Siham Sikander

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
102 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Siham Sikander is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Clinical Psychology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Siham Sikander has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 64 papers in Clinical Psychology and 36 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Siham Sikander's work include Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (64 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (48 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (20 papers). Siham Sikander is often cited by papers focused on Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (64 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (48 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (20 papers). Siham Sikander collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Pakistan and United States. Siham Sikander's co-authors include Atıf Rahman, Abid Malik, Francis Creed, C Michael Roberts, Joanna Maselko, Najia Atif, Vikram Patel, Ikhlaq Ahmad, Daniela C. Fuhr and John A. Gallis and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Medicine and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Siham Sikander

95 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Cognitive behaviour therapy-based intervention by community health workers for mothers with depression and their infants in rural Pakistan: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

2008 684 citations Atıf Rahman, Abid Malik et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Siham Sikander United Kingdom	27	1.5k	1.3k	728	678	557	102	2.7k
Daisy R. Singla Canada	24	1.3k 0.9×	594 0.5×	1.0k 1.4×	460 0.7×	741 1.3×	72	2.6k
Patricia Leahy‐Warren Ireland	27	1.0k 0.7×	1.8k 1.4×	401 0.6×	950 1.4×	578 1.0×	100	3.3k
Tamsen Rochat South Africa	22	1.0k 0.7×	1.7k 1.3×	250 0.3×	728 1.1×	676 1.2×	61	2.9k
Benedict Weobong United Kingdom	21	717 0.5×	504 0.4×	617 0.8×	456 0.7×	549 1.0×	44	1.8k
Leanne Whiteside-Mansell United States	28	1.2k 0.8×	608 0.5×	269 0.4×	535 0.8×	515 0.9×	100	2.3k
Katherine J. Gold United States	26	1.7k 1.1×	1.9k 1.5×	309 0.4×	749 1.1×	691 1.2×	81	3.3k
Craig F. Garfield United States	29	755 0.5×	875 0.7×	244 0.3×	697 1.0×	434 0.8×	84	2.4k
Zarina Nahar Kabir Sweden	24	559 0.4×	687 0.5×	202 0.3×	371 0.5×	504 0.9×	74	2.1k
Dawit Wondimagegn Ethiopia	16	765 0.5×	557 0.4×	526 0.7×	240 0.4×	420 0.8×	41	1.5k
Erika R. Cheng United States	24	529 0.4×	1.3k 1.0×	127 0.2×	999 1.5×	576 1.0×	66	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Siham Sikander

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Waqas, Ahmed, Abid Malik, Najia Atif, et al.. (2025). Exploring the delivery of empathic care in task-shared settings: A psychometric study in rural Pakistan. Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health. 12. e15–e15. 1 indexed citations

Shrestha, Pragya, et al.. (2025). Feasibility and acceptability of community-based psychosocial interventions delivered by nonspecialists for perinatal common mental disorders: A systematic review using an implementation science framework. Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health. 12. e54–e54.

Saeed, Gul, et al.. (2024). Maternal suicidality in Pakistan: Developing a critical feminist grounded theory to inform suicide prevention programs. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 100356–100356. 2 indexed citations

Bauer, Annette, Martín Knapp, Nasim Chaudhry, et al.. (2024). Economic costs of perinatal depression and anxiety in a lower middle income country: Pakistan. Journal of Affective Disorders. 357. 60–67. 1 indexed citations

Waqas, Ahmed, Siham Sikander, Abid Malik, Najia Atif, & Atıf Rahman. (2024). Optimizing psychotherapies for perinatal depressive symptom dimensions by strengthening social support networks: an exploratory mediation analysis approach. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11. e91–e91. 1 indexed citations

Chung, Esther O., Katherine LeMasters, Lisa M. Bates, et al.. (2023). Maternal adverse childhood experiences on child growth and development in rural Pakistan: An observational cohort study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(10). e0001669–e0001669. 3 indexed citations

Richardson, Robin, Sarah C. Haight, Ashley Hagaman, et al.. (2022). Social support and intimate partner violence in rural Pakistan: A longitudinal investigation of the bi-directional relationship. SSM - Population Health. 19. 101173–101173. 11 indexed citations

Chung, Esther O., Ashley Hagaman, Amina Bibi, et al.. (2022). Mother-in-law childcare and perinatal depression in rural Pakistan. Women s Health. 18. 892551976–892551976. 9 indexed citations

Murray, Aja Louise, Huyen Phuc, Michael P. Dunne, et al.. (2022). Measuring antenatal depressive symptoms across the world: A validation and cross-country invariance analysis of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) in eight diverse low-resource settings.. Psychological Assessment. 34(11). 993–1007. 11 indexed citations

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Frost, Allison, Katherine LeMasters, Ashley Hagaman, et al.. (2022). Adverse childhood experiences and implications of perceived stress, anxiety and cortisol among women in Pakistan: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 12(4). e052280–e052280. 8 indexed citations

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Hisam, Aliya, et al.. (2021). Post Discharge mHealth and Teach-Back Communication Effectiveness on Hospital Readmissions: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(19). 10442–10442. 13 indexed citations

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Hagaman, Ashley, Katherine LeMasters, Paul N. Zivich, et al.. (2021). Longitudinal effects of perinatal social support on maternal depression: a marginal structural modelling approach. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 75(10). 936–943. 17 indexed citations

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Sikander, Siham. (2020). Pakistan. The Lancet Psychiatry. 7(10). 845–845. 18 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Ikhlaq, Ahmed Waqas, Najia Atif, et al.. (2020). Measuring the implementation strength of a perinatal mental health intervention delivered by peer volunteers in rural Pakistan. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 130. 103559–103559. 9 indexed citations

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Waqas, Ahmed, Shamsa Zafar, Debbie A. Lawlor, et al.. (2020). A scientometric analysis of birth cohorts in South Asia: Way forward for Pakistan. PLoS ONE. 15(7). e0235385–e0235385. 5 indexed citations

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Chung, Esther O., Ashley Hagaman, Katherine LeMasters, et al.. (2020). The contribution of grandmother involvement to child growth and development: an observational study in rural Pakistan. BMJ Global Health. 5(8). e002181–e002181. 22 indexed citations

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Zavala, Gerardo A., Faiza Aslam, Deepa Barua, et al.. (2020). Prevalence of physical health conditions and health risk behaviours in people with severe mental illness in South Asia: protocol for a cross-sectional study (IMPACT SMI survey). BMJ Open. 10(10). e037869–e037869. 7 indexed citations

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Valdebenito, Sara, Aja Louise Murray, Claire Hughes, et al.. (2020). Evidence for Better Lives Study: a comparative birth-cohort study on child exposure to violence and other adversities in eight low- and middle-income countries - foundational research (study protocol). BMJ Open. 10(10). e034986–e034986. 22 indexed citations

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Sikander, Siham, Ikhlaq Ahmad, Lisa M. Bates, et al.. (2019). Cohort Profile: Perinatal depression and child socioemotional development ; the Bachpan cohort study from rural Pakistan. BMJ Open. 9(5). e025644–e025644. 37 indexed citations

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Rahman, Atıf, Assad Hafeez, Siham Sikander, et al.. (2015). The impact of perinatal depression on exclusive breastfeeding: a cohort study. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 12(3). 452–462. 63 indexed citations

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