Joseph Ali

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
88 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Joseph Ali is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph Ali has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in General Health Professions, 47 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 13 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Joseph Ali's work include Ethics in Clinical Research (38 papers), Ethics in medical practice (23 papers) and Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (20 papers). Joseph Ali is often cited by papers focused on Ethics in Clinical Research (38 papers), Ethics in medical practice (23 papers) and Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (20 papers). Joseph Ali collaborates with scholars based in United States, Uganda and Bangladesh. Joseph Ali's co-authors include Adnan A. Hyder, Alain Labrique, Nancy Kass, Brian Wahl, Rupali J. Limaye, Molly Sauer, Anne Barnhill, Justin Bernstein, George Pariyo and Dustin G. Gibson and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Applied Physiology and Journal of Medical Internet Research.

In The Last Decade

Joseph Ali

81 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

Building trust while influencing online COVID-19 content ... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150 200
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. Building trust while influencing online COVID-19 content in the social media world
    2020 235 citations Joseph Ali, Alain Labrique 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
Joseph Ali United States 19 452 339 263 127 111 88 1.1k
Stuart McLennan Germany 21 273 0.6× 293 0.9× 179 0.7× 132 1.0× 93 0.8× 94 1.4k
Kenneth Rochel de Camargo Brazil 23 730 1.6× 268 0.8× 273 1.0× 43 0.3× 108 1.0× 121 1.7k
Jodyn Platt United States 18 498 1.1× 455 1.3× 214 0.8× 47 0.4× 111 1.0× 64 1.1k
Sarah Brown United States 16 509 1.1× 476 1.4× 151 0.6× 102 0.8× 86 0.8× 44 1.4k
Suzanne Day United States 18 411 0.9× 231 0.7× 185 0.7× 31 0.2× 119 1.1× 63 1.2k
Sara Ackerman United States 20 505 1.1× 218 0.6× 124 0.5× 30 0.2× 124 1.1× 75 1.1k
Maziar Abdolrasulnia United States 13 303 0.7× 162 0.5× 186 0.7× 68 0.5× 72 0.6× 21 903
Matthew DeCamp United States 19 563 1.2× 474 1.4× 176 0.7× 51 0.4× 133 1.2× 91 1.4k
Isabel Cristina Kowal Olm Cunha Brazil 20 710 1.6× 150 0.4× 155 0.6× 210 1.7× 36 0.3× 186 1.3k
Nicholas R. Hardiker United Kingdom 20 444 1.0× 264 0.8× 72 0.3× 43 0.3× 44 0.4× 76 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Joseph Ali

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joseph Ali

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joseph Ali

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Joseph Ali. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Joseph Ali based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Joseph Ali. Joseph Ali is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Essack, Zaynab, Paul Ndebele, Jantina de Vries, et al.. (2025). Health Research Ethics in Southern Africa: Building Capacity and Cultivating Excellence. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. 4052983389–4052983389. 1 indexed citations
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Shaw, James, Joseph Ali, Caesar Atuire, et al.. (2024). Research ethics and artificial intelligence for global health: perspectives from the global forum on bioethics in research. BMC Medical Ethics. 25(1). 46–46. 21 indexed citations
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Bull, Susan, Michael Parker, Joseph Ali, et al.. (2024). Research Ethics in Epidemics and Pandemics: A Casebook. LSHTM Research Online (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). 1 indexed citations
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Vecino-Ortiz, Andrés I., et al.. (2024). Recruiting hard-to-reach populations via respondent driven sampling for mobile phone surveys in Colombia: a qualitative study. Global Health Action. 17(1). 2297886–2297886. 1 indexed citations
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Chongwe, Gershom, Joseph Ali, Dan K. Kaye, Charles Michelo, & Nancy Kass. (2023). Ethics of Adaptive Designs for Randomized Controlled Trials. PubMed. 45(5). 2–14. 4 indexed citations
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Tackett, Sean, Chirk Jenn Ng, Jeremy Sugarman, et al.. (2023). A Competency Framework for Health Research Ethics Educational Programs: Results from a Stakeholder‐Driven Mixed‐Method Process. PubMed. 45(3). 29–39. 2 indexed citations
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Ali, Joseph, Alun Davies, Paul Glasziou, et al.. (2023). Ethical priorities for international collaborative adaptive platform trials for public health emergencies. BMJ Global Health. 8(7). e012930–e012930.
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Pariyo, George, Ankita Meghani, Dustin G. Gibson, et al.. (2023). Effect of the Data Collection Method on Mobile Phone Survey Participation in Bangladesh and Tanzania: Secondary Analyses of a Randomized Crossover Trial. JMIR Formative Research. 7. e38774–e38774. 2 indexed citations
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Gibson, Dustin G., Gulam Muhammed Al Kibria, George Pariyo, et al.. (2022). Promised and Lottery Airtime Incentives to Improve Interactive Voice Response Survey Participation Among Adults in Bangladesh and Uganda: Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 24(5). e36943–e36943. 2 indexed citations
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Gibson, Dustin G., George Pariyo, Joseph Ali, et al.. (2020). Adaptation of a mobile phone health survey for risk factors for noncommunicable diseases in Colombia: a qualitative study. Global Health Action. 13(1). 1809841–1809841. 11 indexed citations
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Ali, Joseph, Michael J. DiStefano, Dustin G. Gibson, et al.. (2019). Ethics of mobile phone surveys to monitor non-communicable disease risk factors in low- and middle-income countries: A global stakeholder survey. Global Public Health. 14(8). 1167–1181. 12 indexed citations
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Hyder, Adnan A., et al.. (2019). Integrating capacity development during digital health research: a case study from global health. Global Health Action. 12(1). 1559268–1559268. 9 indexed citations
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Deutsch-Feldman, Molly, Joseph Ali, Nancy Kass, et al.. (2018). Improving institutional research ethics capacity assessments: lessons from sub-Saharan Africa. Global Bioethics. 31(1). 120–132. 4 indexed citations
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Zulu, Joseph Mumba, et al.. (2018). Ethical challenges in research on post-abortion care with adolescents: experiences of researchers in Zambia. Global Bioethics. 31(1). 104–119. 6 indexed citations
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Pariyo, George, Adaeze C. Wosu, Dustin G. Gibson, et al.. (2017). Moving the Agenda on Noncommunicable Diseases: Policy Implications of Mobile Phone Surveys in Low and Middle-Income Countries. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 19(5). e115–e115. 24 indexed citations
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Gibson, Dustin G., George Pariyo, Adaeze C. Wosu, et al.. (2017). Evaluation of Mechanisms to Improve Performance of Mobile Phone Surveys in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Research Protocol. JMIR Research Protocols. 6(5). e81–e81. 27 indexed citations
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Ali, Joseph, Alain Labrique, George Pariyo, et al.. (2017). Ethics Considerations in Global Mobile Phone-Based Surveys of Noncommunicable Diseases: A Conceptual Exploration. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 19(5). e110–e110. 30 indexed citations

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