Paola Ballón

973 total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 518 citations indexed

About

Paola Ballón is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Paola Ballón has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 518 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 12 papers in Safety Research and 5 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Paola Ballón's work include Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (12 papers), Income, Poverty, and Inequality (11 papers) and Agricultural risk and resilience (5 papers). Paola Ballón is often cited by papers focused on Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (12 papers), Income, Poverty, and Inequality (11 papers) and Agricultural risk and resilience (5 papers). Paola Ballón collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Argentina. Paola Ballón's co-authors include Jaya Krishnakumar, Douglas Gollin, Daniel Mason-D’Croz, Sherman Robinson, Mike Rayner, Peter Scarborough, Hubert Charles, Marco Springmann, Tara Garnett and Robert Hope and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and World Development.

In The Last Decade

Paola Ballón

21 papers receiving 495 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.

  1. Global and regional health effects of future food production under climate change: a modelling study
    2016 298 citations Marco Springmann, Daniel Mason-D’Croz et al. The Lancet profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paola Ballón United Kingdom 8 154 126 83 79 75 21 518
Willis Oluoch‐Kosura Kenya 12 180 1.2× 58 0.5× 36 0.4× 131 1.7× 127 1.7× 44 757
Nathaniel Jensen Kenya 15 202 1.3× 44 0.3× 33 0.4× 157 2.0× 269 3.6× 47 990
Mariève Pouliot Denmark 20 151 1.0× 155 1.2× 28 0.3× 28 0.4× 160 2.1× 38 1.2k
Luca Tasciotti Netherlands 14 95 0.6× 63 0.5× 199 2.4× 58 0.7× 133 1.8× 44 1.1k
Abayomi Samuel Oyekale South Africa 17 91 0.6× 34 0.3× 17 0.2× 44 0.6× 123 1.6× 112 883
Dick Foeken Netherlands 16 120 0.8× 30 0.2× 45 0.5× 72 0.9× 34 0.5× 70 728
Marcelo Tyszler Netherlands 13 52 0.3× 439 3.5× 85 1.0× 125 1.6× 100 1.3× 22 800
Razack Lokina Tanzania 14 52 0.3× 98 0.8× 21 0.3× 45 0.6× 150 2.0× 50 632
Stefanie Lemke Germany 13 94 0.6× 36 0.3× 15 0.2× 45 0.6× 57 0.8× 40 530
Jillian Waid Germany 19 43 0.3× 96 0.8× 82 1.0× 163 2.1× 87 1.2× 53 994

Countries citing papers authored by Paola Ballón

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paola Ballón

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Paola Ballón. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Paola Ballón. The network helps show where Paola Ballón may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paola Ballón

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hope, Robert & Paola Ballón. (2021). Individual choices and universal rights for drinking water in rural Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(40). 7 indexed citations
2.
Ballón, Paola, et al.. (2021). The Welfare Costs of Being Off the Grid. World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. 3 indexed citations
3.
Jones, Lindsey & Paola Ballón. (2020). Tracking changes in resilience and recovery after natural hazards: Insights from a high-frequency mobile-phone panel survey. Global Environmental Change. 62. 102053–102053. 11 indexed citations
4.
Ballón, Paola, et al.. (2020). Inequality and the changing nature of work in Peru. Working Paper Series. 2 indexed citations
5.
Hope, Robert & Paola Ballón. (2019). Global water policy and local payment choices in rural Africa. npj Clean Water. 2(1). 22 indexed citations
6.
Ballón, Paola & Gastón Yalonetzky. (2018). Introduction to Special Section: Quantitative Approaches to the Measurement and Analysis of Female Empowerment and Agency. The Journal of Development Studies. 54(8). 1279–1283. 7 indexed citations
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Ballón, Paola, et al.. (2018). Child Monetary Poverty and Multidimensional Deprivations: Why They Differ. Journal of African Economies. 27(4). 483–512. 4 indexed citations
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Klein, Elise & Paola Ballón. (2017). Rethinking Measures of Psychological Agency: A Study on the Urban Fringe of Bamako. The Journal of Development Studies. 54(8). 1284–1302. 6 indexed citations
9.
Ballón, Paola. (2017). A Structural Equation Model of Female Empowerment. The Journal of Development Studies. 54(8). 1303–1320. 18 indexed citations
10.
Ballón, Paola & Jean‐Yves Duclos. (2016). A Comparative Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty in Sudan and South Sudan. African Development Review. 28(S2). 132–161. 8 indexed citations
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Springmann, Marco, Daniel Mason-D’Croz, Sherman Robinson, et al.. (2016). Global and regional health effects of future food production under climate change: a modelling study. The Lancet. 387(10031). 1937–1946. 298 indexed citations breakdown →
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Alkire, Sabina, James E. Foster, Suman Seth, et al.. (2015). Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis: Chapter 4 - Counting Approaches: Definitions, Origins, and Implementations. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 2 indexed citations
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Alkire, Sabina, James E. Foster, Suman Seth, et al.. (2015). Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis: Chapter 7 - Data and Analysis. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 3 indexed citations
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Alkire, Sabina, James E. Foster, Suman Seth, et al.. (2015). Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis: Chapter 8 - Robustness Analysis and Statistical Inference. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 3 indexed citations
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Springmann, Marco, Daniel Mason-D’Croz, Sherman Robinson, et al.. (2015). PP60 The global and regional health impacts of future food production under climate change. IFPRI E-brary (International Food Policy Research Institute). A78.3–A79. 2 indexed citations
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Ballón, Paola, et al.. (2015). Multidimensional Poverty in Sudan and South Sudan. SSRN Electronic Journal. 10 indexed citations
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Alkire, Sabina, James E. Foster, Suman Seth, et al.. (2014). Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis: Chapter 1 Introduction. SSRN Electronic Journal. 11 indexed citations
18.
Ballón, Paola & Jaya Krishnakumar. (2011). Measuring Capability Poverty: A Multidimensional Model-Based Approach. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Krishnakumar, Jaya & Paola Ballón. (2008). Estimating Basic Capabilities: A Structural Equation Model Applied to Bolivia. Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva). 1 indexed citations
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Krishnakumar, Jaya & Paola Ballón. (2008). Estimating Basic Capabilities: A Structural Equation Model Applied to Bolivia. World Development. 36(6). 992–1010. 97 indexed citations

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