Robert Bain

4.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
60 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Robert Bain is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Water Science and Technology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Bain has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 21 papers in Water Science and Technology and 13 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Robert Bain's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (45 papers), Fecal contamination and water quality (17 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse (11 papers). Robert Bain is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (45 papers), Fecal contamination and water quality (17 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse (11 papers). Robert Bain collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Robert Bain's co-authors include Jamie Bartram, Jim Wright, Tom Slaymaker, Hong Yang, Ryan Cronk, Stephen Gundry, Rick Johnston, Steve Pedley, Rifat Hossain and Paul Hunter and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Robert Bain

58 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Fecal Contamination of Drinking-Water in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

2014 440 citations Robert Bain, Ryan Cronk et al. PLoS Medicine profile →
Global assessment of exposure to faecal contamination through drinking water based on a systematic review

2014 343 citations Robert Bain, Ryan Cronk et al. Tropical Medicine & International Health profile →
Global potential for harvesting drinking water from air using solar energy

2021 282 citations Neil D. Treat, Robert Bain et al. Nature profile →
Mapping safe drinking water use in low- and middle-income countries

2024 51 citations T. Bruce Lauber, Johan van den Hoogen et al. Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Robert Bain	1.4k	953	424	299	297	60	2.8k
Joe Brown	1.9k 1.3×	913 1.0×	516 1.2×	237 0.8×	427 1.4×	140	3.5k
Mark Ellıott	967 0.7×	1.5k 1.6×	574 1.4×	220 0.7×	118 0.4×	109	3.8k
Laurence Haller	1.6k 1.1×	785 0.8×	382 0.9×	160 0.5×	532 1.8×	31	3.2k
Lorna Fewtrell	2.5k 1.7×	1.4k 1.5×	552 1.3×	217 0.7×	779 2.6×	50	4.8k
Alison Parker	586 0.4×	561 0.6×	610 1.4×	137 0.5×	90 0.3×	94	2.6k
Barbara Evans	963 0.7×	354 0.4×	549 1.3×	277 0.9×	307 1.0×	157	2.8k
Hans‐Joachim Mosler	1.8k 1.2×	486 0.5×	479 1.1×	194 0.6×	459 1.5×	109	3.5k
Sean Tyrrel	542 0.4×	788 0.8×	818 1.9×	134 0.4×	51 0.2×	130	3.2k
Guy Howard	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	346 0.8×	420 1.4×	122 0.4×	110	2.9k
Ryan Cronk	1.6k 1.1×	692 0.7×	318 0.8×	372 1.2×	391 1.3×	76	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Robert Bain

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Bain

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Bain

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Robert Bain. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Robert Bain 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 Robert Bain. Robert Bain 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

Lauber, T. Bruce, Johan van den Hoogen, Robert Bain, et al.. (2024). Mapping safe drinking water use in low- and middle-income countries. Science. 385(6710). 784–790. 51 indexed citations breakdown →

Ambel, Alemayehu A., et al.. (2023). Addressing gaps in data on drinking water quality through data integration and machine learning: evidence from Ethiopia. npj Clean Water. 6(1). 2 indexed citations

Nikoloski, Zlatko, et al.. (2023). COVID-19 Vaccination Personas in Yemen: Insights from Three Rounds of a Cross-Sectional Survey. Vaccines. 11(7). 1272–1272.

Bain, Robert, et al.. (2023). Selective Memory Replay Improves Exploration in a Spiking Wavefront Planner. 1–8. 1 indexed citations

Nikoloski, Zlatko, et al.. (2023). COVID-19 Vaccination Personas in Syria: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Survey. Vaccines. 11(6). 1109–1109. 2 indexed citations

Treat, Neil D., et al.. (2021). Global potential for harvesting drinking water from air using solar energy. Nature. 598(7882). 611–617. 282 indexed citations breakdown →

Bain, Robert, Richard B. Johnston, Shane M. Khan, Attila Hancioglu, & Tom Slaymaker. (2021). Monitoring Drinking Water Quality in Nationally Representative Household Surveys in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Cross-Sectional Analysis of 27 Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys 2014–2020. Environmental Health Perspectives. 129(9). 97010–97010. 53 indexed citations

Bain, Robert, Rick Johnston, & Tom Slaymaker. (2020). Drinking water quality and the SDGs. npj Clean Water. 3(1). 75 indexed citations

Bain, Robert, et al.. (2019). Drinking water accessibility and quantity in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 222(7). 1011–1020. 33 indexed citations

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Bain, Robert, Rick Johnston, Francesco Mitis, Christie Chatterley, & Tom Slaymaker. (2018). Establishing Sustainable Development Goal Baselines for Household Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services. Water. 10(12). 1711–1711. 81 indexed citations

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Gray, Eleanor R., Robert Bain, Olivia Varsaneux, et al.. (2018). p24 revisited. AIDS. 32(15). 2089–2102. 43 indexed citations

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Wardrop, Nicola, et al.. (2017). Integration of population census and water point mapping data—A case study of Cambodia, Liberia and Tanzania. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 220(5). 888–899. 7 indexed citations

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Shields, Katherine F., Robert Bain, Ryan Cronk, Jim Wright, & Jamie Bartram. (2015). Association of Supply Type with Fecal Contamination of Source Water and Household Stored Drinking Water in Developing Countries: A Bivariate Meta-analysis. Environmental Health Perspectives. 123(12). 1222–1231. 108 indexed citations

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Bain, Robert, Claire A. Woodall, Benjamin F. Arnold, et al.. (2015). Evaluation of an Inexpensive Growth Medium for Direct Detection of Escherichia coli in Temperate and Sub-Tropical Waters. PLoS ONE. 10(10). e0140997–e0140997. 17 indexed citations

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Bain, Robert, Ryan Cronk, Rifat Hossain, et al.. (2014). Global assessment of exposure to faecal contamination through drinking water based on a systematic review. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 19(8). 917–927. 343 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bain, Robert, Ryan Cronk, Jim Wright, et al.. (2014). Fecal Contamination of Drinking-Water in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS Medicine. 11(5). e1001644–e1001644. 440 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wright, Jim, Jing Liu, Robert Bain, et al.. (2014). Water quality laboratories in Colombia: A GIS-based study of urban and rural accessibility. The Science of The Total Environment. 485-486. 643–652. 25 indexed citations

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Bain, Robert, et al.. (2014). A cross-sectional ecological study of spatial scale and geographic inequality in access to drinking-water and sanitation. International Journal for Equity in Health. 13(1). 113–113. 21 indexed citations

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Bain, Robert, Stephen Gundry, Jim Wright, et al.. (2012). Accounting for water quality in monitoring access to safe drinking-water as part of the Millennium Development Goals: lessons from five countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 90(3). 228–235. 138 indexed citations

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Carroll, Frank E., J. Waters, David R. Pickens, et al.. (1994). Attenuation of Monochromatic X-Rays by Normal and Abnormal Breast Tissues. Investigative Radiology. 29(3). 266–272. 26 indexed citations

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