Victoria McGowan

873 total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 475 citations indexed

About

Victoria McGowan is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Victoria McGowan has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 475 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in General Health Professions, 18 papers in Health and 5 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Recurrent topics in Victoria McGowan's work include Health disparities and outcomes (18 papers), Global Health Care Issues (5 papers) and Employment and Welfare Studies (5 papers). Victoria McGowan is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (18 papers), Global Health Care Issues (5 papers) and Employment and Welfare Studies (5 papers). Victoria McGowan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Spain. Victoria McGowan's co-authors include Clare Bambra, Shelina Visram, Stephanie Scott, Sara Ronzi, Fiona Beyer, Rebecca Mead, Elizabeth McGill, Catherine Meads, Jennie Popay and Frances Hillier-Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Victoria McGowan

26 papers receiving 464 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.

COVID-19 mortality and deprivation: pandemic, syndemic, and endemic health inequalities

2022 140 citations Victoria McGowan, Clare Bambra The Lancet Public Health profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Victoria McGowan United Kingdom	10	208	153	72	63	47	29	475
Hani Serag United States	9	178 0.9×	92 0.6×	96 1.3×	54 0.9×	53 1.1×	27	477
Robin Mockenhaupt United States	9	246 1.2×	134 0.9×	86 1.2×	70 1.1×	111 2.4×	12	574
Roberta Crialesi Italy	10	248 1.2×	209 1.4×	56 0.8×	52 0.8×	94 2.0×	29	627
Gholamreza Ghaedamini Harouni Iran	10	152 0.7×	84 0.5×	83 1.2×	73 1.2×	41 0.9×	64	504
Teresa Leão Portugal	13	143 0.7×	110 0.7×	159 2.2×	96 1.5×	34 0.7×	36	405
Andrea M. Tilstra United States	10	165 0.8×	185 1.2×	73 1.0×	47 0.7×	43 0.9×	21	341
Michelle S. Wong United States	14	163 0.8×	125 0.8×	54 0.8×	48 0.8×	156 3.3×	40	545
Troy Quast United States	13	223 1.1×	116 0.8×	120 1.7×	40 0.6×	111 2.4×	48	544
Connie Musolino Australia	11	110 0.5×	60 0.4×	103 1.4×	52 0.8×	40 0.9×	32	383
Natasha Sobers Barbados	13	106 0.5×	94 0.6×	90 1.3×	119 1.9×	102 2.2×	36	529

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Victoria McGowan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Price, Timothy & Victoria McGowan. (2025). A Cycle of Social Violence: a novel theoretical framework for explaining how structural, slow, and symbolic violence interact to produce and maintain health inequalities in England. Social Science & Medicine. 383. 118438–118438. 2 indexed citations

McHugh, Neil, Rachel Baker, Verity Watson, et al.. (2025). Public preferences for health and non-health outcomes of Universal Basic Income and alternative income-based policies: A mixed-method feasibility study. PubMed. 1–26.

McGowan, Victoria, et al.. (2025). Exploring the impact of stigma on the health of inclusion health groups: a qualitative scoping review and critical analysis. BMC Public Health. 26(1). 24–24.

McGowan, Victoria, et al.. (2024). “Power, control, strain”: Lay perceptions of health inequalities across England's ‘North South divide’. Social Science & Medicine. 355. 117089–117089. 5 indexed citations

McGowan, Victoria, et al.. (2024). “They're not mentally ill, their lives are just shit”: Stakeholders' understanding of deaths of despair in a deindustrialised community in North East England. Health & Place. 90. 103346–103346. 8 indexed citations

McGowan, Victoria, et al.. (2024). The Mental Health Impacts of Fuel Poverty: A Global Scoping Review. International Journal of Public Health. 69. 1607459–1607459. 1 indexed citations

Popay, Jennie, Emma Halliday, Rebecca Mead, et al.. (2023). Investigating health and social outcomes of the Big Local community empowerment initiative in England: a mixed method evaluation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11(9). 1–147. 4 indexed citations

Ronzi, Sara, et al.. (2023). Intersectionality and public understandings of health inequity in England: learning from the views and experiences of young adults. Public Health. 222. 147–153. 3 indexed citations

McGowan, Victoria, et al.. (2023). OP127 Lay perceptions of health inequalities across England’s North-South divide: a qualitative pilot study. A123.2–A124. 1 indexed citations

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Salway, Sarah, Victoria McGowan, Sara Ronzi, et al.. (2023). Can White allyship contribute to tackling ethnic inequalities in health? Reflections on the experiences of diverse young adults in England. Critical Public Health. 33(4). 421–433. 3 indexed citations

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Scott, Stephanie, et al.. (2023). ‘How I'm feeling today, I probably won't be feeling tomorrow’. Using I-Poems to explore young people's changing emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic – A qualitative, longitudinal study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 100239–100239. 7 indexed citations

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McGowan, Victoria & Clare Bambra. (2022). COVID-19 mortality and deprivation: pandemic, syndemic, and endemic health inequalities. The Lancet Public Health. 7(11). e966–e975. 140 indexed citations breakdown →

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McGowan, Victoria, Jack M Birch, Isla Kuhn, et al.. (2022). Levelling up health: A practical, evidence-based framework for reducing health inequalities. Public Health in Practice. 4. 100322–100322. 20 indexed citations

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Scott, Stephanie, Victoria McGowan, Josephine M. Wildman, et al.. (2022). COVID-19 and the role of Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprises in northern England in responding to the needs of marginalised communities: a qualitative focus group study. The Lancet. 400. S78–S78. 1 indexed citations

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McGowan, Victoria, Rebecca Mead, Elizabeth McGill, et al.. (2021). Examining the effectiveness of place-based interventions to improve public health and reduce health inequalities: an umbrella review. BMC Public Health. 21(1). 1888–1888. 71 indexed citations

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McGowan, Victoria, et al.. (2021). Life under COVID-19 for LGBT+ people in the UK: systematic review of UK research on the impact of COVID-19 on sexual and gender minority populations. BMJ Open. 11(7). e050092–e050092. 28 indexed citations

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Salway, Sarah, Daniel Holman, Caroline Lee, et al.. (2020). Transforming the health system for the UK’s multiethnic population. BMJ. 368. m268–m268. 31 indexed citations

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Hillier-Brown, Frances, Katie Thomson, Victoria McGowan, et al.. (2019). The effects of social protection policies on health inequalities: Evidence from systematic reviews. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 47(6). 655–665. 37 indexed citations

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Roberts, Katharine, et al.. (2017). A rapid review examining purchasing changes resulting from fiscal measures targeted at high sugar foods and sugar-sweetened drinks. Nutrition and Diabetes. 7(12). 302–302. 5 indexed citations

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Babl, Franz E, et al.. (2006). Development and implementation of an education and credentialing programme to provide safe paediatric procedural sedation in emergency departments. Emergency Medicine Australasia. 18(5-6). 489–497. 18 indexed citations

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