Bruce Gordon

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
29 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Bruce Gordon is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Nutrition and Dietetics and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce Gordon has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Infectious Diseases, 12 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 9 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Bruce Gordon's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (12 papers), Infection Control in Healthcare (11 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (9 papers). Bruce Gordon is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (12 papers), Infection Control in Healthcare (11 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (9 papers). Bruce Gordon collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. Bruce Gordon's co-authors include Jamie Bartram, Oliver Cumming, Richard B. Johnston, Annette Prüss‐Üstün, Paul Hunter, Jennyfer Wolf, Matthew C. Freeman, Kate Medlicott, Thomas Clasen and María Neira and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, PLoS Medicine and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Bruce Gordon

26 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitatio... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2019 2014 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene for selected adverse health outcomes: An updated analysis with a focus on low- and middle-income countries
    2019 503 citations Annette Prüss‐Üstün, Jennyfer Wolf et al. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health profile →
  2. Systematic review: Assessing the impact of drinking water and sanitation on diarrhoeal disease in low‐ and middle‐income settings: systematic review and meta‐regression
    2014 348 citations Jennyfer Wolf, Annette Prüss‐Üstün 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
Bruce Gordon Switzerland 13 913 394 241 218 183 29 1.5k
Daniel Mäusezahl Switzerland 20 1.0k 1.1× 398 1.0× 225 0.9× 211 1.0× 214 1.2× 67 1.9k
Kate Medlicott Switzerland 17 1.1k 1.3× 479 1.2× 328 1.4× 253 1.2× 257 1.4× 19 1.9k
Clair Null United States 19 1.1k 1.3× 380 1.0× 422 1.8× 255 1.2× 283 1.5× 43 1.6k
Jade Benjamin‐Chung United States 19 901 1.0× 365 0.9× 281 1.2× 249 1.1× 273 1.5× 57 1.6k
Leah E. Roberts United States 5 858 0.9× 344 0.9× 217 0.9× 206 0.9× 168 0.9× 10 1.2k
Rachel Peletz United States 19 981 1.1× 330 0.8× 228 0.9× 360 1.7× 120 0.7× 44 1.4k
Mitsunori Odagiri United States 15 581 0.6× 219 0.6× 148 0.6× 272 1.2× 138 0.8× 17 1.3k
Joshua V. Garn United States 20 920 1.0× 474 1.2× 329 1.4× 127 0.6× 182 1.0× 39 1.5k
Gauthami Penakalapati United States 8 654 0.7× 233 0.6× 197 0.8× 137 0.6× 172 0.9× 9 982
Tarique Md. Nurul Huda Bangladesh 11 830 0.9× 315 0.8× 265 1.1× 135 0.6× 229 1.3× 35 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Bruce Gordon

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bruce Gordon

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruce Gordon

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bruce Gordon. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bruce Gordon based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bruce Gordon. Bruce Gordon is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rogers, Hannah, Oliver Cumming, Joanna Esteves Mills, et al.. (2025). Interventions to improve hand hygiene in community settings: a systematic review of theories, barriers and enablers, behaviour change techniques and hand hygiene station design features. BMJ Global Health. 10(Suppl 7). e018928–e018928. 2 indexed citations
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Rogers, Hannah, Oliver Cumming, Joanna Esteves Mills, et al.. (2025). Effectiveness of measures taken by governments to support hand hygiene in community settings: a systematic review. BMJ Global Health. 10(Suppl 7). e018929–e018929. 4 indexed citations
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Rogers, Hannah, Oliver Cumming, Joanna Esteves Mills, et al.. (2025). Minimum material requirements for hand hygiene in community settings: a systematic review. BMJ Global Health. 10(Suppl 7). e018926–e018926. 4 indexed citations
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Montgomery, Maggie, et al.. (2025). Improved water sanitation, hygiene and waste services in health-care facilities, Ukraine. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 103(1). 66–70. 1 indexed citations
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Rogers, Hannah, Oliver Cumming, Joanna Esteves Mills, et al.. (2025). Efficacy and effectiveness of hand hygiene-related practices used community settings for removal of organisms from hands: A systematic review. medRxiv. 2 indexed citations
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Rogers, Hannah, Oliver Cumming, Joanna Esteves Mills, et al.. (2025). Efficacy and effectiveness of hand hygiene-related practices used in community settings for removal of organisms from hands: a systematic review. BMJ Global Health. 10(Suppl 7). e018925–e018925. 4 indexed citations
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Mills, Joanna Esteves, Claire Chase, Kondwani Chidziwisano, et al.. (2025). Current international tools and guidance for the implementation of hand hygiene recommendations in community settings: a scoping review. PLOS Water. 4(8). e0000344–e0000344.
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Caruso, Bethany A., Claire Chase, Kondwani Chidziwisano, et al.. (2023). Recommendations for hand hygiene in community settings: a scoping review of current international guidelines. BMJ Open. 13(6). e068887–e068887. 24 indexed citations
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Gordon, Bruce, et al.. (2023). Unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene: a persistent health burden. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 101(9). 551–551A. 11 indexed citations
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Caruso, Bethany A., Oliver Cumming, Joanna Esteves Mills, et al.. (2023). Synthesising the evidence for effective hand hygiene in community settings: an integrated protocol for multiple related systematic reviews. BMJ Open. 13(11). e077677–e077677. 12 indexed citations
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Medlicott, Kate, Astrid Louise Wester, Bruce Gordon, et al.. (2020). Technical brief on water, sanitation, hygiene and wastewater management to prevent infections and reduce the spread of antimicrobial resistance.. 33 indexed citations
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Prüss‐Üstün, Annette, Jennyfer Wolf, Jamie Bartram, et al.. (2019). Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene for selected adverse health outcomes: An updated analysis with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 222(5). 765–777. 503 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wolf, Jennyfer, Richard B. Johnston, Paul Hunter, et al.. (2018). A Faecal Contamination Index for interpreting heterogeneous diarrhoea impacts of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions and overall, regional and country estimates of community sanitation coverage with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 222(2). 270–282. 41 indexed citations
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Muhammad, Nasiru, Caleb Mpyet, Murtala Umar, et al.. (2018). Prevalence of trachoma in the area councils of the Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria: results of six population-based surveys. Ophthalmic Epidemiology. 25(sup1). 11–17.
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Montgomery, Maggie, et al.. (2017). Improving water, sanitation and hygiene in health-care facilities, Liberia. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 95(7). 526–530. 14 indexed citations
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Boisson, Sophie, Dirk Engels, Bruce Gordon, et al.. (2016). Water, sanitation and hygiene for accelerating and sustaining progress on neglected tropical diseases: a new Global Strategy 2015–20. International Health. 8(suppl 1). i19–i21. 92 indexed citations
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Beňová, Lenka, Oliver Cumming, Bruce Gordon, Moke Magoma, & Oona M. R. Campbell. (2014). Where There Is No Toilet: Water and Sanitation Environments of Domestic and Facility Births in Tanzania. PLoS ONE. 9(9). e106738–e106738. 34 indexed citations
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Velleman, Yael, Elizabeth Mason, Wendy Graham, et al.. (2014). From Joint Thinking to Joint Action: A Call to Action on Improving Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene for Maternal and Newborn Health. PLoS Medicine. 11(12). e1001771–e1001771. 58 indexed citations
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Itoh, Sadahiko, et al.. (2011). Regulations and perspectives on disinfection by-products: importance of estimating overall toxicity. Journal of Water Supply Research and Technology—AQUA. 60(5). 261–274. 27 indexed citations
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Gordon, Bruce, Richard Mackay, & Eva Rehfuess. (2004). Inheriting the World: The Atlas of Children's Health and the Environment. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew). 49 indexed citations

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