John G. Meara

25.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
329 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

John G. Meara is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Emergency Medical Services and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, John G. Meara has authored 329 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 165 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 94 papers in Emergency Medical Services and 87 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in John G. Meara's work include Global Health and Surgery (155 papers), Global Health Workforce Issues (86 papers) and Cleft Lip and Palate Research (73 papers). John G. Meara is often cited by papers focused on Global Health and Surgery (155 papers), Global Health Workforce Issues (86 papers) and Cleft Lip and Palate Research (73 papers). John G. Meara collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Australia. John G. Meara's co-authors include Lars Hagander, Mark G. Shrime, Blake C. Alkire, Mark R. Proctor, Annette C. Da Costa, Megan Abbott, Sarah Greenberg, Anna Dare, Christopher D. Hughes and Anthony D. Holmes and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

John G. Meara

318 papers receiving 9.5k 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.

Immediate and long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on delivery of surgical services

2020 438 citations John G. Meara, Lars Hagander et al. profile →
Global access to surgical care: a modelling study

2015 421 citations Mark G. Shrime, Sarah Greenberg et al. profile →
Globalization of national surgical, obstetric and anesthesia plans: the critical link between health policy and action in global surgery

2020 241 citations Taylor Wurdeman, Emmanuel A. Ameh et al. profile →
An introduction to digital determinants of health

2024 47 citations John G. Meara et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John G. Meara United States	54	3.6k	2.5k	2.2k	2.1k	1.4k	329	9.8k
Michael J Goldacre United Kingdom	63	2.8k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	827 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	2.6k 1.9×	371	14.7k
Judy A. Shea United States	63	3.6k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	432 0.2×	523 0.2×	4.4k 3.3×	390	13.8k
Rahim Moineddin Canada	61	2.0k 0.6×	2.2k 0.9×	399 0.2×	349 0.2×	2.4k 1.7×	462	13.9k
Wei‐Ting Hwang United States	55	1.1k 0.3×	976 0.4×	1.6k 0.7×	524 0.2×	947 0.7×	271	14.1k
Nancy N. Baxter Canada	58	1.7k 0.5×	6.3k 2.5×	528 0.2×	507 0.2×	1.3k 0.9×	441	15.0k
Thomas G. Weiser United States	34	3.3k 0.9×	3.4k 1.4×	160 0.1×	4.0k 1.9×	1.1k 0.8×	149	11.3k
Kevin C. Chung United States	72	2.7k 0.7×	17.0k 6.8×	580 0.3×	374 0.2×	1.5k 1.1×	867	24.9k
Stavros Petrou United Kingdom	60	2.6k 0.7×	2.4k 1.0×	268 0.1×	555 0.3×	3.0k 2.2×	367	18.5k
Michael Seid United States	45	2.3k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	684 0.3×	329 0.2×	2.5k 1.8×	158	16.6k
Caprice C. Greenberg United States	48	1.6k 0.5×	3.4k 1.4×	232 0.1×	897 0.4×	825 0.6×	211	7.3k

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Glasbey, James, Adesoji Ademuyiwa, Kathryn Chu, et al.. (2024). Building resilient surgical systems that can withstand external shocks. BMJ Global Health. 9(Suppl 4). e015280–e015280. 1 indexed citations

Wurdeman, Taylor, et al.. (2024). Promoting climate-resilient health systems through national surgical plans. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. 40. 100911–100911. 1 indexed citations

Pigeolet, Manon, Ali Jafarian, John G. Meara, et al.. (2023). Universal health coverage: a commitment to essential surgical, obstetric, and anesthesia care, World Health Summit 2021 (PD 20). BMC Proceedings. 17(S6). 4–4. 2 indexed citations

Meara, John G., et al.. (2023). Antifibrinolytics as a Patient Blood Management Modality in Craniosynostosis Surgery: Current Concepts and a View to the Future. Current anesthesiology reports. 13(3). 148–158. 3 indexed citations

Meara, John G., David Barash, Augustino Hellar, et al.. (2021). Development and content validation of the Safe Surgery Organizational Readiness Tool: A quality improvement study. International Journal of Surgery. 89. 105944–105944. 6 indexed citations

Seyi‐Olajide, Justina O., Bisola Onajin‐Obembe, Stefanie J. Klug, et al.. (2021). Access to paediatric surgery: the geography of inequality in Nigeria. BMJ Global Health. 6(10). e006025–e006025. 14 indexed citations

Roa, Lina, Tarsicio Uribe‐Leitz, Aline Gil Alves Guilloux, et al.. (2020). Assessment of diagnostics capacity in hospitals providing surgical care in two Latin American states. EClinicalMedicine. 29-30. 100620–100620. 6 indexed citations

Meara, John G., et al.. (2020). Optimal Outcomes Reporting (OOR): A New Value–Based Metric for Outcome Reporting Following Cleft Palate Repair. The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal. 58(1). 19–24. 2 indexed citations

Roa, Lina, et al.. (2020). Projected impact of COVID-19 mitigation strategies on hospital services in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area. PLoS ONE. 15(11). e0241954–e0241954. 9 indexed citations

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Pyda, Jordan, Rolvix H. Patterson, Taylor Wurdeman, et al.. (2019). Towards resilient health systems: opportunities to align surgical and disaster planning. BMJ Global Health. 4(3). e001493–e001493. 17 indexed citations

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Anderson, Geoffrey A., Katherine Albutt, Hampus Holmer, et al.. (2018). Development of a Novel Global Surgery Course for Medical Schools. Journal of surgical education. 76(2). 469–479. 11 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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Saluja, Saurabh, et al.. (2017). The opioid epidemic: What can surgeons do about it?. PubMed. 102(7). 13–8. 7 indexed citations

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Peck, Gregory, Saurabh Saluja, David Blitzer, et al.. (2017). Using global surgical indicators to improve trauma care in Latin America.. PubMed. 102(4). 11–6. 3 indexed citations

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Shrime, Mark G. & John G. Meara. (2015). How surgery can fight global poverty. 2 indexed citations

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O’Neill, Kathleen, Hampus Holmer, Sarah Greenberg, & John G. Meara. (2013). Applying surgical apps: Smartphone and tablet apps prove useful in clinical practice.. PubMed. 98(11). 10–8. 32 indexed citations

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Knight, Sarah, Vicki Anderson, John G. Meara, & Annette C. Da Costa. (2013). Early Neurodevelopment in Infants With Deformational Plagiocephaly. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 24(4). 1225–1228. 13 indexed citations

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Metzler, Ian, et al.. (2012). Health information technology, meaningful use criteria, and their effects on surgeons.. PubMed. 97(7). 12–9. 2 indexed citations

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Sullivan, Stephen R., et al.. (2012). Training global surgery fellows.. PubMed. 97(8). 46–50. 4 indexed citations

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Goobie, Susan M., Petra M. Meier, Luis M. Pereira, et al.. (2011). Efficacy of Tranexamic Acid in Pediatric Craniosynostosis Surgery. Anesthesiology. 114(4). 862–871. 208 indexed citations

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