Burton H. Singer

39.8k total citations · 11 hit papers
231 papers, 24.5k citations indexed

About

Burton H. Singer is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Burton H. Singer has authored 231 papers receiving a total of 24.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 35 papers in General Health Professions and 27 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Burton H. Singer's work include Malaria Research and Control (22 papers), Parasites and Host Interactions (21 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (18 papers). Burton H. Singer is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (22 papers), Parasites and Host Interactions (21 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (18 papers). Burton H. Singer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Canada. Burton H. Singer's co-authors include Carol D. Ryff, James J. Heckman, Teresa E. Seeman, Jürg Utzinger, Gayle D. Love, Márcia C. Castro, Bruce S. McEwen, John W. Rowe, Heping Zhang and Marcel Tanner and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Burton H. Singer

229 papers receiving 22.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

A Method for Minimizing the Impact of Distributional Assumptions in Econometric Models for Duration Data

1984 1.9k citations Burton H. Singer et al. profile →
Know Thyself and Become What You Are: A Eudaimonic Approach to Psychological Well-Being

2006 1.7k citations Carol D. Ryff, Burton H. Singer profile →
The Contours of Positive Human Health

1998 1.6k citations Carol D. Ryff, Burton H. Singer profile →
Allostatic load as a marker of cumulative biological risk: MacArthur studies of successful aging

2001 1.0k citations Burton H. Singer et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Psychological Weil-Being: Meaning, Measurement, and Implications for Psychotherapy Research

1996 839 citations Carol D. Ryff, Burton H. Singer Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics profile →
Positive health: connecting well–being with biology

2004 609 citations Carol D. Ryff, Burton H. Singer et al. profile →
The Impact of Vaccination on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreaks in the United States

2021 348 citations Seyed M. Moghadas, Thomas N. Vilches et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
Impact of international travel and border control measures on the global spread of the novel 2019 coronavirus outbreak

2020 345 citations Chad R. Wells, Pratha Sah et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2021 263 citations Pratha Sah, Meagan C. Fitzpatrick et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Spatiotemporal pattern of COVID-19 spread in Brazil

2021 201 citations Márcia C. Castro, Sun Kim et al. Science profile →
Integrating artificial intelligence with mechanistic epidemiological modeling: a scoping review of opportunities and challenges

2025 15 citations Abhishek Pandey, Affan Shoukat et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Burton H. Singer United States	75	4.8k	3.5k	3.2k	3.2k	2.9k	231	24.5k
Ian R. White United Kingdom	82	2.0k 0.4×	5.7k 1.6×	5.9k 1.8×	4.2k 1.3×	3.2k 1.1×	445	43.5k
Tyler J. VanderWeele United States	87	3.9k 0.8×	5.5k 1.6×	5.0k 1.6×	5.4k 1.7×	6.6k 2.2×	487	38.4k
Roderick J. A. Little United States	68	4.5k 1.0×	4.5k 1.3×	3.5k 1.1×	7.5k 2.3×	2.4k 0.8×	244	52.8k
Joseph L. Schafer United States	29	3.7k 0.8×	3.3k 0.9×	2.3k 0.7×	6.3k 2.0×	1.9k 0.7×	48	29.5k
TH Lam Hong Kong	85	1.9k 0.4×	4.6k 1.3×	7.5k 2.3×	4.3k 1.4×	2.3k 0.8×	1.1k	35.1k
Naihua Duan United States	70	4.0k 0.8×	10.0k 2.9×	3.1k 1.0×	5.8k 1.8×	2.3k 0.8×	264	28.0k
Geoffrey T. Fong Canada	80	3.3k 0.7×	4.8k 1.4×	6.2k 1.9×	2.9k 0.9×	1.8k 0.6×	572	30.0k
Lee Smith United Kingdom	66	2.1k 0.4×	3.1k 0.9×	3.6k 1.1×	4.8k 1.5×	1.6k 0.5×	1.0k	23.4k
Shekhar Saxena Switzerland	71	8.3k 1.7×	7.6k 2.2×	3.6k 1.1×	11.2k 3.5×	2.8k 1.0×	242	27.7k
Robert M. Kaplan United States	80	1.6k 0.3×	6.0k 1.7×	3.0k 0.9×	2.2k 0.7×	1.8k 0.6×	404	22.2k

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Horwitz, Ralph I., et al.. (2025). The imperative of the person in personalized medicine. Communications Medicine. 5(1). 469–469.

Du, Zhanwei, Seyed M. Moghadas, Yuan Bai, et al.. (2025). Impact of RSVpreF vaccination on reducing the burden of respiratory syncytial virus in infants and older adults. Nature Medicine. 31(2). 647–652. 6 indexed citations

Pandey, Abhishek, Meagan C. Fitzpatrick, Burton H. Singer, & Alison P. Galvani. (2024). Mortality and morbidity ramifications of proposed retractions in healthcare coverage for the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(18). e2321494121–e2321494121. 1 indexed citations

Barrett, Christopher B., et al.. (2024). Network Agency: An Agent-based Model of Forced Migration from Ukraine. 1372–1380. 1 indexed citations

Moghadas, Seyed M., Thomas N. Vilches, Kevin Zhang, et al.. (2021). The Impact of Vaccination on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreaks in the United States. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 73(12). 2257–2264. 348 indexed citations breakdown →

Sah, Pratha, Meagan C. Fitzpatrick, Elaheh Abdollahi, et al.. (2021). Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(34). 263 indexed citations breakdown →

Castro, Márcia C., Sun Kim, Lorena Barberia, et al.. (2021). Spatiotemporal pattern of COVID-19 spread in Brazil. Science. 372(6544). 821–826. 201 indexed citations breakdown →

Barfield, Michael, et al.. (2020). The interplay of movement and spatiotemporal variation in transmission degrades pandemic control. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(48). 30104–30106. 21 indexed citations

Sah, Pratha, Jan Medlock, Meagan C. Fitzpatrick, Burton H. Singer, & Alison P. Galvani. (2018). Optimizing the impact of low-efficacy influenza vaccines. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(20). 5151–5156. 34 indexed citations

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Horwitz, Ralph I., Allison Hayes‐Conroy, Roberto Caricchio, & Burton H. Singer. (2017). From Evidence Based Medicine to Medicine Based Evidence. The American Journal of Medicine. 130(11). 1246–1250. 52 indexed citations

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Pathak, Gopal, et al.. (2011). An Integrated Approach to Address Endemic Fluorosis in Jharkhand, India. Journal of Water Resource and Protection. 3(7). 457–472. 11 indexed citations

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Krieger, Gary R., Jürg Utzinger, Mirko S. Winkler, et al.. (2010). Barbarians at the gate: storming the Gothenburg consensus. The Lancet. 375(9732). 2129–2131. 23 indexed citations

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Wang, Yulan, Jürg Utzinger, Jasmina Saric, et al.. (2008). Global metabolic responses of mice to Trypanosoma brucei brucei infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(16). 6127–6132. 102 indexed citations

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Ryff, Carol D. & Burton H. Singer. (2006). What to Do about Positive and Negative Items in Studies of Psychological Well-Being and Ill-Being?. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 76(1). 61–62. 31 indexed citations

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Friedman, Elliot, Mary S. Hayney, Gayle D. Love, et al.. (2005). Social relationships, sleep quality, and interleukin-6 in aging women. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(51). 18757–18762. 181 indexed citations

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Wang, Yulan, Elaine Holmes, Jeremy K. Nicholson, et al.. (2004). Metabonomic investigations in mice infected with Schistosoma mansoni : An approach for biomarker identification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(34). 12676–12681. 229 indexed citations

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Keiser, Jennifer, Jürg Utzinger, Zul Premji, Yoichi YAMAGATA, & Burton H. Singer. (2002). Acridine Orange for malaria diagnosis: its diagnostic performance, its promotion and implementation in Tanzania, and the implications for malaria control. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. 96(7). 643–654. 46 indexed citations

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Ryff, Carol D. & Burton H. Singer. (1996). Psychological Weil-Being: Meaning, Measurement, and Implications for Psychotherapy Research. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 65(1). 14–23. 839 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mantón, Kenneth G., Eric Stallard, & Burton H. Singer. (1994). Methods for Projecting the Future Size and Health Status of the U. S. Elderly Population. NBER Chapters. 41–78. 6 indexed citations

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Singer, Burton H. & Seymour Spilerman. (1977). Trace inequalities for mixtures of Markov chains. Advances in Applied Probability. 9(4). 747–764. 10 indexed citations

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