BMC Public Health

Papers
(The H4-Index of BMC Public Health is 67. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Examining if changes in gender-specific and co-ed intramural programs affect youth physical activity over time: a natural experiment evaluation using school- and student-level data from the COMPASS st360
Psychometric property and measurement invariance of internet addiction test: the effect of socio-demographic and internet use variables342
A tryst of ‘blood pressure control- sex- comorbidities’: the odyssey of basic public health services in Yunnan in quest for truth299
Cost-effectiveness of edaravone dexborneol versus dl-3-n-butylphthalide for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke: a Chinese health care perspective290
Household factors and prevalence of squalor: meta-analysis and meta-regression253
How service delivery implementation strategies can contribute to attaining universal health coverage: lessons from polio eradication using an implementation science approach203
Linkages between the Sustainable Development Goals and health in Somalia201
The significant places of African American adults and their perceived influence on cardiovascular disease risk behaviors190
Sickle cell trait in São Tomé e Príncipe: a population-based prevalence study in women of reproductive age182
School completion and progression to higher education in adolescents with social anxiety: a linkage between Young-HUNT3 and national educational data (2008–2019), Norway166
Adolescents’ understanding of the Nepalese version of HLS-CHILD-Q15: qualitative pre-testing in ninth-graders164
Benzodiazepine use in medical cannabis authorization adult patients from 2013 to 2021: Alberta, Canada157
Synergistic associations of antenatal care visits and iron-folic acid supplementation with low birth weight: a pooled analysis of national surveys from six south Asian countries147
Inequality in health opportunities in Indonesia: long-term influence of early-life circumstances on health137
Survey on health literacy and related factors among firefighters of emergency management departments in Southwest China136
Examining the secondary impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on syndemic production and PrEP use among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBM) in Vancouver, Canada136
Social responsibility perspective in public response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a grounded theory approach134
HIV stigma in the teaching hospitals in Sana’a, Yemen: a conflict and low-resource setting129
Diagnosis experiences from 50 hepatitis B patients in Chongqing, China: a qualitative study126
Developmental trajectories of tobacco use and risk factors from adolescence to emerging young adulthood: a population-based panel study126
Perceptions of employees with a low and medium level of education towards workplace health promotion programmes: a mixed-methods study121
Adult abuse and poor prognosis in Taiwan, 2000–2015: a cohort study117
Establishment of dynamic nomogram and risk score models for T2DM: a retrospective cohort study in Beijing113
School nurses’ experience of communicating growth data and weight development to parents of children 8 and 10 years of age110
Partner notification service utilization and associated factors among clients attending anti-retroviral therapy clinics of public health facilities in Gimbi Town, West Ethiopia, 2023: a facility-based109
Municipal community centers as healthy settings: evaluation of a real-world health promotion intervention in Jerusalem106
Needs assessment for physical activity information during COVID-19 among a nationally representative sample of parents and children ages 6–17 in the United States: a cross-sectional study105
Hearing loss and respiratory health symptoms among large-scale sawmill workers of the timber processing factories within the Gert Sibande District Municipality: a comparative cross-sectional study105
Association of physiological factors with grip and leg extension strength: tohoku medical megabank community-based cohort study102
Resilience-based interventions in the public sector workplace: a systematic review101
Aging towards walkable futures: insights from a multidisciplinary workshop held in Barcelona, Spain99
Secular trends of physical fitness for college students in Anhui Province over the past decade99
Are psychological attitudes towards vaccination an expression of personality? A cross-sectional study on COVID-19 vaccination in France92
Determinants of continuation on HIV pre-exposure propylaxis among female sex workers at a referral hospital in Uganda: a mixed methods study using COM-B model91
Joint association of systemic immune-inflammation index and phenotypic age acceleration with chronic respiratory disease: a cross-sectional study91
Prevalence and predictors of overweight and obesity among women of childbearing age in the province of Essaouira, Morocco90
One Health preparedness and response for mosquito-borne viruses: a stakeholder- and social network-analysis in the Netherlands89
Insights into youth nutritional status in Serbia: assessing prevalence and trend in the context of social determinants89
The status and influencing factors of death anxiety among Chinese college students under the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study88
Relationship between handgrip strength and timed up-and-go test on hospitalization costs in older adults: a population-based study87
Health literacy and medication adherence in adults from ethnic minority backgrounds with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: a systematic review87
The effectiveness of providing training and ongoing support to foster cultural humility in volunteers serving as mentors to youth of color: a mixed-methods study protocol87
A grounded theory study on medical students’ proxy online health information seeking behavior85
Perceptions of cervical screening uptake amongst South Asian women in Ontario, Canada: a concept mapping study84
Association between occupational exposure to gasoline and anemia: a retrospective cohort study in China83
Community benefits of mass distribution of three types of dual-active-ingredient long-lasting insecticidal nets against malaria prevalence in Tanzania: evidence from a 3-year cluster-randomized contro83
Critical thinking about health and treatments in the United States: a cross-sectional assessment of parents and undergraduate college students81
Knights in shining armour and (M)others in life jackets: Women’s experiences of advocating for care alone when suffering recurrent early pregnancy loss during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic81
Use of spatial panel-data models to investigate factors related to incidence of end-stage renal disease: a nationwide longitudinal study in Taiwan80
Health and wellbeing of staff working at higher education institutions globally during the post-COVID-19 pandemic period: evidence from a cross-sectional study79
Maternal distress, parenting stress, maladaptive parenting and children’s problematic media use in China: evidence from 2022 spring in Shanghai78
Estimating vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 using cause-specific sick leave as an indicator: a nationwide population-based cohort study, Norway, July 2021 – December 202278
Intersectional stigma and the arc of intranational migration: experiences of transgender adolescents and women who migrate within Peru76
Family characteristics associated with rural households’ willingness to renew the family doctor contract services: a cross-sectional study in Shandong, China75
Telehealth, medical decisions and new health inequality in China74
Casual association between social determinants of health and sexual health literacy in reproductive-aged women: a WHO model analysis73
The prevalence of comorbidities and differences in noncommunicable diseases and nonrandom associations of comorbidities between HIV-infected and -uninfected individuals in Guangdong Province, China72
Determinants of self-rated health in socioeconomically disadvantaged women: a cross-sectional study in Iran72
Socioeconomic disparities in adolescent growth: an anthropometric study of Nigerian school children in Lagos71
Knowledge and practice of solid healthcare waste management among waste handlers in hospitals in Southern Ghana: a qualitative study70
Social participation and exposure to tuberculosis education: a cross-sectional study of older (≥ 60 years) domestic migrants in China70
Gender differences in the relationship between mental health and academic performance among undergraduate students at a medical school in Shanghai: a cross-sectional study70
Fetal birthweight and maternal urinary incontinence in Chinese primiparas: a population-based study69
Healthcare-seeking behaviors and barriers among medical students in Egypt: a national cross-sectional study68
Prevalence of smoking among Iranian university students: a systematic review and meta-analysis68
Predictors of willingness of HPV vaccine uptake across Eight States in Nigeria68
Association of sitting time with cardiovascular events among manual and non-manual workers: a prospective cohort study (PURE-China)68
Food insecurity and cardiovascular disease risk factors among U.S. adults67
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