Michael Head

2.2k total citations
96 papers, 960 citations indexed

About

Michael Head is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Head has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 960 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 27 papers in Infectious Diseases and 23 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Michael Head's work include Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (13 papers), Global Health and Surgery (12 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (9 papers). Michael Head is often cited by papers focused on Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (13 papers), Global Health and Surgery (12 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (9 papers). Michael Head collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Afghanistan. Michael Head's co-authors include Rifat Atun, Joseph R A Fitchett, Fatima Wurie, Mary K Cooke, Andrew Hayward, Mohammad Yasir Essar, Rebecca Brown, Marie‐Louise Newell, Jackie Cassell and Ken Brackstone and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Michael Head

90 papers receiving 924 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Head United Kingdom	19	307	276	178	164	139	96	960
Leila Denise Alves Ferreira Amorim Brazil	23	338 1.1×	221 0.8×	227 1.3×	203 1.2×	70 0.5×	76	1.4k
Bruno de Sousa Portugal	20	376 1.2×	191 0.7×	261 1.5×	128 0.8×	35 0.3×	65	1.1k
Behnam Honarvar Iran	17	139 0.5×	199 0.7×	265 1.5×	161 1.0×	129 0.9×	88	1.1k
Esther Ngadaya Tanzania	17	155 0.5×	449 1.6×	288 1.6×	150 0.9×	78 0.6×	74	950
Kamalini Lokuge Australia	23	168 0.5×	444 1.6×	389 2.2×	243 1.5×	124 0.9×	67	1.3k
Shantanu Kumar Kar India	20	328 1.1×	362 1.3×	288 1.6×	118 0.7×	268 1.9×	81	1.4k
Susan Stone United States	18	328 1.1×	207 0.8×	161 0.9×	275 1.7×	299 2.2×	48	1.3k
Grant Murewanhema Zimbabwe	18	100 0.3×	321 1.2×	157 0.9×	183 1.1×	138 1.0×	100	846
Adriane Martin Hilber Switzerland	14	208 0.7×	222 0.8×	184 1.0×	500 3.0×	73 0.5×	37	961
Isaac K. Nyamongo Kenya	19	309 1.0×	219 0.8×	136 0.8×	216 1.3×	53 0.4×	60	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Head

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Head

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Head

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Elander, James, et al.. (2025). Understanding barriers to influenza vaccination among parents is important to improve vaccine uptake among children. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 21(1). 2457198–2457198. 2 indexed citations

McIntosh, Stuart, et al.. (2025). Global funding for surgical research between 2016 and 2020: content analysis of public and philanthropic investments. British journal of surgery. 112(6). 1 indexed citations

Hoyle, Rebecca B., et al.. (2025). Modelling the mitigation of anti-vaccine opinion propagation to suppress epidemic spread: A computational approach. PLoS ONE. 20(3). e0318544–e0318544.

Essar, Mohammad Yasir, et al.. (2024). Infant and child mortality in Afghanistan: A scoping review. Health Science Reports. 7(7). e2224–e2224. 3 indexed citations

Nemat, Arash, et al.. (2024). Knowledge, attitude, and practices toward malaria among hospital outpatients in Nangarhar, Afghanistan: A cross-sectional study. SAGE Open Medicine. 12. 3932102574–3932102574. 1 indexed citations

Head, Michael, et al.. (2024). Functional disability, health care access, and mental health in Ukrainians displaced by the 2022 Russian invasion. Psychiatry Research. 342. 116238–116238.

Conti, Isabella, et al.. (2023). Global trends in psycho‐oncology research investments 2016–2020: A content analysis. Psycho-Oncology. 33(1). e6273–e6273. 1 indexed citations

Pagano, Adriana Silvina, Zilma Silveira Nogueira Reis, Ken Brackstone, et al.. (2023). Usability of Telehealth Systems for Noncommunicable Diseases in Primary Care From the COVID-19 Pandemic Onward: Systematic Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 25. e44209–e44209. 24 indexed citations

Essar, Mohammad Yasir, et al.. (2023). Afghan women are essential to humanitarian NGO work. The Lancet Global Health. 11(4). e497–e498. 11 indexed citations

10.

Essar, Mohammad Yasir, et al.. (2023). Improving health system access and preparedness in Afghanistan to minimize potential impact of monkeypox: a call for action. International Journal of Surgery. 109(2). 156–157. 1 indexed citations

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Head, Michael, et al.. (2022). Lessons from the field: COVID-19 outbreak investigations in Kpone-Katamanso, Greater Accra, Ghana: a Global South approach to disease control and contact tracing. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 116(10). 881–883. 1 indexed citations

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Adeyanju, Gbadebo Collins, et al.. (2021). Determinants of influenza vaccine hesitancy among pregnant women in Europe: a systematic review. European journal of medical research. 26(1). 116–116. 44 indexed citations

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Head, Michael. (2020). A real-time policy dashboard can aid global transparency in the response to coronavirus disease 2019. International Health. 12(5). 373–374. 6 indexed citations

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Brown, Rebecca, et al.. (2020). Allocation of funding into blast injury-related research and blast traumatic brain injury between 2000 and 2019: analysis of global investments from public and philanthropic funders. BMJ Military Health. 169(2). 127–132. 9 indexed citations

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Thaler, David S., et al.. (2019). Precision public health to inhibit the contagion of disease and move toward a future in which microbes spread health. BMC Infectious Diseases. 19(1). 120–120. 9 indexed citations

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Zhou, Charlie, Michael Head, Dominic C. Marshall, et al.. (2018). A systematic analysis of UK cancer research funding by gender of primary investigator. BMJ Open. 8(4). e018625–e018625. 20 indexed citations

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Abbey, Mercy, James Batchelor, Eric S. Donkor, et al.. (2017). Pneumonia in Ghana—a need to raise the profile. International Health. 10(1). 4–7. 4 indexed citations

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Maruthappu, Mahiben, Michael Head, Charlie Zhou, et al.. (2017). Investments in cancer research awarded to UK institutions and the global burden of cancer 2000–2013: a systematic analysis. BMJ Open. 7(4). e013936–e013936. 21 indexed citations

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Head, Michael, Joseph R A Fitchett, Mary K Cooke, Fatima Wurie, & Rifat Atun. (2013). Differences in research funding for women scientists: a systematic comparison of UK investments in global infectious disease research during 1997–2010. BMJ Open. 3(12). e003362–e003362. 48 indexed citations

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Head, Michael, et al.. (1994). Assuring Quality in Health Promotion: How to Develop Standards of Good Practice. UWE Research Repository (UWE Bristol). 7 indexed citations

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