Ruhai Bai

21.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
54 papers, 607 citations indexed

About

Ruhai Bai is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruhai Bai has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 607 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in General Health Professions, 11 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 9 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Ruhai Bai's work include Global Health Care Issues (10 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (8 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (6 papers). Ruhai Bai is often cited by papers focused on Global Health Care Issues (10 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (8 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (6 papers). Ruhai Bai collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Ruhai Bai's co-authors include Wanyue Dong, Zhenggang Bai, Lei Zhang, Yunning Liu, Zhonglin Chai, Jinli Liu, Paul Zimmet, Mark E. Cooper, Qiao Peng and Maigeng Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Ruhai Bai

48 papers receiving 604 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.

  1. Projections for prevalence of Parkinson’s disease and its driving factors in 195 countries and territories to 2050: modelling study of Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
    2025 62 citations Dongning Su, Yusha Cui et al. BMJ profile →
  2. Projections of future life expectancy in China up to 2035: a modelling study
    2023 59 citations Ruhai Bai, Yunning Liu et al. The Lancet Public Health profile →
  3. The prevalence and associated disability burden of mental disorders in children and adolescents in China: a systematic analysis of data from the Global Burden of Disease Study
    2025 11 citations Wanyue Dong, Yunning Liu et al. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ruhai Bai China 14 104 80 79 76 68 54 607
Ashley O’Connor United States 12 106 1.0× 56 0.7× 79 1.0× 80 1.1× 74 1.1× 24 679
Binbin Su China 15 115 1.1× 133 1.7× 81 1.0× 56 0.7× 93 1.4× 73 843
Tekeda Ferguson United States 16 129 1.2× 81 1.0× 111 1.4× 97 1.3× 106 1.6× 57 905
Surapon Nochaiwong Thailand 14 165 1.6× 62 0.8× 56 0.7× 57 0.8× 71 1.0× 57 1.1k
Guangbo Qu China 22 71 0.7× 61 0.8× 127 1.6× 130 1.7× 94 1.4× 63 1.1k
Kun-Sei Lee South Korea 15 170 1.6× 46 0.6× 93 1.2× 128 1.7× 100 1.5× 74 767
Zhiping Long China 8 88 0.8× 108 1.4× 36 0.5× 44 0.6× 54 0.8× 23 480
Lü Ji China 15 106 1.0× 109 1.4× 52 0.7× 49 0.6× 93 1.4× 47 590
Tilahun Adera United States 15 92 0.9× 62 0.8× 72 0.9× 177 2.3× 56 0.8× 40 768
Sunmi Lee South Korea 18 99 1.0× 34 0.4× 86 1.1× 60 0.8× 94 1.4× 49 890

Countries citing papers authored by Ruhai Bai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ruhai Bai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ruhai Bai. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ruhai Bai. The network helps show where Ruhai Bai may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruhai Bai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ruhai Bai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ruhai Bai 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 Ruhai Bai. Ruhai Bai 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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Dong, Wanyue, Yunning Liu, Ruhai Bai, Lei Zhang, & Maigeng Zhou. (2025). The prevalence and associated disability burden of mental disorders in children and adolescents in China: a systematic analysis of data from the Global Burden of Disease Study. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific. 55. 101486–101486. 11 indexed citations breakdown →
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Su, Dongning, Yusha Cui, Peng Yin, et al.. (2025). Projections for prevalence of Parkinson’s disease and its driving factors in 195 countries and territories to 2050: modelling study of Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. BMJ. 388. e080952–e080952. 62 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Ziyu, et al.. (2025). Global, regional, and national epidemiology of neurological disorders and subcategories: incidence and disability-adjusted life years, 1990–2021. European journal of medical research. 30(1). 711–711. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Yan, et al.. (2024). Global prevalence of violence against children and adolescents during COVID-19: A meta-analysis. Child Abuse & Neglect. 154. 106873–106873. 1 indexed citations
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Bai, Ruhai, et al.. (2023). The application of simulation methods during the COVID-19 pandemic: A scoping review. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 148. 104543–104543. 4 indexed citations
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Yan, Wu, Ruhai Bai, Qingqing Zheng, et al.. (2023). Concentrations and association between exposure to mixed perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances and glycometabolism among adolescents. Annals of Medicine. 55(1). 2227844–2227844. 14 indexed citations
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Yang, Jing, Ruhai Bai, Lijun Wang, et al.. (2023). A Projection of Life Expectancy Based on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 — China, 1990–2030. China CDC Weekly. 5(2). 40–44. 4 indexed citations
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Bai, Ruhai, Yunning Liu, Lei Zhang, et al.. (2023). Projections of future life expectancy in China up to 2035: a modelling study. The Lancet Public Health. 8(12). e915–e922. 59 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Jinli, Ruhai Bai, Zhonglin Chai, et al.. (2022). Low- and middle-income countries demonstrate rapid growth of type 2 diabetes: an analysis based on Global Burden of Disease 1990–2019 data. Diabetologia. 65(8). 1339–1352. 77 indexed citations
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Bai, Ruhai, et al.. (2022). Incidence and mortality trends of nasopharynx cancer from 1990 to 2019 in China: an age-period-cohort analysis. BMC Public Health. 22(1). 1351–1351. 28 indexed citations
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Bai, Zhenggang, et al.. (2021). Evidence Based Social Science in China Paper 2: The History and Development of Evidence Based Social Work in China. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 141. 151–156. 7 indexed citations
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Bai, Zhenggang, et al.. (2021). Evidence Based Social Science in China Paper 4 : The quality of social science systematic reviews and meta-analysis published from 2000-2019. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 141. 132–140. 7 indexed citations
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Yuan, Sheng, et al.. (2021). Trends in Incidence of Urinary Tract Infection in Mainland China from 1990 to 2019. International Journal of General Medicine. Volume 14. 1413–1420. 4 indexed citations
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Bai, Ruhai, Wentao Wu, Wanyue Dong, et al.. (2020). <p>Forecasting the Populations of Overweight and Obese Chinese Adults</p>. Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity. Volume 13. 4849–4857. 20 indexed citations
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Bai, Ruhai, Lingling Wang, Qi Zhang, et al.. (2017). [Spatial distribution and clustering in birth defects from 2010 to 2013 in Shaanxi Province].. PubMed. 42(4). 451–456. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Youfa, Zhongliang Zhou, Yaling Zhao, et al.. (2017). Disparities in health burden, health-care facilities, and resources among countries in China's Belt and Road Initiative: a mixed methods study. The Lancet. 390. S85–S85. 1 indexed citations
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Feng, Hang, Xiangyi Fang, Dageng Huang, et al.. (2017). A morphometric study of the middle and lower cervical vertebral endplates and their components. Medicine. 96(10). e6296–e6296. 9 indexed citations

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