Alexander K. Rowe

11.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
67 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Alexander K. Rowe is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, General Health Professions and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander K. Rowe has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 21 papers in General Health Professions and 20 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Alexander K. Rowe's work include Global Maternal and Child Health (47 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (20 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (14 papers). Alexander K. Rowe is often cited by papers focused on Global Maternal and Child Health (47 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (20 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (14 papers). Alexander K. Rowe collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Kenya. Alexander K. Rowe's co-authors include Claudio F. Lanata, Don de Savigny, César G. Victora, Samantha Rowe, Michael S. Deming, Joy E Lawn, Dejan Zurovac, David Sanders, Stephen Jan and Zulfiqar A Bhutta and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Epidemiology.

In The Last Decade

Alexander K. Rowe

66 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

How can we achieve and maintain high-quality performance of health workers in low-resource settings?

2005 801 citations Alexander K. Rowe et al. The Lancet profile →
Achieving child survival goals: potential contribution of community health workers

2007 728 citations Andy Haines, David Sanders et al. The Lancet profile →
Effectiveness of strategies to improve health-care provider practices in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review

2018 273 citations Alexander K. Rowe, Samantha Rowe et al. profile →

Peers

Alexander K. Rowe

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George Pariyo Uganda

Don de Savigny Switzerland

Göran Tomson Sweden

Ties Boerma Canada

Sassy Molyneux Kenya

Margaret Gyapong Ghana

Peter Byass Sweden

Henry B. Perry United States

Marcel Tanner Switzerland

Taghreed Adam Switzerland

George Pariyo Uganda

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PPCH

1.9k ×1.4

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912 ×0.7

PHEOH

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Countries citing papers authored by Alexander K. Rowe

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander K. Rowe

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liu, Yueming, et al.. (2023). The effectiveness of pay-for-performance contracts with non-governmental organizations in Afghanistan – results of a controlled interrupted time series analysis. BMC Health Services Research. 23(1). 122–122. 2 indexed citations

Arsenault, Catherine, Samantha Rowe, Dennis Ross‐Degnan, et al.. (2021). How does the effectiveness of strategies to improve healthcare provider practices in low-income and middle-income countries change after implementation? Secondary analysis of a systematic review. BMJ Quality & Safety. 31(2). 123–133. 13 indexed citations

Rowe, Alexander K., Samantha Rowe, David H. Peters, Kathleen Holloway, & Dennis Ross‐Degnan. (2021). The effectiveness of training strategies to improve healthcare provider practices in low-income and middle-income countries. BMJ Global Health. 6(1). e003229–e003229. 36 indexed citations

García‐Elorrio, Ezequiel, et al.. (2019). The effectiveness of the quality improvement collaborative strategy in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS ONE. 14(10). e0221919–e0221919. 46 indexed citations

Rowe, Samantha, David H. Peters, Kathleen Holloway, et al.. (2019). A systematic review of the effectiveness of strategies to improve health care provider performance in low- and middle-income countries: Methods and descriptive results. PLoS ONE. 14(5). e0217617–e0217617. 40 indexed citations

Kaunda-Khangamwa, Blessings N., Laura C. Steinhardt, Alexander K. Rowe, et al.. (2018). The effect of mobile phone text message reminders on health workers’ adherence to case management guidelines for malaria and other diseases in Malawi: lessons from qualitative data from a cluster-randomized trial. Malaria Journal. 17(1). 481–481. 19 indexed citations

Brown, Ross, Suzanne Mawson, & Alexander K. Rowe. (2017). Start-Ups, Entrepreneurial Networks and Equity Crowdfunding: A Processual Perspective (Forthcoming). Industrial Marketing Management. 1 indexed citations

Waiswa, Peter, Fatuma Manzi, Godfrey Mbaruku, et al.. (2017). Effects of the EQUIP quasi-experimental study testing a collaborative quality improvement approach for maternal and newborn health care in Tanzania and Uganda. Implementation Science. 12(1). 89–89. 39 indexed citations

Steinhardt, Laura C., Faustin Onikpo, Emily Piercefield, et al.. (2015). Predictors of health worker performance after Integrated Management of Childhood Illness training in Benin: a cohort study. BMC Health Services Research. 15(1). 276–276. 30 indexed citations

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Rowe, Alexander K., Faustin Onikpo, Marcel Lama, & Michael S. Deming. (2012). Evaluating health worker performance in Benin using the simulated client method with real children. Implementation Science. 7(1). 95–95. 20 indexed citations

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Rowe, Alexander K., Emily Piercefield, Karen Herman, et al.. (2012). Trends in health worker performance after implementing the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy in Benin. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 17(4). 438–446. 20 indexed citations

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Skarbinski, Jacek, Peter Ouma, Louise Causer, et al.. (2009). Effect of malaria rapid diagnostic tests on the management of uncomplicated malaria with artemether-lumefantrine in Kenya: a cluster randomized trial.. PubMed. 80(6). 919–26. 78 indexed citations

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Rowe, Alexander K., et al.. (2009). The rise and fall of supervision in a project designed to strengthen supervision of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness in Benin. Health Policy and Planning. 25(2). 125–134. 57 indexed citations

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Rowe, Alexander K., S. Patrick Kachur, Steven S. Yoon, et al.. (2009). Caution is required when using health facility-based data to evaluate the health impact of malaria control efforts in Africa. Malaria Journal. 8(1). 209–209. 87 indexed citations

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Haines, Andy, David Sanders, Uta Lehmann, et al.. (2007). Achieving child survival goals: potential contribution of community health workers. The Lancet. 369(9579). 2121–2131. 728 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zurovac, Dejan & Alexander K. Rowe. (2006). Quality of treatment for febrile illness among children at outpatient facilities in sub-Saharan Africa. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. 100(4). 283–296. 58 indexed citations

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Rowe, Alexander K., Kenneth E. Powell, & W. Dana Flanders. (2004). Why population attributable fractions can sum to more than one. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 26(3). 243–249. 98 indexed citations

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Rowe, Alexander K., Faustin Onikpo, Marcel Lama, & Michael S. Deming. (2003). Risk and protective factors for two types of error in the treatment of children with fever at outpatient health facilities in Benin. International Journal of Epidemiology. 32(2). 296–303. 47 indexed citations

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Rowe, Alexander K., Michael S. Deming, Benjamin Schwartz, et al.. (2000). Antimicrobial resistance of nasopharyngeal isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae from children in the Central African Republic. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 19(5). 438–444. 18 indexed citations

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Ksiazek, T. G., Pierre E. Rollin, A. J. Williams, et al.. (1999). Clinical Virology of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (EHF): Virus, Virus Antigen, and IgG and IgM Antibody Findings among EHF Patients in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1995. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 179(s1). S177–S187. 252 indexed citations

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