Peter M. Macharia

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Peter M. Macharia is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter M. Macharia has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 14 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 11 papers in Finance. Recurrent topics in Peter M. Macharia's work include Global Maternal and Child Health (33 papers), Healthcare Systems and Reforms (11 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (10 papers). Peter M. Macharia is often cited by papers focused on Global Maternal and Child Health (33 papers), Healthcare Systems and Reforms (11 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (10 papers). Peter M. Macharia collaborates with scholars based in Kenya, United Kingdom and Belgium. Peter M. Macharia's co-authors include Robert W. Snow, Emelda A. Okiro, Paul Ouma, Victor A. Alegana, Joseph Maina, Abdisalan M. Noor, Mike English, Emanuele Giorgi, Nicolas Ray and Ibrahima Socé Fall and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Peter M. Macharia

54 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Access to emergency hospital care provided by the public ... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 50 100 150 200
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. Access to emergency hospital care provided by the public sector in sub-Saharan Africa in 2015: a geocoded inventory and spatial analysis
    2018 244 citations Paul Ouma, Peter M. Macharia 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
Peter M. Macharia Kenya 19 478 321 170 154 149 60 1.1k
Paul Ouma Kenya 14 388 0.8× 176 0.5× 145 0.9× 88 0.6× 136 0.9× 26 860
Kerry LM Wong United Kingdom 20 615 1.3× 110 0.3× 134 0.8× 224 1.5× 340 2.3× 50 1.2k
Shivam Gupta United States 18 814 1.7× 267 0.8× 217 1.3× 45 0.3× 382 2.6× 66 1.4k
Clara R. Burgert‐Brucker United States 16 370 0.8× 161 0.5× 110 0.6× 84 0.5× 194 1.3× 33 825
Joseph Maina Kenya 7 238 0.5× 230 0.7× 88 0.5× 51 0.3× 72 0.5× 12 612
Andrew J. Mirelman United Kingdom 20 235 0.5× 322 1.0× 204 1.2× 56 0.4× 500 3.4× 39 1.4k
Khátia Munguambe Mozambique 24 613 1.3× 381 1.2× 65 0.4× 46 0.3× 367 2.5× 93 1.5k
Corrine W. Ruktanonchai United Kingdom 21 208 0.4× 477 1.5× 50 0.3× 530 3.4× 133 0.9× 38 1.4k
Yazoume Yé United States 20 580 1.2× 652 2.0× 132 0.8× 94 0.6× 241 1.6× 60 1.5k
Robert Ndugwa Kenya 16 410 0.9× 222 0.7× 93 0.5× 75 0.5× 376 2.5× 25 1.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter M. Macharia

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter M. Macharia

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Semaan, Aline, et al.. (2025). Inequities in spatial access to childbirth care in the Grand Conakry conurbation, Guinea. Nature Cities. 2(5). 422–433. 1 indexed citations
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Macharia, Peter M., et al.. (2025). Geographic disparities in antenatal care utilization in Addis Ababa city, Ethiopia using demographic and health survey data: A small area estimation approach. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare. 46. 101156–101156. 1 indexed citations
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Wong, Kerry LM, Aduragbemi Banke‐Thomas, Tope Olubodun, et al.. (2024). Socio-spatial equity analysis of relative wealth index and emergency obstetric care accessibility in urban Nigeria. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 34–34. 3 indexed citations
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Macharia, Peter M., et al.. (2024). Evaluating the gap in rapid diagnostic testing: insights from subnational Kenyan routine health data. BMJ Open. 14(8). e081241–e081241.
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Macharia, Peter M., Jessie Pinchoff, Cameron Taylor, & Lenka Beňová. (2023). Exploring the urban gradient in population health: insights from satellite-derived urbanicity classes across multiple countries and years in sub-Saharan Africa. BMJ Global Health. 8(10). e013471–e013471. 4 indexed citations
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Macharia, Peter M., Lenka Beňová, Jessie Pinchoff, et al.. (2023). Neonatal and perinatal mortality in the urban continuum: a geospatial analysis of the household survey, satellite imagery and travel time data in Tanzania. BMJ Global Health. 8(4). e011253–e011253. 13 indexed citations
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Winston, Jennifer, Lisa M. Calhoun, David K. Guilkey, Peter M. Macharia, & Ilene S. Speizer. (2023). Choice of a family planning outlet in urban areas: The role of distance and quality of services in Kenya and Uganda. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 1117849–1117849.
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Macharia, Peter M., et al.. (2022). Modelling geographic access and school catchment areas across public primary schools to support subnational planning in Kenya. Children s Geographies. 21(5). 832–848. 5 indexed citations
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Boo, Gianluca, Peter M. Macharia, Paul Ouma, et al.. (2022). Differences between gridded population data impact measures of geographic access to healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 117–117. 31 indexed citations
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Chamberlain, Heather, Peter M. Macharia, & Andrew J. Tatem. (2022). Mapping urban physical distancing constraints, sub-Saharan Africa: a case study from Kenya. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 100(9). 562–569. 2 indexed citations
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Giorgi, Emanuele, Claudio Fronterrè, Peter M. Macharia, et al.. (2021). Model building and assessment of the impact of covariates for disease prevalence mapping in low-resource settings: to explain and to predict. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 18(179). 20210104–20210104. 21 indexed citations
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Giorgi, Emanuele, et al.. (2021). Maplaria: a user friendly web-application for spatio-temporal malaria prevalence mapping. Malaria Journal. 20(1). 471–471. 1 indexed citations
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Macharia, Peter M., Nicolas Ray, Emanuele Giorgi, Emelda A. Okiro, & Robert W. Snow. (2021). Defining service catchment areas in low-resource settings. BMJ Global Health. 6(7). e006381–e006381. 32 indexed citations
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Alegana, Victor A., Peter M. Macharia, Elvis Oyugi, et al.. (2021). Plasmodium falciparum parasite prevalence in East Africa: Updating data for malaria stratification. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(12). e0000014–e0000014. 34 indexed citations
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Macharia, Peter M., et al.. (2020). A vulnerability index for COVID-19: spatial analysis at the subnational level in Kenya. BMJ Global Health. 5(8). e003014–e003014. 60 indexed citations
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Runge, Manuela, Robert W. Snow, Fabrizio Molteni, et al.. (2020). Simulating the council-specific impact of anti-malaria interventions: A tool to support malaria strategic planning in Tanzania. PLoS ONE. 15(2). e0228469–e0228469. 23 indexed citations
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Mundia, Charles Ndegwa & Peter M. Macharia. (2014). GIS Analysis and Spatial Modelling for Optimal Oil Pipeline Route Location: A Case Study of Proposed Isiolo Nakuru Pipeline Route. 91–94. 11 indexed citations

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