Blake C. Alkire

8.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Blake C. Alkire is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Emergency Medical Services and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Blake C. Alkire has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 17 papers in Emergency Medical Services and 14 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Blake C. Alkire's work include Global Health and Surgery (27 papers), Global Health Workforce Issues (15 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (8 papers). Blake C. Alkire is often cited by papers focused on Global Health and Surgery (27 papers), Global Health Workforce Issues (15 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (8 papers). Blake C. Alkire collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Blake C. Alkire's co-authors include John G. Meara, Mark G. Shrime, Anna Dare, Jeffrey R. Vincent, Stephen W. Bickler, Christopher D. Hughes, Paul E. Farmer, Neil Bhattacharyya, Kathleen O’Neill and Thomas G. Weiser and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Blake C. Alkire

47 papers receiving 1.9k 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 access to surgical care: a modelling study

2015 421 citations Blake C. Alkire, Nakul Raykar et al. The Lancet Global Health profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Blake C. Alkire United States	22	1.1k	586	392	387	292	50	1.9k
Lars Hagander Sweden	23	1.1k 1.0×	688 1.2×	647 1.7×	354 0.9×	287 1.0×	73	2.3k
Sarah Greenberg United States	18	736 0.7×	414 0.7×	314 0.8×	205 0.5×	183 0.6×	51	1.3k
Reinou S. Groen United States	26	1.2k 1.1×	727 1.2×	281 0.7×	474 1.2×	164 0.6×	86	2.0k
Nakul Raykar United States	14	655 0.6×	352 0.6×	211 0.5×	175 0.5×	164 0.6×	57	1.1k
Caris Grimes United Kingdom	13	675 0.6×	414 0.7×	193 0.5×	207 0.5×	115 0.4×	38	992
John Rose United States	19	753 0.7×	353 0.6×	708 1.8×	153 0.4×	228 0.8×	51	2.0k
David A. Spiegel United States	32	777 0.7×	395 0.7×	1.3k 3.2×	249 0.6×	110 0.4×	109	2.4k
Christopher Lavy United Kingdom	25	595 0.5×	252 0.4×	555 1.4×	226 0.6×	110 0.4×	70	1.8k
Nyengo Mkandawire Malawi	24	849 0.8×	427 0.7×	440 1.1×	254 0.7×	120 0.4×	75	1.7k
Timothy Wen United States	24	364 0.3×	87 0.1×	359 0.9×	589 1.5×	177 0.6×	140	1.8k

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Pigeolet, Manon, et al.. (2024). Cost-effectiveness of screening for developmental dysplasia of the hip in Karachi, Pakistan using a universally applicable cost-effectiveness model. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). e000340–e000340.

Rudolfson, Niclas, Mark G. Shrime, & Blake C. Alkire. (2023). Modelling why 70 per cent of the world’s population lack access to surgery. British journal of surgery. 110(4). 500–501. 2 indexed citations

Patterson, Rolvix H., Alexis N. Bowder, Blake C. Alkire, et al.. (2022). Impact of out-of-pocket expenses for surgical care on households in rural Haiti: a mixed-methods study. BMJ Open. 12(5). e061731–e061731. 6 indexed citations

Pigeolet, Manon, et al.. (2022). The impact of socio-economic factors on parental non-adherence to the Ponseti protocol for clubfoot treatment in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review. EClinicalMedicine. 48. 101448–101448. 11 indexed citations

Alkire, Blake C., Abebe Bekele, Isabelle Citron, et al.. (2019). Building capacity for surgery, obstetrics and anesthesia in support of universal health coverage and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. East and Central African journal of surgery. 24(1). 3–8. 2 indexed citations

Rudolfson, Niclas, Michael C. Dewan, Kee B. Park, et al.. (2018). The economic consequences of neurosurgical disease in low- and middle-income countries. Journal of neurosurgery. 130(4). 1149–1156. 45 indexed citations

Alkire, Blake C., Alexander W. Peters, Mark G. Shrime, & John G. Meara. (2018). The Economic Consequences Of Mortality Amenable To High-Quality Health Care In Low- And Middle-Income Countries. Health Affairs. 37(6). 988–996. 38 indexed citations

Gupta, Saksham, Monty Khajanchi, Vineet Kumar, et al.. (2018). 188 Third Delay in Traumatic Brain Injury. Neurosurgery. 65(CN_suppl_1). 111–111. 2 indexed citations

Naunheim, Matthew R., et al.. (2017). What Do Patients Want from Otolaryngologists? A Discrete Choice Experiment. Otolaryngology. 157(4). 618–624. 12 indexed citations

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Alkire, Blake C., et al.. (2016). Aseptic Meningitis with Craniopharyngioma Resection: Consideration after Endoscopic Surgery. Journal of Neurological Surgery Reports. 77(4). e151–e155. 14 indexed citations

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Naunheim, Matthew R., Phillip C. Song, Ramon A. Franco, Blake C. Alkire, & Mark G. Shrime. (2016). Surgical management of bilateral vocal fold paralysis: A cost‐effectiveness comparison of two treatments. The Laryngoscope. 127(3). 691–697. 24 indexed citations

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Shrime, Mark G., Anna Dare, Blake C. Alkire, Kathleen O’Neill, & John G. Meara. (2015). Catastrophic expenditure to pay for surgery worldwide: a modelling study. The Lancet Global Health. 3. S38–S44. 192 indexed citations

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Alkire, Blake C., Mark G. Shrime, Anna Dare, Jeffrey R. Vincent, & John G. Meara. (2015). Global economic consequences of selected surgical diseases: a modelling study. The Lancet Global Health. 3. S21–S27. 117 indexed citations

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Alkire, Blake C., Regan W. Bergmark, Kyle Chambers, Mack L. Cheney, & John G. Meara. (2015). Head and neck cancer in South Asia: macroeconomic consequences and the role of surgery. The Lancet. 385. S56–S56. 5 indexed citations

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Hughes, Christopher D., Katherine A. Nash, Blake C. Alkire, et al.. (2012). The Impact of Natural Disaster on Pediatric Surgical Delivery: A Review of Haiti Six Months Before and After the 2010 Earthquake. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 23(2). 523–533. 9 indexed citations

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Hughes, Christopher D., Blake C. Alkire, Stephen Pap, et al.. (2012). The Clinical and Economic Impact of a Sustained Program in Global Plastic Surgery. Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. 130(1). 87e–94e. 44 indexed citations

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Alkire, Blake C., et al.. (2012). Obstructed Labor and Caesarean Delivery: The Cost and Benefit of Surgical Intervention. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e34595–e34595. 77 indexed citations

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Hughes, Christopher D., et al.. (2011). American Plastic Surgery and Global Health. Annals of Plastic Surgery. 68(2). 222–225. 12 indexed citations

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Abbott, Megan, Blake C. Alkire, & John G. Meara. (2011). The Value Proposition: Using a Cost Improvement Map to Improve Value for Patients with Nonsyndromic, Isolated Cleft Palate. Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. 127(4). 1650–1658. 5 indexed citations

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Alkire, Blake C. & Neil Bhattacharyya. (2010). An assessment of sinonasal anatomic variants potentially associated with recurrent acute rhinosinusitis. The Laryngoscope. 120(3). 631–634. 76 indexed citations

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