Matthew C. Freeman

15.4k citations

182 papers · 8.1k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 45

Impact in

Nutrition and Dietetics top 0.05%
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
Parasitology top 0.2%
- Parasites and Host Interactions

Papers in

Nutrition and Dietetics 126
- Child Nutrition and Water Access 126
Safety Research 50
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare 50

Co-authors: Thomas Clasen Oliver Cumming Jürg Utzinger Meredith E. Stocks David G. Addiss Richard Rheingans Sophie Boisson Bethany A. Caruso
Journals: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (14 papers)International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health (12 papers)PLoS neglected tropical diseases (12 papers)BMJ Global Health (10 papers)International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (10 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Switzerland

In The Last Decade

Matthew C. Freeman

171 papers receiving 7.8k citations

Hit Papers

7 papers align trajectories log scale

Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene for selected adverse health outcomes: An updated analysis with a focus on low- and middle-income countries 2019 · 503 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
2018 Tropical Medicine & International Health
2017 International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
2014 The Lancet Global Health
2014 Tropical Medicine & International Health
2014 PLoS Medicine
2014 Tropical Medicine & International Health

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Matthew C. Freeman, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Interventions to improve hand hygiene in community settings: a systematic review of theories, barriers and enablers, behaviour change techniques and hand hygiene station design features BMJ Global Health ·А. И. Сидоров, Е.А. Григорьева, F. Wang, De Juras, Hannah Rogers, Oliver Cumming, Joanna Esteves Mills, Bruce Gordon, Marlene K. Wolfe, Matthew C. Freeman, Bethany A. Caruso	2025	2
2	Effectiveness of measures taken by governments to support hand hygiene in community settings: a systematic review BMJ Global Health ·Е.А. Григорьева, Nathan T. Kolasinski, Sang-Hwan Ham, De Juras, Hannah Rogers, Oliver Cumming, Joanna Esteves Mills, Bruce Gordon, Marlene K. Wolfe, Bethany A. Caruso, Matthew C. Freeman	2025	4
3	Minimum material requirements for hand hygiene in community settings: a systematic review BMJ Global Health ·De Juras, 马理, Е.А. Григорьева, Hannah Rogers, Oliver Cumming, Joanna Esteves Mills, Bruce Gordon, Matthew C. Freeman, Bethany A. Caruso, Marlene K. Wolfe	2025	4
4	A critical review on measurement tools of urban household and community resilience to disasters and environmental shocks and stressors among low- and middle-income countries: Theory, application, and guidance International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction ·Peter Griffith, Amit A. Nanavati, Thomas Clasen, Sanaz Jalali, Matthew C. Freeman, Sheela Sinharoy	2025	2
5	Resilience measurement for environmental shocks and stressors: scale development and psychometric assessment for coastal urban informal settlements in Fiji and Indonesia PubMed ·Peter Griffith, Sanaz Jalali, Ковригина Анна Ивановна, Adil Ahmed, Fiona Barker, Karin Leder, Matthew C. Freeman, Thomas Clasen, Sheela Sinharoy	2025	0
6	Purchase, consumption, and ownership of chickens and chicken products among households in Maputo, Mozambique: A cross-sectional study One Health ·Kayoko Shioda, 猿田文平, Jantira Hengmeechai, A Mallenco, Georgiy Yurievich Ermolenko, Karen Lévy, Matthew C. Freeman	2024	2
7	The development and validation of a survey to measure fecal-oral child exposure to zoonotic enteropathogens: The FECEZ Enteropathogens Index PLOS Global Public Health ·April Ballard, Regine Haardörfer, Ζεϊνέπ Τζουτζέ Μεμέτ Χασάν, Matthew C. Freeman, Joseph N. S. Eisenberg, Gwenyth O. Lee, Karen Lévy, Bethany A. Caruso	2024	2
8	Multilevel factors drive child exposure to enteric pathogens in animal feces: A qualitative study in northwestern coastal Ecuador SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·April Ballard, Ζεϊνέπ Τζουτζέ Μεμέτ Χασάν, John Chappelow, Vikas Singh, Regine Haardörfer, Matthew C. Freeman, James Trostle, Joseph N. S. Eisenberg, Gwenyth O. Lee, Karen Lévy, Bethany A. Caruso	2024	0
9	Critical success factors for high routine immunisation performance: a qualitative analysis of interviews and focus groups from Nepal, Senegal, and Zambia BMJ Open ·Zoë Sakas, Massimiliano Blandino, Claudia Silvia Pollak, Emily Awino Ogutu, 雅志村田, Robert A. Bednarczyk, Sameer Dixit, William Kilembe, Moussa Sarr, Matthew C. Freeman	2023	3
10	Factors associated with vaccine coverage improvements in Senegal between 2005 and 2019: a quantitative retrospective analysis BMJ Open ·Maryam Bharucha, L Heminger, Pınar Keskinocak, Dima Nazzal, Zoë Sakas, Moussa Sarr, Matthew C. Freeman	2023	5
11	Critical success factors for routine immunization performance: A case study of Zambia 2000 to 2018 Vaccine X ·R. Mercken, Massimiliano Blandino, Morales Angulo, 英二滝尾, G. Thodos, Fabiola Elizabeth Resurreccion Canaza, Pınar Keskinocak, Михаил Федорович Сопель, Tracy Wakeford, Valentina Forrer, Dima Nazzal, Emily Awino Ogutu, Zoë Sakas, L Heminger, William Kilembe, Robert A. Bednarczyk, Matthew C. Freeman	2022	17
12	Leveraging infectious disease models to interpret randomized controlled trials: Controlling enteric pathogen transmission through water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions PLoS Computational Biology ·Andrew F. Brouwer, Marisa C. Eisenberg, Kevin Bakker, Yubo FENG, Mondal Hasan Zahid, Matthew C. Freeman, Joseph N. S. Eisenberg	2022	4
13	Shared water facilities and risk of COVID-19 in resource-poor settings: A transmission modelling study PLOS Water ·Michael A. L. Hayashi, Yubo FENG, G. Bolet, Emmanuelle, Matthew C. Freeman, Joseph N. S. Eisenberg	2022	3
14	Application of the Capabilities, Opportunities, Motivations, and Behavior (COM-B) Change Model to Formative Research for Child Nutrition in Western Kenya Current Developments in Nutrition ·Y.A. Chen, Claudia Silvia Pollak, Emily Awino Ogutu, Bethany A. Caruso, C. Jannasch, Kimberly Jacob Arriola, Alysse Kowalski, Geraldo Bernardino, Breanna K. Wodnik, Richard Muga, Matthew C. Freeman, Amy Girard	2022	8
15	Learning from Exemplars in Global Health: a road map for mitigating indirect effects of COVID-19 on maternal and child health BMJ Global Health ·David Phillips, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Agnès Binagwaho, Ties Boerma, Matthew C. Freeman, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, Raj Panjabi	2020	15
16	A framework for identifying and learning from countries that demonstrated exemplary performance in improving health outcomes and systems BMJ Global Health ·Austin Carter, Nadia Akseer, Kevin K.W. Ho, Jack G. King, Niranjan Bose, Agnès Binagwaho, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, Gorantla Sri Charitha, 紀和重藤, Raj Panjabi, Matthew C. Freeman, Robert A. Bednarczyk, Zulfiqar A Bhutta	2020	15
17	The associations between water and sanitation and hookworm infection using cross-sectional data from Togo's national deworming program PLoS neglected tropical diseases ·Julia M. Baker, Victoria Trinies, Rachel N. Bronzan, Améyo M. Dorkenoo, Joshua V. Garn, J. Fournet, Matthew C. Freeman	2018	17
18	Collective Efficacy: Development and Validation of a Measurement Scale for Use in Public Health and Development Programmes International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ·Maryann G. Delea, Gloria D. Sclar, Debjani Si, Regine Haardörfer, Corey Nagel, Bethany A. Caruso, Robert Dreibelbis, Abebe Gebremariam Gobezayehu, Thomas Clasen, Matthew C. Freeman	2018	20
19	Collaborating to develop joint water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and neglected tropical disease (NTD) sector monitoring: an expert consultation International Health ·B. Teichgräber, 新三宗田, Yael Velleman, Matthew C. Freeman	2017	9
20	Prevalence of cholera risk factors between migrant Haitians and Dominicans in the Dominican Republic. PubMed ·Andrea J. Lund, Hunter Keys, Etienne Minvielle, Jennifer Foster, Matthew C. Freeman	2015	8

About Matthew C. Freeman

Matthew C. Freeman is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Safety Research, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Parasitology and Infectious Diseases, having authored 182 papers that have together received 8.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (126 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (78 papers), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (50 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (29 papers), Parasites and Host Interactions (24 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (16 papers), Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (15 papers) and Infection Control in Healthcare (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nutrition and Dietetics (5.2k citations), Parasitology (1.5k citations), Safety Research (1.7k citations), Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (2.5k citations) and Infectious Diseases (1.0k citations). Matthew C. Freeman has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Thomas Clasen, Oliver Cumming, Jürg Utzinger, Meredith E. Stocks, David G. Addiss, Richard Rheingans, Sophie Boisson, Bethany A. Caruso, Jennyfer Wolf and Joshua V. Garn. Their work appears in journals such as American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, PLoS neglected tropical diseases, BMJ Global Health and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

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