Ashish KC

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
124 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Ashish KC is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Nutrition and Dietetics and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Ashish KC has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 35 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 32 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Ashish KC's work include Global Maternal and Child Health (76 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (34 papers) and Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (31 papers). Ashish KC is often cited by papers focused on Global Maternal and Child Health (76 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (34 papers) and Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (31 papers). Ashish KC collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Nepal and United States. Ashish KC's co-authors include Mats Målqvist, Uwe Ewald, Johan Wrammert, Rejina Gurung, Omkar Basnet, Avinash K. Sunny, Kalpana Subedi, Ola Andersson, Nisha Rana and Prajwal Paudel and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and PEDIATRICS.

In The Last Decade

Ashish KC

118 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic response on intrapartum care, stillbirth, and neonatal mortality outcomes in Nepal: a prospective observational study
    2020 289 citations Ashish KC, Rejina Gurung et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ashish KC Sweden 28 1.6k 632 541 468 466 124 2.3k
Mats Målqvist Sweden 33 1.8k 1.1× 465 0.7× 502 0.9× 589 1.3× 840 1.8× 118 2.7k
William Keenan United States 27 1.4k 0.9× 945 1.5× 202 0.4× 425 0.9× 509 1.1× 93 2.7k
Janet Tucker United Kingdom 21 806 0.5× 566 0.9× 375 0.7× 91 0.2× 492 1.1× 41 2.0k
Nancy L. Sloan United States 21 1000 0.6× 183 0.3× 355 0.7× 337 0.7× 451 1.0× 50 1.5k
Jenny A. Cresswell United Kingdom 18 1.2k 0.7× 188 0.3× 625 1.2× 210 0.4× 344 0.7× 44 1.7k
Gunilla Lindmark Sweden 36 2.3k 1.4× 174 0.3× 1.5k 2.7× 447 1.0× 710 1.5× 126 3.9k
Louise T. Day United Kingdom 16 1.1k 0.7× 147 0.2× 421 0.8× 348 0.7× 390 0.8× 48 1.5k
Bukola Fawole Nigeria 26 1.7k 1.1× 181 0.3× 1.4k 2.6× 111 0.2× 264 0.6× 46 2.2k
Sophie Alexander Belgium 31 3.0k 1.9× 320 0.5× 2.5k 4.6× 127 0.3× 653 1.4× 96 4.4k
Janet Bronstein United States 21 707 0.4× 472 0.7× 243 0.4× 40 0.1× 589 1.3× 80 1.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ashish KC

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All Works

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Bhattarai, Pratiksha, Heléne E.K. Sundelin, Rejina Gurung, et al.. (2024). ‘We did everything by phone’: a qualitative study of mothers' experience of smartphone-aided screening of cerebral palsy in Kathmandu, Nepal. BMC Pediatrics. 24(1). 357–357.
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Basnet, Omkar, Pratiksha Bhattarai, Rejina Gurung, et al.. (2024). Assessment of economic burden due to COVID-19 pandemic during institutional childbirth in Nepal: before-and-after design. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). e000507–e000507.
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KC, Ashish, et al.. (2023). Recent Progress in Neonatal Global Health Quality Improvement. Clinics in Perinatology. 50(2). 507–529. 1 indexed citations
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Paudel, Prajwal, et al.. (2021). Burden and consequence of birth defects in Nepal-evidence from prospective cohort study. BMC Pediatrics. 21(1). 81–81. 9 indexed citations
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Sunny, Avinash K., Prajwal Paudel, Hong Zhou, et al.. (2021). A multicenter study of incidence, risk factors and outcomes of babies with birth asphyxia in Nepal. BMC Pediatrics. 21(1). 394–394. 7 indexed citations
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KC, Ashish, Md Moinuddin, Emma Sacks, et al.. (2021). Mistreatment of newborns after childbirth in health facilities in Nepal: Results from a prospective cohort observational study. PLoS ONE. 16(2). e0246352–e0246352. 7 indexed citations
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Paudel, Prajwal, Avinash K. Sunny, Rejina Gurung, et al.. (2020). Meconium aspiration syndrome: incidence, associated risk factors and outcome‐evidence from a multicentric study in low‐resource settings in Nepal. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 56(4). 630–635. 13 indexed citations
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Gurung, Rejina, et al.. (2020). The burden of adolescent motherhood and health consequences in Nepal. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 20(1). 318–318. 24 indexed citations
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Budhathoki, Shyam Sundar, Avinash K. Sunny, Jeevan Thapa, et al.. (2020). Epidemiology of neonatal infections in hospitals of Nepal: evidence from a large- scale study. Archives of Public Health. 78(1). 39–39. 4 indexed citations
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Sunny, Avinash K., Rejina Gurung, Abhishek Gurung, Omkar Basnet, & Ashish KC. (2020). Out of Pocket Expenditure for Sick Newborn Care in Referral Hospitals of Nepal. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 24(S1). 57–65. 13 indexed citations
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Litorp, Helena, Rejina Gurung, Mats Målqvist, & Ashish KC. (2020). Disclosing suboptimal indications for emergency caesarean sections due to fetal distress and prolonged labor: a multicenter cross-sectional study at 12 public hospitals in Nepal. Reproductive Health. 17(1). 197–197. 9 indexed citations
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Gurung, Abhishek, Johan Wrammert, Avinash K. Sunny, et al.. (2020). Incidence, risk factors and consequences of preterm birth – findings from a multi-centric observational study for 14 months in Nepal. Archives of Public Health. 78(1). 64–64. 37 indexed citations
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Litorp, Helena, Avinash K. Sunny, & Ashish KC. (2020). Augmentation of labor with oxytocin and its association with delivery outcomes: A large‐scale cohort study in 12 public hospitals in Nepal. Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica. 100(4). 684–693. 16 indexed citations
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KC, Ashish, Sara K. Berkelhamer, Rejina Gurung, et al.. (2019). The burden of and factors associated with misclassification of intrapartum stillbirth: Evidence from a large scale multicentric observational study. Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica. 99(3). 303–311. 15 indexed citations
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KC, Ashish, Kusum Thapa, Naresh P. KC, et al.. (2011). Developing community-based intervention strategies and package to save newborns in Nepal.. PubMed. 9(2). 107–18. 13 indexed citations
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KC, Naresh P., et al.. (2011). Community participation and mobilization in community-based maternal, newborn and child health programmes in Nepal.. PubMed. 9(2). 101–6. 23 indexed citations
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KC, Naresh P., Kusum Thapa, Parashu Ram Shrestha, et al.. (2011). Fitting Community Based Newborn Care Package into the health systems of Nepal.. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(2). 119–28. 18 indexed citations

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