Yara Asi

682 total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 365 citations indexed

About

Yara Asi is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yara Asi has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 365 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in General Health Professions, 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Yara Asi's work include Health and Conflict Studies (9 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (7 papers) and Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 papers). Yara Asi is often cited by papers focused on Health and Conflict Studies (9 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (7 papers) and Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 papers). Yara Asi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Palestinian Territory and Lebanon. Yara Asi's co-authors include Cynthia Williams, Bram Wispelwey, Weeam Hammoudeh, David Mills, Lynn Unruh, Dennis Kunichoff, P. Gregg Greenough, Sawsan Abdulrahim, Xinliang Liu and Jamon Van Den Hoek and has published in prestigious journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Social Issues and Quality of Life Research.

In The Last Decade

Yara Asi

28 papers receiving 357 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.

‘Nowhere and no one is safe’: spatial analysis of damage to critical civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip during the first phase of the Israeli military campaign, 7 October to 22 November 2023

2024 40 citations Yara Asi, David L. Mills et al. Conflict and Health profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yara Asi United States	11	160	73	63	44	33	31	365
Joshua G. Kellison United States	2	119 0.7×	111 1.5×	61 1.0×	50 1.1×	25 0.8×	2	402
Hina Khalid United States	7	118 0.7×	60 0.8×	31 0.5×	43 1.0×	33 1.0×	14	368
Heshmatollah Asadi Iran	11	159 1.0×	60 0.8×	40 0.6×	47 1.1×	23 0.7×	37	365
Kor Grit Netherlands	10	217 1.4×	62 0.8×	43 0.7×	44 1.0×	46 1.4×	20	403
Fereshteh Farzianpour Iran	14	182 1.1×	39 0.5×	48 0.8×	134 3.0×	49 1.5×	70	486
Silvia Rossi Italy	12	193 1.2×	45 0.6×	40 0.6×	76 1.7×	16 0.5×	31	570
Lisa Richardson Canada	14	175 1.1×	68 0.9×	39 0.6×	154 3.5×	35 1.1×	32	501
Kristina L. Guo United States	14	139 0.9×	87 1.2×	34 0.5×	53 1.2×	26 0.8×	32	407
Benjamin J. Ryan United States	11	102 0.6×	96 1.3×	51 0.8×	27 0.6×	30 0.9×	39	382
Natalie Forster United Kingdom	11	193 1.2×	58 0.8×	36 0.6×	64 1.5×	28 0.8×	25	382

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yara Asi

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Abdulrahim, Sawsan, Dennis Kunichoff, Yara Asi, et al.. (2025). Structural racism and diminished health returns on education among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Social Science & Medicine. 367. 117710–117710.

Wispelwey, Bram, et al.. (2025). Food insecurity, starvation and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 31(4). 281–284. 3 indexed citations

Mills, David, et al.. (2025). Antimicrobial resistance in a protracted war setting: a review of the literature from Palestine. mSystems. 10(6). e0167924–e0167924. 1 indexed citations

Asi, Yara, et al.. (2024). Assessing the Universality of Universal Health Coverage: Israel and the Occupation of Palestine. 1(2). 343–362.

Asi, Yara, et al.. (2024). Racism as a Threat to Palestinian Health Equity. Health Equity. 8(1). 371–375. 3 indexed citations

Andraka‐Christou, Barbara, et al.. (2024). Impact of COVID-19 on Florida family dependency drug courts. Health & Justice. 12(1). 4–4. 1 indexed citations

Kunichoff, Dennis, David Mills, Yara Asi, et al.. (2024). Are hospitals collateral damage? Assessing geospatial proximity of 2000 lb bomb detonations to hospital facilities in the Gaza Strip from October 7 to November 17, 2023. PLOS Global Public Health. 4(10). e0003178–e0003178. 16 indexed citations

Mills, David, et al.. (2024). Social medicine education towards structural transformation in Palestine. Social Science & Medicine. 361. 117332–117332. 1 indexed citations

Asi, Yara, David L. Mills, P. Gregg Greenough, et al.. (2024). ‘Nowhere and no one is safe’: spatial analysis of damage to critical civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip during the first phase of the Israeli military campaign, 7 October to 22 November 2023. Conflict and Health. 18(1). 24–24. 40 indexed citations breakdown →

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Asi, Yara, et al.. (2024). Rethinking and advancing the movement of resistance, activism, and advocacy in health in four central arenas of the Middle East Region. World Medical & Health Policy. 16(4). 692–708. 3 indexed citations

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Asi, Yara, et al.. (2023). Structural racism and the health of Palestinian citizens of Israel. Global Public Health. 18(1). 2214608–2214608. 11 indexed citations

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Wispelwey, Bram, et al.. (2023). Because its power remains naturalized: introducing the settler colonial determinants of health. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1137428–1137428. 38 indexed citations

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Miller, Simon, et al.. (2022). State Accountability for the Good Health of Palestinians Has Failed: What Can the Global Health Community Do Next?. PubMed. 24(1). 77–84. 7 indexed citations

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Asi, Yara, Emily Hardy, Michelle Lokot, et al.. (2022). Assessing gender responsiveness of COVID-19 response plans for populations in conflict-affected humanitarian emergencies. Conflict and Health. 16(1). 4–4. 9 indexed citations

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Asi, Yara. (2020). Achieving Food Security Through Localisation, Not Aid: “De-development” and Food Sovereignty in the Palestinian Territories. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development. 15(2). 205–218. 9 indexed citations

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Unruh, Lynn & Yara Asi. (2018). Determinants of Workplace Injuries and Violence Among Newly Licensed RNs. Workplace Health & Safety. 66(10). 482–492. 12 indexed citations

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Asi, Yara, Lynn Unruh, & Xinliang Liu. (2018). Conflict and well-being: a comparative study of health-related quality of life, stress, and insecurity of university students in the West Bank and Jordan. Quality of Life Research. 27(5). 1381–1391. 11 indexed citations

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Asi, Yara & Cynthia Williams. (2017). The role of digital health in making progress toward Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 in conflict-affected populations. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 114. 114–120. 106 indexed citations

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Asi, Yara, Lynn Unruh, & Xinliang Liu. (2016). Life under occupation: citizenship and other factors influencing the well-being of university students living in the West Bank. Medicine Conflict & Survival. 32(2). 112–137. 2 indexed citations

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Williams, Cynthia, et al.. (2015). The effect of information technology on hospital performance. Health Care Management Science. 19(4). 338–346. 37 indexed citations

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