Pascal Geldsetzer

9.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
153 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Pascal Geldsetzer is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, General Health Professions and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Pascal Geldsetzer has authored 153 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Infectious Diseases, 42 papers in General Health Professions and 37 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Pascal Geldsetzer's work include HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (39 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (30 papers) and Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (16 papers). Pascal Geldsetzer is often cited by papers focused on HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (39 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (30 papers) and Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (16 papers). Pascal Geldsetzer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and South Africa. Pascal Geldsetzer's co-authors include Till Bärnighausen, Sebastián Vollmer, Jennifer Manne‐Goehler, Rifat Atun, Justine Davies, Ashish Awasthi, Lindsay M. Jaacks, Nikkil Sudharsanan, Simiao Chen and Michaela Theilmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Pascal Geldsetzer

136 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia
    2025 41 citations Pascal Geldsetzer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Pascal Geldsetzer United States 28 783 744 571 496 461 153 3.3k
Maria Pia Fantini Italy 33 499 0.6× 741 1.0× 536 0.9× 457 0.9× 326 0.7× 195 4.0k
Stuart Gilmour Japan 39 536 0.7× 1.2k 1.6× 1.3k 2.2× 838 1.7× 578 1.3× 180 5.1k
Cyrille Delpierre France 36 592 0.8× 951 1.3× 514 0.9× 605 1.2× 728 1.6× 199 4.4k
Jay Bhattacharya United States 39 577 0.7× 1.3k 1.8× 942 1.6× 327 0.7× 240 0.5× 169 5.5k
Hilda Razzaghi United States 28 1.2k 1.5× 418 0.6× 1.3k 2.3× 560 1.1× 508 1.1× 65 4.9k
Richard Horton South Africa 20 332 0.4× 707 1.0× 375 0.7× 275 0.6× 340 0.7× 157 2.9k
Eliza Lai‐Yi Wong Hong Kong 41 879 1.1× 1.5k 2.0× 895 1.6× 299 0.6× 708 1.5× 267 5.9k
Shiva Raj Mishra Nepal 33 270 0.3× 760 1.0× 486 0.9× 550 1.1× 305 0.7× 155 3.3k
Gabriel Rada Chile 27 592 0.8× 907 1.2× 421 0.7× 432 0.9× 164 0.4× 169 3.7k
Neeraj Sood United States 33 724 0.9× 1.7k 2.3× 496 0.9× 341 0.7× 293 0.6× 202 4.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Pascal Geldsetzer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Pascal Geldsetzer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pascal Geldsetzer

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

All Works

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Malta, Déborah Carvalho, Michaela Theilmann, Maja E. Marcus, et al.. (2024). The Association Between Depressive Symptoms, Access to Diabetes Care, and Glycemic Control in Five Middle-Income Countries. Diabetes Care. 47(8). 1449–1456.
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Xie, Min, et al.. (2024). The effect of herpes zoster vaccination on the occurrence of deaths due to dementia in England and Wales. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(S7). 1 indexed citations
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Yu, Fengyun, Lirui Jiao, Qiushi Chen, et al.. (2024). Preferences regarding COVID-19 vaccination among 12,000 adults in China: A cross-sectional discrete choice experiment. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(7). e0003387–e0003387. 2 indexed citations
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Ghalichi, Leila, Dina Goodman, John Whitaker, et al.. (2024). Individual characteristics associated with road traffic collisions and healthcare seeking in low- and middle-income countries and territories. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). e0002768–e0002768. 1 indexed citations
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Charu, Vivek, Glenn M. Chertow, June Li, et al.. (2023). Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Intensive Glycemic Control on Kidney Microvascular Outcomes and Mortality in ACCORD. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 35(2). 216–228. 3 indexed citations
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Chebet, Joy J., Shannon A. McMahon, Kacey C. Ernst, et al.. (2023). Motivations for pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake and decline in an HIV-hyperendemic setting: findings from a qualitative implementation study in Lesotho. AIDS Research and Therapy. 20(1). 43–43. 5 indexed citations
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Tong, Xunliang, Peng Yin, Wei Liu, et al.. (2023). Spatial, temporal and demographic patterns in asthma mortality in China: A systematic analysis from 2014 to 2020. World Allergy Organization Journal. 16(1). 100735–100735. 2 indexed citations
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Geldsetzer, Pascal, et al.. (2023). Prevalence of Short Peer Reviews in 3 Leading General Medical Journals. JAMA Network Open. 6(12). e2347607–e2347607. 2 indexed citations
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Geldsetzer, Pascal, Jennifer Manne‐Goehler, Justine Davies, et al.. (2022). Longitudinal evidence on treatment discontinuation, adherence, and loss of hypertension control in four middle-income countries. Science Translational Medicine. 14(652). eabi9522–eabi9522. 21 indexed citations
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Alami, Nael H., et al.. (2022). Perceptions of, and Obstacles to, SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Among Adults in Lebanon: Cross-sectional Online Survey. JMIR Formative Research. 6(12). e36827–e36827. 5 indexed citations
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Dittrich, Sabine, Sergio Carmona, Stefano Ongarello, et al.. (2022). Addressing the diagnostic gap in hypertension through possible interventions and scale-up: A microsimulation study. PLoS Medicine. 19(12). e1004111–e1004111. 4 indexed citations
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Yu, Fengyun, Pascal Geldsetzer, Juntao Yang, et al.. (2021). Knowledge About COVID-19 Among Adults in China: Cross-sectional Online Survey. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 23(4). e26940–e26940. 15 indexed citations
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Sudharsanan, Nikkil, et al.. (2020). Change in clinical knowledge of diabetes among primary healthcare providers in Indonesia: repeated cross-sectional survey of 5105 primary healthcare facilities. BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care. 8(1). e001415–e001415. 2 indexed citations
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Yapa, H. Manisha, Jan‐Walter De Neve, Carina Herbst, et al.. (2020). The impact of continuous quality improvement on coverage of antenatal HIV care tests in rural South Africa: Results of a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised controlled implementation trial. PLoS Medicine. 17(10). e1003150–e1003150. 20 indexed citations
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Odland, Maria Lisa, Collin Payne, Miles D. Witham, et al.. (2020). Epidemiology of multimorbidity in conditions of extreme poverty: a population-based study of older adults in rural Burkina Faso. BMJ Global Health. 5(3). e002096–e002096. 36 indexed citations

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