization Modeling for New Zealand

    Nick Wilson;Nhung Nghiem;Cliona Ni Mhurchu;Helen Eyles

  • The global distribution of risk factors by poverty level

    Tony Blakely;Simon Hales;Charlotte Kieft;Nick Wilson

  • What is the contribution of smoking and socioeconomic position to ethnic inequalities in mortality in New Zealand

    Tony Blakely;Jackie Fawcett;Darren Hunt;Nick Wilson

  • Airborne transmission of covid-19.

    Nick Wilson;Stephen Corbett;Euan Tovey

  • Patterns of sports sponsorship by gambling, alcohol and food companies: an Internet survey

    Anthony Maher;Nick Wilson;Louise Signal;George Thomson

  • Health, Health Inequality, and Cost Impacts of Annual Increases in Tobacco Tax: Multistate Life Table Modeling in New Zealand.

    Tony Blakely;Linda J. Cobiac;Christine L. Cleghorn;Amber L. Pearson

  • Transmission of pandemic A/H1N1 2009 influenza on passenger aircraft: retrospective cohort study

    Michael G Baker;Craig N Thornley;Clair Mills;Sally Roberts

  • New Zealand's elimination strategy for the COVID-19 pandemic and what is required to make it work

    Michael G. Baker;Amanda Kvalsvig;Ayesha J. Verrall;Lucy Telfar-Barnard

Frequent Co-Authors

Tony Blakely
Tony Blakely University of Melbourne
Richard Edwards
Richard Edwards University of Otago
Janet Hoek
Janet Hoek University of Otago
Philippa Howden-Chapman
Philippa Howden-Chapman University of Otago
Alistair Woodward
Alistair Woodward University of Auckland
Martin Tobias
Martin Tobias Wellington Management Company
Mark Stevenson
Mark Stevenson University of Melbourne
David Hammond
David Hammond University of Waterloo
Heath Kelly
Heath Kelly Australian National University
John Marsden
John Marsden King's College London

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