Charles Rahal

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 715 citations indexed

About

Charles Rahal is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles Rahal has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 715 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 3 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 3 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Charles Rahal's work include Global Health Care Issues (3 papers), Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (3 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (2 papers). Charles Rahal is often cited by papers focused on Global Health Care Issues (3 papers), Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (3 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (2 papers). Charles Rahal collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. Charles Rahal's co-authors include Melinda Mills, Jonas Schöley, Luyin Zhang, Ridhi Kashyap, Aaron Reeves, Jennifer B. Dowd, José Manuel Aburto, Trifon I. Missov, Ilya Kashnitsky and Magne Flemmen and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Charles Rahal

16 papers receiving 692 citations

Hit Papers

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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 scientometric review of genome-wide association studies

2018 251 citations Melinda Mills, Charles Rahal Communications Biology profile →
Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries

2021 217 citations José Manuel Aburto, Jonas Schöley et al. International Journal of Epidemiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Charles Rahal United Kingdom	7	202	123	103	97	88	18	715
Maya Sabatello United States	19	237 1.2×	159 1.3×	100 1.0×	62 0.6×	38 0.4×	70	929
Michelle L. McGowan United States	22	380 1.9×	175 1.4×	91 0.9×	61 0.6×	35 0.4×	63	1.3k
James E. Weber United States	21	122 0.6×	188 1.5×	79 0.8×	22 0.2×	80 0.9×	43	1.4k
Vardit Ravitsky Canada	22	292 1.4×	155 1.3×	103 1.0×	45 0.5×	24 0.3×	111	1.6k
Michael Mendelson United States	16	215 1.1×	49 0.4×	60 0.6×	93 1.0×	40 0.5×	68	1.3k
Margaret Otlowski Australia	20	604 3.0×	169 1.4×	96 0.9×	165 1.7×	15 0.2×	117	1.4k
Holly A. Massett United States	19	58 0.3×	357 2.9×	134 1.3×	115 1.2×	67 0.8×	41	907
Graeme Laurie United Kingdom	21	197 1.0×	404 3.3×	224 2.2×	166 1.7×	60 0.7×	101	1.6k
Galen Joseph United States	24	534 2.6×	441 3.6×	287 2.8×	87 0.9×	121 1.4×	72	1.6k
Jada G. Hamilton United States	20	630 3.1×	157 1.3×	189 1.8×	87 0.9×	46 0.5×	74	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Charles Rahal

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Charles Rahal

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18 of 18 papers shown

Domingue, Benjamin W., et al.. (2025). The InterModel Vigorish (IMV) as a flexible and portable approach for quantifying predictive accuracy with binary outcomes. PLoS ONE. 20(3). e0316491–e0316491. 2 indexed citations

Rahal, Charles, et al.. (2025). Capitalizing on a crisis: a computational analysis of all five million British firms during the Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Computational Social Science. 8(2). 29–29.

Newman, Saul, et al.. (2024). Offshoring emissions through used vehicle exports. Nature Climate Change. 14(3). 238–241. 3 indexed citations

Domingue, Benjamin W., Radhika Kapoor, Steffi Pohl, et al.. (2024). The InterModel Vigorish as a Lens for Understanding (and Quantifying) the Value of Item Response Models for Dichotomously Coded Items. Psychometrika. 89(3). 1034–1054. 2 indexed citations

Rahal, Charles & John Mohan. (2024). The role of the third sector in public health service provision: evidence from 25,338 heterogeneous procurement datasets. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society). 188(4). 1085–1106. 1 indexed citations

Rahal, Charles, Mark D. Verhagen, & David S. Kirk. (2022). The rise of machine learning in the academic social sciences. AI & Society. 39(2). 799–801. 10 indexed citations

Aburto, José Manuel, Jonas Schöley, Ilya Kashnitsky, et al.. (2021). Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries. International Journal of Epidemiology. 51(1). 63–74. 217 indexed citations breakdown →

Mills, Melinda & Charles Rahal. (2021). Population Studies at 75 years: An empirical review. Population Studies. 75(sup1). 7–25. 3 indexed citations

Reeves, Aaron, et al.. (2021). Outsourcing of health-care services to the private sector by English Clinical Commissioning Groups and mortality rates, 2013–20: an observational analysis. The Lancet. 398. S49–S49. 3 indexed citations

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Mills, Melinda & Charles Rahal. (2021). Population Studies at 75 Years: An empirical review. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 1 indexed citations

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Rahal, Charles. (2019). Tools for Transparency in Central Government Spending. International Journal for Population Data Science. 4(1). 3 indexed citations

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Mills, Melinda & Charles Rahal. (2018). A scientometric review of genome-wide association studies. Communications Biology. 2(1). 9–9. 251 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rahal, Charles. (2018). The Keys to Unlocking Public Payments Data. Kyklos. 71(2). 310–337. 6 indexed citations

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Tropf, Felix C., Sang Lee, Gert Stulp, et al.. (2017). Hidden heritability due to heterogeneity across seven populations. Nature Human Behaviour. 1(10). 757–765. 81 indexed citations

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Reeves, Aaron, Sam Friedman, Charles Rahal, & Magne Flemmen. (2017). The Decline and Persistence of the Old Boy: Private Schools and Elite Recruitment 1897 to 2016. American Sociological Review. 82(6). 1139–1166. 91 indexed citations

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Rahal, Charles. (2016). Housing markets and unconventional monetary policy. Journal of Housing Economics. 32. 67–80. 38 indexed citations

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Rahal, Charles. (2015). A Guide to the StatFact EViews Add-in. Computational Economics. 48(1). 183–188.

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Rahal, Charles. (2015). Housing Markets and Unconventional Monetary Policy. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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