Sonja Merten

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
106 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Sonja Merten is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonja Merten has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in General Health Professions, 28 papers in Health and 27 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Sonja Merten's work include Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (32 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (23 papers) and Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (17 papers). Sonja Merten is often cited by papers focused on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (32 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (23 papers) and Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (17 papers). Sonja Merten collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Zambia and South Africa. Sonja Merten's co-authors include Maurice Musheke, Ursula Ackermann‐Liebrich, Virginia Bond, Julia Dratva, Adriane Martin‐Hilber, Tobias Haller, Christophe Béné, Harriet Ntalasha, Elisabeth Zemp and Adriane Martin Hilber and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and PEDIATRICS.

In The Last Decade

Sonja Merten

100 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

A systematic review of qualitative findings on factors enabling and deterring uptake of HIV testing in Sub-Saharan Africa

2013 330 citations Maurice Musheke, Harriet Ntalasha et al. BMC Public Health profile →

Peers

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Rhian Twine South Africa

Mary C. Smith Fawzi United States

Lillian Mwanri Australia

Krishna C. Poudel Japan

Mohsin Sidat Mozambique

Joel Negin Australia

Sibhatu Biadgilign Ethiopia

Theresa Diaz United States

Seter Siziya Zambia

Joseph K. B. Matovu Uganda

Rhian Twine South Africa

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969 ×1.1

1.5k ×1.8

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469 ×1.1

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605 ×1.5

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Countries citing papers authored by Sonja Merten

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sonja Merten

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sonja Merten

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

Haller, Tobias, et al.. (2024). From diversity to uniformity: comparing nutritional transition of food consumption in four regions in Senegal. Food Culture & Society. 28(3). 503–527. 2 indexed citations

Zepro, Nejimu Biza, Araya Abrha Medhanyie, Nicole Probst‐Hensch, et al.. (2024). Navigating challenges: a socioecological analysis of sexual and reproductive health barriers among Eritrean refugee women in Ethiopia, using a key informant approach. BMJ Open. 14(4). e080654–e080654. 1 indexed citations

Lee, Tristan, Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie, Martin Röösli, et al.. (2023). Understanding diarrhoeal diseases in response to climate variability and drought in Cape Town, South Africa: a mixed methods approach. Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 12(1). 76–76. 9 indexed citations

Merten, Sonja, et al.. (2023). Food Security from the Forest: The Case of the Commodification of Baobab Fruit (Adansonia digitata L.) in Boundou Region, Senegal. Land. 12(7). 1423–1423. 9 indexed citations

Merten, Sonja & Tobias Haller. (2023). Interwoven Landscapes: Gender and Land in the Kafue Flats, Zambia. Land. 12(9). 1657–1657.

Merten, Sonja, et al.. (2023). Improving Primary Healthcare Access for Asylum Seekers and Refugees: A Qualitative Study From a Swiss Family Physician Perspective. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. 14. 4277802038–4277802038. 2 indexed citations

Merten, Sonja, et al.. (2022). ‘The body is difficult’: reproductive navigation through sociality and corporeality in rural Burundi. Culture Health & Sexuality. 25(1). 78–93. 3 indexed citations

Spitale, Giovanni, et al.. (2021). A Novel Risk and Crisis Communication Platform to Bridge the Gap Between Policy Makers and the Public in the Context of the COVID-19 Crisis (PubliCo): Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study. JMIR Research Protocols. 10(11). e33653–e33653. 11 indexed citations

Leuenberger, Andrea, Olga Cambaço, Isaac Lyatuu, et al.. (2021). “It Is Like We Are Living in a Different World”: Health Inequity in Communities Surrounding Industrial Mining Sites in Burkina Faso, Mozambique, and Tanzania. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(21). 11015–11015. 16 indexed citations

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Zepro, Nejimu Biza, et al.. (2021). Lived Experiences and Perceptions of Childbirth among Pastoralist Women in North-Eastern Ethiopia: A Multimethod Qualitative Analysis to the WHO Health Systems Responsiveness Framework. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(23). 12518–12518. 5 indexed citations

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Deml, Michael J., et al.. (2021). Application of the Parent Attitudes about Childhood Vaccines (PACV) survey in three national languages in Switzerland: Exploratory factor analysis and Mokken scale analysis. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 17(8). 2652–2660. 26 indexed citations

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Deml, Michael J., et al.. (2021). The Youth Attitudes about Vaccines (YAV-5) scale: adapting the parent attitudes about childhood vaccines short scale for use with youth in German, French, and Italian in Switzerland, exploratory factor analysis and mokken scaling analysis. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 17(12). 5183–5190. 6 indexed citations

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Oliver, Sandy, et al.. (2021). Enhancing the Understanding of Resilience in Health Systems of Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 11(7). 899–911. 22 indexed citations

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Ferrari, Giovanfrancesco, et al.. (2020). Impact of a complex gender-transformative intervention on maternal and child health outcomes in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: protocol of a longitudinal parallel mixed-methods study. BMC Public Health. 20(1). 51–51. 15 indexed citations

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Giles, Michelle, Carsten Mantel, Flor M. Muñoz, et al.. (2020). Vaccine implementation factors affecting maternal tetanus immunization in low- and middle-income countries: Results of the Maternal Immunization and Antenatal Care Situational Analysis (MIACSA) project. Vaccine. 38(33). 5268–5277. 17 indexed citations

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Rokicki, Slawa & Sonja Merten. (2018). The context of emergency contraception use among young unmarried women in Accra, Ghana: a qualitative study. Reproductive Health. 15(1). 212–212. 20 indexed citations

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Manderson, Lenore, et al.. (2017). Personal support and expressions of care for pregnant women in Soweto, South Africa. Global Health Action. 10(1). 1363454–1363454. 13 indexed citations

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Dumbaugh, Mari, et al.. (2017). Evaluating the comparative effectiveness of different demand side interventions to increase maternal health service utilization and practice of birth spacing in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo: an innovative, mixed methods approach. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 17(1). 212–212. 7 indexed citations

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Merten, Sonja, Harriet Ntalasha, & Maurice Musheke. (2016). Non-Uptake of HIV Testing in Children at Risk in Two Urban and Rural Settings in Zambia: A Mixed-Methods Study. PLoS ONE. 11(6). e0155510–e0155510. 13 indexed citations

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Haller, Tobias & Sonja Merten. (2006). „No capital needed!“ De facto open access to Common Pool Resources, Poverty and Conservation in the Kafue Flats, Zambia. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 9 indexed citations

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