Melissa Ahern

715 total citations
23 papers, 561 citations indexed

About

Melissa Ahern is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, Melissa Ahern has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 561 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in General Health Professions, 13 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 3 papers in Finance. Recurrent topics in Melissa Ahern's work include Healthcare Policy and Management (12 papers), Primary Care and Health Outcomes (6 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (5 papers). Melissa Ahern is often cited by papers focused on Healthcare Policy and Management (12 papers), Primary Care and Health Outcomes (6 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (5 papers). Melissa Ahern collaborates with scholars based in United States and Ireland. Melissa Ahern's co-authors include Michael Hendryx, Cheryl Brown, Kris Siddharthan, Douwe van Sinderen, Robert Rosenman, Martha D. Mullett, Jennifer L. Sparr, Ellen Campbell and H. Virginia McCoy and has published in prestigious journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and FEMS Microbiology Letters.

In The Last Decade

Melissa Ahern

22 papers receiving 517 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melissa Ahern United States	13	216	123	119	88	67	23	561
Karl Parker New Zealand	14	154 0.7×	121 1.0×	50 0.4×	37 0.4×	56 0.8×	32	616
T. Alafia Samuels Barbados	18	213 1.0×	317 2.6×	92 0.8×	86 1.0×	22 0.3×	52	809
Michele Cecchini France	13	89 0.4×	105 0.9×	58 0.5×	28 0.3×	13 0.2×	23	518
Luz María Sánchez‐Romero United States	18	124 0.6×	483 3.9×	55 0.5×	59 0.7×	34 0.5×	51	1.0k
Laura Alston Australia	17	307 1.4×	315 2.6×	62 0.5×	69 0.8×	28 0.4×	81	753
Kathleen Duggan United States	14	439 2.0×	112 0.9×	62 0.5×	39 0.4×	30 0.4×	19	691
Lenore S. Azaroff United States	13	254 1.2×	147 1.2×	49 0.4×	25 0.3×	86 1.3×	24	951
David Solet United States	9	69 0.3×	190 1.5×	27 0.2×	61 0.7×	22 0.3×	13	396
Lindsey Haynes‐Maslow United States	17	493 2.3×	495 4.0×	59 0.5×	37 0.4×	62 0.9×	58	904
Modi Mwatsama United Kingdom	7	180 0.8×	171 1.4×	42 0.4×	43 0.5×	17 0.3×	9	488

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Hendryx, Michael, et al.. (2012). Effects of a Cost-Sharing Policy on Disenrollment from a State Health Insurance Program. Social Work in Public Health. 27(7). 671–686. 3 indexed citations

Ahern, Melissa, et al.. (2011). A National Study of the Association Between Food Environments and County-Level Health Outcomes. The Journal of Rural Health. 27(4). 367–379. 121 indexed citations

Ahern, Melissa, et al.. (2010). Residence in Coal-Mining Areas and Low-Birth-Weight Outcomes. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 15(7). 974–979. 41 indexed citations

Ahern, Melissa, et al.. (2004). Improved Clinical Outcomes for Fee-for-Service Physician Practices Participating in a Diabetes Care Collaborative. PubMed. 30(4). 187–194. 35 indexed citations

Sparr, Jennifer L., et al.. (2004). PHYSICIAN ORDERS for Life-Sustaining Treatment Form: Honoring End-of-Life Directives for Nursing Home Residents. Journal of Gerontological Nursing. 30(9). 37–46. 43 indexed citations

Ahern, Melissa, et al.. (2003). Isolation and characterisation of a novel bacteriocin produced byBacillus thuringiensisstrain B439. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 220(1). 127–131. 68 indexed citations

Ahern, Melissa, et al.. (2001). Impact of HMO ownership on management processes and utilization outcomes.. PubMed. 7(5). 489–97. 4 indexed citations

Siddharthan, Kris, Melissa Ahern, & Robert Rosenman. (2000). Data Envelopment Analysis to determine efficiencies of health maintenance organizations. Health Care Management Science. 3(1). 23–29. 23 indexed citations

Siddharthan, Kris, Melissa Ahern, & Robert Rosenman. (2000). Causes of cost inefficiency in HMOs. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance. 13(4). 162–169. 3 indexed citations

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Ahern, Melissa, et al.. (1998). The relationship of community quality to the health of women and men. Social Science & Medicine. 47(8). 1113–1120. 81 indexed citations

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Siddharthan, Kris, Melissa Ahern, & Robert Rosenman. (1997). The impact of ownership on health care services in HMOs. PubMed. 23(6). 216–222. 1 indexed citations

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Rosenman, Robert, Kris Siddharthan, & Melissa Ahern. (1997). Output Efficiency of Health Maintenance Organizations in Florida. Health Economics. 6(3). 295–302. 30 indexed citations

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Siddharthan, Kris & Melissa Ahern. (1996). Inpatient Utilization by Undocumented Immigrants Without Insurance. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 7(4). 355–363. 20 indexed citations

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Ahern, Melissa, et al.. (1994). Regional and individual differences in physician practices for joint-ventured versus non-joint-ventured physicians.. PubMed. 28(6). 785–801. 1 indexed citations

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Campbell, Ellen & Melissa Ahern. (1993). Have procompetitive changes altered hospital provision of indigent care?. Health Economics. 2(3). 281–289. 13 indexed citations

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Ahern, Melissa, et al.. (1993). Effects of Payment Changes on Urgent/Emergent Admissions in Rural and Urban Communities. The Journal of Rural Health. 9(2). 120–128. 2 indexed citations

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Ahern, Melissa. (1993). The softness of medical production and implications for specifying hospital outputs. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 20(3). 281–294. 12 indexed citations

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Ahern, Melissa, et al.. (1992). Emergency room admissions: changes during the financial tightening of the 1980s.. PubMed. 29(1). 67–79. 10 indexed citations

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McCoy, H. Virginia, et al.. (1992). Reducing Older Patients' Reliance on the Emergency Department. Social Work in Health Care. 17(1). 23–37. 13 indexed citations

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Ahern, Melissa, et al.. (1992). Effects of physician joint ventures on health care costs, access, and quality: exploring some issues.. PubMed. 10(2). 101–9, 158. 1 indexed citations

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