Emmanuel Makasa

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 785 citations indexed

About

Emmanuel Makasa is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Emergency Medical Services and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Emmanuel Makasa has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 785 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 14 papers in Emergency Medical Services and 6 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Emmanuel Makasa's work include Global Health and Surgery (26 papers), Global Health Workforce Issues (13 papers) and Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes (6 papers). Emmanuel Makasa is often cited by papers focused on Global Health and Surgery (26 papers), Global Health Workforce Issues (13 papers) and Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes (6 papers). Emmanuel Makasa collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Zambia. Emmanuel Makasa's co-authors include Michael Hollands, Raymond R. Price, John G. Meara, Desmond T. Jumbam, Ché L. Reddy, Kee B. Park, Emmanuel A. Ameh, Lina Roa, Joanna Ashby and Taylor Wurdeman and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Emmanuel Makasa

27 papers receiving 773 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Globalization of national surgical, obstetric and anesthesia plans: the critical link between health policy and action in global surgery

2020 241 citations Paul Truché, Haitham Shoman et al. Globalization and Health profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Emmanuel Makasa United States	12	480	287	131	127	111	29	785
Sam Luboga Uganda	11	340 0.7×	273 1.0×	83 0.6×	188 1.5×	108 1.0×	17	665
Samuel Luboga Uganda	14	532 1.1×	396 1.4×	55 0.4×	202 1.6×	123 1.1×	34	803
Paul Truché United States	10	201 0.4×	97 0.3×	36 0.3×	58 0.5×	81 0.7×	34	479
Margaret J. Tarpley United States	18	542 1.1×	187 0.7×	80 0.6×	18 0.1×	180 1.6×	41	859
Ché L. Reddy United States	10	181 0.4×	102 0.4×	44 0.3×	48 0.4×	77 0.7×	18	470
Jessica H. Beard United States	16	250 0.5×	72 0.3×	57 0.4×	48 0.4×	203 1.8×	44	1.0k
Katherine A. Nash United States	11	180 0.4×	128 0.4×	20 0.2×	45 0.4×	115 1.0×	30	495
Priyanka Patel Canada	12	207 0.4×	44 0.2×	49 0.4×	73 0.6×	81 0.7×	26	485
Carol A. Newill United States	11	484 1.0×	81 0.3×	50 0.4×	32 0.3×	213 1.9×	14	1.2k
Yolanda Haywood United States	11	113 0.2×	55 0.2×	33 0.3×	40 0.3×	122 1.1×	26	672

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Emmanuel Makasa

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Makasa, Emmanuel, et al.. (2025). Access to Orthopaedic Devices in Low and Middle-Income Countries. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 107(10). 1154–1160. 1 indexed citations

Pigeolet, Manon, et al.. (2024). Outcomes of external versus internal fixation for traumatic lower limb fractures in low- and middle-income countries. Bone & Joint Open. 5(11). 1020–1026.

Alayande, Barnabas Tobi, Justina O. Seyi‐Olajide, Faustin Ntirenganya, et al.. (2024). The Pan-African Surgical Healthcare Forum: An African qualitative consensus propagating continental national surgical healthcare policies and plans. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(11). e0003635–e0003635. 3 indexed citations

Hyman, Gabriella, et al.. (2024). Barriers to National Surgical Healthcare Policy Development & Implementation in the Southern African Development Community. East and Central African journal of surgery. 29(2). 42–53. 1 indexed citations

Hyman, Gabriella, et al.. (2023). The Need for Children's Surgical Care Prioritisation in National Surgical Care Policies: A Systematic Review of National Surgical Obstetric and Anaesthetic Plans (NSOAPs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 59(2). 299–304. 1 indexed citations

Bekele, Abebe, Barnabas Tobi Alayande, Justina O. Seyi‐Olajide, et al.. (2023). National Surgical Healthcare Policy Development and Implementation: Where do We Stand in Africa?. World Journal of Surgery. 47(12). 3020–3029. 13 indexed citations

Jumbam, Desmond T., Ché L. Reddy, John G. Meara, Emmanuel Makasa, & Rifat Atun. (2023). A Financing Strategy to Expand Surgical Health Care. Global Health Science and Practice. 11(3). e2100295–e2100295. 7 indexed citations

Agarwal-Harding, Kiran J., et al.. (2023). Indicators for the evaluation of musculoskeletal trauma systems: A scoping review and Delphi study. PLoS ONE. 18(8). e0290816–e0290816. 1 indexed citations

Truché, Paul, Elena Guadagno, Emmanuel A. Ameh, et al.. (2023). Assessing the inclusion of children’s surgical care in National Surgical, Obstetric and Anaesthesia Plans: a policy content analysis. BMJ Open. 13(4). e051248–e051248. 2 indexed citations

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Wild, Hannah, Charles Mock, Tina Gaarder, et al.. (2023). Operative Trauma Courses: A Scoping Review to Inform the Development of a Trauma Surgery Course for Low‐Resource Settings. World Journal of Surgery. 47(7). 1662–1683. 1 indexed citations

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Alayande, Barnabas Tobi, Claire Karekezi, Judy Khanyola, et al.. (2022). Shifting global surgery’s center of gravity. Surgery. 172(3). 1029–1030. 9 indexed citations

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Chu, Kathryn, Ché L. Reddy, & Emmanuel Makasa. (2020). The collateral damage of the COVID-19 pandemic on surgical health care in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Global Health. 10(2). 20347–20347. 6 indexed citations

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Smith, Emily R., Dominique Vervoort, Mark G. Shrime, et al.. (2020). Top 10 Resources in Global Surgery. Global Health Science and Practice. 8(3). 606–611. 2 indexed citations

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Truché, Paul, Haitham Shoman, Ché L. Reddy, et al.. (2020). Globalization of national surgical, obstetric and anesthesia plans: the critical link between health policy and action in global surgery. Globalization and Health. 16(1). 1–1. 241 indexed citations breakdown →

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Peters, Alexander W., Lina Roa, Emile Rwamasirabo, et al.. (2020). National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Plans Supporting the Vision of Universal Health Coverage. Global Health Science and Practice. 8(1). 1–9. 50 indexed citations

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Alkire, Blake C., Abebe Bekele, Isabelle Citron, et al.. (2019). Building capacity for surgery, obstetrics and anesthesia in support of universal health coverage and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. East and Central African journal of surgery. 24(1). 3–8. 2 indexed citations

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Albutt, Katherine, Kristin Sonderman, Isabelle Citron, et al.. (2018). Healthcare Leaders Develop Strategies for Expanding National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anaesthesia Plans in WHO AFRO and EMRO Regions. World Journal of Surgery. 43(2). 360–367. 24 indexed citations

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Mukhopadhyay, Swagoto, Yihan Lin, Peter Mwaba, et al.. (2017). Implementing World Health Assembly Resolution 68.15: National surgical, obstetric, and anesthesia strategic plan development--the Zambian experience.. PubMed. 102(6). 28–35. 16 indexed citations

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Esquivel, Micaela M., Tarsicio Uribe‐Leitz, Emmanuel Makasa, Kendra G. Bowman, & Thomas G. Weiser. (2016). Mapping disparities in access to surgical care: an application of geographic information systems to evaluate surgical infrastructure in Zambia. Annals of Global Health. 82(3). 415–415.

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Esquivel, Micaela M., Tarsicio Uribe‐Leitz, Emmanuel Makasa, et al.. (2016). Mapping Disparities in Access to Safe, Timely, and Essential Surgical Care in Zambia. JAMA Surgery. 151(11). 1064–1064. 46 indexed citations

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