---
title: "WHO Global Health Observatory: papers using it"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 37 archived papers mentioned WHO Global Health Observatory in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jun 2026 (3)."
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 37 archived papers mentioned WHO Global Health Observatory in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jun 2026 (3). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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---

# WHO Global Health Observatory

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/7.md)

Population health statistics, disease burden, health surveys and pandemic trackers.

- data category: Health data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Global Health Observatory

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Health data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/health-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 37 archived papers mentioned WHO Global Health Observatory in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jun 2026 (3).
- WHO Global Health Observatory was mentioned in 1 paper in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #165 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Health Economics and Policy (1).
- Most of them appeared in The European Journal of Health Economics (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), WHO Global Health Observatory was mentioned in 44 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (24), economics (6) and operations research (4).
- 13 of them were published in 2025, against 2 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were City St George's, University of London (2), London School of Economics and Political Science (2) and Murdoch University (2).
- The journals publishing most of them were Health Research Policy and Systems (4), Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation (3) and Health Economics Review (3).
- The most-cited of them is “How much missing data is too much to impute for longitudinal health indicators? A preliminary guideline for the choice of the extent of missing proportion to impute with multiple imputation by chained equations” (Population Health Metrics, 2025), with 89 citations.
- Papers use WHO Global Health Observatory most often with Global Burden of Disease (10), World Development Indicators (World Bank) (7) and Eurostat (4); it has 6 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

## Mentions over 36 months

*Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 11 | 11 | 15 | 37 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 12 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | 4 |
| 2 | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | 3 |
| 3 | [Health Economics Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-economics-review.md) | 3 |
| 4 | [Socio-Economic Planning Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/socio-economic-planning-sciences.md) | 2 |
| 5 | [The European Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-european-journal-of-health-economics.md) | 2 |
| 6 | [PharmacoEconomics - Open](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics-open.md) | 2 |
| 7 | [Minerva](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/minerva.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Quality & Quantity](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/quality-quantity.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Public Choice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-choice.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Journal of Policy Modeling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-policy-modeling.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | City St George's, University of London | 2 |
| 2 | [London School of Economics and Political Science](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-economics-and-political-science.md) | 2 |
| 3 | Murdoch University | 2 |
| 4 | [Newcastle University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/newcastle-university.md) | 2 |
| 5 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | 1 |
| 6 | Bowdoin College | 1 |
| 7 | Canadian Red Cross Society | 1 |
| 8 | Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Kigali | 1 |
| 9 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 1 |
| 10 | Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 13 |
| 2 | Canada | 4 |
| 3 | United States | 4 |
| 4 | Australia | 3 |
| 5 | China | 3 |
| 6 | Italy | 3 |
| 7 | Germany | 2 |
| 8 | Spain | 2 |
| 9 | France | 2 |
| 10 | India | 2 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [cost-effectiveness](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cost-effectiveness.md) | 5 |
| 2 | universal health coverage | 5 |
| 3 | health care financing | 3 |
| 4 | [health equity](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/health-equity.md) | 3 |
| 5 | obesity | 3 |
| 6 | Markov model | 2 |
| 7 | World Health Organization | 2 |
| 8 | budget impact | 2 |
| 9 | [cross-national comparison](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cross-national-comparison.md) | 2 |
| 10 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 89 | 4.2 | [How much missing data is too much to impute for longitudinal health indicators? A preliminary guideline for the choice of the extent of missing proportion to impute with multiple imputation by chained equations](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-025-00364-2) | [Population Health Metrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/population-health-metrics.md) | 2025-02-01 | K. P. Junaid, Tanvi Kiran, Madhu Gupta et al. |
| 2 | 43 | 0.6 | [Health systems efficiency in Eastern Mediterranean Region: a data envelopment analysis](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12962-020-00217-9) | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | 2020-07-13 | Hamed Seddighi, Farhad Nosrati Nejad, Mehdi Basakha |
| 3 | 36 | 1.3 | [Digital public services: Catalysts for healthcare efficiency](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joitmc.2024.100319) | [Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-open-innovation-technology-market-and-complexity.md) | 2024-06-15 | Aleksy S. Kwilinski, Katarzyna Szczepańska‐Woszczyna, Oleksii Valentynovych Lyulyov et al. |
| 4 | 26 | 0.8 | [Driving factors of carbon emissions from household energy combustion in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114013) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2024-01-31 | Xinlu Sun, Zhifu Mi, Jin Zhang et al. |
| 5 | 24 | 0.9 | [Social Impact Assessment of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives: Evaluating the Social Return on Investment of an Inclusion Offer](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05786-w) | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 2024-08-02 | Nicolas Scelles, Yuhei Inoue, Seth Joseph Perkin et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use WHO Global Health Observatory most often with Global Burden of Disease (10), World Development Indicators (World Bank) (7) and Eurostat (4); it has 6 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

*What papers use WHO Global Health Observatory together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Global Burden of Disease](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/global-burden-of-disease.md) | Dataset | 10 | 21.1 |
| [World Development Indicators (World Bank)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-development-indicators-world-bank.md) | Dataset | 7 | 8.1 |
| [Eurostat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/eurostat.md) | Dataset | 4 | 3.0 |
| [Worldwide Governance Indicators](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/worldwide-governance-indicators.md) | Dataset | 4 | 9.7 |
| [Our World in Data](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/our-world-in-data.md) | Dataset | 3 | 14.6 |
| [Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/oxford-covid-19-government-response-tracker.md) | Dataset | 3 | 17.4 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Papers

*Papers mentioning WHO Global Health Observatory in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | [Wealth and weight revisited: A Bayesian model averaging approach to the Obesity Kuznets Curve](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-026-01998-1) | [The European Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-european-journal-of-health-economics.md) | Katerine Restrepo Gómez, H. Du, C. Mendez | Nagoya University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). WHO Global Health Observatory. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/who-global-health-observatory

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-who-global-health-observatory,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {WHO Global Health Observatory},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/who-global-health-observatory}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).