Richard Feachem

12.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
101 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Richard Feachem is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Feachem has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 25 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 13 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Richard Feachem's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (27 papers), Malaria Research and Control (22 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (16 papers). Richard Feachem is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (27 papers), Malaria Research and Control (22 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (16 papers). Richard Feachem collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Richard Feachem's co-authors include Marge Koblinsky, Allison Phillips, Hemda Garelick, Christopher J L Murray, Oliver Sabot, Deborah Blum, David J. Bradley, D. Duncan Mara, Roly Gosling and Jimee Hwang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Richard Feachem

98 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

The changing epidemiology of malaria elimination: new strategies for new challenges

2013 481 citations Chris Cotter, Hugh J. W. Sturrock et al. The Lancet profile →
Sanitation and disease: health aspects of excreta and wastewater management.

1983 476 citations Richard Feachem et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard Feachem United States	38	2.0k	1.5k	918	887	650	101	5.4k
Wolf‐Peter Schmidt United Kingdom	40	652 0.3×	3.7k 2.5×	1.4k 1.6×	973 1.1×	1.0k 1.6×	115	6.1k
Michael Emch United States	40	1.1k 0.5×	726 0.5×	356 0.4×	425 0.5×	854 1.3×	189	5.1k
Mahbubur Rahman Bangladesh	35	723 0.4×	1.4k 0.9×	499 0.5×	430 0.5×	660 1.0×	236	4.3k
Gijs Walraven Gambia	46	3.3k 1.6×	1.1k 0.7×	2.5k 2.7×	1.5k 1.6×	852 1.3×	108	9.8k
Richard Rheingans United States	37	570 0.3×	1.6k 1.0×	682 0.7×	513 0.6×	1.3k 2.1×	75	4.0k
Sandy Cairncross United Kingdom	51	1.1k 0.5×	6.4k 4.3×	2.3k 2.5×	1.5k 1.7×	1.5k 2.3×	185	10.4k
Robert Quick United States	36	393 0.2×	2.0k 1.3×	856 0.9×	406 0.5×	849 1.3×	108	3.8k
Helmut Kloos United States	41	607 0.3×	1.0k 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	400 0.5×	571 0.9×	206	4.7k
Peter J. Winch United States	47	1.8k 0.9×	3.1k 2.1×	3.7k 4.0×	2.4k 2.7×	825 1.3×	286	8.5k
Benjamin F. Arnold United States	41	467 0.2×	3.2k 2.1×	1.2k 1.3×	820 0.9×	1.1k 1.8×	214	5.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Feachem

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Chen, Ingrid, Rebecca Cooney, Richard Feachem, Altaf A. Lal, & Winnie Mpanju-Shumbusho. (2018). The Lancet Commission on malaria eradication. The Lancet. 391(10130). 1556–1558. 22 indexed citations

Lover, Andrew A., Kelly Harvard, Cara Smith Gueye, et al.. (2017). Regional initiatives for malaria elimination: Building and maintaining partnerships. PLoS Medicine. 14(10). e1002401–e1002401. 21 indexed citations

Cao, Jun, Hugh J. W. Sturrock, Chris Cotter, et al.. (2014). Communicating and Monitoring Surveillance and Response Activities for Malaria Elimination: China's “1-3-7” Strategy. PLoS Medicine. 11(5). e1001642–e1001642. 148 indexed citations

Feachem, Richard & Oliver Sabot. (2008). A new global malaria eradication strategy. The Lancet. 371(9624). 1633–1635. 142 indexed citations

Hanson, Kara, Lucy Gilson, Catherine Goodman, et al.. (2008). Is Private Health Care the Answer to the Health Problems of the World's Poor?. PLoS Medicine. 5(11). e233–e233. 83 indexed citations

Feachem, Richard & Oliver Sabot. (2007). The Global Fund 2001–2006: A review of the evidence. Global Public Health. 2(4). 325–341. 5 indexed citations

Feachem, Richard & Neelam Sekhri. (2004). Reply to ‘Questioning the claims from Kaiser’. British Journal of General Practice. 54(503). 422–422. 3 indexed citations

Feachem, Richard & Jeffrey D. Sachs. (2002). Global public goods for health : the report of working group 2 of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. World Health Organization eBooks. 12 indexed citations

Feachem, Richard & Carol Medlin. (2002). Global public goods: Health is wealth. Nature. 417(6890). 695–695. 12 indexed citations

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Feachem, Richard. (2001). Globalisation is good for your health, mostly. BMJ. 323(7311). 504–506. 60 indexed citations

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Preker, Alexander S., et al.. (2000). The role of the World Bank in international health: renewed commitment and partnership. Social Science & Medicine. 50(2). 169–176. 35 indexed citations

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Cousens, Simon, et al.. (1990). A case-control study of the impact of improved sanitation on diarrhoea morbidity in Lesotho.. LSHTM Research Online (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). 68(4). 455–63. 91 indexed citations

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Aziz, K. M. A., Bilqis Amin Hoque, K. Zahid Hasan, et al.. (1990). Reduction in diarrhoeal diseases in children in rural Bangladesh by environmental and behavioural modifications. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 84(3). 433–438. 87 indexed citations

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Murray, Christopher J L & Richard Feachem. (1990). Adult mortality in developing countries. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 84(1). 1–2. 207 indexed citations

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Blum, Deborah, et al.. (1990). The Imo State (Nigeria) Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Project, 1. Description of the project, evaluation methods, and impact on intervening variables. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 84(2). 309–315. 43 indexed citations

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Blum, Deborah, et al.. (1987). The bacteriological quality of traditional water sources in north-eastern Imo State, Nigeria. Epidemiology and Infection. 99(2). 429–437. 23 indexed citations

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Briscoe, John, et al.. (1986). Evaluating health impact : water supply, sanitation, and hygiene education. 53 indexed citations

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Feachem, Richard. (1980). Rural water and sanitation Community participation in appropriate water supply and sanitation technologies: the mythology for the Decade. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 209(1174). 15–29. 19 indexed citations

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Chambers, Robert, et al.. (1979). Seasonal dimensions to rural porverty: analysis and practical implications.. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 82(8). 156–72. 25 indexed citations

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Bayliss‐Smith, Tim & Richard Feachem. (1977). Subsistence and survival. Rural ecology in the Pacific.. Academic Press eBooks. 44 indexed citations

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