Smisha Agarwal

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
67 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Smisha Agarwal is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Smisha Agarwal has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in General Health Professions, 26 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 10 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Smisha Agarwal's work include Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (28 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (25 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (9 papers). Smisha Agarwal is often cited by papers focused on Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (28 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (25 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (9 papers). Smisha Agarwal collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Switzerland. Smisha Agarwal's co-authors include Alain Labrique, Kelly L’Engle, Ernst Wagner, Garrett Mehl, Matthew Cotten, David T. Curiel, Amnesty LeFevre, Henry B. Perry, Chaitali Sinha and Emily Mangone and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, JAMA and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Smisha Agarwal

63 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Guidelines for reporting of health interventions using mo... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2016 2015 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Guidelines for reporting of health interventions using mobile phones: mobile health (mHealth) evidence reporting and assessment (mERA) checklist
    2016 440 citations Smisha Agarwal, Amnesty LeFevre et al. BMJ profile →
  2. Evidence on feasibility and effective use of mHealth strategies by frontline health workers in developing countries: systematic review
    2015 276 citations Smisha Agarwal, Alain Labrique et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Smisha Agarwal United States 22 1.1k 419 343 303 285 67 2.1k
Hala Ghattas Lebanon 28 651 0.6× 227 0.5× 289 0.8× 133 0.4× 332 1.2× 111 2.9k
Louise Keogh Australia 28 739 0.7× 389 0.9× 117 0.3× 50 0.2× 642 2.3× 149 2.7k
Lavanya Vasudevan United States 16 657 0.6× 170 0.4× 136 0.4× 246 0.8× 135 0.5× 64 1.3k
Denise Esserman United States 24 557 0.5× 323 0.8× 173 0.5× 116 0.4× 556 2.0× 108 3.6k
Mark A. Rothstein United States 31 595 0.5× 346 0.8× 420 1.2× 82 0.3× 1.3k 4.5× 226 3.3k
Nikola Biller‐Andorno Switzerland 32 806 0.7× 181 0.4× 165 0.5× 37 0.1× 1.0k 3.6× 230 3.1k
Richard Ashcroft United Kingdom 34 1.2k 1.1× 326 0.8× 109 0.3× 26 0.1× 1.1k 3.8× 136 3.1k
Georg Marckmann Germany 25 804 0.7× 226 0.5× 101 0.3× 52 0.2× 920 3.2× 168 2.1k
Jenny Liu United States 25 578 0.5× 633 1.5× 220 0.6× 38 0.1× 985 3.5× 123 3.0k
Jeffrey Kahn United States 27 660 0.6× 329 0.8× 188 0.5× 58 0.2× 1.3k 4.4× 128 2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Smisha Agarwal

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Fields of papers citing papers by Smisha Agarwal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Smisha Agarwal

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

All Works

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Kan, Lena, Yoko Shimada, Patricia Mechael, et al.. (2025). Associations between digital maturity in health and primary health care performance, 109 countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 103(10). 592–606A. 1 indexed citations
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Glenton, Claire, Josephine Nabukenya, Smisha Agarwal, et al.. (2023). Using an online community of practice to explore the informal use of mobile phones by health workers. PubMed. 1. oqac003–oqac003. 3 indexed citations
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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
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Agarwal, Smisha, et al.. (2022). Implementation Outcomes Assessment of a Digital Clinical Support Tool for Intrapartum Care in Rural Kenya: Observational Analysis. JMIR Formative Research. 6(6). e34741–e34741. 1 indexed citations
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Erchick, Daniel J., Alexander Zapf, Prativa Baral, et al.. (2022). COVID-19 risk perceptions of social interaction and essential activities and inequity in the USA: results from a nationally representative survey. BMJ Open. 12(2). e051882–e051882. 6 indexed citations
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Sedoc, João, et al.. (2022). Health-focused conversational agents in person-centered care: a review of apps. npj Digital Medicine. 5(1). 21–21. 65 indexed citations
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Meghani, Ankita, et al.. (2022). Schooling amidst a pandemic in the United States: Parents’ perceptions about reopening schools and anticipated challenges during COVID-19. PLoS ONE. 17(8). e0268427–e0268427. 4 indexed citations
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Riehm, Kira E., Manali Nekkanti, Smisha Agarwal, et al.. (2022). Burden of mental distress in the United States is associated with delayed medical visits and missed prescription refills during the COVID-19 pandemic. Preventive Medicine. 163. 107195–107195. 3 indexed citations
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Hossain, Sharif, et al.. (2021). Beyond Institutionalization: Planning for Sustained Investments in Training, Supervision, and Support of Community Health Worker Programs in Bangladesh. Global Health Science and Practice. 9(4). 765–776. 13 indexed citations
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Poliak, Adam, Cash Costello, Kenton Murray, et al.. (2020). Collecting Verified COVID-19 Question Answer Pairs. 8 indexed citations
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Shah, Neha, Diwakar Mohan, Smisha Agarwal, et al.. (2020). Novel approaches to measuring knowledge among frontline health workers in India: Are phone surveys a reliable option?. PLoS ONE. 15(6). e0234241–e0234241. 4 indexed citations
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Agarwal, Smisha, et al.. (2019). Are community health workers effective in retaining women in the maternity care continuum? Evidence from India. BMJ Global Health. 4(4). e001557–e001557. 23 indexed citations
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Braun, Rebecca, et al.. (2016). An evaluation of a family planning mobile job aid for community health workers in Tanzania. Contraception. 94(1). 27–33. 30 indexed citations
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Agarwal, Smisha, Amnesty LeFevre, Kelly L’Engle, et al.. (2016). Guidelines for reporting of health interventions using mobile phones: mobile health (mHealth) evidence reporting and assessment (mERA) checklist. BMJ. 352. i1174–i1174. 440 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gonsalves, Lianne, Kelly L’Engle, Tigest Tamrat, et al.. (2015). Adolescent/Youth Reproductive Mobile Access and Delivery Initiative for Love and Life Outcomes (ARMADILLO) Study: formative protocol for mHealth platform development and piloting. Reproductive Health. 12(1). 67–67. 26 indexed citations
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Alva, Soumya, et al.. (2014). Strengthening community health supply chain performance through an integrated approach: Using mHealth technology and multilevel teams in Malawi. Journal of Global Health. 4(2). 20406–20406. 47 indexed citations

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