Michael Richter

15.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
366 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Michael Richter is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Richter has authored 366 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in General Health Professions, 61 papers in Health and 58 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Michael Richter's work include Health disparities and outcomes (60 papers), School Health and Nursing Education (49 papers) and Health and Medical Studies (48 papers). Michael Richter is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (60 papers), School Health and Nursing Education (49 papers) and Health and Medical Studies (48 papers). Michael Richter collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and Belgium. Michael Richter's co-authors include Candace Currie, William Boyce, Torbjørn Torsheim, Bjørn Evald Holstein, Michal Molcho, Irene Moor, Frank Oliver Glöckner, Rudolf Amann, Klaus Hurrelmann and Saoirse Nic Gabhainn and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Michael Richter

322 papers receiving 9.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Researching health inequalities in adolescents: The development of the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) Family Affluence Scale

2008 1.3k citations Michael Richter et al. Social Science & Medicine profile →
The All-Species Living Tree project: A 16S rRNA-based phylogenetic tree of all sequenced type strains

2008 724 citations Michael Richter, Rudolf Amann et al. profile →
Inequalities in young people's health: HBSC international report from the 2005/2006 Survey

2008 381 citations Emmanuelle Godeau, Michael Richter et al. profile →
From Memory to Written Record: England, 1066-1307

1980 165 citations Michael Richter et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Richter Germany	47	2.1k	1.8k	1.6k	1.3k	1.2k	366	9.7k
Christopher Murray United States	51	2.9k 1.4×	1.5k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	1.6k 1.3×	168	18.1k
Erik Lykke Mortensen Denmark	68	1.8k 0.8×	793 0.4×	2.2k 1.4×	1.3k 1.0×	813 0.7×	556	18.2k
Lora E. Fleming United States	66	1.2k 0.6×	989 0.6×	991 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	481 0.4×	297	14.2k
Anthony J. McMichael Australia	76	2.9k 1.4×	836 0.5×	3.3k 2.0×	1.7k 1.3×	1.4k 1.1×	293	22.4k
Stephen Morris United Kingdom	63	2.2k 1.0×	1.0k 0.6×	1.7k 1.0×	573 0.4×	539 0.4×	510	15.7k
Christopher Cox United States	73	914 0.4×	2.9k 1.6×	1.7k 1.0×	295 0.2×	576 0.5×	338	26.0k
Manning Feinleib United States	56	1.5k 0.7×	1.9k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	3.6k 2.7×	822 0.7×	144	24.0k
Thomas W. McDade United States	59	2.0k 1.0×	799 0.4×	1.7k 1.0×	328 0.2×	1.4k 1.1×	265	12.1k
Jeffrey L. Smith United States	60	5.0k 2.4×	1.7k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	313 0.3×	195	16.9k
John Macleod United Kingdom	66	2.8k 1.4×	2.7k 1.5×	4.0k 2.4×	257 0.2×	1.2k 0.9×	484	20.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Richter

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Richter

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20 of 20 papers shown

Richter, Michael, et al.. (2025). A Scoping Review of Prevention Classification in Mental Health: Examining the Application of Caplan’s and Gordon’s Prevention Frameworks (2018–2024). PubMed. 46(3). 427–454. 1 indexed citations

Richter, Michael, et al.. (2025). Development and validation of the eHealth Literacy and Use Scale (eHLUS) to measure medical app literacy. Public Health. 240. 27–32. 1 indexed citations

Wiedemann, Nina, Dianne de Korte‐de Boer, Michael Richter, et al.. (2025). COVID-BLUeS - a Prospective Study on the Value of AI in Lung Ultrasound Analysis. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 29(9). 6301–6310.

Rattay, Petra, Claudia Hövener, Sven Schneider, et al.. (2023). Do family characteristics contribute to a socioeconomic gradient in overweight in early childhood? – Single mediation analyses of data from German preschool children. Preventive Medicine Reports. 33. 102178–102178. 2 indexed citations

Spallek, Jacob, Benjamin Wachtler, Katharina Diehl, et al.. (2021). Correlation of mesolevel characteristics of the healthcare system and socioeconomic inequality in healthcare use: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open. 11(2). e044301–e044301. 2 indexed citations

Renner, Britta, et al.. (2021). DGE-Positionspapier zur nachhaltigeren Ernährung. KOPS (University of Konstanz). 68(7). 144–154. 8 indexed citations

Rattay, Petra, Jacob Spallek, Raphael M. Herr, et al.. (2021). Health Inequalities in Children and Adolescents: A Scoping Review of the Mediating and Moderating Effects of Family Characteristics. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(15). 7739–7739. 12 indexed citations

Richter, Michael. (2021). Radiophobia. Why the fallout of unscientific myths from Chernobyl still prevail. 141–145.

Richter, Michael, et al.. (2020). Creating an Argument Search Engine for Online Debates.. CLEF (Working Notes).

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Günther, Sebastian, et al.. (2020). Der Zusammenhang zwischen schulischer Tabakkontrolle und der wahrgenommenen Raucherprävalenz Jugendlicher. Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz. 64(1). 91–101. 1 indexed citations

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Herke, Max, Irene Moor, Jacob Spallek, et al.. (2020). Role of contextual and compositional characteristics of schools for health inequalities in childhood and adolescence: protocol for a scoping review. BMJ Open. 10(12). e038999–e038999. 9 indexed citations

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Pjevac, Petra, Dimitri V. Meier, Stephanie Markert, et al.. (2018). Metaproteogenomic Profiling of Microbial Communities Colonizing Actively Venting Hydrothermal Chimneys. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 680–680. 31 indexed citations

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Lorant, Vincent, Victoria Eugenia Soto, Laia Bécares, et al.. (2016). A social network analysis of substance use among immigrant adolescents in six European cities. Social Science & Medicine. 169. 58–65. 18 indexed citations

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Looze, Margaretha de, Tom ter Bogt, Anne Hublet, et al.. (2013). Trends in educational differences in adolescent daily smoking across Europe, 2002-10. European Journal of Public Health. 23(5). 846–852. 54 indexed citations

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Hurrelmann, Klaus, Michael Richter, & Katharina Rathmann. (2011). Welche Wohlfahrtspolitik fördert die Gesundheit? Der ungeklärte Zusammenhang von ökonomischer und gesundheitlicher Ungleichheit. Das Gesundheitswesen. 73(6). 335–343. 2 indexed citations

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Siegl, Alexander, Janine Kamke, Thomas Hochmuth, et al.. (2010). Single-cell genomics reveals the lifestyle of Poribacteria , a candidate phylum symbiotically associated with marine sponges. The ISME Journal. 5(1). 61–70. 212 indexed citations

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Frink, Michael, Christian Probst, Frank Hildebrand, et al.. (2007). The influence of transportation mode on mortality in polytraumatized patients. An analysis based on the German Trauma Registry. Der Unfallchirurg. 110(4). 334–340. 26 indexed citations

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Richter, Michael & Anja Leppin. (2007). Trends in socio-economic differences in tobacco-smoking among German school children. European Journal of Public Health. 565–571. 2 indexed citations

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Quasthoff, Uwe, et al.. (2006). Corpus Portal for Search in Monolingual Corpora. Language Resources and Evaluation. 1799–1802. 117 indexed citations

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Richter, Michael. (1979). Geoökologische Untersuchungen in einem Tessiner Hochgebirgstal : dargestellt am Val Vegorness im Hinblick auf planerische Massnahmen. 1 indexed citations

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