2026 Ronald Labonté: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	75	550	476	31	28	452	19989

Ronald Labonté 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 Ronald Labonté sits on this spectrum.

44 publications 570+

This scientist: 452 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ronald Labonté 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 Ronald Labonté sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ronald Labonté is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. Their body of work includes a significant focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, and intersecting areas such as Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist has researched a variety of topics, primarily centered on Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, with notable attention to zoonotic diseases, animal disease management, global maternal and child health, employment and welfare studies, global health care issues, and public health policies and education.

Some of the recent papers by Ronald Labonté include:

Ethnic and racial disparities in COVID-19-related deaths: counting the trees, hiding the forest (2020), published in BMJ Global Health
Safeguarding people living in vulnerable conditions in the COVID-19 era through universal health coverage and social protection (2021), published in The Lancet Public Health
Globalisation in the time of COVID-19: repositioning Africa to meet the immediate and remote challenges (2020), published in Globalization and Health
What role for One Health in the COVID-19 pandemic? (2020), published in Canadian Journal of Public Health
Governing antimicrobial resistance: a narrative review of global governance mechanisms (2020), published in Journal of Public Health Policy

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ronald Labonté include:

Arne Rückert
Mary Wiktorowicz
Fran Baum
Manisha A. Kulkarni
Corinne Packer

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

Globalization and Health
International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Canadian Journal of Public Health
Global Public Health
SSRN Electronic Journal

In addition to journal articles, Ronald Labonté has published works in the book format, including the title Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity, 4th edition (2022) through Rutgers University Press.

Best Publications

"Everything Is Perfect, and We Have No Problems": Detecting and Limiting Social Desirability Bias in Qualitative Research.

Nicole Bergen;Ronald Labonté

1314
Citations
A planning framework for community empowerment goals within health promotion

Glenn Laverack;Ronald Labonte

653
Citations
Health Promotion and Empowerment: Reflections on Professional Practice

Ronald Labonte

611
Citations
Capacity building in health promotion, Part 1: For whom? And for what purpose?

Ronald Labonte;Glenn Laverack

523
Citations
Medical tourism today: What is the state of existing knowledge?

Laura Hopkins;Ronald Labonté;Vivien Runnels;Corinne Packer

494
Citations
Evaluating community capacity

Marion Gibbon;Ronald Labonte;Glenn Laverack

309
Citations
Social inclusion/exclusion: dancing the dialectic.

Ronald Labonte

297
Citations
Framing health and foreign policy: lessons for global health diplomacy.

Ronald Labonté;Michelle L Gagnon

295
Citations
Addressing social determinants of health inequities: what can the state and civil society do?

Erik Blas;Lucy Gilson;Michael P Kelly;Ronald Labonté

259
Citations
Ethnic and racial disparities in COVID-19-related deaths: counting the trees, hiding the forest.

Sanni Yaya;Helena Yeboah;Carlo Handy Charles;Akaninyene Otu

255
Citations
Canada: A land of missed opportunity for addressing the social determinants of health

Toba Bryant;Dennis Raphael;Ted Schrecker;Ronald Labonte

240
Citations
Globalization and social determinants of health: Introduction and methodological background (part 1 of 3)

Ronald Labonté;Ted Schrecker

239
Citations
Social capital and community development: practitioner emptor.

Ronald Labonte

231
Citations
The rise of neoliberalism: how bad economics imperils health and what to do about it

Ronald Labonté;David Stuckler

228
Citations
The growing impact of globalization for health and public health practice.

Ronald Labonté;Katia Mohindra;Ted Schrecker

199
Citations
Capacity building in health promotion, Part 2: Whose use? And with what measurement?

Ronald Labonte;Glenn Laverack

196
Citations
Empowering social action through narratives of identity and culture.

Lewis Williams;Ronald Labonte;Mike O'Brien

185
Citations
Globalization and health : pathways, evidence and policy

Ronald Labonté;Ted Schrecker;Corinne Packer;Vivien Runnels

183
Citations
Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa and Global Health

Ronald Labonte;Ted Schrecker;David Sanders;Wilma Meeus

178
Citations
Empowerment Forum: A Dialogue between Guest Editorial Board Members

E Bernstein;N Wallerstein;R Braithwaite;L Gutierrez

172
Citations
The Social Determinants of Health

Unknown

34
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Fran Baum University of Adelaide

David Sanders University of the Western Cape

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault University of Ottawa

Sharon Friel Australian National University

Toby Freeman University of Adelaide

Valorie A. Crooks Simon Fraser University

Anne Marie Thow University of Sydney

Allison Williams McMaster University

David Stuckler Bocconi University

Dennis Raphael York University

External Links

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