Gordon C. McCord

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Gordon C. McCord is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Gordon C. McCord has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 6 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 6 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Gordon C. McCord's work include Malaria Research and Control (7 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (6 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (5 papers). Gordon C. McCord is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (7 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (6 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (5 papers). Gordon C. McCord collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Canada. Gordon C. McCord's co-authors include John W. McArthur, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Chandrika Bahadur, Guido Schmidt‐Traub, Margaret E. Kruk, Michael Faye, Prabhjot Singh, Anne Liu, Awash Teklehaimanot and Peter Christensen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Gordon C. McCord

26 papers receiving 909 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.

Fertilizing growth: Agricultural inputs and their effects in economic development

2017 231 citations John W. McArthur, Gordon C. McCord Journal of Development Economics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gordon C. McCord United States	14	310	181	154	129	126	31	1.0k
Steven Block United States	22	645 2.1×	301 1.7×	104 0.7×	231 1.8×	83 0.7×	37	1.9k
UN Millennium	3	162 0.5×	240 1.3×	169 1.1×	36 0.3×	83 0.7×	8	802
Giovanni Andrea Cornia Italy	20	325 1.0×	473 2.6×	91 0.6×	141 1.1×	43 0.3×	74	1.4k
Andrew Dabalen United States	17	324 1.0×	461 2.5×	40 0.3×	63 0.5×	59 0.5×	62	1.2k
John M. Shandra United States	24	691 2.2×	427 2.4×	230 1.5×	56 0.4×	99 0.8×	71	1.7k
Sam Jones Denmark	17	445 1.4×	306 1.7×	468 3.0×	252 2.0×	50 0.4×	76	1.5k
Prem Sangraula United States	11	383 1.2×	562 3.1×	42 0.3×	74 0.6×	96 0.8×	20	1.2k
Danielle Resnick United States	22	382 1.2×	425 2.3×	137 0.9×	251 1.9×	13 0.1×	73	1.5k
Javier Escobal Peru	19	328 1.1×	291 1.6×	55 0.4×	307 2.4×	83 0.7×	66	1.2k
Lionel Demery United States	16	696 2.2×	575 3.2×	103 0.7×	296 2.3×	214 1.7×	47	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gordon C. McCord

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Garg, Teevrat, et al.. (2025). Can social protection reduce damages from higher temperatures?. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 131. 103152–103152.

Carrasco‐Escobar, Gabriel, et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal co-distribution and time lagged cross correlation of malaria and dengue in Loreto, Peru. PLOS Global Public Health. 5(12). e0005598–e0005598.

Schwarz, Lara, Chen Chen, Kristen Hansen, et al.. (2024). Heat-related mortality in Mexico: A multi-scale spatial analysis of extreme heat effects and municipality-level vulnerability. Environment International. 195. 109231–109231. 3 indexed citations

McCord, Gordon C., et al.. (2023). Long-term health and human capital effects of in utero exposure to an industrial disaster: a spatial difference-in-differences analysis of the Bhopal gas tragedy. BMJ Open. 13(6). e066733–e066733. 1 indexed citations

Bluhm, Richard & Gordon C. McCord. (2022). What Can We Learn from Nighttime Lights for Small Geographies? Measurement Errors and Heterogeneous Elasticities. Remote Sensing. 14(5). 1190–1190. 15 indexed citations

Wu, Grace C., Justin S. Baker, Christopher M. Wade, et al.. (2022). Contributions of healthier diets and agricultural productivity toward sustainability and climate goals in the United States. Sustainability Science. 18(1). 539–556. 3 indexed citations

Adida, Claire L., et al.. (2022). Diversity and violence during conflict migration: The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Political Science Research and Methods. 11(3). 451–467. 1 indexed citations

Anttila-Hughes, Jesse, Amir Jina, & Gordon C. McCord. (2021). ENSO impacts child undernutrition in the global tropics. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5785–5785. 28 indexed citations

Goltz, Jan von der, et al.. (2020). Health Impacts of the Green Revolution: Evidence from 600,000 births across the Developing World. Journal of Health Economics. 74. 102373–102373. 21 indexed citations

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Garg, Teevrat, et al.. (2020). Can Social Protection Reduce Environmental Damages?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 14 indexed citations

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BenYishay, Ariel, Karen A. Grépin, Jeffery Tanner, et al.. (2019). The impact of an insecticide treated bednet campaign on all-cause child mortality: A geospatial impact evaluation from the Democratic Republic of Congo. PLoS ONE. 14(2). e0212890–e0212890. 18 indexed citations

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McArthur, John W. & Gordon C. McCord. (2017). Fertilizing growth: Agricultural inputs and their effects in economic development. Journal of Development Economics. 127. 133–152. 231 indexed citations breakdown →

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McCord, Gordon C., Dalton Conley, & Jeffrey D. Sachs. (2016). Malaria ecology, child mortality & fertility. Economics & Human Biology. 24. 1–17. 13 indexed citations

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Christensen, Peter & Gordon C. McCord. (2016). Geographic determinants of China's urbanization. Regional Science and Urban Economics. 59. 90–102. 29 indexed citations

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Amor, Yanis Ben, et al.. (2016). Outcomes and Cost-Effectiveness of Integrating HIV and Nutrition Service Delivery: Pilots in Malawi and Mozambique. AIDS and Behavior. 21(3). 703–711. 7 indexed citations

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McCord, Gordon C.. (2016). Malaria ecology and climate change. The European Physical Journal Special Topics. 225(3). 459–470. 13 indexed citations

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McArthur, John W. & Gordon C. McCord. (2014). Fertilizing Growth: Agricultural Inputs and Their Effects in Economic Development. SSRN Electronic Journal. 18 indexed citations

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McCord, Gordon C., Anne Liu, & Prabhjot Singh. (2012). Deployment of community health workers across rural sub-Saharan Africa: financial considerations and operational assumptions. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 91(4). 244–253B. 85 indexed citations

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McCord, Gordon C., Dalton Conley, & Jeffrey D. Sachs. (2010). Improving Empirical Estimation of Demographic Drivers: Fertility, Child Mortality & Malaria Ecology. SSRN Electronic Journal. 8 indexed citations

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Teklehaimanot, Awash, Gordon C. McCord, & Jeffrey D. Sachs. (2007). Scaling Up Malaria Control in Africa: An Economic and Epidemiological Assessment. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 77(6_Suppl). 138–144. 45 indexed citations

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