João Victor Rocha

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 828 citations indexed

About

João Victor Rocha is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, João Victor Rocha has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 828 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in General Health Professions, 8 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 5 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in João Victor Rocha's work include Primary Care and Health Outcomes (7 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (6 papers) and Emergency and Acute Care Studies (5 papers). João Victor Rocha is often cited by papers focused on Primary Care and Health Outcomes (7 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (6 papers) and Emergency and Acute Care Studies (5 papers). João Victor Rocha collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Brazil and United States. João Victor Rocha's co-authors include Patrícia Soares, Carla Nunes, Sónia Dias, Ana Gama, Ana Rita Pedro, P.A. Laires, Marta Moniz, Andreia Leite, Rui Santana and Sílvia Lopes and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

In The Last Decade

João Victor Rocha

27 papers receiving 806 citations

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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.

Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

2021 486 citations Patrícia Soares, João Victor Rocha et al. Vaccines profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
João Victor Rocha Portugal	13	464	272	216	177	173	29	828
Ali Moghtaderi United States	12	446 1.0×	217 0.8×	206 1.0×	213 1.2×	227 1.3×	40	934
Patrícia Soares Portugal	12	499 1.1×	353 1.3×	208 1.0×	117 0.7×	152 0.9×	47	933
Ana Rita Pedro Portugal	13	534 1.2×	278 1.0×	231 1.1×	168 0.9×	160 0.9×	37	887
Marta Moniz Portugal	8	486 1.0×	292 1.1×	204 0.9×	68 0.4×	138 0.8×	31	719
Jennifer A. Andersen United States	13	381 0.8×	170 0.6×	159 0.7×	157 0.9×	72 0.4×	57	676
Chiara Reno Italy	13	357 0.8×	299 1.1×	148 0.7×	66 0.4×	87 0.5×	32	686
Rajneesh Kaur Australia	18	277 0.6×	241 0.9×	146 0.7×	208 1.2×	115 0.7×	61	986
Pikuei Tu United States	11	713 1.5×	478 1.8×	282 1.3×	62 0.4×	177 1.0×	17	1.1k
Sadie Bell United Kingdom	14	706 1.5×	383 1.4×	129 0.6×	130 0.7×	98 0.6×	27	948
Paul Frappé France	10	826 1.8×	595 2.2×	190 0.9×	69 0.4×	288 1.7×	36	1.2k

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López-Correa, Catalina, et al.. (2025). Precision Medicine for Cancer and Health Equity in Latin America: Generating Understanding for Policy and Health System Shaping. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 22(8). 1220–1220.

Lopes, Sílvia, et al.. (2023). Effect of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the frequency of emergency department visits in Portugal: An interrupted time series analysis until July 2021. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). e12864–e12864. 5 indexed citations

Soares, Patrícia, et al.. (2023). The Pandemic-Related Factors Associated with Emergency Department Visits in Portugal throughout Two Years of the Pandemic: A Retrospective Population-Based Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(2). 1207–1207.

Rocha, João Victor, Ana Patrícia Marques, António Filipe Macedo, et al.. (2022). Trends, geographical variation and factors associated with the use of anti-VEGF intravitreal injections in Portugal (2013–2018): a retrospective analysis of administrative data. BMJ Open. 12(4). e055478–e055478. 5 indexed citations

Soares, Patrícia, João Victor Rocha, Ana Gama, et al.. (2022). Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy after Implementation of a Mass Vaccination Campaign. Vaccines. 10(2). 281–281. 7 indexed citations

Gama, Ana, Maria J. Marques, João Victor Rocha, et al.. (2022). ‘I Didn’t Know Where to Go’: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Explore Migrants’ Perspectives of Access and Use of Health Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(20). 13201–13201. 3 indexed citations

Rocha, João Victor, et al.. (2022). Direct Costs of COVID-19 Inpatient Admissions in a Portuguese Tertiary Care University Centre. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 40(1). 26–34. 7 indexed citations

Lopes, Sílvia, Sónia Dias, António Panarra, et al.. (2022). Patients’ Perspectives on Determinants Avoidable Hospitalizations: Development and Validation of a Questionnaire. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(5). 3138–3138. 4 indexed citations

Soares, Patrícia, João Victor Rocha, Marta Moniz, et al.. (2021). Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy. Vaccines. 9(3). 300–300. 486 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sousa, Álvaro Francisco Lopes de, Shirley Verônica Melo Almeida Lima, João Victor Rocha, et al.. (2021). Sexual Exposure to HIV Infection during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM): A Multicentric Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(18). 9584–9584. 7 indexed citations

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Alves, Joana, Patrícia Soares, João Victor Rocha, Rui Santana, & Carla Nunes. (2021). Evolution of inequalities in the coronavirus pandemics in Portugal: an ecological study. European Journal of Public Health. 31(5). 1069–1075. 4 indexed citations

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Rocha, João Victor, et al.. (2020). Comparative research aspects on hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions: the case of Brazil and Portugal. Ciência & Saúde Coletiva. 25(4). 1375–1388. 12 indexed citations

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Santana, Rui, et al.. (2020). The Demand for Hospital Emergency Services: Trends during the First Month of COVID-19 Response. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 38(1). 30–36. 52 indexed citations

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Rocha, João Victor, Patrícia Soares, Sílvia Lopes, et al.. (2020). Inpatient Hospitalizations during the First Wave of COVID-19 in Portugal. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 38(Suppl. 1). 11–17. 9 indexed citations

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Santana, Rui, et al.. (2020). A procura de serviços de urgência hospitalar: tendências durante o primeiro mês de resposta à Covid-19. Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses/Journal of Anglo-Portuguese Studies. 15 indexed citations

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Rocha, João Victor, et al.. (2020). Direct and lost productivity costs associated with avoidable hospital admissions. BMC Health Services Research. 20(1). 210–210. 18 indexed citations

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Rocha, João Victor, et al.. (2019). Can We Develop a Risk Map for Suicide Rates? An Ecological Study in Portugal. Community Mental Health Journal. 56(3). 532–539. 3 indexed citations

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Rocha, João Victor, Carla Nunes, & Rui Santana. (2019). Avoidable hospitalizations in Brazil and Portugal: Identifying and comparing critical areas through spatial analysis. PLoS ONE. 14(7). e0219262–e0219262. 8 indexed citations

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Rocha, Thiago Augusto Hernándes, Pedro Amaral, Allan Claudius Queiroz Barbosa, et al.. (2017). Access to emergency care services: a transversal ecological study about Brazilian emergency health care network. Public Health. 153. 9–15. 20 indexed citations

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Rocha, Thiago Augusto Hernándes, Núbia Cristina da Silva, Érika Bárbara Abreu Fonseca Thomaz, et al.. (2017). Primary Health Care and Cervical Cancer Mortality Rates in Brazil. Journal of Ambulatory Care Management. 40. S24–S34. 19 indexed citations

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