William C. Hsiao

11.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
84 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

William C. Hsiao is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, William C. Hsiao has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in General Health Professions, 54 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 49 papers in Finance. Recurrent topics in William C. Hsiao's work include Healthcare Policy and Management (52 papers), Healthcare Systems and Reforms (49 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (34 papers). William C. Hsiao is often cited by papers focused on Healthcare Policy and Management (52 papers), Healthcare Systems and Reforms (49 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (34 papers). William C. Hsiao collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. William C. Hsiao's co-authors include Winnie Yip, Wen Chen, Jui-fen Rachel Lu, David Blumenthal, Shanlian Hu, Alan Maynard, Jin Ma, Yuanli Liu, Edmund R. Becker and Peter Braun and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

William C. Hsiao

82 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

Early appraisal of China's huge and complex health-care r... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2014 250 500 750
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. Early appraisal of China's huge and complex health-care reforms
    2012 913 citations Winnie Yip, William C. Hsiao et al. The Lancet profile →
  2. Harnessing the privatisation of China's fragmented health-care delivery
    2014 290 citations Winnie Yip, William C. Hsiao The Lancet profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William C. Hsiao United States 46 4.3k 4.0k 3.5k 2.2k 614 84 7.8k
Winnie Yip United States 37 4.1k 1.0× 4.3k 1.1× 3.0k 0.9× 2.0k 0.9× 1.1k 1.7× 106 7.5k
Qingyue Meng China 41 2.9k 0.7× 2.9k 0.7× 2.0k 0.6× 1.4k 0.6× 781 1.3× 147 5.8k
Di McIntyre South Africa 41 3.4k 0.8× 2.9k 0.7× 1.9k 0.6× 3.2k 1.4× 454 0.7× 138 6.9k
Owen O’Donnell Netherlands 36 4.0k 0.9× 2.9k 0.7× 1.4k 0.4× 2.7k 1.2× 1.6k 2.5× 112 7.0k
Magnus Lindelöw United States 25 3.0k 0.7× 3.1k 0.8× 1.5k 0.4× 2.5k 1.1× 650 1.1× 72 5.4k
Barbara McPake United Kingdom 37 2.3k 0.5× 1.8k 0.5× 1.8k 0.5× 2.3k 1.0× 425 0.7× 171 5.5k
Shenglan Tang China 39 2.0k 0.5× 2.1k 0.5× 1.2k 0.3× 1.7k 0.8× 573 0.9× 133 4.8k
Margaret E. Kruk United States 60 3.9k 0.9× 2.7k 0.7× 2.3k 0.6× 5.8k 2.6× 647 1.1× 202 11.6k
Dina Balabanova United Kingdom 39 2.0k 0.5× 1.3k 0.3× 1.2k 0.3× 1.4k 0.6× 413 0.7× 167 4.6k
Ole Frithjof Norheim Norway 37 2.0k 0.5× 774 0.2× 1.8k 0.5× 1.4k 0.6× 498 0.8× 215 4.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hsiao, William C.. (2023). Comments on Abdo Yazbeck et al. paper: Contributory health insurance. Social Science & Medicine. 320. 115763–115763. 1 indexed citations
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Hsiao, William C. & Winnie Yip. (2023). Financing and provision of healthcare for two billion people in low-income nations: Is the cooperative healthcare model a solution?. Social Science & Medicine. 345. 115730–115730. 8 indexed citations
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Hsiao, William C., Ma’n H. Zawati, Emma Griffiths, et al.. (2023). Opinions matter: public opinions on data-sharing and how they can shape pathogen genomic surveillance in Canada. Population Medicine. 5(Supplement).
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Hsiao, William C.. (2019). Taiwan’s path to universal health coverage—an essay by William C Hsiao. BMJ. 367. l5979–l5979. 6 indexed citations
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Blumenthal, David & William C. Hsiao. (2015). Lessons from the East — China's Rapidly Evolving Health Care System. New England Journal of Medicine. 372(14). 1281–1285. 156 indexed citations
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Hsiao, William C.. (2011). State-Based Single-Payer Health Care — A Solution for the United States?. New England Journal of Medicine. 364(13). 1188–1190. 5 indexed citations
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Yip, Winnie, William C. Hsiao, Qingyue Meng, Wen Chen, & Xiaoming Sun. (2010). Realignment of incentives for health-care providers in China. The Lancet. 375(9720). 1120–1130. 316 indexed citations
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Shen, Xiaoming, David Zakus, Zhengmin Xu, et al.. (2009). Development of an Effective Public Health Screening Program to Assess Hearing Disabilities among Newborns in Shanghai: A Prospective Cohort Study. World health & population. 11(4). 5–14. 9 indexed citations
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Wang, Hongmei, et al.. (2008). The flip-side of social capital: The distinctive influences of trust and mistrust on health in rural China. Social Science & Medicine. 68(1). 133–142. 80 indexed citations
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Wang, Hong, Licheng Zhang, & William C. Hsiao. (2005). Ill health and its potential influence on household consumptions in rural China. Health Policy. 78(2-3). 167–177. 66 indexed citations
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Wang, Hong, Winnie Yip, Licheng Zhang, Lusheng Wang, & William C. Hsiao. (2005). Community-based health insurance in poor rural China: the distribution of net benefits. Health Policy and Planning. 20(6). 366–374. 132 indexed citations
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Zhang, Licheng, et al.. (2005). Social capital and farmer's willingness-to-join a newly established community-based health insurance in rural China. Health Policy. 76(2). 233–242. 107 indexed citations
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Hanson, Kara, Winnie Yip, & William C. Hsiao. (2004). The impact of quality on the demand for outpatient services in Cyprus. Health Economics. 13(12). 1167–1180. 37 indexed citations
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Preker, Alexander S., et al.. (2002). Effectiveness of Community Health Financing in Meeting the Cost of Illness. LSHTM Research Online (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Yuanli, William C. Hsiao, & Karen Eggleston. (1999). Equity in health and health care: the Chinese experience. Social Science & Medicine. 49(10). 1349–1356. 212 indexed citations
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Liu, Yuanli, Shanlian Hu, Wei Fu, & William C. Hsiao. (1996). Is community financing necessary and feasible for rural China?. Health Policy. 38(3). 155–171. 37 indexed citations
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Liu, Xingzhu & William C. Hsiao. (1995). The cost escalation of social health insurance plans in China: Its implication for public policy. Social Science & Medicine. 41(8). 1095–1101. 71 indexed citations
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Hsiao, William C.. (1995). The Chinese health care system: Lessons for other nations. Social Science & Medicine. 41(8). 1047–1055. 223 indexed citations
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Hsiao, William C.. (1994). ‘Marketization’—the illusory magic pill. Health Economics. 3(6). 351–357. 53 indexed citations
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Hsiao, William C., Peter Braun, Douwe B. Yntema, & Edmund R. Becker. (1988). Estimating Physicians' Work for a Resource-Based Relative-Value Scale. New England Journal of Medicine. 319(13). 835–841. 298 indexed citations

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