Barbara McPake

8.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
171 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Barbara McPake is a scholar working on Finance, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara McPake has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Finance, 74 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 67 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Barbara McPake's work include Healthcare Systems and Reforms (73 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (72 papers) and Healthcare Policy and Management (45 papers). Barbara McPake is often cited by papers focused on Healthcare Systems and Reforms (73 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (72 papers) and Healthcare Policy and Management (45 papers). Barbara McPake collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Barbara McPake's co-authors include Kara Hanson, Charles Hongoro, Anne Mills, Lindsay Mangham‐Jefferies, John Tayu Lee, Sara Bennett, Freddie Ssengooba, Rifat Atun, Ruairı́ Brugha and Kelley Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Barbara McPake

163 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Physical multimorbidity, health service use, and catastrophic health expenditure by socioeconomic groups in China: an analysis of population-based panel data

2020 250 citations Yang Zhao, Rifat Atun et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Barbara McPake	2.3k	2.3k	1.8k	1.8k	594	171	5.5k
Wim Van Damme	3.1k 1.3×	2.4k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 1.9×	204	7.3k
Dina Balabanova	1.4k 0.6×	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	567 1.0×	167	4.6k
Sara Bennett	2.7k 1.2×	2.5k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	285 0.5×	149	6.0k
Di McIntyre	3.2k 1.4×	3.4k 1.5×	2.9k 1.6×	1.9k 1.1×	487 0.8×	138	6.9k
Philip Musgrove	1.7k 0.7×	2.2k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	433 0.7×	165	5.7k
Qingyue Meng	1.4k 0.6×	2.9k 1.3×	2.9k 1.6×	2.0k 1.1×	706 1.2×	147	5.8k
Irène Akua Agyepong	2.7k 1.1×	2.3k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	316 0.5×	149	5.4k
Kara Hanson	3.9k 1.7×	2.9k 1.3×	2.5k 1.4×	2.6k 1.5×	444 0.7×	219	8.1k
Valéry Ridde	3.5k 1.5×	3.3k 1.4×	2.5k 1.4×	1.4k 0.8×	279 0.5×	514	7.7k
Taghreed Adam	2.9k 1.2×	2.5k 1.1×	953 0.5×	1.0k 0.6×	749 1.3×	54	6.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Barbara McPake

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Barbara McPake

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Scheffer, Mário, Paola A. Mosquera, Alex Jones Flores Cassenote, Barbara McPake, & Giuliano Russo. (2025). Brazil’s experiment to expand its medical workforce through private and public schools: Impacts and consequences of the balance of regulatory and market forces in resource-scarce settings. Globalization and Health. 21(1). 14–14. 2 indexed citations

McPake, Barbara, et al.. (2024). How can countries respond to the health and care workforce crisis? Insights from international evidence. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management. 39(3). 879–887. 10 indexed citations

Mahal, Ajay, et al.. (2024). A Chinese conundrum: does higher insurance coverage for hospitalization reduce financial protection for the patients who most need it?. Health Policy and Planning. 40(3). 287–299.

Lee, John Tayu, et al.. (2023). The effect of health insurance and socioeconomic status on women’s choice in birth attendant and place of delivery across regions in Indonesia: a multinomial logit analysis. BMJ Global Health. 8(1). e007758–e007758. 5 indexed citations

Asefa, Anteneh, Samson Gebremedhin, Tiara Marthias, et al.. (2023). Wealth-based inequality in the continuum of maternal health service utilisation in 16 sub-Saharan African countries. International Journal for Equity in Health. 22(1). 203–203. 18 indexed citations

Palladino, Raffaele, Tianxin Pan, Stewart W Mercer, et al.. (2023). Multimorbidity and out-of-pocket expenditure on medicine in Europe: Longitudinal analysis of 13 European countries between 2013 and 2015. Frontiers in Public Health. 10. 1053515–1053515. 5 indexed citations

Carman, William F., Marie Ishida, Stewart W Mercer, et al.. (2022). Epidemiology of physical–mental multimorbidity and its impact among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander in Australia: a cross-sectional analysis of a nationally representative sample. BMJ Open. 12(10). e054999–e054999. 7 indexed citations

Marthias, Tiara, Kanya Anindya, Nawi Ng, et al.. (2021). Impact of non-communicable disease multimorbidity on health service use, catastrophic health expenditure and productivity loss in Indonesia: a population-based panel data analysis study. BMJ Open. 11(2). e041870–e041870. 44 indexed citations

McPake, Barbara, et al.. (2019). Coordination between health and rehabilitation services in Bangladesh: Findings from 3 related studies. 10(1). 1 indexed citations

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McPake, Barbara, et al.. (2019). The Impact of Leaving Camps on Well‐being of Internally Displaced Persons in Northern Uganda. South African Journal of Economics. 88(1). 21–39. 1 indexed citations

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Rarau, Patricia, Justin Pulford, Hebe Gouda, et al.. (2019). Socio-economic status and behavioural and cardiovascular risk factors in Papua New Guinea: A cross-sectional survey. PLoS ONE. 14(1). e0211068–e0211068. 22 indexed citations

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Witter, Sophie, et al.. (2017). Universal health coverage in Nigeria: strategies for engagement of patent medicine vendors in rural communities. 17(2). 86–91.

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McPake, Barbara, et al.. (2015). The Economics of Health Professional Education and Careers. World Bank Publications.

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McPake, Barbara, et al.. (2014). How do dual practitioners divide their time? The cases of three African capital cities. Social Science & Medicine. 122. 113–121. 25 indexed citations

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Gibson, S. L., et al.. (2011). Antiretroviral therapy (ART) rationing and access mechanisms and their impact on youth ART utilization in Malawi.. PubMed. 23(2). 48–54. 4 indexed citations

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Brown, Andrew, Giorgio Cometto, Helen de Pinho, et al.. (2011). Trabajadores de salud de nivel intermedio : un recurso prometedor [Mid-level health providers : a promising resource]. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8 indexed citations

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Balabanova, Dina, Justin Parkhurst, Martin McKee, & Barbara McPake. (2007). Access to health care: taking into account health systems complexity. Evidence from transition countries. European Journal of Public Health. 17. 1 indexed citations

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McPake, Barbara, et al.. (2007). Distortions of the Penalty and Reward System in the Aid Contract: A Case Study of Uganda. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Hongoro, Charles & Barbara McPake. (2004). How to bridge the gap in human resources for health. The Lancet. 364(9443). 1451–1456. 331 indexed citations

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McPake, Barbara, et al.. (1993). Planning and management of community financing: a review of NGO approaches in the health sector. VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. 4(3). 345–371. 2 indexed citations

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