| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Global mortality variations in patients with heart failure: results from the International Congestive Heart Failure (INTER-CHF) prospective cohort study | The Lancet Global Health | 2017 | 247 |
| 2 | Associations between high temperatures in pregnancy and risk of preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirths: systematic review and meta-analysis | BMJ, The | 2020 | 196 |
| 3 | Heart Failure in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America: The INTER-CHF study | International Journal of Cardiology | 2016 | 108 |
| 4 | Antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for preventing HIV in high-risk individuals | The Cochrane Library | 2012 | 73 |
| 5 | Group B streptococcus infection during pregnancy and infancy: estimates of regional and global burden | The Lancet Global Health | 2022 | 61 |
| 6 | Making the Switch: Alternatives to Fetal Bovine Serum for Adipose-Derived Stromal Cell Expansion | Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology | 2016 | 58 |
| 7 | Internalized HIV stigma, ART initiation and HIV‐1 RNA suppression in South Africa: exploring avoidant coping as a longitudinal mediator | Journal of the International AIDS Society | 2018 | 51 |
| 8 | Ubuntu as a Framework for Ethical Decision Making in Africa: Responding to Epidemics | Ethics and Behavior | 2020 | 36 |
| 9 | Detection, survival and infectious potential of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the environment: a review of the evidence and epidemiological implications | European Respiratory Journal | 2019 | 26 |
| 10 | SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Symptomatic Infections in Previously Infected or Vaccinated South African Healthcare Workers | Vaccines | 2022 | 24 |
| 11 | Variations in the anatomical dimensions of the mandibular ramus and the presence of third molars: its effect on the sagittal split ramus osteotomy | International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery | 2013 | 23 |
| 12 | Human papillomavirus vaccination acceptance and hesitancy in South Africa: Research and policy agenda | South African Medical Journal | 2018 | 21 |
| 13 | Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection Among Healthcare Workers in South Africa: A Longitudinal Cohort Study | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2021 | 20 |
| 14 | Food insecurity in households in informal settlements in urban South Africa | South African Medical Journal | 2015 | 17 |
| 15 | Increase in HIV incidence in women exposed to rape | Aids | 2021 | 15 |
| 16 | Global Perspectives on Immunization Against SARS-CoV-2 During Pregnancy and Priorities for Future Research: An International Consensus Paper From the World Association of Infectious Diseases and Immunological Disorders | Frontiers in Immunology | 2021 | 13 |
| 17 | Diarrhoea in children under five years of age in South Africa (1997–2014) | Tropical Medicine and International Health | 2016 | 12 |
| 18 | Leveraging the Road to Health booklet as a unique patient identifier to monitor the prevention of mother-to-child transmission programme | South African Medical Journal | 2018 | 12 |
| 19 | FUT2 Secretor Status Influences Susceptibility to VP4 Strain-Specific Rotavirus Infections in South African Children | Pathogens | 2020 | 12 |
| 20 | Context‐dependent costs and benefits of tuberculosis resistance traits in a wild mammalian host | Ecology and Evolution | 2018 | 10 |
| 21 | Age, absolute CD4 count, and CD4 percentage in relation to HPV infection and the stage of cervical disease in HIV-1-positive women | Medicine (United States) | 2020 | 10 |
| 22 | Intramuscular versus intravenous anti-D for preventing Rhesus alloimmunization during pregnancy | The Cochrane Library | 2013 | 8 |
| 23 | Clinical characteristics and histopathology of COVID-19 related deaths in South African adults | PLoS ONE | 2022 | 8 |
| 24 | Complete Genomic Sequence for an Avian Group G Rotavirus from South Africa | Genome Announcements | 2015 | 7 |
| 25 | The impact of a change in work posture from seated to stand‐up on work‐related musculoskeletal disorders among sewing‐machine operators | American Journal of Industrial Medicine | 2018 | 7 |
| 26 | An Early Infant HIV Risk Score for Targeted HIV Testing at Birth | Pediatrics | 2019 | 7 |
| 27 | Challenges to improve antenatal and intrapartum care in South Africa | South African Medical Journal | 2019 | 6 |
| 28 | Adolescent girls and young women: Policy-to-implementation gaps for addressing sexual and reproductive health needs in South Africa | South African Medical Journal | 2020 | 6 |
| 29 | A rapid review of the effectiveness of screening practices at airports, land borders and ports to reduce the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases such as COVID-19 | South African Medical Journal | 2020 | 6 |
| 30 | Government regulation of private health insurance | The Cochrane Library | 2015 | 5 |
| 31 | An observational study of safe and risky practices in funeral homes in South Africa | South African Medical Journal | 2019 | 5 |
| 32 | Risk alleles for tuberculosis infection associate with reduced immune reactivity in a wild mammalian host | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2019 | 4 |
| 33 | Loop‐mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assays for Anopheles funestus group and Anopheles gambiae complex species | Medical and Veterinary Entomology | 2020 | 4 |
| 34 | Government regulation of private health insurance | The Cochrane Library | 2021 | 4 |
| 35 | Serum adiponectin-levels are predictive of posttraumatic stress disorder in women | Neurobiology of Stress | 2022 | 4 |
| 36 | 'Urban insight’: is eye care neglect the exception or the rule? | South African Medical Journal | 2014 | 3 |
| 37 | Pattern and impact of drug-induced liver injury in South African patients with Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis and a high burden of HIV | Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: in Practice | 2021 | 3 |
| 38 | The Risk of Orofacial Cleft Lip/Palate Due to Maternal Ambient Air Pollution Exposure: A Call for Further Research in South Africa | Annals of Global Health | 2023 | 3 |
| 39 | A comparison of EEG spectral entropy with conventional quantitative EEG at varying depths of sevoflurane anaesthesia | Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia | 2005 | 2 |
| 40 | Nine-valent human papillomavirus vaccine: great science, but will it save lives? | Lancet, The | 2017 | 2 |
| 41 | Immunogenicity of a combined schedule of trivalent oral and inactivated polio vaccines in South African infants | Expert Review of Vaccines | 2019 | 2 |
| 42 | Effect of A Sun Protection Intervention on the Immune Response to Measles Booster Vaccination in Infants in Rural South Africa | Photochemistry and Photobiology | 2019 | 2 |
| 43 | Child health, infant formula funding and South African health professionals: Eliminating conflict of interest | South African Medical Journal | 2020 | 2 |
| 44 | A call to action: Temporal trends of COVID-19 deaths in the South African Muslim community | South African Medical Journal | 2021 | 2 |
| 45 | A call to action: Temporal trends of COVID-19 deaths in the South African Muslim community | South African Medical Journal | 2021 | 2 |
| 46 | High-throughput nanofluidic real-time PCR to discriminate Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV)-associated serogroups 6, 18, and 22 to serotypes using modified oligonucleotides | Scientific Reports | 2021 | 2 |
| 47 | Beyond COVID‐19: Equitable epidemiology for studying the impact of maternal infections on neonatal mortality and morbidity | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2022 | 2 |
| 48 | Effect of HIV-exposure and timing of anti-retroviral treatment on immunogenicity of trivalent live-attenuated polio vaccine in infants | PLoS ONE | 2019 | 1 |
| 49 | Identifying gaps in hand hygiene practice to support tailored target audience messaging in Soweto: A cross-sectional community survey | Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2022 | 1 |
| 50 | A multi‐country cross‐sectional study to assess predictors of daily versus on‐demand oral pre‐exposure prophylaxis in youth from South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe | Journal of the International AIDS Society | 2022 | 1 |
