Gerry McCartney

7.9k total citations · 6 hit papers
194 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Gerry McCartney is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerry McCartney has authored 194 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 144 papers in General Health Professions, 131 papers in Health and 17 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Gerry McCartney's work include Health disparities and outcomes (131 papers), Global Health Care Issues (83 papers) and Employment and Welfare Studies (80 papers). Gerry McCartney is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (131 papers), Global Health Care Issues (83 papers) and Employment and Welfare Studies (80 papers). Gerry McCartney collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Slovenia and Australia. Gerry McCartney's co-authors include David Walsh, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Martin Taulbut, Chik Collins, Martin McKee, M. Joanne Douglas, Bruce Whyte, Mark Robinson, Deborah Shipton and Frank Popham and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Gerry McCartney

183 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

Mitigating the wider health effects of covid-19... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2020 2015 2019 2019 2022 200 400 600
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.

  1. Mitigating the wider health effects of covid-19 pandemic response
    2020 692 citations M. Joanne Douglas, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi et al. profile →
  2. Regional alcohol consumption and alcohol-related mortality in Great Britain: novel insights using retail sales data
    2015 502 citations Deborah Shipton, David Walsh et al. BMC Public Health profile →
  3. Relationship between childhood socioeconomic position and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs): a systematic review
    2019 275 citations David Walsh, Gerry McCartney et al. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health profile →
  4. Defining health and health inequalities
    2019 212 citations Gerry McCartney, Andrew Cumbers et al. profile →
  5. How do income changes impact on mental health and wellbeing for working-age adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis
    2022 145 citations RM Thomson, Michal Shimonovich et al. The Lancet Public Health profile →
  6. The public health implications of the cost-of-living crisis: outlining mechanisms and modelling consequences
    2023 57 citations RM Thomson, Daniel Kopasker et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gerry McCartney United Kingdom 32 2.2k 1.7k 764 600 507 194 4.7k
Hilary Thomson United Kingdom 33 2.0k 0.9× 1.1k 0.6× 612 0.8× 962 1.6× 884 1.7× 91 6.5k
Bo Bur­ström Sweden 39 3.2k 1.4× 1.8k 1.1× 867 1.1× 792 1.3× 417 0.8× 216 5.3k
James R. Dunn Canada 38 2.6k 1.2× 1.5k 0.9× 736 1.0× 1.2k 2.0× 622 1.2× 139 5.6k
Jessica Allen United Kingdom 14 1.9k 0.8× 1.2k 0.7× 832 1.1× 407 0.7× 515 1.0× 28 3.7k
S. V. Subramanian United States 40 1.5k 0.7× 1.7k 1.0× 418 0.5× 959 1.6× 853 1.7× 105 4.4k
Peter Goldblatt United Kingdom 31 2.5k 1.1× 1.8k 1.1× 505 0.7× 454 0.8× 616 1.2× 73 4.7k
Sebastian Taylor United Kingdom 11 3.5k 1.6× 2.1k 1.2× 576 0.8× 613 1.0× 851 1.7× 20 6.0k
Lucı́a Artazcoz Spain 34 2.7k 1.2× 1.3k 0.8× 523 0.7× 634 1.1× 608 1.2× 145 4.4k
Peter Muennig United States 37 1.3k 0.6× 1.0k 0.6× 699 0.9× 594 1.0× 662 1.3× 159 4.2k
Paul Norman United Kingdom 41 1.7k 0.7× 1.3k 0.8× 684 0.9× 1.5k 2.4× 736 1.5× 213 6.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McCartney, Gerry & Jennie Popay. (2025). Are place-based approaches to reducing health inequalities a highway to success or a policy dead-end?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 39–50. 1 indexed citations
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Hensher, Martin, Gerry McCartney, & Eleanor Ochodo. (2024). Health Economics in a World of Uneconomic Growth. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy. 22(4). 427–433. 6 indexed citations
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Shimonovich, Michal, Mhairi Campbell, RM Thomson, et al.. (2024). Causal Assessment of Income Inequality on Self‐Rated Health and All‐Cause Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis. Milbank Quarterly. 102(1). 141–182. 10 indexed citations
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Bradford, David S., Diane Brown, Gerry McCartney, et al.. (2024). OP40 Post-pandemic excess mortality in England and Scotland: is it a continuation of pre-pandemic trends?. A15.1–A15. 1 indexed citations
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Watson, Robin J., David Walsh, Sonya M. Scott, et al.. (2024). Is the period of austerity in the UK associated with increased rates of adverse birth outcomes?. European Journal of Public Health. 34(6). 1043–1051. 2 indexed citations
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McCartney, Gerry, Martin Hensher, & Katherine Trebeck. (2023). How to measure progress towards a wellbeing economy: distinguishing genuine advances from ’window dressing’. Public Health Research & Practice. 33(2). 17 indexed citations
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Richardson, Elizabeth, Gerry McCartney, Martin Taulbut, M. Joanne Douglas, & Neil Craig. (2023). Population mortality impacts of the rising cost of living in Scotland: scenario modelling study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). e000097–e000097. 8 indexed citations
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Walsh, David, et al.. (2022). How much of the stalled mortality trends in Scotland and England can be attributed to obesity?. BMJ Open. 12(12). e067310–e067310. 5 indexed citations
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Wyper, Grant M. A., et al.. (2022). Widening of inequalities in COVID-19 years of life lost from 2020 to 2021: a Scottish Burden of Disease Study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 76(8). 746–749. 5 indexed citations
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Walsh, David, Grant M. A. Wyper, & Gerry McCartney. (2022). Trends in healthy life expectancy in the age of austerity. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 76(8). 743–745. 19 indexed citations
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Shipton, Deborah, et al.. (2022). What is the potential for plural ownership to support a more inclusive economy? A systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews. 11(1). 76–76. 4 indexed citations
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Wyper, Grant M. A., et al.. (2021). Inequalities in population health loss by multiple deprivation: COVID-19 and pre-pandemic all-cause disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in Scotland. International Journal for Equity in Health. 20(1). 214–214. 16 indexed citations
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McCartney, Gerry, Alastair H. Leyland, David Walsh, & Ruth Dundas. (2020). Scaling COVID-19 against inequalities: should the policy response consistently match the mortality challenge?. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 75(4). 315–320. 19 indexed citations
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Walsh, David, Gerry McCartney, Michael J. Smith, & Gillian Armour. (2019). Relationship between childhood socioeconomic position and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs): a systematic review. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 73(12). 1087–1093. 275 indexed citations breakdown →
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Minton, Jon & Gerry McCartney. (2018). Is there a north–south mortality divide in England or is London the outlier?. The Lancet Public Health. 3(12). e556–e557. 8 indexed citations
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Parkinson, Jane, Jon Minton, James Lewsey, Janet Bouttell, & Gerry McCartney. (2018). Drug-related deaths in Scotland 1979–2013: evidence of a vulnerable cohort of young men living in deprived areas. BMC Public Health. 18(1). 357–357. 25 indexed citations
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Taulbut, Martin, et al.. (2014). Spatial inequalities in life expectancy within postindustrial regions of Europe: a cross-sectional observational study. BMJ Open. 4(6). e004711–e004711. 14 indexed citations
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Jones, Colwyn, et al.. (2013). Socio-economic status of patients registered with NHS dental services in Scotland: an inverse 'dental' care law?. BDJ. 214(5). E14–E14. 8 indexed citations
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McCartney, Gerry. (2010). Illustrating health inequalities in Glasgow: Figure 1. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 65(1). 94–94. 10 indexed citations

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