Sunil Bhopal

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Sunil Bhopal is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Nutrition and Dietetics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Sunil Bhopal has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 13 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 9 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Sunil Bhopal's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (12 papers), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (7 papers) and Infant Development and Preterm Care (6 papers). Sunil Bhopal is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (12 papers), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (7 papers) and Infant Development and Preterm Care (6 papers). Sunil Bhopal collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and India. Sunil Bhopal's co-authors include Geordan Shannon, Delan Devakumar, Ibrahim Abubakar, Raj Bhopal, Bayanne Olabi, Jayshree Bagaria, Maryke Nielsen, Betty Kirkwood, Robert C. Hughes and Stephen Halpin and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sunil Bhopal

41 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

Racism and discrimination in COVID-19 responses

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sunil Bhopal United Kingdom	15	318	237	205	185	181	44	1.1k
Abbey M. Jones United States	11	246 0.8×	266 1.1×	113 0.6×	325 1.8×	206 1.1×	17	936
Paul Sengeh Sierra Leone	14	332 1.0×	163 0.7×	217 1.1×	166 0.9×	143 0.8×	23	817
Rochelle A. Burgess United Kingdom	17	338 1.1×	210 0.9×	96 0.5×	223 1.2×	380 2.1×	77	951
Francisco S. Sy United States	15	411 1.3×	245 1.0×	316 1.5×	163 0.9×	396 2.2×	42	1.4k
Amanuel Alemu Abajobir Australia	26	798 2.5×	258 1.1×	203 1.0×	244 1.3×	775 4.3×	69	2.0k
Dominick Shattuck United States	17	100 0.3×	180 0.8×	233 1.1×	131 0.7×	579 3.2×	36	1.0k
Jeffrey B. Bingenheimer United States	18	329 1.0×	428 1.8×	125 0.6×	287 1.6×	643 3.6×	67	1.5k
Roy Rillera Marzo Malaysia	17	294 0.9×	162 0.7×	159 0.8×	259 1.4×	231 1.3×	89	885
Muazzam Nasrullah United States	23	114 0.4×	230 1.0×	217 1.1×	312 1.7×	351 1.9×	90	1.6k
Don E. Willis United States	20	191 0.6×	402 1.7×	336 1.6×	809 4.4×	434 2.4×	87	1.4k

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Davtyan, Mariam, Caroline Foster, Michael Evangeli, et al.. (2024). Impact of HIV-Related Stigma on Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence, Engagement and Retention in HIV Care, and Transition to Adult HIV Care in Pediatric and Young Adult Populations Living With HIV: A Literature Review. AIDS and Behavior. 29(2). 497–516. 5 indexed citations

Breckons, Matthew, et al.. (2023). Parental perspectives on emergency health service use during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom: A qualitative study. PLoS ONE. 18(5). e0285375–e0285375. 1 indexed citations

Munro, Alasdair, Danilo Buonsenso, Sebastián González‐Dambrauskas, et al.. (2023). In-person schooling is essential even during periods of high transmission of COVID-19. BMJ evidence-based medicine. 28(3). 175–179. 7 indexed citations

Hughes, Robert C., Sunil Bhopal, Elizabeth Kimani‐Murage, et al.. (2023). Parental experiences of childcare in an informal urban settlement: qualitative interview findings from the Nairobi Early Childcare in Slums (NECS) project. BMJ Open. 13(4). e071627–e071627. 3 indexed citations

Gadsby, Erica, et al.. (2022). Qualitative analysis of the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic response on paediatric health services in North of Scotland and North of England. BMJ Open. 12(2). e056628–e056628. 3 indexed citations

Hughes, Robert C., Patricia Kitsao-Wekulo, Sunil Bhopal, et al.. (2021). Who actually cares for children in slums? Why we need to think, and do, more about paid childcare in urbanizing sub-Saharan Africa. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1827). 20200430–20200430. 14 indexed citations

Bhavnani, Supriya, Sunil Bhopal, Kamal Kant Sharma, et al.. (2021). The association of a novel digital tool for assessment of early childhood cognitive development, ‘DEvelopmental assessment on an E-Platform (DEEP)’, with growth in rural India: A proof of concept study. EClinicalMedicine. 37. 100964–100964. 10 indexed citations

Olabi, Bayanne, et al.. (2021). Population perspective comparing COVID-19 to all and common causes of death during the first wave of the pandemic in seven European countries. Public Health in Practice. 2. 100077–100077. 11 indexed citations

Hughes, Robert C., et al.. (2021). Hacking childhood: will future technologies undermine, or enable, optimal early childhood development?. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 108(2). 82–83. 2 indexed citations

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Hughes, Robert C., Sunil Bhopal, & Mark Tomlinson. (2021). Making pre-school children wear masks is bad public health. Public Health in Practice. 2. 100197–100197. 3 indexed citations

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Kohli-Lynch, Maya, Victoria Ponce Hardy, Sunil Bhopal, et al.. (2020). Human resources and curricula content for early child development implementation: multicountry mixed methods evaluation. BMJ Open. 10(4). e032134–e032134. 13 indexed citations

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Devakumar, Delan, Sunil Bhopal, & Geordan Shannon. (2020). COVID-19: the great unequaliser. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 113(6). 234–235. 36 indexed citations

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Boucheron, Pauline, Sunil Bhopal, Deepali Verma, et al.. (2020). Observed feeding behaviours and effects on child weight and length at 12 months of age: Findings from the SPRING cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural India. PLoS ONE. 15(8). e0237226–e0237226. 9 indexed citations

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Bhopal, Sunil & Maryke Nielsen. (2020). Vaccine hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries: potential implications for the COVID-19 response. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 106(2). 113–114. 72 indexed citations

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Bhopal, Sunil, et al.. (2020). Who has been missed? Dramatic decrease in numbers of children seen for child protection assessments during the pandemic. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 106(2). e6–e6. 31 indexed citations

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Bhopal, Sunil, Jayshree Bagaria, & Raj Bhopal. (2020). Risks to children during the covid-19 pandemic: some essential epidemiology. BMJ. 369. m2290–m2290. 7 indexed citations

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Bhopal, Sunil, Deepali Verma, Divya Kumar, et al.. (2019). Impact of adversity on early childhood growth & development in rural India: Findings from the early life stress sub-study of the SPRING cluster randomised controlled trial (SPRING-ELS). PLoS ONE. 14(1). e0209122–e0209122. 34 indexed citations

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Bhopal, Sunil. (2018). SPRING Early Life Stress Sub-study: Additional Resources. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

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Bhopal, Sunil, Stephen Halpin, & Nancy Gerein. (2012). Emergency Obstetric Referral in Rural Sierra Leone: What Can Motorbike Ambulances Contribute? A Mixed-Methods Study. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 17(6). 1038–1043. 29 indexed citations

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Bhopal, Sunil, et al.. (2010). Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs prescribing in chronic kidney disease: an observational study. Primary Health Care Research & Development. 11(3). 280–284. 5 indexed citations

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