Susanna Makela

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
13 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Susanna Makela is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, Susanna Makela has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in General Health Professions, 5 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 2 papers in Finance. Recurrent topics in Susanna Makela's work include Global Maternal and Child Health (5 papers), Global Health Care Issues (4 papers) and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (2 papers). Susanna Makela is often cited by papers focused on Global Maternal and Child Health (5 papers), Global Health Care Issues (4 papers) and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (2 papers). Susanna Makela collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Australia. Susanna Makela's co-authors include Kyle J Foreman, Rafael Lozano, Christopher J L Murray, Mohsen Naghavi, Mengru Wang, Margaret C. Hogan, Alan D López, Farshad Pourmalek, Mohsen Naghavi and Muyin Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and BMC Health Services Research.

In The Last Decade

Susanna Makela

13 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980–2008: a system... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 2011 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980–2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5
    2010 1.6k citations Margaret C. Hogan, Kyle J Foreman et al. The Lancet profile →
  2. Maternal Mortality for 181 Countries, 1980−2008
    2011 320 citations Kyle J Foreman, Mohsen Naghavi et al. Obstetric Anesthesia Digest profile →

Peers

Susanna Makela
Doris Ma Fat Switzerland
Samuel Mills United States
Sereen Thaddeus United States
Julia Hussein United Kingdom
Margaret C. Hogan United States
Iqbal Anwar Bangladesh
Mats Målqvist Sweden
Lynn P. Freedman United States
Victoria B. Chou United States
Jelle Stekelenburg Netherlands
Doris Ma Fat Switzerland
Susanna Makela
Citations per year, relative to Susanna Makela Susanna Makela (= 1×) peers Doris Ma Fat

Countries citing papers authored by Susanna Makela

Since Specialization
Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Susanna Makela

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Susanna Makela. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Susanna Makela. The network helps show where Susanna Makela may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Susanna Makela

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

All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Mitchell, Shira, Andrew Gelman, Joyce Chen, et al.. (2018). The Millennium Villages Project: a retrospective, observational, endline evaluation. The Lancet Global Health. 6(5). e500–e513. 29 indexed citations
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Makela, Susanna, Daliah Heller, Kevin Konty, et al.. (2018). A Bayesian evidence synthesis approach to estimate disease prevalence in hard-to-reach populations: hepatitis C in New York City. Epidemics. 23. 96–109. 8 indexed citations
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Makela, Susanna, Yajuan Si, & Andrew Gelman. (2017). Graphical Visualization of Polling Results. Oxford University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Cowan, Sarah K., Lawrence Wu, Susanna Makela, & Paula England. (2016). Alternative Estimates of Lifetime Prevalence Of Abortion from Indirect Survey Questioning Methods. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. 48(4). 229–234. 19 indexed citations
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Makela, Susanna, Yajuan Si, & Andrew Gelman. (2014). Statistical Graphics for Survey Weights. Revista Colombiana de Estadística. 37(2Spe). 285–295. 2 indexed citations
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Makela, Susanna, et al.. (2013). Social Sector Expenditure and Child Mortality in India: A State-Level Analysis from 1997 to 2009. PLoS ONE. 8(2). e56285–e56285. 13 indexed citations
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Myerson, Rebecca, et al.. (2012). Determinants of condom uptake among HIV voluntary counselling and testing clients: experiences from a hospital-based study in south India. BMC Health Services Research. 12(1). 13–13. 9 indexed citations
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Foreman, Kyle J, Mohsen Naghavi, Muyin Wang, et al.. (2011). Maternal Mortality for 181 Countries, 1980−2008. Obstetric Anesthesia Digest. 31(2). 69–69. 320 indexed citations breakdown →
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Naghavi, Mohsen, et al.. (2010). Algorithms for enhancing public health utility of national causes-of-death data. Population Health Metrics. 8(1). 9–9. 298 indexed citations
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Hogan, Margaret C., Kyle J Foreman, Mohsen Naghavi, et al.. (2010). Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980–2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5. The Lancet. 375(9726). 1609–1623. 1583 indexed citations breakdown →
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Naghavi, Mohsen, et al.. (2010). Researchfor enhancing public health utility of national causes-of-death data. 13 indexed citations
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Cowling, Krycia, Kyle J Foreman, Nancy Fullman, et al.. (2009). Sceptical optimism: a new take on global health data. The Lancet. 374(9703). 1730–1731. 1 indexed citations

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