Abid Malik

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Abid Malik is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Clinical Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Abid Malik has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 29 papers in Clinical Psychology and 14 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Abid Malik's work include Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (37 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (24 papers) and Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (11 papers). Abid Malik is often cited by papers focused on Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (37 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (24 papers) and Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (11 papers). Abid Malik collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Pakistan and United States. Abid Malik's co-authors include Atıf Rahman, Siham Sikander, Francis Creed, C Michael Roberts, Najia Atif, Pamela J. Surkan, Armaan A. Rowther, Huma Nazir, Barbara Tomenson and Peter Haddad and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Medicine and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Abid Malik

35 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Cognitive behaviour therapy-based intervention by community health workers for mothers with depression and their infants in rural Pakistan: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

2008 684 citations Atıf Rahman, Abid Malik et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Abid Malik United Kingdom	13	616	564	354	300	216	41	1.1k
Najia Atif United Kingdom	18	801 1.3×	806 1.4×	392 1.1×	346 1.2×	332 1.5×	61	1.3k
Mesfin Araya Ethiopia	13	500 0.8×	346 0.6×	171 0.5×	193 0.6×	202 0.9×	24	824
Juliet Nakku Uganda	23	743 1.2×	535 0.9×	472 1.3×	241 0.8×	509 2.4×	59	1.6k
Ikhlaq Ahmad United Kingdom	11	345 0.6×	352 0.6×	200 0.6×	181 0.6×	149 0.7×	19	640
Simone Honikman South Africa	20	725 1.2×	1.0k 1.8×	251 0.7×	431 1.4×	359 1.7×	53	1.5k
Emily Feinberg United States	24	749 1.2×	394 0.7×	119 0.3×	391 1.3×	382 1.8×	91	1.4k
Fei‐Wan Ngai Hong Kong	19	492 0.8×	662 1.2×	209 0.6×	274 0.9×	176 0.8×	56	1.1k
Benedict Weobong United Kingdom	21	717 1.2×	504 0.9×	617 1.7×	456 1.5×	549 2.5×	44	1.8k
S. Darius Tandon United States	24	958 1.6×	835 1.5×	295 0.8×	394 1.3×	430 2.0×	68	1.7k
Scholastic Ashaba Uganda	21	458 0.7×	266 0.5×	202 0.6×	123 0.4×	433 2.0×	83	1.2k

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Waqas, Ahmed, Abid Malik, Najia Atif, et al.. (2025). Exploring the delivery of empathic care in task-shared settings: A psychometric study in rural Pakistan. Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health. 12. e15–e15. 1 indexed citations

Malik, Abid, et al.. (2025). An intervention to address prenatal anxiety improves maternal‐infant bonding, with effects mediated by maternal‐infant responsiveness, maternal self‐efficacy, and postpartum depression. Infant Mental Health Journal. 46(6). 842–854.

Chen, Tao, Abid Malik, Huma Nazir, et al.. (2025). Cost-effectiveness of a technology-assisted peer-delivered perinatal mental health intervention in Pakistan: an economic evaluation using trial evidence. BMJ Global Health. 10(11). e020833–e020833.

Rahman, Atıf, Abid Malik, Huma Nazir, et al.. (2025). Technology-assisted cognitive-behavioral therapy for perinatal depression delivered by lived-experience peers: a cluster-randomized noninferiority trial. Nature Medicine. 31(7). 2196–2203. 1 indexed citations

Etyemez, Semra, Ahmed Zaidi, Najia Atif, et al.. (2024). The immune phenotype of perinatal anxiety in an anxiety-focused behavioral intervention program in Pakistan. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 120. 141–150. 4 indexed citations

Nisar, Anum, Jamie Perin, Abid Malik, et al.. (2024). Impact of an intervention for perinatal anxiety on breastfeeding: findings from the Happy Mother—Healthy Baby randomized controlled trial in Pakistan. International Breastfeeding Journal. 19(1). 53–53. 1 indexed citations

Bauer, Annette, Martín Knapp, Nasim Chaudhry, et al.. (2024). Economic costs of perinatal depression and anxiety in a lower middle income country: Pakistan. Journal of Affective Disorders. 357. 60–67. 1 indexed citations

Waqas, Ahmed, Siham Sikander, Abid Malik, Najia Atif, & Atıf Rahman. (2024). Optimizing psychotherapies for perinatal depressive symptom dimensions by strengthening social support networks: an exploratory mediation analysis approach. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11. e91–e91. 1 indexed citations

Surkan, Pamela J., Abid Malik, Jamie Perin, et al.. (2024). Anxiety-focused cognitive behavioral therapy delivered by non-specialists to prevent postnatal depression: a randomized, phase 3 trial. Nature Medicine. 30(3). 675–682. 12 indexed citations

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Surkan, Pamela J., Ahmed Zaidi, Najia Atif, et al.. (2024). Effects of a Prenatal Anxiety Randomized Controlled Trial Intervention on Infant Development in Pakistan. Academic Pediatrics. 25(1). 102551–102551.

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Malik, Abid, et al.. (2024). “Translation, cultural adaptation, and validation of perinatal grief scale in Urdu: Addressing a gap in the research of perinatal loss in Pakistan–Cross‐sectional validation study”. Health Science Reports. 7(4). e1999–e1999. 2 indexed citations

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Zaidi, Ahmed, et al.. (2024). Social Support and Spousal Relationship Quality Improves Responsiveness among Anxious Mothers. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. 57(1). 138–151. 1 indexed citations

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Atif, Najia, Huma Nazir, Shaffaq Zulfiqar, et al.. (2023). Non-specialist-delivered psychosocial intervention for prenatal anxiety in a tertiary care setting in Pakistan: a qualitative process evaluation. BMJ Open. 13(2). e069988–e069988. 8 indexed citations

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Malik, Abid, Armaan A. Rowther, Shaffaq Zulfiqar, et al.. (2023). Perceived Social Support and Women’s Empowerment and Their Associations with Pregnancy Experiences in Anxious Women: A Study from Urban Pakistan. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 27(5). 916–925. 8 indexed citations

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Rahman, Atıf, Abid Malik, Najia Atif, et al.. (2023). Technology-assisted cognitive-behavior therapy delivered by peers versus standard cognitive behavior therapy delivered by community health workers for perinatal depression: study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled non-inferiority trial. Trials. 24(1). 555–555. 3 indexed citations

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Nazir, Huma, et al.. (2022). ‘Those whom I have to talk to, I can't talk to’: Perceived social isolation in the context of anxiety symptoms among pregnant women in Pakistan. Health & Social Care in the Community. 30(6). e5885–e5896. 10 indexed citations

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Rowther, Armaan A., Najia Atif, Huma Nazir, et al.. (2021). Intersections between patient-provider communication and antenatal anxiety in a public healthcare setting in Pakistan. PLoS ONE. 16(2). e0244671–e0244671. 8 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Ikhlaq, Ahmed Waqas, Najia Atif, et al.. (2020). Measuring the implementation strength of a perinatal mental health intervention delivered by peer volunteers in rural Pakistan. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 130. 103559–103559. 9 indexed citations

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Rahman, Atıf, Assad Hafeez, Siham Sikander, et al.. (2015). The impact of perinatal depression on exclusive breastfeeding: a cohort study. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 12(3). 452–462. 63 indexed citations

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Rahman, Atıf, et al.. (2012). Effective treatment of perinatal depression for women in debt and lacking financial empowerment in a low-income country. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 201(6). 451–457. 24 indexed citations

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