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D-Index
66
Citations
21171
World Ranking
2046
National Ranking
165

Sandy Cairncross publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sandy Cairncross sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 190 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Sandy Cairncross D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sandy Cairncross sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Best Publications

  • Effect of washing hands with soap on diarrhoea risk in the community: a systematic review

    Val Curtis;Sandy Cairncross

  • Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene in low- and middle-income settings: a retrospective analysis of data from 145 countries

    Annette Prüss-Ustün;Jamie K. Bartram;Thomas Clasen;John M. Colford

  • Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water: Forgotten Foundations of Health

    Jamie Bartram;Sandy Cairncross

  • Water, sanitation and hygiene for the prevention of diarrhoea.

    Sandy Cairncross;Caroline Hunt;Sophie Boisson;Kristof Bostoen

  • Interventions to improve water quality for preventing diarrhoea: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Thomas Clasen;Wolf-Peter Schmidt;Taber Rabie;Ian G. Roberts

  • Interventions to improve water quality for preventing diarrhoea

    Thomas F Clasen;Kelly T Alexander;David Sinclair;Sophie Boisson

  • Environmental Health Engineering in the Tropics: An Introductory Text

    Sandy Cairncross;Richard Feachem

  • Guidelines for the safe use of wastewater and excreta in agriculture and aquaculture. Measures for public health protection.

    D. Duncan Mara;Sandy Cairncross

  • Assessing the impact of drinking water and sanitation on diarrhoeal disease in low- and middle-income settings: systematic review and meta-regression.

    Jennyfer Wolf;Jennyfer Wolf;Jennyfer Wolf;Annette Prüss-Ustün;Oliver Cumming;Jamie Bartram

  • Review: Domestic hygiene and diarrhoea -- pinpointing the problem.

    Valerie Curtis;Sandy Cairncross;Raymond Yonli

  • Menstrual Hygiene Practices, WASH Access and the Risk of Urogenital Infection in Women from Odisha, India

    Padma Das;Kelly K. Baker;Ambarish Dutta;Tapoja Swain

  • Industry, settlement and society

    T.J. Wilbanks;P. Romero Lankao;M. Bao;F.G.H. Berkhout

  • Household water treatment in poor populations: is there enough evidence for scaling up now?

    Wolf-Peter Schmidt;Sandy Cairncross

  • Can water, sanitation and hygiene help eliminate stunting? Current evidence and policy implications

    Oliver Cumming;Sandy Cairncross

  • Effect of city-wide sanitation programme on reduction in rate of childhood diarrhoea in northeast Brazil: assessment by two cohort studies

    Mauricio L Barreto;Bernd Genser;Agostino Strina;Ana Marlucia O Assis

  • Water supply, sanitation and hygiene promotion (Chapter 41)

    S Cairncross;Valdmanis

  • Dynamics of dengue virus circulation: a silent epidemic in a complex urban area

    Maria da Glória Lima Cruz Teixeira;Mauricio Lima Barreto;Maria da Conceição Nascimento Costa;Leila Denise Alves Ferreira

  • The Impact of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Interventions to Control Cholera: A Systematic Review

    Dawn L. Taylor;Tanya M. Kahawita;Sandy Cairncross;Jeroen H. J. Ensink

  • Water, sanitation, hygiene and enteric infections in children

    Joe Brown;Sandy Cairncross;Jeroen H J Ensink

  • Guidelines for the safe use of wastewater and excreta in agriculture and aquaculture.

    D. Mara;S. Cairncross

Frequent Co-Authors

Mauricio Lima Barreto
Mauricio Lima Barreto Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Thomas Clasen
Thomas Clasen Emory University
Jamie Bartram
Jamie Bartram University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Anders Dalsgaard
Anders Dalsgaard University of Copenhagen
Duncan Mara
Duncan Mara University of Leeds
Christopher A. Scott
Christopher A. Scott University of Arizona
Stephen P. Luby
Stephen P. Luby Stanford University
Annette Prüss-Ustün
Annette Prüss-Ustün World Health Organization
John D. Clemens
John D. Clemens University of California, Los Angeles
Hubert P. Endtz
Hubert P. Endtz Erasmus University Rotterdam

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