Marko Kerac

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
145 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Marko Kerac is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Psychiatry and Mental health and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Marko Kerac has authored 145 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 77 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 48 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Marko Kerac's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (123 papers), Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (74 papers) and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (40 papers). Marko Kerac is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (123 papers), Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (74 papers) and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (40 papers). Marko Kerac collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Malawi. Marko Kerac's co-authors include Andrew Seal, André Briend, James A. Berkley, Marie McGrath, Robert Bandsma, Natasha Lelijveld, Jolyon M. Medlock, Carla Stanke, Virginia Murray and Christel Prudhomme and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Marko Kerac

138 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Severe childhood malnutrition 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 50 100 150 200 250
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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.

  1. Severe childhood malnutrition
    2017 258 citations Zulfiqar A Bhutta, James A. Berkley et al. Nature Reviews Disease Primers profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marko Kerac United Kingdom 32 2.3k 1.3k 935 839 464 145 3.4k
Jena Hamadani Bangladesh 39 2.2k 0.9× 677 0.5× 1.4k 1.5× 364 0.4× 413 0.9× 116 4.8k
Ann Ashworth United Kingdom 39 2.7k 1.2× 1.0k 0.8× 1.3k 1.4× 1.2k 1.4× 410 0.9× 102 4.4k
Christopher R. Sudfeld United States 31 1.8k 0.8× 358 0.3× 1.4k 1.5× 514 0.6× 506 1.1× 165 3.6k
Adelheid W. Onyango Switzerland 25 3.1k 1.4× 874 0.7× 2.1k 2.3× 1.0k 1.2× 764 1.6× 40 5.2k
Parminder S. Suchdev United States 40 3.1k 1.4× 244 0.2× 868 0.9× 804 1.0× 193 0.4× 129 5.4k
Suzanne Filteau United Kingdom 33 2.1k 0.9× 404 0.3× 819 0.9× 468 0.6× 322 0.7× 204 4.2k
Sunita Taneja India 33 2.5k 1.1× 948 0.7× 1.7k 1.8× 631 0.8× 144 0.3× 141 4.7k
Melissa Gladstone United Kingdom 30 929 0.4× 733 0.6× 1.2k 1.3× 304 0.4× 358 0.8× 115 2.9k
Seema Mihrshahi Australia 37 1.2k 0.5× 516 0.4× 593 0.6× 667 0.8× 122 0.3× 143 3.7k
Lieven Huybregts Belgium 29 1.4k 0.6× 267 0.2× 776 0.8× 671 0.8× 276 0.6× 83 2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Marko Kerac

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marko Kerac

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marko Kerac

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marko Kerac. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marko Kerac 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 Marko Kerac. Marko Kerac 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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Grijalva‐Eternod, Carlos S., et al.. (2025). Primary healthcare readiness for nutritionally at-risk infants aged under 6 months: a facility-based survey in Senegal. International Health. 17(5). 709–719.
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Mahmud, Imteaz, Benjamin Guesdon, Marko Kerac, & Carlos S. Grijalva‐Eternod. (2024). Mortality risk in infants receiving therapeutic care for malnutrition: A secondary analysis. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 20(3). e13635–e13635. 3 indexed citations
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Kerac, Marko, Michael S. Boyne, Asha Badaloo, et al.. (2024). Weight gain during nutritional rehabilitation post-childhood malnutrition may influence the associations between adulthood desaturases activity and anthro-cardiometabolic risk factors. Clinical Nutrition. 43(3). 747–755. 3 indexed citations
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O’Donovan, Grace, Mubarek Abera, Amir Kirolos, et al.. (2024). Weight Gain among Children with Severe Malnutrition in Therapeutic Feeding Programmes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 338–338. 2 indexed citations
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Lelijveld, Natasha, Abena S. Amoah, Charles Opondo, et al.. (2023). Post-malnutrition growth and its associations with child survival and non-communicable disease risk: a secondary analysis of the Malawi ‘ChroSAM’ cohort. Public Health Nutrition. 26(8). 1658–1670. 7 indexed citations
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Thurstans, Susan, Charles Opondo, Jeanette Bailey, et al.. (2023). How age and sex affect treatment outcomes for children with severe malnutrition: A multi‐country secondary data analysis. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 20(3). e13596–e13596. 1 indexed citations
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Kirolos, Amir, et al.. (2022). Neurodevelopmental, cognitive, behavioural and mental health impairments following childhood malnutrition: a systematic review. BMJ Global Health. 7(7). e009330–e009330. 49 indexed citations
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Lelijveld, Natasha, et al.. (2021). Anthropometric Criteria for Identifying Infants Under 6 Months of Age at Risk of Morbidity and Mortality: A Systematic Review. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 15. 173301680–173301680. 23 indexed citations
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Kerac, Marko, et al.. (2021). The management of moderate acute malnutrition in children aged 6-59 months in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 115(11). 1317–1329. 4 indexed citations
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Thurstans, Susan, Charles Opondo, Andrew Seal, et al.. (2020). Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls: a systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in undernutrition. BMJ Global Health. 5(12). e004030–e004030. 149 indexed citations
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Bhutta, Zulfiqar A, et al.. (2017). Severe childhood malnutrition. Nature Reviews Disease Primers. 3(1). 17 indexed citations
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Heuvel, Meta van den, Wieger Voskuijl, Marko Kerac, et al.. (2017). Developmental and behavioural problems in children with severe acute malnutrition in Malawi: A cross-sectional study.. PubMed. 7(2). 20416–20416. 34 indexed citations
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Bunn, James, et al.. (2009). Features associated with underlying HIV infection in severe acute childhood malnutrition: a cross sectional study. Malawi Medical Journal. 21(3). 108–12. 12 indexed citations
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Jenkins, David P., et al.. (1997). Protecting the ischaemic myocardium using heat stress and ischaemic preconditioning. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Baxter, Gary F., et al.. (1995). DELAYED-EFFECTS OF THE ENDOTOXIN DERIVATIVE, MONOPHOSPHORYL LIPID-A, ON RESPONSES TO ISCHEMIA-REPERFUSION IN RABBIT MYOCARDIUM. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Baxter, Gary F., et al.. (1995). DELAYED CARDIOPROTECTION AFTER MONOPHOSPHORYL LIPID-A TREATMENT IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH ELEVATION OF MYOCARDIAL 70 KDA STRESS PROTEIN. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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