Sarah Barber

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Sarah Barber is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Barber has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in General Health Professions, 21 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 20 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Sarah Barber's work include Global Maternal and Child Health (18 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (16 papers) and Healthcare Systems and Reforms (14 papers). Sarah Barber is often cited by papers focused on Global Maternal and Child Health (18 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (16 papers) and Healthcare Systems and Reforms (14 papers). Sarah Barber collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and China. Sarah Barber's co-authors include Paul Gertler, Ke Xu, Min Cai, Qun Meng, J. Ties Boerma, Juncheng Qian, Ling Xu, Yaoguang Zhang, Jun Gao and Lan Yao and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Barber

60 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Trends in access to health services and financial protection in China between 2003 and 2011: a cross-sectional study

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah Barber United States	22	860	837	738	541	233	65	2.1k
Mohammad Hajizadeh Canada	26	617 0.7×	943 1.1×	459 0.6×	293 0.5×	175 0.8×	137	2.1k
Gustavo Nígenda Mexico	20	915 1.1×	993 1.2×	542 0.7×	419 0.8×	184 0.8×	97	2.1k
M. Kent Ranson United Kingdom	20	807 0.9×	814 1.0×	776 1.1×	515 1.0×	101 0.4×	38	1.9k
Giorgio Cometto Switzerland	21	881 1.0×	902 1.1×	433 0.6×	275 0.5×	151 0.6×	51	1.8k
Tim Evans Switzerland	19	819 1.0×	1.0k 1.2×	761 1.0×	595 1.1×	107 0.5×	30	2.4k
Hassan Haghparast‐Bidgoli United Kingdom	25	394 0.5×	633 0.8×	268 0.4×	219 0.4×	260 1.1×	115	1.7k
Inger B. Scheel Norway	14	698 0.8×	963 1.2×	195 0.3×	275 0.5×	284 1.2×	23	1.9k
Iqbal Anwar Bangladesh	22	1.4k 1.6×	563 0.7×	488 0.7×	149 0.3×	400 1.7×	50	1.8k
Julie Knoll Rajaratnam United States	14	1.6k 1.8×	1.0k 1.2×	403 0.5×	178 0.3×	716 3.1×	18	2.9k
Beibei Yuan China	22	454 0.5×	807 1.0×	724 1.0×	417 0.8×	93 0.4×	61	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Sarah Barber

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sarah Barber

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Barber

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sarah Barber. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sarah Barber 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 Sarah Barber. Sarah Barber 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

Barber, Sarah, et al.. (2025). Strategies to improve recruitment, retention, working conditions, and skills among the long-term care workforce: An umbrella review of existing evidence. Health Policy. 163. 105496–105496. 1 indexed citations

Coleman, S. J., et al.. (2023). Online correction of laser focal position using FPGA-based ML models. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 2420(1). 12074–12074. 2 indexed citations

Kowal, Paul, et al.. (2023). Better data on unmet healthcare need can strengthen global monitoring of universal health coverage. BMJ. 382. e075476–e075476. 13 indexed citations

Cylus, Jonathan, Gemma Williams, Ludovico Carrino, Tomáš Roubal, & Sarah Barber. (2022). Population ageing and health financing: A method for forecasting two sides of the same coin. Health Policy. 126(12). 1226–1232. 4 indexed citations

Barber, Sarah, et al.. (2022). Research to inform health systems’ responses to rapid population ageing: a collection of studies funded by the WHO Centre for Health Development in Kobe, Japan. Health Research Policy and Systems. 20(S1). 128–128. 9 indexed citations

Barber, Sarah, et al.. (2019). Training doctors in perioperative medicine for older people undergoing surgery (POPS): an innovative foundation placement. Clinical Medicine. 19(6). 465–467. 2 indexed citations

Antony, Jesmin, Wasifa Zarin, Ba’ Pham, et al.. (2018). Patient safety initiatives in obstetrics: a rapid review. BMJ Open. 8(7). e020170–e020170. 11 indexed citations

Barber, Sarah, Ankit Kumar, Tomáš Roubal, Francesca Colombo, & Luca Lorenzoni. (2018). Harnessing the private health sector by using prices as a policy instrument: Lessons learned from South Africa. Health Policy. 122(5). 558–564. 19 indexed citations

Bagdasarov, G. A., P. V. Sasorov, A. S. Boldarev, et al.. (2017). Plasma equilibrium inside various cross-section capillary discharges. Physics of Plasmas. 24(5). 10 indexed citations

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Cardoso, Roberta, Wasifa Zarin, Vera Nincic, et al.. (2017). Evaluative reports on medical malpractice policies in obstetrics: a rapid scoping review. Systematic Reviews. 6(1). 181–181. 13 indexed citations

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Barber, Sarah, et al.. (2016). Diet and Migration in Coastal Oaxaca: Identifying Effects of Political and Social Collapse through the Utilization of Stable Isotope Analysis. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research. 1 indexed citations

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Barber, Sarah, et al.. (2013). The reform of the essential medicines system in China: a comprehensive approach to universal coverage. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 10303–10303. 50 indexed citations

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Barber, Sarah & Abdillah Ahsan. (2009). The tobacco excise system in Indonesia: Hindering effective tobacco control for health. Journal of Public Health Policy. 30(2). 208–225. 21 indexed citations

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Barber, Sarah & Paul Gertler. (2009). Health workers, quality of care, and child health: Simulating the relationships between increases in health staffing and child length. Health Policy. 91(2). 148–155. 11 indexed citations

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Barber, Sarah & Paul Gertler. (2008). Empowering women to obtain high quality care: evidence from an evaluation of Mexico's conditional cash transfer programme. Health Policy and Planning. 24(1). 18–25. 107 indexed citations

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Barber, Sarah & Paul Gertler. (2008). The impact of Mexico’s conditional cash transfer programme, Oportunidades, on birthweight. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 13(11). 1405–1414. 98 indexed citations

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Anderson, Donna, et al.. (2007). The development of measures of community capacity for community-based funding programs in Canada. Health Promotion International. 22(4). 299–306. 77 indexed citations

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Barber, Sarah. (2006). Does the Quality of Prenatal Care Matter in Promoting Skilled Institutional Delivery? A Study in Rural Mexico. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 10(5). 419–425. 45 indexed citations

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Achadi, Anhari, et al.. (2004). The relevance and prospects of advancing tobacco control in Indonesia. Health Policy. 72(3). 333–349. 51 indexed citations

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White, Deborah, et al.. (1998). Patient Education for Discharge after Coronary Bypass Surgery in the 1990s: Are Patients Adequately Prepared?. The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. 12(4). 72–81. 16 indexed citations

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