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Till Bärnighausen

Till Bärnighausen

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Germany
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
114
Citations
85277
World Ranking
34
National Ranking
2

Medicine

D-Index
114
Citations
85327
World Ranking
4616
National Ranking
250

Till Bärnighausen 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 Till Bärnighausen sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 599 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Till Bärnighausen 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 Till Bärnighausen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 114 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Till Bärnighausen is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and works primarily within the field of Medicine. Their research encompasses multiple subfields including General Health Professions, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist has contributed extensively to research topics such as HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Global Maternal and Child Health, and Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health. Other focal areas include HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk, Global Health Care Issues, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, and Healthcare Systems and Reforms.

Till Bärnighausen's recent publications include:

  • Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (2021, The Lancet Neurology)
  • Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: the Right to Sight: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study (2020, The Lancet Global Health)
  • Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (HALE), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950-2019: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (2020, The Lancet)
  • Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years for 29 Cancer Groups From 2010 to 2019 (2021, JAMA Oncology)
  • Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (2021, The Lancet)

Their most frequent co-authors include Pascal Geldsetzer, Simiao Chen, Sebastián Vollmer, Justine Davies, and Jennifer Manne-Goehler.

Published works by Till Bärnighausen appear regularly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Lancet, BMC Public Health, SSRN Electronic Journal, and PLoS ONE.

In addition to journal articles, Till Bärnighausen has contributed to book publications, including a title titled AI in eHealth published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Valery L Feigin;Benjamin A Stark;Catherine Owens Johnson;Gregory A Roth

  • Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2017

    Christina Fitzmaurice;Degu Abate;Naghmeh Abbasi;Hedayat Abbastabar

  • Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990-2016: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Valery L Feigin;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Foad Abd-Allah

  • Global, regional, and national burden of cardiovascular diseases for 10 causes, 1990 to 2015

    Gregory A. Roth;Catherine Johnson;Amanuel Abajobir;Foad Abd-Allah

  • Global Burden of Hypertension and Systolic Blood Pressure of at Least 110 to 115 mm Hg, 1990-2015

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Patrick Liu;Gregory A. Roth;Marie Ng

  • Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (HALE), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2019: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Haidong Wang;Kaja M. Abbas;Mitra Abbasifard;Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari

  • The State of US Health, 1990-2016: Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Among US States

    Ali H. Mokdad;Katherine Ballestros;Michelle Echko;Scott Glenn

  • Global, regional, and country-specific lifetime risks of stroke, 1990 and 2016

    VL Feigin;G Nguyen;K Cercy

  • Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Marissa B Reitsma;Parkes J Kendrick;Emad Ababneh;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, Regional, and National Levels and Trends in Burden of Oral Conditions from 1990 to 2017: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Study

    E. Bernabe;W. Marcenes;C.R. Hernandez

  • Global Economic Burden of Diabetes in Adults: Projections From 2015 to 2030

    Christian Bommer;Vera Sagalova;Esther Heesemann;Jennifer Manne-Goehler;Jennifer Manne-Goehler

  • Global, regional, and national burden of suicide mortality 1990 to 2016: systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Heather M. Orpana;Heather M. Orpana;Laurie B. Marczak;Megha Arora;Nooshin Abbasi

  • Hearing loss prevalence and years lived with disability, 1990–2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Lydia M Haile;Kaloyan Kamenov;Paul Svitil Briant;Aislyn U Orji

  • High Coverage of ART Associated with Decline in Risk of HIV Acquisition in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Frank Tanser;Till Bärnighausen;Till Bärnighausen;Erofili Grapsa;Jaffer Zaidi

  • Human resources and health outcomes: cross-country econometric study

    Sudhir Anand;Till Bärnighausen

  • COVID-19 control in China during mass population movements at New Year.

    Simiao Chen;Juntao Yang;Weizhong Yang;Chen Wang;Chen Wang

  • The global economic burden of diabetes in adults aged 20–79 years: a cost-of-illness study

    Christian Bommer;Esther Heesemann;Vera Sagalova;Jennifer Manne-Goehler

  • Increases in adult life expectancy in rural South Africa: valuing the scale-up of HIV treatment.

    Jacob Bor;Jacob Bor;Abraham J. Herbst;Marie-Louise Newell;Marie-Louise Newell;Till Bärnighausen;Till Bärnighausen

  • Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.

    Rafael Lozano;Nancy Fullman;John Everett Mumford;Megan Knight

  • The state of hypertension care in 44 low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative individual-level data from 1·1 million adults

    Pascal Geldsetzer;Jennifer Manne-Goehler;Maja Emilia Marcus;Cara Ebert;Cara Ebert

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie-Louise Newell
Marie-Louise Newell University of Southampton
Frank Tanser
Frank Tanser University of Lincoln
Shafiu Mohammed
Shafiu Mohammed Ahmadu Bello University
Ted R. Miller
Ted R. Miller Pacific Institute
Simon I. Hay
Simon I. Hay University of Washington
Joshua A. Salomon
Joshua A. Salomon Stanford University
Ali H. Mokdad
Ali H. Mokdad University of Washington
Bach Xuan Tran
Bach Xuan Tran Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Ferrán Catalá-López
Ferrán Catalá-López Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Zulfiqar A Bhutta Aga Khan University

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