Emily Mendenhall

6.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
112 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Emily Mendenhall is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Emily Mendenhall has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in General Health Professions, 24 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and 23 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Emily Mendenhall's work include Diabetes Management and Education (21 papers), Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (17 papers) and Chronic Disease Management Strategies (12 papers). Emily Mendenhall is often cited by papers focused on Diabetes Management and Education (21 papers), Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (17 papers) and Chronic Disease Management Strategies (12 papers). Emily Mendenhall collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and United Kingdom. Emily Mendenhall's co-authors include Merrill Singer, Nicola Bulled, Bayla Ostrach, Shane A. Norris, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Brandon A. Kohrt, David M. Ndetei, Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Edna Bosire and Rahul Shidhaye and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Medicine and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Emily Mendenhall

105 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

Syndemics and the biosocial conception of health

2017 841 citations Merrill Singer, Emily Mendenhall et al. profile →
Non-communicable disease syndemics: poverty, depression, and diabetes among low-income populations

2017 344 citations Emily Mendenhall, Brandon A. Kohrt et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Emily Mendenhall United States	27	1.1k	765	666	528	502	112	3.3k
Carol A. Ford United States	34	1.9k 1.8×	985 1.3×	503 0.8×	343 0.6×	434 0.9×	138	4.0k
George Rust United States	34	1.4k 1.3×	474 0.6×	558 0.8×	360 0.7×	259 0.5×	131	3.7k
Regine Haardörfer United States	29	957 0.9×	531 0.7×	449 0.7×	242 0.5×	180 0.4×	177	3.3k
Katherine Sorsdahl South Africa	28	1.1k 1.0×	856 1.1×	583 0.9×	856 1.6×	504 1.0×	127	2.8k
Isabel Ruíz-Pérez Spain	34	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.6×	337 0.5×	333 0.6×	257 0.5×	145	3.5k
Dawn M. Upchurch United States	35	1.8k 1.7×	836 1.1×	312 0.5×	450 0.9×	465 0.9×	88	4.2k
Kiran Nanchahal United Kingdom	31	1.7k 1.6×	549 0.7×	692 1.0×	281 0.5×	789 1.6×	67	5.4k
William Chi Wai Wong Hong Kong	28	841 0.8×	622 0.8×	806 1.2×	152 0.3×	622 1.2×	147	3.0k
Frances McCarty United States	34	1.4k 1.3×	694 0.9×	290 0.4×	243 0.5×	446 0.9×	76	3.8k
Mitchell D. Wong United States	31	1.3k 1.2×	388 0.5×	1.2k 1.8×	433 0.8×	1.3k 2.6×	78	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Emily Mendenhall

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Emily Mendenhall

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All Works

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Wahid, Syed Shabab, et al.. (2025). Ecological grief among farmers and pastoralists in Ethiopia and Kenya. SSM - Mental Health. 7. 100456–100456.

Patil, Satish G., Kushal Madan, Dimple Kondal, et al.. (2024). Rationale, Design and Baseline Characteristics of a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Cardiovascular Quality Improvement Strategy in India: The C-QIP Trial. American Heart Journal. 276. 83–98.

Löwy, Ilana, et al.. (2024). Patients as knowledge partners in the context of complex chronic conditions. Medical Humanities. 51(1). 34–38. 3 indexed citations

Mendenhall, Emily, et al.. (2024). Framing Long Covid through Patient activism in the United States: Patient, Provider, Academic, and Policymaker Views. Social Science & Medicine. 350. 116901–116901. 7 indexed citations

Wilson, John P., et al.. (2023). A review of place-related contextual factors in syndemics research. Health & Place. 83. 103084–103084. 5 indexed citations

Dixon, Justin & Emily Mendenhall. (2023). Syndemic thinking to address multimorbidity and its structural determinants. Nature Reviews Disease Primers. 9(1). 23–23. 9 indexed citations

Bosire, Edna, et al.. (2023). Views on COVID-19 vaccination among residents of Eldoret, Kenya during the 2021 vaccine rollout. Global Public Health. 18(1). 2278877–2278877.

Koon, Adam D., et al.. (2023). COVID-19, Climate, and Christianity in Rural Northern California: Divergent Frames for Masking. Practicing Anthropology. 45(1). 14–22. 2 indexed citations

Mendenhall, Emily, et al.. (2023). Disentangling opioids-related overdose syndemics: a scoping review. International Journal of Drug Policy. 119. 104152–104152. 5 indexed citations

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Carlson, Colin J., et al.. (2023). Rapid range shifts in African Anopheles mosquitoes over the last century. Biology Letters. 19(2). 20220365–20220365. 43 indexed citations

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Mendenhall, Emily, Brandon A. Kohrt, Carmen H. Logie, & Alexander C. Tsai. (2022). Syndemics and clinical science. Nature Medicine. 28(7). 1359–1362. 33 indexed citations

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Singh, Kavita, Mark D. Huffman, Leslie Johnson, et al.. (2022). Collaborative Quality Improvement Strategy in Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in India: Findings from a Multi-Stakeholder, Qualitative Study using Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR). Global Heart. 17(1). 72–72. 2 indexed citations

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Willen, Sarah S., et al.. (2021). Flourishing: migration and health in social context. BMJ Global Health. 6(Suppl 1). e005108–e005108. 15 indexed citations

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Kim, Andrew Wooyoung, et al.. (2021). Perceptions, risk and understandings of the COVID-19 pandemic in urban South Africa. South African Journal of Psychiatry. 27. 1 indexed citations

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Closser, Svea, Emily Mendenhall, Peter Brown, Rachel Neill, & Judith Justice. (2021). The anthropology of health systems: A history and review. Social Science & Medicine. 300. 114314–114314. 19 indexed citations

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Bosire, Edna, et al.. (2021). “Thinking Too Much”: A Systematic Review of the Idiom of Distress in Sub-Saharan Africa. Culture Medicine and Psychiatry. 45(4). 655–682. 29 indexed citations

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Mendenhall, Emily & Merrill Singer. (2020). What constitutes a syndemic? Methods, contexts, and framing from 2019. Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS. 15(4). 213–217. 53 indexed citations

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Mendenhall, Emily. (2019). Rethinking Diabetes. Cornell University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Mendenhall, Emily, Edna Bosire, Andrew Wooyoung Kim, & Shane A. Norris. (2019). Cancer, chemotherapy, and HIV: Living with cancer amidst comorbidity in a South African township. Social Science & Medicine. 237. 112461–112461. 11 indexed citations

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Mendenhall, Emily, Shane A. Norris, Rahul Shidhaye, & Dorairaj Prabhakaran. (2014). Depression and type 2 diabetes in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 103(2). 276–285. 97 indexed citations

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