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Peter Byass

Peter Byass

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
75
Citations
27426
World Ranking
19009
National Ranking
367

Peter Byass 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 Peter Byass sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 372 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter Byass 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 Peter Byass 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: 75 D-Index — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Peter Byass was affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden. Their research spanned several areas within medicine and health professions, with particular emphasis on global maternal and child health, public health policies, epidemiology, and the health impacts of climate change.

Their principal fields of study included:

  • Medicine
  • Health Professions

More specifically, subfields of study that Peter Byass contributed to were:

  • General Health Professions
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Epidemiology

Peter Byass worked extensively on topics such as:

  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
  • Health Policy Implementation Science

Their frequent co-authors included:

  • Lucia D'Ambruoso
  • Kathleen Kahn
  • Stephen Tollman
  • Carole Dalin
  • Niheer Dasandi

Peter Byass published multiple papers in notable venues, with many citing their work in public health and epidemiology contexts. Frequent publication venues were:

  • The Lancet
  • The Lancet Global Health
  • Global Health Action
  • BMJ Open
  • Health Research Policy and Systems

Some of their recent papers include:

  • The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises (2020, The Lancet)
  • Global burden of respiratory infections associated with seasonal influenza in children under 5 years in 2018: a systematic review and modelling study (2020, The Lancet Global Health)
  • The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission: bridging a gap in universal health coverage for the poorest billion (2020, The Lancet)
  • Eco-epidemiological assessment of the COVID-19 epidemic in China, January-February 2020 (2020, Global Health Action)
  • Randomised comparison of two household survey modules for measuring stillbirths and neonatal deaths in five countries: the Every Newborn-INDEPTH study (2020, The Lancet Global Health)

Best Publications

  • Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

    Nick Watts;W. Neil Adger;Paolo Agnolucci;Jason Blackstock

  • The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises.

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson;Kristine Belesova

  • The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • Mortality and morbidity from malaria among children in a rural area of The Gambia, West Africa

    B.M. Greenwood;A.K. Bradley;A.M. Greenwood;Peter Byass

  • Global patterns in monthly activity of influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza virus, and metapneumovirus: a systematic analysis

    You Li;Rachel M Reeves;Xin Wang;Quique Bassat

  • The Lancet Countdown : tracking progress on health and climate change

    Nick Watts;W. Neil Adger;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson;Yuqi Bai

  • Global burden of respiratory infections associated with seasonal influenza in children under 5 years in 2018: a systematic review and modelling study.

    Xin Wang;You Li;Katherine L. O'Brien;Shabir A. Madhi

  • Assessing the impact of mHealth interventions in low- and middle-income countries--what has been shown to work?

    Charles S. Hall;Edward Fottrell;Sophia Wilkinson;Peter Byass

  • Association between body mass index and blood pressure across three populations in Africa and Asia.

    F Tesfaye;N G Nawi;H Van Minh;P Byass

  • Incidence of malaria among children living near dams in northern Ethiopia: community based incidence survey

    Tedros A Ghebreyesus;Mitiku Haile;Karen H Witten;Asefaw Getachew

  • The INDEPTH Network: filling vital gaps in global epidemiology

    Osman Sankoh;Peter Byass

  • The global burden of liver disease: a challenge for methods and for public health

    Peter Byass;Peter Byass;Peter Byass

  • Diversity and divergence: the dynamic burden of poor maternal health

    Wendy Graham;Wendy Graham;Susannah Woodd;Peter Byass;Peter Byass;Veronique Filippi

  • Household risk factors for malaria among children in the Ethiopian highlands.

    Tedros A. Ghebreyesus;Mitiku Haile;Karen H. Witten;Asefaw Getachew

  • Population based prevalence of high blood pressure among adults in Addis Ababa: uncovering a silent epidemic.

    Fikru Tesfaye;Peter Byass;Stig Wall

  • Systems thinking for health systems strengthening

    P. Byass

  • Changes in malaria indices between 1999 and 2007 in The Gambia : a retrospective analysis. Commentary

    Peter Byass;Serign J. Ceesay;Climent Casals-Pascual;Jamie Erskine

  • Effect of a fall in malaria transmission on morbidity and mortality in Kilifi, Kenya. Commentary

    Peter Byass;Wendy P. O'meara;Phillip Bejon;Tabitha W. Mwangi

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathleen Kahn
Kathleen Kahn University of the Witwatersrand
Stephen Tollman
Stephen Tollman University of the Witwatersrand
Osman Sankoh
Osman Sankoh University of the Witwatersrand
Brian Greenwood
Brian Greenwood London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Nawi Ng
Nawi Ng University of Gothenburg
Ulf Högberg
Ulf Högberg Uppsala University
Robert W. Snow
Robert W. Snow Kenya Medical Research Institute
Mark A. Collinson
Mark A. Collinson University of the Witwatersrand
Hoang Van Minh
Hoang Van Minh Hanoi University of Public Health
Annelies Wilder-Smith
Annelies Wilder-Smith University of Bern

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