Richard Garfield

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Richard Garfield is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Emergency Medical Services and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Garfield has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in General Health Professions, 14 papers in Emergency Medical Services and 10 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Richard Garfield's work include Health and Conflict Studies (23 papers), Disaster Response and Management (12 papers) and Migration, Health and Trauma (9 papers). Richard Garfield is often cited by papers focused on Health and Conflict Studies (23 papers), Disaster Response and Management (12 papers) and Migration, Health and Trauma (9 papers). Richard Garfield collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and United Kingdom. Richard Garfield's co-authors include Johan von Schreeb, Linus Bengtsson, Xin Lü, Anna Thorson, Riyadh Lafta, Les Roberts, Gilbert Burnham, Beth Osborne Daponte, Frederick M. Burkle and Carey McCarthy and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, American Journal of Public Health and PLoS Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Richard Garfield

42 papers receiving 981 citations

Hit Papers

Improved Response to Disasters and Outbreaks by Tracking ... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300 400
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. Improved Response to Disasters and Outbreaks by Tracking Population Movements with Mobile Phone Network Data: A Post-Earthquake Geospatial Study in Haiti
    2011 412 citations Richard Garfield, Johan von Schreeb et al. profile →

Peers

Richard Garfield
John D. Kraemer United States
Diana Silver United States
Charles DiSogra United States
Julian V. Luke United States
Nishant Kishore United States
Gerald F. Pyle United States
Richard Valliant United States
Erica Di Ruggiero Canada
Neha Singh United Kingdom
Christopher Nelson United States
John D. Kraemer United States
Richard Garfield
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Countries citing papers authored by Richard Garfield

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Garfield

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Garfield

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Richard Garfield. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Richard Garfield 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 Richard Garfield. Richard Garfield 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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Ojo, Olubunmi, et al.. (2020). Nigeria's Joint External Evaluation and National Action Plan for Health Security. Health Security. 18(1). 16–20. 6 indexed citations
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Eriksson, Anneli, Martin Gerdin Wärnberg, Richard Garfield, Thorkild Tylleskär, & Johan von Schreeb. (2016). How Bad Is It? Usefulness of the "7eed Model" for Scoring Severity and Level of Need in Complex Emergencies. PLoS Currents. 8. 2 indexed citations
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Burkle, Frederick M. & Richard Garfield. (2013). Civilian mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Lancet. 381(9870). 877–879. 21 indexed citations
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Garfield, Richard & Jonathan A. Polonsky. (2010). Changes in Mortality Rates and Humanitarian Conditions in Darfur, Sudan 2003–2007. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 25(6). 496–502. 3 indexed citations
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Schreeb, Johan von, et al.. (2010). Information for Action? Analysis of 2005 South Asian Earthquake Reports Posted on Reliefweb. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 7(3). 251–256. 1 indexed citations
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Madrid, Paula A., et al.. (2008). Mental health services in Louisiana school-based health centers post-Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.. Professional Psychology Research and Practice. 39(1). 45–51. 13 indexed citations
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Mock, Nancy B. & Richard Garfield. (2007). Health Tracking for Improved Humanitarian Performance. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 22(5). 377–383. 13 indexed citations
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Garfield, Richard. (2007). Measuring Humanitarian Emergencies. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 1(2). 110–116. 9 indexed citations
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Garfield, Richard & Achir Yani S. Hamid. (2006). Tsunami Response: A Year Later. AJN American Journal of Nursing. 106(1). 76–79. 2 indexed citations
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Garfield, Richard. (2005). Nightingale in Iraq. AJN American Journal of Nursing. 105(2). 69–72. 3 indexed citations
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Garfield, Richard, et al.. (2004). The public health context of violence in Colombia. Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública. 16(4). 266–271. 22 indexed citations
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Roberts, Les, et al.. (2004). Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey. The Lancet. 364(9448). 1857–1864. 250 indexed citations
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Garfield, Richard. (2003). Challenges to health service development in Iraq. The Lancet. 362(9392). 1324–1324. 3 indexed citations
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Garfield, Richard. (2002). Economic Sanctions, Humanitarianism, and Conflict After the Cold War. Social Justice A Journal of Crime Conflict & World Order. 29(3). 94. 20 indexed citations
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Garfield, Richard. (2001). Economic sanctions on Yugoslavia. The Lancet. 358(9281). 580–580. 11 indexed citations
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Daponte, Beth Osborne & Richard Garfield. (2000). The effect of economic sanctions on the mortality of Iraqi children prior to the 1991 Persian Gulf War. American Journal of Public Health. 90(4). 546–552. 50 indexed citations
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Garfield, Richard, et al.. (2000). Primary health care lessons from the Northeast of Brazil: the Agentes de Saúde Program. Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública. 7(5). 293–301. 64 indexed citations
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Garfield, Richard. (1999). Malaria control in Nicaragua: social and political influences on disease transmission and control activities. The Lancet. 354(9176). 414–418. 32 indexed citations
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Garfield, Richard. (1996). Community health promotion via local minority youth: a model for academic medical centers.. PubMed. 86(10). 1475–7. 6 indexed citations
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Garfield, Richard & J. Warren Salmon. (1981). Struggles over health care in the Peoples' Republic of China. Journal of Contemporary Asia. 11(1). 91–103. 1 indexed citations

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