Robert Marten

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Robert Marten is a scholar working on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, General Health Professions and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Marten has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, 36 papers in General Health Professions and 23 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Robert Marten's work include Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (37 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (21 papers) and Healthcare Systems and Reforms (18 papers). Robert Marten is often cited by papers focused on Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (37 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (21 papers) and Healthcare Systems and Reforms (18 papers). Robert Marten collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. Robert Marten's co-authors include Jeanette Vega, K. Srinath Reddy, Jennifer Lacy‐Nichols, Sowmya Kadandale, Di McIntyre, Longde Wang, Cláudia Travassos, Sergey Shishkin, Richard Smith and Eric Crosbie and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Social Science & Medicine and BMJ.

In The Last Decade

Robert Marten

58 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Commercial determinants of health: future directions

2023 90 citations Sharon Friel, Jeff Collin et al. The Lancet profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Marten Switzerland	21	676	442	421	382	318	62	1.6k
Julio Frenk United States	18	748 1.1×	296 0.7×	505 1.2×	525 1.4×	437 1.4×	54	2.1k
Sandeep P. Kishore United States	20	600 0.9×	557 1.3×	356 0.8×	380 1.0×	497 1.6×	53	2.3k
Amirhossein Takian Iran	19	509 0.8×	155 0.4×	335 0.8×	234 0.6×	336 1.1×	117	1.5k
Josep Figueras Spain	25	1.1k 1.6×	180 0.4×	316 0.8×	769 2.0×	646 2.0×	86	2.5k
Ted Schrecker Canada	24	1.1k 1.6×	617 1.4×	197 0.5×	292 0.8×	247 0.8×	79	2.0k
Sania Nishtar United Kingdom	22	696 1.0×	666 1.5×	589 1.4×	708 1.9×	548 1.7×	93	2.7k
Thomas Hone United Kingdom	23	1.4k 2.0×	268 0.6×	611 1.5×	538 1.4×	496 1.6×	71	2.6k
Hans Kluge Denmark	19	619 0.9×	145 0.3×	249 0.6×	226 0.6×	341 1.1×	56	1.7k
Johanna Hanefeld United Kingdom	27	1.1k 1.7×	236 0.5×	257 0.6×	408 1.1×	433 1.4×	91	2.7k
Jeanette Vega United States	16	745 1.1×	164 0.4×	504 1.2×	552 1.4×	270 0.8×	32	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Robert Marten

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Marten

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Marten

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Dykgraaf, Sally Hall, Anne Parkinson, Michael Wright, et al.. (2025). Ten pressure points in primary care during COVID-19: findings from an international narrative review. BMC Primary Care. 26(1). 19–19.

Smith, Katherine E., et al.. (2025). New health taxes in Ghana: a qualitative study exploring potential public support. Health Policy and Planning. 40(8). 831–842. 1 indexed citations

McGee, Kathleen, et al.. (2024). Enabling cross-country learning and exchange to support universal health coverage implementation. Health Policy and Planning. 39(Supplement_1). i125–i130. 1 indexed citations

Webb, Douglas, Odd Hanssen, & Robert Marten. (2023). The health sector and fiscal policies of fossil fuels: an essential alignment for the health and climate change agenda. BMJ Global Health. 8(Suppl 8). e012938–e012938. 3 indexed citations

Nambiar, Devaki, et al.. (2023). How to Build Healthy Societies: A Thematic Analysis of Relevant Conceptual Frameworks. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 12. 7451–7451. 1 indexed citations

Bragge, Peter, Alex Waddell, Veronica Delafosse, et al.. (2023). Characteristics of successful government-led interventions to support healthier populations: a starting portfolio of positive outlier examples. BMJ Global Health. 8(5). e011683–e011683. 6 indexed citations

Koon, Adam D., Kumanan Rasanathan, Abdillah Ahsan, et al.. (2023). Framing health taxes: learning from low- and middle-income countries. BMJ Global Health. 8(Suppl 8). e012955–e012955. 7 indexed citations

Hyder, Adnan A., Sarah Rylance, Valery L. Feigin, et al.. (2023). Strengthening evidence to inform health systems: opportunities for the WHO and partners to accelerate progress on non-communicable diseases. BMJ Global Health. 8(11). e013994–e013994. 9 indexed citations

Koon, Adam D. & Robert Marten. (2023). Framing health taxes: a scoping review. BMJ Global Health. 8(Suppl 8). e012055–e012055. 11 indexed citations

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Friel, Sharon, Jeff Collin, Mike Daube, et al.. (2023). Commercial determinants of health: future directions. The Lancet. 401(10383). 1229–1240. 90 indexed citations breakdown →

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Buse, Kent, et al.. (2023). What Are Healthy Societies? A Thematic Analysis of Relevant Conceptual Frameworks. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 12. 7450–7450. 3 indexed citations

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Marten, Robert, Johanna Hanefeld, & Richard Smith. (2022). How states engage in and exercise power in global health: Indonesian and Japanese engagement in the conceptualization of Sustainable Development Goal 3. Social Science & Medicine. 321. 115455–115455. 5 indexed citations

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Lacy‐Nichols, Jennifer, Robert Marten, Eric Crosbie, & Rob Moodie. (2022). The public health playbook: ideas for challenging the corporate playbook. The Lancet Global Health. 10(7). e1067–e1072. 71 indexed citations

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Loewenson, René, et al.. (2021). Engaging globally with how to achieve healthy societies: insights from India, Latin America and East and Southern Africa. BMJ Global Health. 6(4). e005257–e005257. 11 indexed citations

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Rahman-Shepherd, Afifah, Priya Balasubramaniam, Meenakshi Gautham, et al.. (2021). Conflicts of interest: an invisible force shaping health systems and policies. The Lancet Global Health. 9(8). e1055–e1056. 18 indexed citations

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Topp, Stephanie M., Marta Schaaf, Veena Sriram, et al.. (2021). Power analysis in health policy and systems research: a guide to research conceptualisation. BMJ Global Health. 6(11). e007268–e007268. 45 indexed citations

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Marten, Robert. (2016). Global Health Warning: Definitions Wield Power; Comment on 'Navigating between Stealth Advocacy and Unconscious Dogmatism: The Challenge of Researching the Norms, Politics and Power of Global Health'. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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Jay, Jonathan, Kent Buse, David Wilson, et al.. (2016). Building from the HIV Response toward Universal Health Coverage. PLoS Medicine. 13(8). e1002083–e1002083. 11 indexed citations

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Cotlear, Daniel, Octavio Gómez‐Dantés, Felícia Marie Knaul, et al.. (2015). La lucha contra la segregación social en la atención de salud en América Latina. MEDICC Review. 17(1). 40–52. 1 indexed citations

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Cotlear, Daniel, Octavio Gómez‐Dantés, Felícia Marie Knaul, et al.. (2014). Overcoming social segregation in health care in Latin America. The Lancet. 385(9974). 1248–1259. 134 indexed citations

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