Mike Ahern

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 779 citations indexed

About

Mike Ahern is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Emergency Medical Services and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Mike Ahern has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 779 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 4 papers in Emergency Medical Services and 3 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Mike Ahern's work include Climate Change and Health Impacts (4 papers), Disaster Response and Management (4 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (3 papers). Mike Ahern is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change and Health Impacts (4 papers), Disaster Response and Management (4 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (3 papers). Mike Ahern collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and Australia. Mike Ahern's co-authors include Sari Kovats, Roger Few, Franziska Matthies, Paul Wilkinson, Carolyn Stephens, Oliver Morgan, Sandy Cairncross, Jonathan A. Patz, Bettina Menne and Colin D. Butler and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS Medicine, Epidemiology and Epidemiologic Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Mike Ahern

8 papers receiving 696 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Global Health Impacts of Floods: Epidemiologic Evidence

2005 550 citations Mike Ahern, Sari Kovats et al. Epidemiologic Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mike Ahern United Kingdom	6	264	240	224	182	84	8	779
Katarzyna Alderman Australia	5	243 0.9×	182 0.8×	161 0.7×	124 0.7×	79 0.9×	6	599
Franziska Matthies United Kingdom	8	304 1.2×	561 2.3×	217 1.0×	173 1.0×	189 2.3×	12	1.1k
Shuang Zhong China	17	148 0.6×	284 1.2×	363 1.6×	319 1.8×	134 1.6×	31	967
Lyle Turner Australia	14	259 1.0×	698 2.9×	175 0.8×	146 0.8×	347 4.1×	44	1.4k
Carlos Machado de Freitas Brazil	23	127 0.5×	160 0.7×	304 1.4×	93 0.5×	286 3.4×	113	1.4k
Megumi Kano United States	17	171 0.6×	141 0.6×	499 2.2×	223 1.2×	152 1.8×	24	1.0k
Abbas Ostadtaghizadeh Iran	15	238 0.9×	149 0.6×	370 1.7×	229 1.3×	96 1.1×	69	936
Carla Stanke United Kingdom	3	125 0.5×	191 0.8×	82 0.4×	76 0.4×	99 1.2×	5	457
Osamu Kunii Japan	12	105 0.4×	130 0.5×	98 0.4×	89 0.5×	77 0.9×	25	540
J. Trtanj United States	10	204 0.8×	484 2.0×	153 0.7×	46 0.3×	132 1.6×	17	920

Countries citing papers authored by Mike Ahern

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mike Ahern

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mike Ahern

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mike Ahern. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mike Ahern 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 Mike Ahern. Mike Ahern is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Ahern, Mike & Sari Kovats. (2013). The Health Impacts of Floods. 40–65. 5 indexed citations

2.

Ahern, Mike, Sari Kovats, Paul Wilkinson, Roger Few, & Franziska Matthies. (2005). Global Health Impacts of Floods: Epidemiologic Evidence. Epidemiologic Reviews. 27(1). 36–46. 550 indexed citations breakdown →

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Morgan, Oliver, Mike Ahern, & Sandy Cairncross. (2005). Revisiting the Tsunami: Health Consequences of Flooding. PLoS Medicine. 2(6). e184–e184. 25 indexed citations

4.

Few, Roger, Mike Ahern, Franziska Matthies, & Sari Kovats. (2004). Floods, health and climate change: a strategic review. LSHTM Research Online (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). 145 indexed citations

5.

Ahern, Mike, Sari Kovats, Franziska Matthies, & Roger Few. (2004). HEALTH IMPACTS OF FLOODING: A GLOBAL SYSTEMATIC REVIEW. Epidemiology. 15(4). S125–S126. 3 indexed citations

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Kovats, Sari, Bettina Menne, Mike Ahern, & Jonathan A. Patz. (2003). National assessments of health impacts of climate change: a review. LSHTM Research Online (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). 12 indexed citations

7.

Lee, Kelley, Tony McMichael, Colin D. Butler, Mike Ahern, & David J. Bradley. (2002). Global Change and Health — The Good, The Bad and The Evidence. 3(1). 16–19. 4 indexed citations

8.

Stephens, Carolyn & Mike Ahern. (2001). Worker and community health impacts related to mining internationally: a rapid review of the literature. LSHTM Research Online (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). 35 indexed citations

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