David McCoy

6.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
100 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

David McCoy is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, David McCoy has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in General Health Professions, 32 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and 25 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in David McCoy's work include Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (32 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (19 papers) and HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses (12 papers). David McCoy is often cited by papers focused on Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (32 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (19 papers) and HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses (12 papers). David McCoy collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. David McCoy's co-authors include Phillip Baker, Devi Sridhar, Subhash Chand, Jennifer Hall, Paulo Augusto Ribeiro Neves, Ellen Piwoz, César G. Victora, Gayatri Kembhavi, Akish Luintel and Rafael Pérez‐Escamilla and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

David McCoy

98 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit 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.

Breastfeeding: crucially important, but increasingly challenged in a market-driven world

2023 270 citations Rafael Pérez‐Escamilla, Cecília Tomori et al. The Lancet profile →
Marketing of commercial milk formula: a system to capture parents, communities, science, and policy

2023 132 citations Nigel Rollins, Ellen Piwoz et al. The Lancet profile →
The political economy of infant and young child feeding: confronting corporate power, overcoming structural barriers, and accelerating progress

2023 95 citations Phillip Baker, Julie Smith et al. The Lancet profile →
Developing an agenda for the decolonization of global health

2024 33 citations David McCoy et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David McCoy United Kingdom	28	990	879	715	661	607	100	3.2k
Catherine Kyobutungi Kenya	36	1.2k 1.2×	923 1.1×	777 1.1×	1.1k 1.7×	945 1.6×	132	4.6k
Daniel D. Reidpath Malaysia	39	1.5k 1.5×	798 0.9×	795 1.1×	396 0.6×	1.1k 1.7×	234	5.4k
Stuart Gilmour Japan	39	1.2k 1.2×	838 1.0×	1.3k 1.8×	321 0.5×	795 1.3×	180	5.1k
Pascale Allotey Malaysia	34	1.0k 1.0×	696 0.8×	395 0.6×	212 0.3×	755 1.2×	173	3.4k
Jeremy A. Lauer Switzerland	32	1.0k 1.0×	1.8k 2.0×	1.1k 1.6×	519 0.8×	896 1.5×	59	5.4k
Carol Levin United States	38	1.2k 1.2×	794 0.9×	1.2k 1.7×	1.1k 1.6×	559 0.9×	116	4.8k
Stefan Peterson Sweden	41	1.2k 1.2×	2.3k 2.6×	839 1.2×	1.4k 2.2×	1.2k 1.9×	170	6.9k
Joseph L. Dieleman United States	32	1.2k 1.2×	806 0.9×	370 0.5×	231 0.3×	549 0.9×	114	3.8k
Peter Hill Australia	31	1.0k 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	314 0.4×	275 0.4×	585 1.0×	203	3.8k
Benn Sartorius South Africa	33	631 0.6×	610 0.7×	800 1.1×	369 0.6×	733 1.2×	212	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by David McCoy

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of David McCoy's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by David McCoy with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites David McCoy more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by David McCoy

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by David McCoy. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by David McCoy. The network helps show where David McCoy may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of David McCoy

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David McCoy. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David McCoy 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 David McCoy. David McCoy is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Lawrence, Mark, et al.. (2024). Understanding the Politics of Food Regulation and Public Health: An Analysis of Codex Standard-Setting Processes on Food Labelling. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 13. 8310–8310. 2 indexed citations

Koka, Eric, Adwoa Asante-Poku, Prince Asare, et al.. (2024). Impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on mother and child health – the case of Ghana. BMC Public Health. 24(1). 2724–2724. 1 indexed citations

Shayo, Elizabeth H., Leonard E. G. Mboera, Esther Ngadaya, et al.. (2023). The impacts of COVID-19 and its policy response on access and utilization of maternal and child health services in Tanzania: A mixed methods study. PLOS Global Public Health. 3(5). e0001549–e0001549. 9 indexed citations

Pérez‐Escamilla, Rafael, Cecília Tomori, Sonia Hernández‐Cordero, et al.. (2023). Breastfeeding: crucially important, but increasingly challenged in a market-driven world. The Lancet. 401(10375). 472–485. 270 indexed citations breakdown →

McCoy, David, et al.. (2023). Global health security and the health-security nexus: principles, politics and praxis. BMJ Global Health. 8(9). e013067–e013067. 8 indexed citations

Federspiel, Frederik, et al.. (2023). Threats by artificial intelligence to human health and human existence. BMJ Global Health. 8(5). e010435–e010435. 80 indexed citations

Baker, Phillip, Julie Smith, Amandine Garde, et al.. (2023). The political economy of infant and young child feeding: confronting corporate power, overcoming structural barriers, and accelerating progress. The Lancet. 401(10375). 503–524. 95 indexed citations breakdown →

Baker, Phillip, Paul Zambrano, Roger Mathisen, et al.. (2021). Breastfeeding, first-food systems and corporate power: a case study on the market and political practices of the transnational baby food industry and public health resistance in the Philippines. Globalization and Health. 17(1). 125–125. 24 indexed citations

Papadopoulou, Areti, et al.. (2021). COVID-19 susceptibility variants associate with blood clots, thrombophlebitis and circulatory diseases. PLoS ONE. 16(9). e0256988–e0256988. 10 indexed citations

10.

Russo, Giuliano, Tiago S. Jesus, Kevin Deane, Abdinasir Yusuf Osman, & David McCoy. (2021). Epidemics, Lockdown Measures and Vulnerable Populations: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review of the Evidence of Impacts on Mother and Child Health in Low-and Lower-Middle-Income Countries. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 11(10). 2003–2021. 6 indexed citations

11.

Ismail, Sharif, et al.. (2017). Risk factors for admission at three urban emergency departments in England: a cross-sectional analysis of attendances over 1 month. BMJ Open. 7(6). e011547–e011547. 2 indexed citations

12.

Burn, Helen, et al.. (2017). A qualitative study exploring the factors influencing admission to hospital from the emergency department. BMJ Open. 7(8). e011543–e011543. 46 indexed citations

13.

McCoy, David, et al.. (2014). A Spanner in the Works? Anti-Politics in Global Health Policy; Comment on 'A Ghost in the Machine? Politics in Global Health Policy'. Research Information System of Ardabil University of Medical Sciences (Ardabil University of Medical Sciences). 1 indexed citations

14.

McCoy, David, Katerini T. Storeng, Véronique Filippi, et al.. (2010). Maternal, neonatal and child health interventions and services: moving from knowledge of what works to systems that deliver. International Health. 2(2). 87–98. 26 indexed citations

15.

McCoy, David, Subhash Chand, & Devi Sridhar. (2009). Global health funding: how much, where it comes from and where it goes. Health Policy and Planning. 24(6). 407–417. 171 indexed citations

16.

McCoy, David, et al.. (2009). The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's grant-making programme for global health. The Lancet. 373(9675). 1645–1653. 152 indexed citations

17.

McCoy, David, Sara Bennett, Sophie Witter, et al.. (2008). Salaries and incomes of health workers in sub-Saharan Africa. The Lancet. 371(9613). 675–681. 134 indexed citations

18.

McCoy, David, et al.. (2007). Carrot and sticks? The Community Care Act (2003) and the effect of financial incentives on delays in discharge from hospitals in England. Journal of Public Health. 29(3). 281–287. 29 indexed citations

19.

McCoy, David. (2006). Expanding access to ART in Sub- Saharan Africa: an advocacy agenda for health systems development and resource generation. Acta Academica Critical views on society culture and politics. 1–16. 2 indexed citations

20.

McCoy, David, et al.. (2002). Sexually transmitted infections : priority programmes. South African Health Review. 2002(1). 257–277.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact