Owen O’Donnell

12.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
112 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Owen O’Donnell is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Finance and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Owen O’Donnell has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in General Health Professions, 44 papers in Finance and 36 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Owen O’Donnell's work include Global Health Care Issues (64 papers), Healthcare Systems and Reforms (43 papers) and Healthcare Policy and Management (25 papers). Owen O’Donnell is often cited by papers focused on Global Health Care Issues (64 papers), Healthcare Systems and Reforms (43 papers) and Healthcare Policy and Management (25 papers). Owen O’Donnell collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Greece and Switzerland. Owen O’Donnell's co-authors include Eddy van Doorslaer, Magnus Lindelöw, Adam Wagstaff, Ellen Van de Poel, Teresa Bago d’Uva, Tom Van Ourti, Hans van Kippersluis, Maarten Lindeboom, Gabriela Flores and Stephen O’Neill and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Owen O’Donnell

103 papers receiving 6.6k 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.

Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data: A Guide to Techniques and Their Implementation

2007 1.3k citations Owen O’Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer et al. World Bank Publications profile →
Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data

2007 838 citations Owen O’Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer et al. profile →
Effect of payments for health care on poverty estimates in 11 countries in Asia: an analysis of household survey data

2006 519 citations Eddy van Doorslaer, Owen O’Donnell et al. profile →
Conindex: Estimation of Concentration Indices

2016 338 citations Owen O’Donnell, Tom Van Ourti et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Owen O’Donnell Netherlands	36	4.0k	2.9k	2.7k	1.6k	1.4k	112	7.0k
Magnus Lindelöw United States	25	3.0k 0.8×	3.1k 1.1×	2.5k 0.9×	650 0.4×	1.5k 1.0×	72	5.4k
Di McIntyre South Africa	41	3.4k 0.9×	2.9k 1.0×	3.2k 1.2×	454 0.3×	1.9k 1.3×	138	6.9k
Emmanuela Gakidou United States	45	2.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.4×	2.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	956 0.7×	113	8.2k
Tanja A. J. Houweling Netherlands	27	4.4k 1.1×	1.0k 0.3×	2.4k 0.9×	2.3k 1.5×	765 0.5×	68	8.4k
Philip Musgrove United States	30	2.2k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	462 0.3×	1.5k 1.0×	165	5.7k
Barbara McPake United Kingdom	37	2.3k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	2.3k 0.9×	425 0.3×	1.8k 1.2×	171	5.5k
Sanni Yaya Canada	45	2.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	4.0k 1.5×	973 0.6×	518 0.4×	389	7.6k
Abbas Bhuiya Bangladesh	39	1.8k 0.4×	780 0.3×	1.8k 0.7×	887 0.6×	625 0.4×	156	5.1k
Kenneth Hill United States	31	2.1k 0.5×	715 0.2×	2.7k 1.0×	778 0.5×	738 0.5×	91	6.2k
Carla AbouZahr Switzerland	30	1.8k 0.5×	981 0.3×	3.6k 1.3×	477 0.3×	482 0.3×	66	5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Owen O’Donnell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Owen O’Donnell

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Lépine, Aurélia, et al.. (2025). Effect of pre-exposure prophylaxis on risky sexual behaviour of female sex workers in Dakar, Senegal: A randomised controlled trial. PLoS Medicine. 22(8). e1004458–e1004458.

O’Donnell, Owen. (2024). Health and health system effects on poverty: A narrative review of global evidence. Health Policy. 142. 105018–105018. 13 indexed citations

Ourti, Tom Van, et al.. (2024). Ranking Age-at-Death Distributions Using Dominance: Robust Evaluation of United States Mortality Trends, 2006–2021. Demography. 61(4). 1143–1159.

Mohanty, Sanjay K., et al.. (2024). Healthcare inequity arising from unequal response to need in the older (45+ years) population of India: Analysis of nationally representative data. Social Science & Medicine. 364. 117535–117535. 1 indexed citations

Brindley, Callum, Tom Van Ourti, Igna Bonfrer, & Owen O’Donnell. (2024). Association of socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular disease risk with economic development across 57 low- and middle-income countries: Cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative individual-level data. Social Science & Medicine. 365. 117591–117591. 1 indexed citations

Brindley, Callum, et al.. (2023). Risk factor contributions to socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular risk in the Philippines: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative survey data. BMC Public Health. 23(1). 689–689. 4 indexed citations

Mohanty, Sanjay K., et al.. (2023). Public health insurance coverage in India before and after PM-JAY: repeated cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative survey data. BMJ Global Health. 8(8). e012725–e012725. 16 indexed citations

Mohanty, Sanjay K., Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Sarang Pedgaonkar, et al.. (2022). Prevalence of pain and its treatment among older adults in India: a nationally representative population-based study. Pain. 164(2). 336–348. 10 indexed citations

Upadhyay, Ashish Kumar, et al.. (2022). Use of unclean cooking fuels and visual impairment of older adults in India: A nationally representative population-based study. Environment International. 165. 107302–107302. 16 indexed citations

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O’Donnell, Owen, et al.. (2019). Increasing Patient Accessibility and Use of Hand Sanitizer Through Introduction of a Single-Dose Packet. American Journal of Infection Control. 47(6). S45–S46. 1 indexed citations

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O’Donnell, Owen, et al.. (2018). What Explains Education Disparities in Screening Mammography in the United States? A Comparison with The Netherlands. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 15(9). 1961–1961. 9 indexed citations

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Neelsen, Sven & Owen O’Donnell. (2017). Progressive universalism? The impact of targeted coverage on health care access and expenditures in Peru. Health Economics. 26(12). e179–e203. 25 indexed citations

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d’Uva, Teresa Bago, et al.. (2015). Who can predict their own Demise? Accuracy of Longevity Expectations by Education and Cognition. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 3 indexed citations

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O’Donnell, Owen. (2009). Measuring health inequalities in Europe: methodological issues in the analysis of survey data.. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 15(3). 10–14. 10 indexed citations

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Flores, Gabriela, Jaya Krishnakumar, Owen O’Donnell, & Eddy van Doorslaer. (2008). Coping with health-care costs: implications for the measurement of catastrophic expenditures and poverty.. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 253 indexed citations

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d’Uva, Teresa Bago, Owen O’Donnell, & Eddy van Doorslaer. (2008). Differential health reporting by education level and its impact on the measurement of health inequalities among older Europeans. International Journal of Epidemiology. 37(6). 1375–1383. 187 indexed citations

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O’Donnell, Owen, Eddy van Doorslaer, Adam Wagstaff, & Magnus Lindelöw. (2007). Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data: A Guide to Techniques and Their Implementation. World Bank Publications. 1–234. 1255 indexed citations breakdown →

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O’Donnell, Owen, et al.. (1998). The Comparison Between Ad Valorem and Specific Taxation under Imperfect Competition: Evidence from the European Cigarette Industry. Econstor (Econstor). 7 indexed citations

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O’Donnell, Owen & Carol Propper. (1991). Reply: Equity and the Delivery of UK NHS Resources. Journal of Health Economics. 10. 247–249. 4 indexed citations

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O’Donnell, Owen, Alan Maynard, & Ken Wright. (1988). The economic evaluation of mental health care: a review. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 7 indexed citations

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