Sara Cooper

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
87 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Sara Cooper is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Cooper has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in General Health Professions, 34 papers in Health and 21 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sara Cooper's work include Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (32 papers), Mental Health Treatment and Access (21 papers) and Health Policy Implementation Science (14 papers). Sara Cooper is often cited by papers focused on Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (32 papers), Mental Health Treatment and Access (21 papers) and Health Policy Implementation Science (14 papers). Sara Cooper collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and United States. Sara Cooper's co-authors include Crick Lund, Charles Shey Wiysonge, Vikram Patel, Sophie Plagerson, Jishnu Das, Martín Knapp, Mary De Silva, Heidi van Rooyen, Evanson Zondani Sambala and Fred Kigozi and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Physical Review Letters and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Sara Cooper

81 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Poverty and mental disorders: breaking the cycle in low-income and middle-income countries

2011 563 citations Sara Cooper et al. profile →
Vaccine hesitancy in the era of COVID-19: could lessons from the past help in divining the future?

2021 181 citations Charles Shey Wiysonge, Duduzile Ndwandwe et al. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara Cooper South Africa	25	1.1k	903	887	801	508	87	2.8k
Julia Raifman United States	25	450 0.4×	584 0.6×	671 0.8×	809 1.0×	520 1.0×	77	2.5k
Emily Mendenhall United States	27	478 0.5×	528 0.6×	765 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	502 1.0×	112	3.3k
Kellie E. Carlyle United States	19	838 0.8×	403 0.4×	430 0.5×	574 0.7×	410 0.8×	59	2.0k
Florence Baingana United Kingdom	23	377 0.4×	1.0k 1.2×	1.4k 1.6×	973 1.2×	194 0.4×	55	2.6k
Petros Galanis Greece	23	480 0.5×	221 0.2×	737 0.8×	857 1.1×	281 0.6×	152	2.2k
Antón P. Martínez United Kingdom	17	1.1k 1.0×	400 0.4×	1.1k 1.3×	249 0.3×	420 0.8×	37	2.4k
Milton L. Wainberg United States	33	362 0.3×	1.1k 1.2×	1.9k 2.1×	1.5k 1.8×	1.0k 2.0×	194	4.2k
Jilly Gibson Miller United Kingdom	15	1.1k 1.0×	392 0.4×	1.1k 1.2×	233 0.3×	429 0.8×	39	2.4k
Vincent Guilamo‐Ramos United States	36	302 0.3×	663 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	1.9k 2.3×	919 1.8×	127	3.7k
Wendy Bostwick United States	23	365 0.3×	3.0k 3.3×	1.2k 1.4×	776 1.0×	662 1.3×	35	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Sara Cooper

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sara Cooper

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Cooper

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

All Works

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Arikpo, Dachi, Emmanuel Effa, Moriam Chibuzor, et al.. (2025). User experiences of qualitative evidence in the GRADE evidence-to-decision framework: findings from Malawi, Nigeria, and South Africa. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 190. 112060–112060.

Cooper, Sara, Natalie Leon, Bey‐Marrié Schmidt, et al.. (2024). Applying GRADE-CERQual to Interpretive Review Findings: Reflections From a Cochrane meta-ethnography on Childhood Vaccination Acceptance. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 23.

Ames, Heather, Emma F. France, Sara Cooper, et al.. (2024). Assessing qualitative data richness and thickness: Development of an evidence‐based tool for use in qualitative evidence synthesis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(7). e12059–e12059. 4 indexed citations

Mavundza, Edison Johannes, Sara Cooper, & Charles Shey Wiysonge. (2023). A Systematic Review of Factors That Influence Parents’ Views and Practices around Routine Childhood Vaccination in Africa: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis. Vaccines. 11(3). 563–563. 6 indexed citations

Katoto, Patrick DMC, Sara Cooper, Anelisa Jaca, et al.. (2022). Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in South African Local Communities: The VaxScenes Study. Vaccines. 10(3). 353–353. 35 indexed citations

Wiysonge, Charles Shey, Patrick DMC Katoto, Sara Cooper, et al.. (2022). COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy among healthcare workers in South Africa. Expert Review of Vaccines. 21(4). 549–559. 56 indexed citations

Glenton, Claire, Simon Lewin, Soo Downe, et al.. (2022). Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) Qualitative Evidence Syntheses, Differences From Reviews of Intervention Effectiveness and Implications for Guidance. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 21. 17 indexed citations

Cooper, Sara, Heidi van Rooyen, & Charles Shey Wiysonge. (2022). Addressing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in South Africa- moving beyond a reliance on information-based responses. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 18(6). 2107851–2107851. 6 indexed citations

Katoto, Patrick DMC, Sara Cooper, René Goliath, et al.. (2022). Influenza Vaccination Uptake and Hesitancy among Healthcare Workers in Early 2021 at the Start of the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout in Cape Town, South Africa. Vaccines. 10(8). 1176–1176. 11 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Bey‐Marrié, Sara Cooper, Taryn Young, & Nasreen Jessani. (2022). Characteristics of knowledge translation platforms and methods for evaluating them: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open. 12(6). e061185–e061185. 4 indexed citations

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Swartz, Alison, et al.. (2021). Stakeholders’ Understandings of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Rapid Qualitative Systematic Review. Vaccines. 9(5). 496–496. 18 indexed citations

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Kredo, Tamara, Sara Cooper, Amber Abrams, et al.. (2020). ‘Building on shaky ground’—challenges to and solutions for primary care guideline implementation in four provinces in South Africa: a qualitative study. BMJ Open. 10(5). e031468–e031468. 15 indexed citations

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Ndwandwe, Duduzile, Ntombenhle Ngcobo, Abdu A. Adamu, et al.. (2020). Country-Level Assessment of Missed Opportunities for Vaccination in South Africa: Protocol for Multilevel Analysis. JMIR Research Protocols. 9(9). e16672–e16672. 2 indexed citations

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Wiysonge, Charles Shey, Phetole Walter Mahasha, Duduzile Ndwandwe, et al.. (2020). Contextualised strategies to increase childhood and adolescent vaccination coverage in South Africa: a mixed-methods study. BMJ Open. 10(6). e028476–e028476. 4 indexed citations

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Adamu, Abdu A., Olalekan A. Uthman, Muktar A Gadanya, Sara Cooper, & Charles Shey Wiysonge. (2019). Using the theoretical domains framework to explore reasons for missed opportunities for vaccination among children in Kano, Nigeria: a qualitative study in the pre-implementation phase of a collaborative quality improvement project. Expert Review of Vaccines. 18(8). 847–857. 5 indexed citations

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Farmer, Andrew, Kirsten Bobrow, Natalie Leon, et al.. (2019). Mobile Messaging Support Versus Usual Care for People With Type 2 Diabetes on Glycemic Control: Protocol for a Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols. 8(6). e12377–e12377. 6 indexed citations

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Sambala, Evanson Zondani, Ntombenhle Ngcobo, Shingai Machingaidze, et al.. (2019). A global review of seasonal influenza vaccine introduction: analysis of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Reporting Form. Expert Review of Vaccines. 18(8). 859–865. 25 indexed citations

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Cooper, Sara, et al.. (2018). "My wife's mistrust. That's the saddest part of being a diabetic": A qualitative study of sexual well-being in men with Type 2 diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa. PLoS ONE. 13(9). e0202413–e0202413. 24 indexed citations

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Cooper, Sara, et al.. (2018). Vaccine hesitancy – a potential threat to the achievements of vaccination programmes in Africa. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 14(10). 2355–2357. 108 indexed citations

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Wiyeh, Alison B., Sara Cooper, Chukwudi A Nnaji, & Charles Shey Wiysonge. (2018). Vaccine hesitancy ‘outbreaks’: using epidemiological modeling of the spread of ideas to understand the effects of vaccine related events on vaccine hesitancy. Expert Review of Vaccines. 17(12). 1063–1070. 24 indexed citations

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