Sarah Munro

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Sarah Munro is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions and Obstetrics and Gynecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Munro has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 25 papers in General Health Professions and 25 papers in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Recurrent topics in Sarah Munro's work include Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions (25 papers), Reproductive Health and Contraception (22 papers) and Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare (9 papers). Sarah Munro is often cited by papers focused on Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions (25 papers), Reproductive Health and Contraception (22 papers) and Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare (9 papers). Sarah Munro collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Sarah Munro's co-authors include W. Steven Barnett, Jessica Thomas, Adele Diamond, Jude Kornelsen, Patricia A. Janssen, Eileen K. Hutton, Wendy V. Norman, Nick Bansback, Stefan Grzybowski and Elizabeth Wilcox and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and BMC Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Munro

64 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Preschool Program Improves Cognitive Control

2007 1.4k citations Adele Diamond, W. Steven Barnett et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah Munro Canada	18	701	587	493	480	474	69	2.3k
Jacqueline Barnes United Kingdom	33	827 1.2×	236 0.4×	807 1.6×	963 2.0×	1.6k 3.4×	131	3.5k
Jane Squires United States	33	876 1.2×	570 1.0×	419 0.8×	1.8k 3.7×	1.6k 3.4×	112	3.4k
Ian M. Shochet Australia	24	465 0.7×	153 0.3×	451 0.9×	141 0.3×	1.4k 3.0×	94	2.3k
Michael W. Yogman United States	23	463 0.7×	233 0.4×	855 1.7×	903 1.9×	1.9k 4.0×	46	3.9k
Pauline W. Jansen Netherlands	37	625 0.9×	160 0.3×	2.0k 4.0×	648 1.4×	2.0k 4.2×	159	4.2k
Maria Spinelli Italy	17	261 0.4×	230 0.4×	321 0.7×	284 0.6×	986 2.1×	62	1.7k
Peter Azzopardi Australia	19	326 0.5×	106 0.2×	658 1.3×	515 1.1×	1.1k 2.3×	79	3.3k
Anne Kaljonen Finland	25	381 0.5×	247 0.4×	491 1.0×	199 0.4×	774 1.6×	70	2.4k
Magdalena Janus Canada	26	1.2k 1.8×	279 0.5×	245 0.5×	649 1.4×	1.1k 2.3×	157	3.1k
Maria Loades United Kingdom	19	384 0.5×	133 0.2×	258 0.5×	251 0.5×	2.2k 4.6×	108	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Sarah Munro

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sarah Munro

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Munro

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

Foster, Abby, et al.. (2025). Why they come, why they stay and why they leave: a survey to understand the drivers of recruitment, retention, and attrition of allied health clinicians in an Australian metropolitan health network. BMC Health Services Research. 25(1). 767–767.

Janssen, Patricia A., Carolyn W. Madden, Chelsey Perry, et al.. (2025). Barriers to contraception access and use among youth: A scoping review in high‐income countries. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. 173(1). 74–86.

Meherali, Salima, Sarah Flicker, Philomina Okeke‐Ihejirika, et al.. (2024). Between cultures and traditions: a qualitative investigation of sexual and reproductive health experiences of immigrant adolescents in Canada. Culture Health & Sexuality. 27(12). 1533–1549. 1 indexed citations

Smith, Danielle M., et al.. (2023). Pregnancy intentions of young women in Canada in the era of climate change: a qualitative auto-photography study. BMC Public Health. 23(1). 766–766. 15 indexed citations

Munro, Sarah, et al.. (2023). Dispensing mifepristone for medical abortion in Canada: Pharmacists’ experiences of the first year. Canadian Pharmacists Journal / Revue des Pharmaciens du Canada. 156(4). 204–214. 6 indexed citations

Meherali, Salima, Sarah Munro, Bukola Salami, et al.. (2023). Co-designing a Sexual Health App With Immigrant Adolescents: Protocol for a Qualitative Community-Based Participatory Action Research Study. JMIR Research Protocols. 12. e45389–e45389. 2 indexed citations

Ennis, Madeleine, Wendy V. Norman, Stephanie Begun, et al.. (2023). Experience of stigma and harassment among respondents to the 2019 Canadian abortion provider survey. Contraception. 124. 110083–110083. 4 indexed citations

Stirling-Cameron, Emma, et al.. (2022). Nurse practitioners on ‘the leading edge’ of medication abortion care: A feminist qualitative approach. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 79(2). 686–697. 6 indexed citations

Munro, Sarah, et al.. (2022). Contraceptive counselling in 3 Canadian bariatric surgery clinics: a multicentre qualitative study of the experiences of patients and health care providers. CMAJ Open. 10(1). E255–E261. 7 indexed citations

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Munro, Sarah, Kate Wahl, Judith A. Soon, et al.. (2021). Pharmacist dispensing of the abortion pill in Canada: Diffusion of Innovation meets integrated knowledge translation. Implementation Science. 16(1). 76–76. 14 indexed citations

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Aguiar, Magda, Tracey‐Lea Laba, Sarah Munro, et al.. (2021). Co-production of randomized clinical trials with patients: a case study in autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant for patients with scleroderma. Trials. 22(1). 611–611. 5 indexed citations

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Munro, Sarah, et al.. (2020). Leadership for success in transforming medical abortion policy in Canada. PLoS ONE. 15(1). e0227216–e0227216. 6 indexed citations

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Joseph‐Williams, Natalie, Purva Abhyankar, Laura Boland, et al.. (2020). What Works in Implementing Patient Decision Aids in Routine Clinical Settings? A Rapid Realist Review and Update from the International Patient Decision Aid Standards Collaboration. Medical Decision Making. 41(7). 907–937. 108 indexed citations

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Kuttner, Paul J., et al.. (2019). The Art of Convening: How Community Engagement Professionals Build Place-Based Community-University Partnerships for Systemic Change. Journal of higher education outreach & engagement. 23(1). 131–160. 4 indexed citations

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Norman, Wendy V., Sarah Munro, Melissa Brooks, et al.. (2019). Could implementation of mifepristone address Canada’s urban–rural abortion access disparity: a mixed-methods implementation study protocol. BMJ Open. 9(4). e028443–e028443. 28 indexed citations

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Munro, Sarah, et al.. (2018). Attitudes toward prenatal screening for chromosomal abnormalities: A focus group study. Women and Birth. 32(4). 364–371. 7 indexed citations

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Munro, Sarah, et al.. (2017). SmartMom Text Messaging for Prenatal Education: A Qualitative Focus Group Study to Explore Canadian Women’s Perceptions. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 3(1). e7–e7. 24 indexed citations

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Munro, Sarah, et al.. (2017). Evaluation of an Information Pamphlet for Women Considering Epidural Analgesia in Labour. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada. 40(2). 171–179. 13 indexed citations

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Munro, Sarah, Patricia A. Janssen, Kitty Corbett, et al.. (2016). Seeking control in the midst of uncertainty: Women’s experiences of choosing mode of birth after caesarean. Women and Birth. 30(2). 129–136. 36 indexed citations

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Diamond, Adele, W. Steven Barnett, Jessica Thomas, & Sarah Munro. (2007). Preschool Program Improves Cognitive Control. Science. 318(5855). 1387–1388. 1408 indexed citations breakdown →

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