Valentina Baltag

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 932 citations indexed

About

Valentina Baltag 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, Valentina Baltag has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 932 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in General Health Professions, 15 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 13 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Valentina Baltag's work include Child and Adolescent Health (20 papers), School Health and Nursing Education (8 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (7 papers). Valentina Baltag is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Health (20 papers), School Health and Nursing Education (8 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (7 papers). Valentina Baltag collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. Valentina Baltag's co-authors include Venkatraman Chandra‐Mouli, Julia Hall, David A. Ross, Elizabeth Mason, Zohra S Lassi, Charlotte Christiansen, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Lucy Fagan, Regina Guthold and Anshu Banerjee and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, BMJ and BMC Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Valentina Baltag

42 papers receiving 897 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.

Adolescent Well-Being: A Definition and Conceptual Framework

2020 183 citations David A. Ross, Rachael Hinton et al. Journal of Adolescent Health profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Valentina Baltag Switzerland	15	409	258	242	192	178	46	932
Christine Furber United Kingdom	18	366 0.9×	193 0.7×	280 1.2×	486 2.5×	112 0.6×	50	1.3k
Holly S. Ruch‐Ross United States	16	311 0.8×	162 0.6×	178 0.7×	164 0.9×	164 0.9×	48	926
Sasha A. Fleary United States	16	528 1.3×	143 0.6×	167 0.7×	248 1.3×	118 0.7×	56	1.1k
Carol Loveland‐Cherry United States	19	532 1.3×	141 0.5×	203 0.8×	121 0.6×	79 0.4×	45	1.0k
Shelley Doucet Canada	18	582 1.4×	151 0.6×	180 0.7×	422 2.2×	139 0.8×	98	1.1k
Kristy K. Martyn United States	17	496 1.2×	117 0.5×	164 0.7×	133 0.7×	78 0.4×	60	930
Sharon Marshall United States	21	662 1.6×	144 0.6×	244 1.0×	260 1.4×	79 0.4×	47	1.3k
Roberta S. Rehm United States	20	375 0.9×	411 1.6×	488 2.0×	241 1.3×	212 1.2×	53	1.3k
Michèle Glacken Ireland	22	488 1.2×	214 0.8×	187 0.8×	228 1.2×	70 0.4×	30	1.3k
Gregory D. Stevens United States	22	1.1k 2.7×	241 0.9×	331 1.4×	183 1.0×	129 0.7×	48	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Valentina Baltag

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Fields of papers citing papers by Valentina Baltag

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Valentina Baltag

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Divala, Titus, et al.. (2025). 87. Young People’s Perspectives on the World Health Organization (Who) Adolescent Health Care Guidelines and Universal Health Coverage. Journal of Adolescent Health. 76(3). S46–S46.

Banati, Prerna, et al.. (2025). Adolescent experiences and exposures: a systematic review of life course outcomes. EClinicalMedicine. 88. 103453–103453.

Daelmans, Bernadette, et al.. (2024). Climate change impacts on child and adolescent health and well-being: A narrative review. Journal of Global Health. 14. 4061–4061. 18 indexed citations

Liguoro, Ilaria, Ilaria Mariani, Francesca Tirelli, et al.. (2024). Implementation of the WHO Standards to assess the quality of paediatric care using health workers as source of data: findings of a multicentre study (CHOICE) in Italy. BMJ Paediatrics Open. 8(Suppl 7). e002612–e002612. 5 indexed citations

Lazzerini, Marzia, Idanna Sforzi, Ilaria Liguoro, et al.. (2024). Implementation of the WHO standards to assess the quality of care for children with acute diarrhoea: findings of a multicentre study (CHOICE) in Italy. BMJ Paediatrics Open. 8(Suppl 7). e002569–e002569. 4 indexed citations

Bressan, Silvia, Federico Marchetti, Francesca Tirelli, et al.. (2024). Implementation of the WHO Standards to assess quality of paediatric care at the facility level using service users’ perspective as source of data: a multicentre quality improvement study in Italy. BMJ Paediatrics Open. 8(Suppl 7). e002600–e002600. 4 indexed citations

Cozzi, Giorgio, Idanna Sforzi, Ilaria Liguoro, et al.. (2024). Implementation of the WHO standards to assess quality of care for children with acute pain in EDs: findings of a multicentre study (CHOICE) in Italy. BMJ Paediatrics Open. 8(Suppl 7). e002610–e002610. 5 indexed citations

Banati, Prerna, David A. Ross, Benedict Weobong, et al.. (2024). Adolescent health and well-being check-up programme in three African cities (Y-Check): protocol for a multimethod, prospective, hybrid implementation-effectiveness study. BMJ Open. 14(6). e077533–e077533.

Lazzerini, Marzia, Ilaria Mariani, Enrico Felici, et al.. (2022). WHO standards-based tools to measure service providers’ and service users’ views on the quality of hospital child care: development and validation in Italy. BMJ Open. 12(3). e052115–e052115. 8 indexed citations

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Stavridou, Androniki, Eleni Panagouli, Theodoros Ν. Sergentanis, et al.. (2021). The impact of COVID-19 during pregnancy on maternal and neonatal outcomes: a systematic review. EMBnet journal. 26(1). e969–e969. 4 indexed citations

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Plummer, Mary Louisa, et al.. (2021). Results of a Global Survey of Experts to Categorize the Suitability of Interventions for Inclusion in School Health Services. Journal of Adolescent Health. 69(6). 948–956. 1 indexed citations

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Guthold, Regina, Liliana Carvajal-Vélez, Emmanuel Adebayo, et al.. (2021). The Importance of Mental Health Measurement to Improve Global Adolescent Health. Journal of Adolescent Health. 72(1). S3–S6. 16 indexed citations

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Ross, David A., Mary Louisa Plummer, Paul Montgomery, et al.. (2021). World Health Organization Recommends Comprehensive School Health Services and Provides a Menu of Interventions. Journal of Adolescent Health. 69(2). 195–196. 5 indexed citations

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Ross, David A., Rachael Hinton, Danielle Engel, et al.. (2020). Adolescent Well-Being: A Definition and Conceptual Framework. Journal of Adolescent Health. 67(4). 472–476. 183 indexed citations breakdown →

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Viner, Russell, Chris Bonell, Lesley Drake, et al.. (2020). Reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic: governments must balance the uncertainty and risks of reopening schools against the clear harms associated with prolonged closure. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 106(2). 111–113. 104 indexed citations

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Kokotailo, Patricia K., Valentina Baltag, & Susan M. Sawyer. (2018). Educating and Training the Future Adolescent Health Workforce. Journal of Adolescent Health. 62(5). 511–524. 24 indexed citations

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Baltag, Valentina & Chiara Servili. (2016). Adolescent mental health: new hope for a “Survive, Thrive and Transform” policy response. Journal of Public Mental Health. 15(1). 63–70. 8 indexed citations

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Blum, Robert W., et al.. (2015). Assessing an Adolescent's Capacity for Autonomous Decision-Making in Clinical Care. Journal of Adolescent Health. 57(4). 361–366. 36 indexed citations

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Nair, Manisha, Valentina Baltag, Krishna Bose, et al.. (2015). Improving the Quality of Health Care Services for Adolescents, Globally: A Standards-Driven Approach. Journal of Adolescent Health. 57(3). 288–298. 79 indexed citations

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Borchert, Matthias, et al.. (2010). Improving maternal and perinatal health care in the Central Asian Republics. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. 110(2). 97–100. 9 indexed citations

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