Zipporah Ali

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 673 citations indexed

About

Zipporah Ali is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Zipporah Ali has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 673 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 19 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 11 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Zipporah Ali's work include Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (26 papers), Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (12 papers) and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (7 papers). Zipporah Ali is often cited by papers focused on Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (26 papers), Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (12 papers) and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (7 papers). Zipporah Ali collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Kenya. Zipporah Ali's co-authors include Richard Harding, Nancy Gikaara, Irene J Higginson, Lucy Selman, Anne Merriman, Eve Namisango, Richard A. Powell, Faith Mwangi-Powell, Julia Downing and Liz Gwyther and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, The Lancet Oncology and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Zipporah Ali

38 papers receiving 652 citations

Hit Papers

Palliative Care for Patients With Cancer: ASCO Guideline ... 2024 2026 2025 2024 25 50 75
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. Palliative Care for Patients With Cancer: ASCO Guideline Update
    2024 75 citations Zipporah Ali, James F. Cleary et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zipporah Ali United Kingdom 15 446 219 167 128 120 41 673
Elizabeth Namukwaya Uganda 15 384 0.9× 137 0.6× 80 0.5× 143 1.1× 123 1.0× 42 573
John Y. Rhee United States 14 450 1.0× 156 0.7× 58 0.3× 104 0.8× 122 1.0× 49 644
Afsan Bhadelia United States 12 451 1.0× 125 0.6× 150 0.9× 152 1.2× 172 1.4× 30 744
Julia Challinor United States 15 332 0.7× 394 1.8× 243 1.5× 60 0.5× 125 1.0× 51 735
Anne Merriman Uganda 10 282 0.6× 143 0.7× 63 0.4× 94 0.7× 66 0.6× 24 419
Karen Lim Singapore 6 373 0.8× 284 1.3× 131 0.8× 116 0.9× 84 0.7× 15 982
Nora Sporn United States 8 157 0.4× 92 0.4× 174 1.0× 91 0.7× 261 2.2× 15 662
Cecilia Sepúlveda Switzerland 8 754 1.7× 295 1.3× 298 1.8× 199 1.6× 222 1.9× 11 1.1k
Qingling Du United States 14 736 1.7× 283 1.3× 95 0.6× 218 1.7× 409 3.4× 20 975
Avinash K. Sunny Nepal 14 120 0.3× 385 1.8× 61 0.4× 101 0.8× 128 1.1× 30 699

Countries citing papers authored by Zipporah Ali

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zipporah Ali

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zipporah Ali

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zipporah Ali. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zipporah Ali based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Zipporah Ali. Zipporah Ali is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Shafiq, Yasir, Zipporah Ali, Zamir Suhag, et al.. (2025). Toward Resilient Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Care: A Qualitative Study Involving Afghan Refugee Women in Pakistan. Health Services Insights. 18. 2678216205–2678216205. 1 indexed citations
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Downing, Julia, et al.. (2025). Children’s palliative care and public health: position statement. BMC Palliative Care. 24(1). 89–89.
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Namisango, Eve, et al.. (2024). Creating the evidence base for palliative care in cancer – models and strategies to build research capacity. ecancermedicalscience. 18. 1819–1819. 1 indexed citations
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Luyirika, Emmanuel, et al.. (2024). Measuring palliative care integration in Malawi through service provision, access, and training indicators: the Waterloo Coalition Initiative. BMC Palliative Care. 23(1). 17–17. 4 indexed citations
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Ali, Zipporah, et al.. (2023). An analysis of survivorship care strategies in national cancer control plans in Africa. Journal of Cancer Survivorship. 17(3). 634–645. 6 indexed citations
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Luyirika, Emmanuel, et al.. (2021). Progress Update: Palliative Care Development Between 2017 and 2020 in Five African Countries. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 63(5). 729–736. 22 indexed citations
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Lombe, Dorothy, Richard Sullivan, Carlo Caduff, et al.. (2021). Silver linings: a qualitative study of desirable changes to cancer care during the COVID-19 pandemic. ecancermedicalscience. 15. 1202–1202. 10 indexed citations
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Namisango, Eve, Katherine Bristowe, Fliss EM Murtagh, et al.. (2020). Towards person-centred quality care for children with life-limiting and life-threatening illness: Self-reported symptoms, concerns and priority outcomes from a multi-country qualitative study. Palliative Medicine. 34(3). 319–335. 20 indexed citations
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Silva, Debra de, et al.. (2018). Increasing access to palliative care in Kenya’s former provincial and Level 5 hospitals: A seven-year study. East African Medical Journal. 95(2). 1 indexed citations
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Harding, Richard, Victoria Simms, Aabid Ahmed, et al.. (2018). Active ingredients of a person-centred intervention for people on HIV treatment: analysis of mixed methods trial data. BMC Infectious Diseases. 18(1). 27–27. 13 indexed citations
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Ali, Zipporah. (2016). Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care association: integrating palliative care in public hospitals in Kenya. ecancermedicalscience. 10. 655–655. 13 indexed citations
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Ali, Zipporah, et al.. (2016). Integration of legal aspects and human rights approach in palliative care delivery—The Nyeri hospice model. ecancermedicalscience. 10. 656–656. 3 indexed citations
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Powell, Richard A., Zipporah Ali, Emmanuel Luyirika, et al.. (2015). Out of the shadows: non-communicable diseases and palliative care in Africa. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. 7(2). 128–132. 24 indexed citations
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Powell, Richard A., Faith Mwangi-Powell, Lukas Radbruch, et al.. (2015). Putting palliative care on the global health agenda. The Lancet Oncology. 16(2). 131–133. 24 indexed citations
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Harding, Richard, Richard A. Powell, Eve Namisango, et al.. (2014). Palliative care-related self-report problems among cancer patients in East Africa: a two-country study. Supportive Care in Cancer. 22(12). 3185–3192. 18 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Megan, et al.. (2013). Improving access to analgesic drugs for patients with cancer in sub-Saharan Africa. The Lancet Oncology. 14(4). e176–e182. 50 indexed citations
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Malloy, Pam, Judith A. Paice, Betty Ferrell, et al.. (2010). Advancing Palliative Care in Kenya. Cancer Nursing. 34(1). E10–E13. 16 indexed citations

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