Sanjay Basu

181.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
270 papers, 14.4k citations indexed

About

Sanjay Basu is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sanjay Basu has authored 270 papers receiving a total of 14.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 125 papers in General Health Professions, 78 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 54 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Sanjay Basu's work include Global Health Care Issues (49 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (48 papers) and Healthcare Policy and Management (39 papers). Sanjay Basu is often cited by papers focused on Global Health Care Issues (49 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (48 papers) and Healthcare Policy and Management (39 papers). Sanjay Basu collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and India. Sanjay Basu's co-authors include David Stückler, Martin McKee, Seth A. Berkowitz, Jason R. Andrews, Hilary K. Seligman, Marc Suhrcke, Christopher Millett, Adam Coutts, Shah Ebrahim and Johan P. Mackenbach and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Sanjay Basu

260 papers receiving 13.8k citations

Hit Papers

The public health effect of economic crises and alternati... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2013 2012 2012 2012 250 500 750
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. The public health effect of economic crises and alternative policy responses in Europe: an empirical analysis
    2009 977 citations David Stückler, Sanjay Basu et al. profile →
  2. Financial crisis, austerity, and health in Europe
    2013 954 citations Sanjay Basu, David Stückler et al. profile →
  3. Comparative Performance of Private and Public Healthcare Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review
    2012 518 citations Sanjay Basu, Jason R. Andrews et al. PLoS Medicine profile →
  4. Manufacturing Epidemics: The Role of Global Producers in Increased Consumption of Unhealthy Commodities Including Processed Foods, Alcohol, and Tobacco
    2012 461 citations David Stückler, Martin McKee et al. PLoS Medicine profile →
  5. The mental health risks of economic crisis in Spain: evidence from primary care centres, 2006 and 2010
    2012 411 citations Sanjay Basu, Martin McKee et al. profile →
  6. Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the United States and Mexico
    2018 341 citations Sanjay Basu et al. profile →
  7. Association of Primary Care Physician Supply With Population Mortality in the United States, 2005-2015
    2019 330 citations Sanjay Basu, Seth A. Berkowitz et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sanjay Basu United States 63 6.4k 2.8k 2.5k 2.0k 2.0k 270 14.4k
Azeem Majeed United Kingdom 75 7.3k 1.2× 2.0k 0.7× 3.8k 1.5× 3.4k 1.7× 3.9k 1.9× 714 23.2k
Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi United Kingdom 53 4.4k 0.7× 2.6k 0.9× 1.8k 0.7× 1.2k 0.6× 1.7k 0.9× 284 13.8k
Stephen Tollman South Africa 55 3.7k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 1.7k 0.7× 1.8k 0.9× 1.8k 0.9× 311 11.0k
Lawrence O. Gostin United States 59 4.2k 0.7× 3.6k 1.3× 3.1k 1.3× 1.8k 0.9× 1.8k 0.9× 693 16.0k
Simon Lewin Norway 63 8.5k 1.3× 1.5k 0.5× 3.2k 1.3× 2.4k 1.2× 2.2k 1.1× 246 17.7k
David Stückler United Kingdom 73 9.5k 1.5× 5.2k 1.9× 3.4k 1.4× 2.5k 1.2× 1.4k 0.7× 339 20.4k
Joshua A. Salomon United States 65 4.7k 0.7× 2.4k 0.8× 1.8k 0.7× 3.6k 1.8× 4.7k 2.4× 314 18.3k
Dean T. Jamison United States 50 3.6k 0.6× 1.3k 0.5× 2.9k 1.2× 2.6k 1.3× 1.9k 0.9× 185 16.4k
James Macinko United States 49 9.2k 1.4× 1.9k 0.7× 1.9k 0.8× 4.4k 2.2× 1.6k 0.8× 184 14.0k
Walter Ricciardi Italy 61 3.3k 0.5× 2.1k 0.7× 1.9k 0.8× 1.6k 0.8× 2.4k 1.2× 663 14.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sanjay Basu

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All Works

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Kiang, Mathew V., Rolando J. Acosta, Yea‐Hung Chen, et al.. (2022). Sociodemographic and geographic disparities in excess fatal drug overdoses during the COVID-19 pandemic in California: A population-based study. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. 11. 100237–100237. 16 indexed citations
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Berkowitz, Seth A., Deepak Palakshappa, Joseph Rigdon, Hilary K. Seligman, & Sanjay Basu. (2021). Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation and Health Care Use in Older Adults. Annals of Internal Medicine. 174(12). 1674–1682. 17 indexed citations
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Irvin, Jeremy, Michael Ko, Pranav Rajpurkar, et al.. (2020). Incorporating machine learning and social determinants of health indicators into prospective risk adjustment for health plan payments. BMC Public Health. 20(1). 608–608. 37 indexed citations
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Kiang, Mathew V., Keith Humphreys, Mark R. Cullen, & Sanjay Basu. (2020). Opioid prescribing patterns among medical providers in the United States, 2003-17: retrospective, observational study. BMJ. 368. l6968–l6968. 66 indexed citations
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Duan, Tony, Anand Avati, Daisy Yi Ding, et al.. (2020). NGBoost: Natural Gradient Boosting for Probabilistic Prediction. International Conference on Machine Learning. 1. 2690–2700. 69 indexed citations
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Vable, Anusha M., Mathew V. Kiang, M. Maria Glymour, et al.. (2019). Performance of Matching Methods as Compared With Unmatched Ordinary Least Squares Regression Under Constant Effects. American Journal of Epidemiology. 188(7). 1345–1354. 11 indexed citations
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Brandeau, Margaret L., et al.. (2019). Personalizing Medical Treatment Decisions: Integrating Meta-analytic Treatment Comparisons with Patient-Specific Risks and Preferences. Medical Decision Making. 39(8). 998–1009. 4 indexed citations
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Mabud, Tarub S., Albert I. Ko, Sanjay Basu, et al.. (2019). Evaluating strategies for control of tuberculosis in prisons and prevention of spillover into communities: An observational and modeling study from Brazil. PLoS Medicine. 16(1). e1002737–e1002737. 55 indexed citations
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Basu, Sanjay, John Yudkin, Sylvia Kehlenbrink, et al.. (2018). Estimation of global insulin use for type 2 diabetes, 2018–30: a microsimulation analysis. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. 7(1). 25–33. 149 indexed citations
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Choi, Sung Eun, Margaret L. Brandeau, & Sanjay Basu. (2017). Dynamic treatment selection and modification for personalised blood pressure therapy using a Markov decision process model: a cost-effectiveness analysis. BMJ Open. 7(11). e018374–e018374. 9 indexed citations
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Vellakkal, Sukumar, Christopher Millett, Sanjay Basu, et al.. (2014). Are estimates of socioeconomic inequalities in chronic disease artefactually narrowed by self-reported measures of prevalence in low-income and middle-income countries? Findings from the WHO-SAGE survey. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 69(3). 218–225. 74 indexed citations
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Reeves, Aaron, Sanjay Basu, Martin McKee, Michael Marmot, & David Stückler. (2013). Austere or not? UK coalition government budgets and health inequalities. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 106(11). 432–436. 66 indexed citations
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Dowdy, David W., Sanjay Basu, & Jason R. Andrews. (2012). Is Passive Diagnosis Enough?. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 187(5). 543–551. 91 indexed citations
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Stückler, David, Christopher M. Meissner, Price Fishback, Sanjay Basu, & Martin McKee. (2011). Banking crises and mortality during the Great Depression: evidence from US urban populations, 1929–1937. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 66(5). 410–419. 75 indexed citations
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Stückler, David, Sanjay Basu, & Martin McKee. (2011). Global Health Philanthropy and Institutional Relationships: How Should Conflicts of Interest Be Addressed?. PLoS Medicine. 8(4). e1001020–e1001020. 73 indexed citations
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Basu, Sanjay & Alison P. Galvani. (2008). The transmission and control of XDR TB in South Africa: an operations research and mathematical modelling approach. Epidemiology and Infection. 136(12). 1585–1598. 31 indexed citations
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Basu, Sanjay. (2002). Initiating Malaria Control Programs in the Third World. Journal of Health & Social Policy. 15(1). 59–75. 1 indexed citations

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