Alison Gemmill

12.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
122 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Alison Gemmill is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, General Health Professions and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Alison Gemmill has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 40 papers in General Health Professions and 30 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Alison Gemmill's work include Global Maternal and Child Health (40 papers), Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (21 papers) and Reproductive Health and Contraception (19 papers). Alison Gemmill is often cited by papers focused on Global Maternal and Child Health (40 papers), Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (21 papers) and Reproductive Health and Contraception (19 papers). Alison Gemmill collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and France. Alison Gemmill's co-authors include Leontine Alkema, Doris Chou, Ann‐Beth Moller, Lale Say, Özge Tunçalp, Jane Daniels, A Metin Gülmezoglu, Marleen Temmerman, Daniel Hogan and Colin Mathers and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Alison Gemmill

116 papers receiving 7.4k 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.

Global causes of maternal death: a WHO systematic analysis

2014 4.0k citations Alison Gemmill et al. profile →
Global, regional, and national levels and trends in maternal mortality between 1990 and 2015, with scenario-based projections to 2030: a systematic analysis by the UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group

2015 1.5k citations Alison Gemmill et al. profile →
Trends in maternal mortality : 1990 to 2013 - estimates by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, the World Bank, and the United Nations population division

2014 572 citations Alison Gemmill et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alison Gemmill United States	21	5.6k	3.2k	1.6k	1.5k	718	122	7.7k
Andreea A. Creanga United States	38	5.5k 1.0×	3.4k 1.1×	2.5k 1.6×	1.4k 0.9×	449 0.6×	130	7.8k
Jos van Roosmalen Netherlands	49	6.4k 1.1×	4.4k 1.4×	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	574 0.8×	315	8.6k
Ana Langer United States	42	5.3k 1.0×	3.8k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	2.2k 1.5×	592 0.8×	200	7.8k
Ties Boerma Canada	32	4.0k 0.7×	1.5k 0.5×	740 0.5×	2.2k 1.5×	990 1.4×	107	6.3k
A. Metin Gülmezog̈lu Switzerland	51	9.5k 1.7×	7.8k 2.4×	3.3k 2.1×	2.1k 1.4×	944 1.3×	162	13.3k
Meghan A. Bohren Australia	35	3.9k 0.7×	3.4k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	271 0.4×	132	6.9k
Fernando Althabe Argentina	34	3.9k 0.7×	3.3k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	374 0.5×	123	6.0k
Caroline Homer Australia	53	5.4k 1.0×	6.6k 2.0×	3.2k 2.0×	2.8k 1.9×	373 0.5×	425	11.9k
A Metin Gülmezoglu Switzerland	46	9.7k 1.7×	7.5k 2.3×	4.2k 2.6×	1.9k 1.2×	1.0k 1.5×	122	14.6k
José Villar Switzerland	41	4.2k 0.8×	2.9k 0.9×	987 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	885 1.2×	68	6.2k

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Bruckner, Tim A., et al.. (2025). Left Truncation in the Periviable Period and the Black Survival Advantage. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 39(5). 420–427. 2 indexed citations

Bruckner, Tim A., et al.. (2025). Stillbirths and the race-specific gap in neonatal death among extremely preterm births. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 38965–38965.

Margerison, Claire E., Alison Gemmill, Sandie Ha, et al.. (2024). Trends and disparities in violence-related injury morbidity among pregnant and postpartum individuals. Annals of Epidemiology. 100. 50–56. 1 indexed citations

Rigby, David L., et al.. (2024). State-level changes in racial disparities in probation and parole rates in the United States, 2001-2018. American Journal of Epidemiology. 194(11). 3091–3098.

Leifheit, Kathryn M., et al.. (2024). Tenant Right-to-Counsel and Adverse Birth Outcomes in New York, New York. JAMA Pediatrics. 178(12). 1337–1337. 2 indexed citations

Catalano, Ralph, et al.. (2024). Vanishing twins, spared cohorts, and the birthweight of periviable infants born to Black and white women in the United States. Science Advances. 10(36). eado6691–eado6691. 3 indexed citations

Catalano, Ralph, Tim A. Bruckner, Alison Gemmill, & Claire E. Margerison. (2024). The pandemic preterm paradox: a test of competing explanations. American Journal of Epidemiology. 193(12). 1823–1831. 1 indexed citations

Sarnak, Dana, et al.. (2024). Are Contraceptive Method Preferences Stable? Measuring Change in the Preferred Method among Kenyan Women. Studies in Family Planning. 55(3). 193–214. 3 indexed citations

Casey, Joan A., Heather McBrien, Alison Gemmill, et al.. (2023). Disparities in preterm birth following the July 1995 Chicago heat wave. Annals of Epidemiology. 87. 31–37.e2. 2 indexed citations

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Catalano, Ralph, Tim A. Bruckner, Alison Gemmill, et al.. (2023). A novel indicator of selectionin utero. Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 11(1). 244–250. 3 indexed citations

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Gemmill, Alison, et al.. (2023). The Relationship Between Contraceptive Method Use and Return of Fecundity Among Women Attempting Pregnancy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Demography. 60(4). 1163–1179. 6 indexed citations

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Bruckner, Tim A. & Alison Gemmill. (2023). Causes of ART‐related outcomes in the COVID‐19 era. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 37(2). 128–130. 1 indexed citations

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Margerison, Claire E., et al.. (2022). Exposure to the early COVID‐19 pandemic and early, moderate and overall preterm births in the United States: A conception cohort approach. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 37(2). 104–112. 7 indexed citations

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Powell, Terrinieka W., et al.. (2022). A Latent Class Analysis: Identifying Pregnancy Intention Classes Among U.S. Adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health. 71(4). 466–473. 4 indexed citations

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Catalano, Ralph, Tim A. Bruckner, Joan A. Casey, et al.. (2021). Twinning during the pandemic. Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 9(1). 374–382. 15 indexed citations

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Gemmill, Alison, Joan A. Casey, Ralph Catalano, et al.. (2021). Changes in preterm birth and caesarean deliveries in the United States during the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 36(4). 485–489. 31 indexed citations

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Gemmill, Alison, Erica Sedlander, & Marta Bornstein. (2020). Variation in Self-Perceived Fecundity among Young Adult U.S. Women. Women s Health Issues. 31(1). 31–39. 11 indexed citations

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Catalano, Ralph, Joan A. Casey, Tim A. Bruckner, & Alison Gemmill. (2020). Non-COVID-19 deaths after social distancing in Norway. European Journal of Epidemiology. 35(11). 1021–1024. 5 indexed citations

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Catalano, Ralph, Tim A. Bruckner, Lyndsay A. Avalos, et al.. (2017). Understanding periviable birth: A microeconomic alternative to the dysregulation narrative. Social Science & Medicine. 233. 281–284. 7 indexed citations

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Catalano, Ralph, et al.. (2017). Separating the Bruce and Trivers‐Willard effects in theory and in human data. American Journal of Human Biology. 30(2). 7 indexed citations

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