Willard Cates

13.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
188 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Willard Cates is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Willard Cates has authored 188 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 46 papers in General Health Professions and 37 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Willard Cates's work include Reproductive Health and Contraception (76 papers), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (35 papers) and Reproductive tract infections research (31 papers). Willard Cates is often cited by papers focused on Reproductive Health and Contraception (76 papers), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (35 papers) and Reproductive tract infections research (31 papers). Willard Cates collaborates with scholars based in United States, Kenya and United Kingdom. Willard Cates's co-authors include Hillard Weinstock, Stuart M. Berman, Judith N. Wasserheit, David A. Grimes, Myron S. Cohen, Arlene C. Seña, Rachel A. Royce, Katherine M. Stone, Sevgi O. Aral and Kenneth F. Schulz and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Willard Cates

181 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among American Youth: In... 1991 2026 2002 2014 2004 2004 1997 1991 250 500 750 1000

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Willard Cates United States 41 3.7k 2.7k 2.5k 2.5k 2.4k 188 9.4k
Kaye Wellings United Kingdom 52 5.0k 1.4× 1.7k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 2.0k 0.8× 2.3k 0.9× 229 11.1k
Catherine H Mercer United Kingdom 48 4.3k 1.2× 1.9k 0.7× 1.6k 0.6× 2.1k 0.9× 1.6k 0.6× 310 9.9k
James Kiarie United States 45 3.4k 0.9× 3.2k 1.2× 2.4k 0.9× 4.6k 1.9× 1.5k 0.6× 251 9.0k
Marleen Temmerman Belgium 44 2.5k 0.7× 2.5k 0.9× 2.7k 1.1× 1.1k 0.5× 2.0k 0.8× 185 11.1k
J. Dennis Fortenberry United States 58 5.2k 1.4× 2.9k 1.1× 1.8k 0.7× 2.9k 1.2× 1.8k 0.7× 381 12.6k
Stuart M. Berman United States 40 3.4k 0.9× 3.2k 1.2× 3.8k 1.5× 1.6k 0.7× 1.4k 0.6× 95 9.1k
Helen Rees South Africa 54 4.3k 1.2× 2.7k 1.0× 1.2k 0.5× 4.8k 1.9× 1.6k 0.6× 242 9.2k
Jim Todd United Kingdom 56 3.0k 0.8× 3.0k 1.1× 1.4k 0.6× 4.1k 1.7× 2.2k 0.9× 362 10.7k
Nancy Padian United States 56 6.0k 1.6× 3.5k 1.3× 1.9k 0.8× 6.1k 2.5× 1.4k 0.6× 240 12.0k
Judith N. Wasserheit United States 37 3.3k 0.9× 2.7k 1.0× 3.2k 1.3× 2.9k 1.2× 1.6k 0.7× 93 8.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Willard Cates

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Fields of papers citing papers by Willard Cates

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Willard Cates

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schulz, Kenneth F., David A. Grimes, & Willard Cates. (2021). The Public Health Impact of Legal Abortion: 30 Years Later. UNC Libraries.
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Cates, Willard. (1999). Chlamydial Infections and the Risk of Ectopic Pregnancy. JAMA. 281(2). 117–117. 10 indexed citations
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Cates, Willard. (1996). The dual goals of reproductive health.. PubMed. 16(3). 3 p–3 p. 2 indexed citations
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Cates, Willard & Holmes Kk. (1996). Re: condom efficacy against gonorrhea and nongonococcal urethritis [letter]. American Journal of Epidemiology. 143(8). 2 indexed citations
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Cates, Willard, et al.. (1995). Justice Blackmun and legal abortion--a besieged legacy to women's reproductive health.. American Journal of Public Health. 85(9). 1204–1206. 4 indexed citations
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Chutivongse, Supawat, et al.. (1995). Tubal infertility: serologic relationship to past chlamydial and gonococcal infection. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 22(2). 71–77. 75 indexed citations
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Hillis, Susan D., Riduan M. Joesoef, Polly A. Marchbanks, et al.. (1993). Delayed care of pelvic inflammatory disease as a risk factor for impaired fertility. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 168(5). 1503–1509. 210 indexed citations
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Cates, Willard & Judith N. Wasserheit. (1991). Genital chlamydial infections: Epidemiology and reproductive sequelae. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 164(6). 1771–1781. 437 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cates, Willard, et al.. (1990). Partner Notification and Confidentiality of the Index Patient. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 17(2). 113–113. 14 indexed citations
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Wallach, Edward E., Thomas A. Peterman, Willard Cates, & James W. Curran. (1988). The challenge of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in women and children. Fertility and Sterility. 49(4). 571–581. 11 indexed citations
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Binkin, Nancy, Julian Gold, & Willard Cates. (1982). Illegal-Abortion Deaths in the United States: Why Are They Still Occurring?. Family Planning Perspectives. 14(3). 163–163. 11 indexed citations
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Cates, Willard. (1982). “Abortion myths and realities”: Who is misleading whom?. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 142(8). 954–956. 4 indexed citations
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Cates, Willard. (1981). The Hyde Amendment in Action. JAMA. 246(10). 1109–1109. 12 indexed citations
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Da, Grimes, et al.. (1981). Fatal septic abortion in the United States, 1975-1977.. PubMed. 57(6). 739–44. 19 indexed citations
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Cates, Willard. (1979). Late effects of induced abortion. Hypothesis or knowledge?. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 22(4). 207–12. 19 indexed citations
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Cates, Willard, Ann Marie Kimball, Jeffrey A. Gold, et al.. (1979). The health impact of restricting public funds for abortion. October 10, 1977--June 10, 1978.. American Journal of Public Health. 69(9). 945–947. 8 indexed citations
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Cates, Willard & Christopher Tietze. (1978). Standardized Mortality Rates Associated with Legal Abortion: United States, 1972-1975. Family Planning Perspectives. 10(2). 109–109. 12 indexed citations
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Petitti, D B & Willard Cates. (1977). Restricting medicaid funds for abortions: projections of excess mortality for women for childbearing age.. American Journal of Public Health. 67(9). 860–862. 10 indexed citations
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Da, Grimes, et al.. (1977). Midtrimester abortion by intraamniotic prostaglandin F2alpha. Safer than saline?. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 49(5). 612–6. 14 indexed citations
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Cates, Willard, et al.. (1976). Trends in national abortion mortality, United States, 1940-1974: implications for prevention of future abortion deaths.. PubMed. 11(3). 106–13. 12 indexed citations

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