Paul Kowal

15.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
178 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

About

Paul Kowal is a scholar working on Health, General Health Professions and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Kowal has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Health, 61 papers in General Health Professions and 29 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Paul Kowal's work include Health disparities and outcomes (64 papers), Global Health Care Issues (40 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (21 papers). Paul Kowal is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (64 papers), Global Health Care Issues (40 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (21 papers). Paul Kowal collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Australia and United States. Paul Kowal's co-authors include Emiel O. Hoogendijk, Somnath Chatterji, Jonathan Afilalo, Graziano Onder, Linda P. Fried, Kristine E. Ensrud, Elsa Dent, Nirmala Naidoo, Richard Biritwum and Fan Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Paul Kowal

174 papers receiving 8.9k 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.

Frailty: implications for clinical practice and public health

2019 1.9k citations Emiel O. Hoogendijk, Paul Kowal et al. profile →
Frailty measurement in research and clinical practice: A review

2016 876 citations Elsa Dent, Paul Kowal et al. European Journal of Internal Medicine profile →
Macroeconomic implications of population ageing and selected policy responses

2014 462 citations Somnath Chatterji, Paul Kowal et al. profile →
The impact of multimorbidity on adult physical and mental health in low- and middle-income countries: what does the study on global ageing and adult health (SAGE) reveal?

2015 333 citations Richard Biritwum, Alfred Edwin Yawson et al. profile →

Peers

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Marjan van den Akker Netherlands

Luis Miguel Gutiérrez‐Robledo Mexico

Julie Byles Australia

José M Valderas United Kingdom

Walter P. Wodchis Canada

Laurence G. Branch United States

Matthew L. Maciejewski United States

Andreas E. Stuck Switzerland

Howard Bergman Canada

Stewart W Mercer United Kingdom

Marjan van den Akker Netherlands

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Kowal

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Dent, Elsa, Peter Hanlon, Paul Kowal, & Emiel O. Hoogendijk. (2025). Frailty measurement in research and clinical practice: An updated review. European Journal of Internal Medicine. 144. 106595–106595.

Kowal, Paul, Barbara Corso, Kanya Anindya, et al.. (2023). Prevalence of unmet health care need in older adults in 83 countries: measuring progressing towards universal health coverage in the context of global population ageing. Population Health Metrics. 21(1). 15–15. 11 indexed citations

Yawson, Alfred Edwin, Phyllis Dako‐Gyeke, Sandra Hewlett, et al.. (2022). Sex and Rural-urban Disparities in Prevalence of Self-reported Chronic Non-communicable Diseases and Health Risks among Older Adults in Ghana: Implications for the National Aging Policy. 4(2). 55–62. 1 indexed citations

Corso, Barbara, Nadia Minicuci, Ilaria Rocco, et al.. (2021). Determinants of change in blood pressure in Ghana: Longitudinal data from WHO-SAGE Waves 1–3. PLoS ONE. 16(1). e0244807–e0244807. 4 indexed citations

Awuviry‐Newton, Kofi, Kylie Wales, Meredith Tavener, Paul Kowal, & Julie Byles. (2021). Functional difficulties and toileting among older adults in Ghana: evidence from the World Health Organization Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) Ghana Wave 1. Ageing and Society. 43(1). 53–75. 12 indexed citations

Corso, Barbara, Nadia Minicuci, Ilaria Rocco, et al.. (2020). Salt and potassium intake among adult Ghanaians: WHO-SAGE Ghana Wave 3. BMC Nutrition. 6(1). 54–54. 15 indexed citations

Eick, Geeta N., Elizabeth A. Thiele, Aarón Salinas‐Rodríguez, et al.. (2020). Inflammation and central adiposity as mediators of depression and uncontrolled diabetes in the study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE). American Journal of Human Biology. 32(6). e23413–e23413. 10 indexed citations

Charlton, Karen, et al.. (2020). Correcting for Intra-Individual Variability in Sodium Excretion in Spot Urine Samples Does Not Improve the Ability to Predict 24 h Urinary Sodium Excretion. Nutrients. 12(7). 2026–2026. 10 indexed citations

Lartey, Stella T., Lei Si, Thomas Lung, et al.. (2020). Impact of overweight and obesity on life expectancy, quality-adjusted life years and lifetime costs in the adult population of Ghana. BMJ Global Health. 5(9). e003332–e003332. 14 indexed citations

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Ruan, Ye, Yanfei Guo, Paul Kowal, et al.. (2019). Association between anemia and frailty in 13,175 community-dwelling adults aged 50 years and older in China. BMC Geriatrics. 19(1). 327–327. 51 indexed citations

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Moreno‐Agostino, Darío, Arthur A. Stone, Stefan Schneider, et al.. (2019). Are retired people higher in experiential wellbeing than working older adults? A time use approach.. Emotion. 20(8). 1411–1422. 4 indexed citations

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Brennan‐Olsen, Sharon L., Steven J. Bowe, Paul Kowal, et al.. (2019). Functional Measures of Sarcopenia: Prevalence, and Associations with Functional Disability in 10,892 Adults Aged 65 Years and Over from Six Lower- and Middle-Income Countries. Calcified Tissue International. 105(6). 609–618. 8 indexed citations

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Mugisha, Joseph, Enid Schatz, Christian Holm Hansen, et al.. (2018). Social engagement and survival in people aged 50 years and over living with HIV and without HIV in Uganda: a prospective cohort study. African Journal of AIDS Research. 17(4). 333–340. 2 indexed citations

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Hoogendijk, Emiel O., Judith J. M. Rijnhart, Paul Kowal, et al.. (2018). Socioeconomic inequalities in frailty among older adults in six low- and middle-income countries: Results from the WHO Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE). Maturitas. 115. 56–63. 62 indexed citations

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Charlton, Karen, Lisa J. Ware, Jeannine Baumgartner, et al.. (2018). Iodine Status Assessment in South African Adults According to Spot Urinary Iodine Concentrations, Prediction Equations, and Measured 24-h Iodine Excretion. Nutrients. 10(6). 736–736. 11 indexed citations

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Capistrant, Benjamin D., Subharati Ghosh, Greta Friedemann‐Sánchez, Paul Kowal, & Arvind Mathur. (2015). CULTURE AND CAREGIVING FOR OLDER ADULTS IN INDIA: A QUALITATIVE STUDY. The Gerontologist. 55(Suppl_2). 112–112. 1 indexed citations

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Ghosh, Subharati, Benjamin D. Capistrant, Greta Friedemann‐Sánchez, et al.. (2015). PRELIMINARY REPORT OF A MODULAR INTERVENTION GUIDED BY FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS FOR DEMENTIA CAREGIVERS. The Gerontologist. 55(Suppl_2). 845–845. 1 indexed citations

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Charlton, Karen, Paul Kowal, Sharon Williams, et al.. (2014). Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Body Mass Index in a Large Sample of Middle-Aged Australian Men and Women. Nutrients. 6(6). 2305–2319. 58 indexed citations

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Charlton, Karen, Jacqui Webster, & Paul Kowal. (2014). To Legislate or Not to Legislate? A Comparison of the UK and South African Approaches to the Development and Implementation of Salt Reduction Programs. Nutrients. 6(9). 3672–3695. 60 indexed citations

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Nyirenda, Makandwe, Marie‐Louise Newell, J. Mugisha, et al.. (2013). Health, wellbeing, and disability among older people infected or affected by HIV in Uganda and South Africa. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations

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