Sara Van Belle

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Sara Van Belle is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Van Belle has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in General Health Professions, 24 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 18 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Sara Van Belle's work include Global Maternal and Child Health (24 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (15 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (12 papers). Sara Van Belle is often cited by papers focused on Global Maternal and Child Health (24 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (15 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (12 papers). Sara Van Belle collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, South Africa and Netherlands. Sara Van Belle's co-authors include Bruno Marchal, Ferdinand C. Mukumbang, Brian van Wyk, Josefien van Olmen, Tom Hoerée, Guy Kegels, Susannah Mayhew, Bart Criel, Asha George and Shinjini Mondal and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Sara Van Belle

78 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.

  1. Is realist evaluation keeping its promise? A review of published empirical studies in the field of health systems research
    2012 318 citations Bruno Marchal, Sara Van Belle et al. profile →

Peers

Sara Van Belle
Miguel Ángel González-Block Mexico
Josefien van Olmen Belgium
Ligia Paina United States
Guy Kegels Belgium
Tolib Mirzoev United Kingdom
Sarah Gimbel United States
Neha Singh United Kingdom
Justice Nonvignon Ghana
Hassan Haghparast‐Bidgoli United Kingdom
Jean Macq Belgium
Miguel Ángel González-Block Mexico
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Countries citing papers authored by Sara Van Belle

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sara Van Belle

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sara Van Belle. 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 Sara Van Belle. The network helps show where Sara Van Belle may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Van Belle

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

All Works

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Colliers, Annelies, et al.. (2024). Evaluation study of the urban governance of the COVID-19 crisis in the city of Antwerp. BMC Public Health. 24(1). 2117–2117.
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Decroo, Tom, Caroline Masquillier, Prosper Okonkwo, et al.. (2024). Realist evaluation of a community-based antiretroviral therapy (CBART) programme for key populations in Benue State in Nigeria. BMC Infectious Diseases. 24(1). 892–892.
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Ramani, Sudha, Sumit Kane, Dorothy Lall, et al.. (2024). Building Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) capacity in India: Reflections from the India HPSR fellowship program (2020–2023). Health Research Policy and Systems. 22(1). 129–129.
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Agyepong, Irène Akua, et al.. (2023). Multilevel Governance and Control of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Learning from the Four First Waves. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(3). 1980–1980. 1 indexed citations
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Belle, Sara Van, et al.. (2023). Why are they “unreached”? Macro and Meso determinants of health care access in hard to reach areas of Odisha, India. International Journal for Equity in Health. 22(1). 576–578. 2 indexed citations
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Baert, Saar, Iva Bicanic, Sara Van Belle, et al.. (2023). Mental health of sexual assault victims and predictors of their use of support from in-house psychologists at Belgian sexual assault care centres. European journal of psychotraumatology. 14(2).
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Baert, Saar, Stefanie De Buyser, Sara Van Belle, et al.. (2023). Factors Related to Police Reporting in Sexual Assault Care Centers: Are We Underestimating the Role of Support Persons?. Violence Against Women. 30(15-16). 3943–3969. 1 indexed citations
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Asefa, Anteneh, Jean‐Paul Dossou, Claudia Hanson, et al.. (2022). Methodological reflections on health system-oriented assessment of maternity care in 16 hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa: an embedded case study. Health Policy and Planning. 37(10). 1257–1266. 3 indexed citations
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Abejirinde, Ibukun‐Oluwa Omolade, et al.. (2022). A perspective on urban health systems and research for equitable healthcare in Africa. BMJ Global Health. 7(9). e010333–e010333. 1 indexed citations
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Baert, Saar, Christine Gilles, Sara Van Belle, et al.. (2021). Piloting sexual assault care centres in Belgium: who do they reach and what care is offered?. European journal of psychotraumatology. 12(1). 1935592–1935592. 8 indexed citations
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Mukinda, Fidele Kanyimbu, Asha George, Sara Van Belle, & Helen Schneider. (2021). Practice of death surveillance and response for maternal, newborn and child health: a framework and application to a South African health district. BMJ Open. 11(5). e043783–e043783. 6 indexed citations
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Abejirinde, Ibukun‐Oluwa Omolade, et al.. (2020). Health systems recovery from COVID-19: a window of opportunity for (in)fertility care. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters. 28(1). 1790090–1790090. 1 indexed citations
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Boydell, Victoria, Marta Schaaf, Asha George, et al.. (2019). Building a transformative agenda for accountability in SRHR: lessons learned from SRHR and accountability literatures. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters. 27(2). 64–75. 27 indexed citations
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Mukumbang, Ferdinand C., Sara Van Belle, Bruno Marchal, & Brian van Wyk. (2016). Realist evaluation of the antiretroviral treatment adherence club programme in selected primary healthcare facilities in the metropolitan area of Western Cape Province, South Africa: a study protocol. BMJ Open. 6(4). e009977–e009977. 48 indexed citations
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Olmen, Josefien van, Bart Criel, Wim Van Damme, et al.. (2012). Analysing health system dynamics; a framework. 2nd edition of SHSOP 27. 4 indexed citations
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Olmen, Josefien van, Bart Criel, Wim Van Damme, et al.. (2010). Analysing health systems to make them stronger. 49 indexed citations

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