Toby Freeman

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
105 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Toby Freeman is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health and Emergency Medical Services. According to data from OpenAlex, Toby Freeman has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in General Health Professions, 39 papers in Health and 25 papers in Emergency Medical Services. Recurrent topics in Toby Freeman's work include Primary Care and Health Outcomes (37 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (28 papers) and Global Health Workforce Issues (25 papers). Toby Freeman is often cited by papers focused on Primary Care and Health Outcomes (37 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (28 papers) and Global Health Workforce Issues (25 papers). Toby Freeman collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Canada and South Africa. Toby Freeman's co-authors include Fran Baum, William Michelson, Ann Roche, Sara Javanparast, Angela Lawless, Natalie Skinner, Ronald Labonté, Sharon Friel, M. Fisher and David Sanders and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Social Science & Medicine and BMJ.

In The Last Decade

Toby Freeman

101 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Toby Freeman Australia	25	1.2k	444	369	360	353	105	2.3k
María Luisa Vázquez Spain	28	1.7k 1.4×	319 0.7×	555 1.5×	283 0.8×	296 0.8×	143	2.5k
Cristina Hernández‐Quevedo United Kingdom	24	1.1k 0.9×	201 0.5×	503 1.4×	187 0.5×	344 1.0×	55	1.9k
Sara Allin Canada	26	1.3k 1.0×	259 0.6×	681 1.8×	227 0.6×	416 1.2×	107	2.4k
E. Richard Brown United States	30	1.2k 1.0×	410 0.9×	564 1.5×	229 0.6×	294 0.8×	110	2.8k
Justin Jagosh United Kingdom	17	2.3k 1.9×	518 1.2×	282 0.8×	265 0.7×	266 0.8×	25	3.9k
Elizabeth Harris Australia	29	1.2k 1.0×	229 0.5×	282 0.8×	220 0.6×	360 1.0×	121	2.3k
Kim Bảo Giang Vietnam	27	679 0.6×	218 0.5×	196 0.5×	332 0.9×	249 0.7×	106	2.2k
James R. Knickman United States	21	2.1k 1.7×	497 1.1×	582 1.6×	247 0.7×	513 1.5×	63	2.9k
Orielle Solar Spain	15	1.6k 1.3×	318 0.7×	209 0.6×	159 0.4×	802 2.3×	32	2.6k
Thomas Hone United Kingdom	23	1.4k 1.1×	311 0.7×	496 1.3×	249 0.7×	355 1.0×	71	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Toby Freeman

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Toby Freeman

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

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Javanparast, Sara, et al.. (2025). Use of evidence to inform regional primary health care planning in Australia. Health Research Policy and Systems. 23(1). 31–31.

Mackean, Tamara, Kim O’Donnell, Juanita Sherwood, et al.. (2025). Decolonising primary health care practice: a definition and its importance. The Medical Journal of Australia. 223(1). 9–12.

Mackean, Tamara, Toby Freeman, Connie Musolino, et al.. (2025). Leading the way: the contribution of Aboriginal community controlled health organisations to community health in Australia. Australian Journal of Primary Health. 31(3).

Fisher, M., Tamara Mackean, Kim O’Donnell, et al.. (2024). Next Steps in Decolonising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care Policy in Australia: An Analysis of Key Stakeholder Views. International Indigenous Policy Journal. 15(3). 1 indexed citations

Javanparast, Sara, et al.. (2023). Evaluating local primary health care actions to address health inequities: analysis of Australia’s Primary Health Networks. International Journal for Equity in Health. 22(1). 243–243. 6 indexed citations

Flavel, Joanne, Toby Freeman, Fran Baum, et al.. (2021). A PROFILE OF THE HOMELESS POPULATION IN ADELAIDE. UWA Profiles and Research Repository (University of Western Australia). 1 indexed citations

Friel, Sharon, Belinda Townsend, M. Fisher, et al.. (2021). Power and the people's health. Social Science & Medicine. 282. 114173–114173. 50 indexed citations

Freeman, Toby, Hailay Abrha Gesesew, Clare Bambra, et al.. (2020). Why do some countries do better or worse in life expectancy relative to income? An analysis of Brazil, Ethiopia, and the United States of America. International Journal for Equity in Health. 19(1). 202–202. 56 indexed citations

Freeman, Toby, et al.. (2020). The contribution of group work to the goals of comprehensive primary health care. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 32(1). 126–136. 5 indexed citations

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Henderson, Julie, Sara Javanparast, Fran Baum, et al.. (2019). Interagency collaboration in primary mental health care: lessons from the Partners in Recovery program. International Journal of Mental Health Systems. 13(1). 37–37. 11 indexed citations

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Javanparast, Sara, Fran Baum, Toby Freeman, et al.. (2018). Collaborative population health planning between Australian primary health care organisations and local government: lost opportunity. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 43(1). 68–74. 18 indexed citations

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Littlejohns, Lori Baugh, Fran Baum, Angela Lawless, & Toby Freeman. (2018). The value of a causal loop diagram in exploring the complex interplay of factors that influence health promotion in a multisectoral health system in Australia. Health Research Policy and Systems. 16(1). 126–126. 77 indexed citations

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Lee, Janice, Ashley Schram, Emily Riley, et al.. (2018). Addressing Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health: A Global Review of Policy Outcome Evaluation Methods. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 7(7). 581–592. 25 indexed citations

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Baum, Fran, Toby Freeman, David Sanders, et al.. (2016). Comprehensive primary health care under neo-liberalism in Australia. Social Science & Medicine. 168. 43–52. 52 indexed citations

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Freeman, Toby, Fran Baum, Angela Lawless, et al.. (2016). Case Study of an Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Service in Australia: Universal, Rights-Based, Publicly Funded Comprehensive Primary Health Care in Action.. PubMed. 18(2). 93–108. 27 indexed citations

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Jolley, Gwyn, Toby Freeman, Fran Baum, et al.. (2014). Health policy in South Australia 2003–10: primary health care workforce perceptions of the impact of policy change on health promotion. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 25(2). 116–124. 21 indexed citations

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Roche, Ann, et al.. (2013). Sharing stories: Indigenous alcohol and other drug workers' well‐being, stress and burnout. Drug and Alcohol Review. 32(5). 527–535. 28 indexed citations

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Lawless, Angela, et al.. (2011). Development of a logic model and evaluation framework for comprehensive primary health care. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 1 indexed citations

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Roche, Ann, et al.. (2009). Drug testing in Australian schools: Policy implications and considerations of punitive, deterrence and/or prevention measures. International Journal of Drug Policy. 20(6). 521–528. 18 indexed citations

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Roche, Ann, Toby Freeman, & Natalie Skinner. (2005). From data to evidence, to action: Findings from a systematic review of hospital screening studies for high risk alcohol consumption. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 83(1). 1–14. 72 indexed citations

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