Young‐Ho Khang

207.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
166 papers, 11.2k citations indexed

About

Young‐Ho Khang is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Young‐Ho Khang has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 11.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in General Health Professions, 76 papers in Health and 40 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Young‐Ho Khang's work include Health disparities and outcomes (75 papers), Global Health Care Issues (47 papers) and Health and Wellbeing Research (36 papers). Young‐Ho Khang is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (75 papers), Global Health Care Issues (47 papers) and Health and Wellbeing Research (36 papers). Young‐Ho Khang collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, Canada and Puerto Rico. Young‐Ho Khang's co-authors include Yoonjung Kim, Hong‐Jun Cho, Melanie Cowan, Farshad Farzadfar, Majid Ezzati, Chaemin Chun, Kyungwon Oh, Sung‐Cheol Yun, John Lynch and Leanne M Riley and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Circulation and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Young‐Ho Khang

160 papers receiving 10.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

National, regional, and global trends in fasting plasma glucose and diabetes prevalence since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 370 country-years and 2·7 million participants

2011 2.8k citations Young‐Ho Khang et al. profile →
Data Resource Profile: The Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES)

2014 1.7k citations Sun‐Seog Kweon, Yoonjung Kim et al. International Journal of Epidemiology profile →
Data Resource Profile: The National Health Information Database of the National Health Insurance Service in South Korea

2016 1.0k citations Yeon-Yong Kim, Young‐Ho Khang et al. International Journal of Epidemiology profile →
Cohort profile: the National Health Insurance Service-National Health Screening Cohort (NHIS-HEALS) in Korea

2017 615 citations Yeon-Yong Kim, Young‐Ho Khang et al. profile →
Inequalities in non-communicable diseases and effective responses

2013 478 citations Young‐Ho Khang, John Lynch et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Young‐Ho Khang South Korea	39	2.6k	2.1k	1.9k	1.7k	1.6k	166	11.2k
Keith C. Norris United States	69	2.4k 0.9×	2.4k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	883 0.5×	464	16.5k
Martin Gulliford United Kingdom	61	3.5k 1.3×	2.6k 1.2×	1.7k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	646 0.4×	319	14.8k
Henrique Barros Portugal	52	1.7k 0.7×	3.0k 1.4×	853 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	596	13.3k
James S. Goodwin United States	83	3.7k 1.4×	2.6k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	2.3k 1.3×	1.5k 0.9×	442	24.7k
Emily Banks Australia	54	1.3k 0.5×	2.3k 1.1×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	301	11.1k
Anna Peeters Australia	51	2.1k 0.8×	4.7k 2.2×	1.4k 0.8×	2.2k 1.3×	802 0.5×	318	10.9k
Farshad Farzadfar Iran	43	1.6k 0.6×	2.6k 1.2×	2.4k 1.2×	1.4k 0.8×	522 0.3×	303	11.4k
Gita D. Mishra Australia	62	1.9k 0.7×	5.7k 2.7×	2.2k 1.1×	2.3k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	375	14.1k
Arpo Aromaa Finland	69	2.3k 0.9×	2.3k 1.1×	992 0.5×	1.8k 1.0×	730 0.4×	181	14.7k
Latha Palaniappan United States	47	1.7k 0.6×	2.2k 1.0×	2.7k 1.4×	1.3k 0.8×	709 0.4×	221	9.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Young‐Ho Khang

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Kim, Yu‐Mi, Sungchul Park, Kyung Ja June, et al.. (2025). A comparison of the outcomes of families with children aged less than 2 who received universal versus sustained nurse home visiting services in Korea: a cross-sectional study. Epidemiology and Health. 47. e2025004–e2025004.

Khang, Young‐Ho, Yu‐Mi Kim, Ji Yun Lee, et al.. (2025). Maternal Satisfaction With Universal Postnatal Nurse Home Visiting Services and Its Covariates: A Cross-Sectional Survey of 22,040 Mothers With Young Children in Seoul, Korea. Journal of Korean Medical Science. 40(45). e296–e296.

Bahk, Jinwook, Hee‐Yeon Kang, & Young‐Ho Khang. (2020). Life Expectancy and Inequalities Therein by Income From 2016 to 2018 Across the 253 Electoral Constituencies of the National Assembly of the Korea. Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. 53(2). 143–148. 3 indexed citations

Khang, Young‐Ho, et al.. (2020). Different Family Policies and Gendered Trajectory of Self-Rated Health: Comparison of the Middle-Aged Adults in Denmark, Germany, and South Korea. Health and Social Welfare Review. 40(4). 12–49. 2 indexed citations

Lim, Hwa Kyung, et al.. (2020). Spatio-temporal Analysis of District-level Life Expectancy from 2004 to 2017 in Korea. Journal of Korean Medical Science. 36(2). e8–e8. 6 indexed citations

Lee, Sun Young, Young‐Ho Khang, & Hwa Kyung Lim. (2019). Impact of the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Outbreak on Emergency Care Utilization and Mortality in South Korea. Yonsei Medical Journal. 60(8). 796–796. 74 indexed citations

Bahk, Jinwook, Yeon-Yong Kim, Hee‐Yeon Kang, et al.. (2018). Comparison of District-level Smoking Prevalence and Their Income Gaps from Two National Databases: the National Health Screening Database and the Community Health Survey in Korea, 2009–2014. Journal of Korean Medical Science. 33(6). e44–e44. 7 indexed citations

Bahk, Jinwook, Yeon-Yong Kim, Hee‐Yeon Kang, et al.. (2017). Using the National Health Information Database of the National Health Insurance Service in Korea for Monitoring Mortality and Life Expectancy at National and Local Levels. Journal of Korean Medical Science. 32(11). 1764–1764. 43 indexed citations

Bahk, Jinwook, Yeon-Yong Kim, Hee‐Yeon Kang, et al.. (2017). Prevalence of Overweight and Income Gaps in 245 Districts of Korea: Comparison Using the National Health Screening Database and the Community Health Survey, 2009–2014. Journal of Korean Medical Science. 33(1). e3–e3. 6 indexed citations

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Kim, Yoonjung, Sunhye Choi, Chaemin Chun, et al.. (2016). Data Resource Profile: The Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey (KYRBS). International Journal of Epidemiology. 45(4). dyw070–dyw070. 178 indexed citations

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Kweon, Sun‐Seog, Yoonjung Kim, Minyoung Jang, et al.. (2014). Data Resource Profile: The Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES). International Journal of Epidemiology. 43(1). 69–77. 1690 indexed citations breakdown →

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Khang, Young‐Ho. (2014). Differences in Life Expectancy at Birth by Income and Age- and Cause-Specific Contributions: Findings from 8-Year Mortality Follow-Up Data of Nationally Representative One Million South Koreans. 1 indexed citations

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Khang, Young‐Ho & Hye Ryun Kim. (2006). [Socioeconomic mortality inequality in Korea: mortality follow-up of the 1998 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data].. PubMed. 39(2). 115–22. 29 indexed citations

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Khang, Young‐Ho, John Lynch, & George A. Kaplan. (2005). Impact of economic crisis on cause-specific mortality in South Korea. International Journal of Epidemiology. 34(6). 1291–1301. 152 indexed citations

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Khang, Young‐Ho, et al.. (2002). Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Hyperlipidemia Mass Screening Program in Korea. Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. 35(2). 99–106. 3 indexed citations

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Khang, Young‐Ho, et al.. (2001). Relationship between Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty Volume and Associated Immediate Outcome. Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. 34(1). 9–20. 2 indexed citations

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Lee, Sangil, et al.. (2001). Inter-hospital Comparison of Cesarean Section Rates after Risk Adjustment. Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. 34(4). 337–346. 5 indexed citations

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Kim, Chang‐Yup, Kun Sei Lee, Young‐Ho Khang, et al.. (2000). Health Behaviors Related to Hypertension in Rural Population of Korea. Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. 33(1). 56–68. 14 indexed citations

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Lee, Sang Il, et al.. (1999). Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Korea : Prevalence, Pattern of Use, and Out-of-pocket Expenditures. Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. 32(4). 546–555. 29 indexed citations

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Khang, Young‐Ho, et al.. (1998). An Application of Delphi Method to the Assessment of Current Status of Cancer Research. Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. 31(4). 844–856. 7 indexed citations

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