Ada Kwan

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Ada Kwan is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Economics and Econometrics and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ada Kwan has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Infectious Diseases, 13 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 11 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Ada Kwan's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (12 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (10 papers) and Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (9 papers). Ada Kwan is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (12 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (10 papers) and Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (9 papers). Ada Kwan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and India. Ada Kwan's co-authors include Benjamin Daniels, Jishnu Das, Madhukar Pai, Veena Das, Sofi Bergkvist, Ranendra Das, Ramnath Subbaraman, Srinath Satyanarayana, David Sears and Isabel Rodríguez-Barraquer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ada Kwan

37 papers receiving 982 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections and reinfections during the Omicron wave

2023 133 citations Sophia T. Tan, Ada Kwan et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ada Kwan United States	15	486	278	267	239	207	41	1.0k
Benjamin Daniels United States	16	341 0.7×	298 1.1×	289 1.1×	239 1.0×	206 1.0×	33	1.0k
Junko Okumura Japan	18	252 0.5×	127 0.5×	221 0.8×	265 1.1×	127 0.6×	38	1.0k
Amrita Daftary Canada	23	1.1k 2.4×	774 2.8×	435 1.6×	194 0.8×	177 0.9×	61	1.7k
Pruthu Thekkur India	16	456 0.9×	335 1.2×	146 0.5×	109 0.5×	60 0.3×	103	860
Sharath Burugina Nagaraja India	23	913 1.9×	712 2.6×	176 0.7×	126 0.5×	109 0.5×	128	1.4k
Peter S. Nyasulu South Africa	19	660 1.4×	344 1.2×	313 1.2×	144 0.6×	98 0.5×	128	1.2k
Sheela Rangan United Kingdom	17	717 1.5×	433 1.6×	150 0.6×	156 0.7×	126 0.6×	30	950
Chloe Bryson‐Cahn United States	16	242 0.5×	125 0.4×	252 0.9×	250 1.0×	117 0.6×	38	902
Mauro Niskier Sanchez Brazil	22	703 1.4×	352 1.3×	229 0.9×	166 0.7×	123 0.6×	87	1.2k
Malaisamy Muniyandi India	23	1.1k 2.3×	639 2.3×	183 0.7×	162 0.7×	178 0.9×	98	1.6k

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Tan, Sophia T., Isabel Rodríguez-Barraquer, Ada Kwan, et al.. (2025). Strength and durability of indirect protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection through vaccine and infection-acquired immunity. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1090–1090. 2 indexed citations

Kwan, Ada, Jason Vargo, Christopher M. Hoover, et al.. (2025). The integration of health equity into policy to reduce disparities: Lessons from California during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE. 20(3). e0316517–e0316517. 1 indexed citations

Ahalt, Cyrus, et al.. (2024). Stress and Anxiety Among Correctional Health Care Professionals in a U.S. State Prison System During COVID-19. Journal of Correctional Health Care. 30(1). 40–48.

McCoy, Sandra I., et al.. (2024). Indirect vaccine effectiveness in an outbreak of Alpha B.1.1.7 variant in a California state Prison, May 2021. Vaccine. 42(12). 3057–3065.

Boffa, Jody, Sizulu Moyo, Jeremiah Chikovore, et al.. (2022). Prescribing practices for presumptive TB among private general practitioners in South Africa: a cross-sectional, standardised patient study. BMJ Global Health. 7(1). e007456–e007456. 8 indexed citations

Blumberg, Seth, Ada Kwan, Christopher M. Hoover, et al.. (2022). Modeling scenarios for mitigating outbreaks in congregate settings. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(7). e1010308–e1010308. 7 indexed citations

Kwan, Ada, Claire Boone, Giorgia Sulis, & Paul Gertler. (2022). Do private providers give patients what they demand, even if it is inappropriate? A randomised study using unannounced standardised patients in Kenya. BMJ Open. 12(3). e058746–e058746. 8 indexed citations

Johns, Benjamin, et al.. (2022). Tuberculosis care quality in urban Nigeria: A cross-sectional study of adherence to screening and treatment initiation guidelines in multi-cadre networks of private health service providers. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). e0000150–e0000150. 9 indexed citations

Kwan, Ada, Drew Cameron, Stefano Bertozzi, et al.. (2022). Respiratory pandemic preparedness learnings from the June 2020 COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin California State Prison. International Journal of Prisoner Health. 19(3). 306–321. 6 indexed citations

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Duarte, Catherine, Drew Cameron, Ada Kwan, et al.. (2022). COVID-19 outbreak in a state prison: a case study on the implementation of key public health recommendations for containment and prevention. BMC Public Health. 22(1). 977–977. 13 indexed citations

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Boffa, Jody, Sizulu Moyo, Jeremiah Chikovore, et al.. (2021). Quality of care for tuberculosis and HIV in the private health sector: a cross-sectional, standardised patient study in South Africa. BMJ Global Health. 6(5). e005250–e005250. 16 indexed citations

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Das, Veena, Benjamin Daniels, Ada Kwan, et al.. (2021). Simulated patients and their reality: An inquiry into theory and method. Social Science & Medicine. 300. 114571–114571. 13 indexed citations

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Daniels, Benjamin, Ada Kwan, Madhukar Pai, & Jishnu Das. (2019). Lessons on the quality of tuberculosis diagnosis from standardized patients in China, India, Kenya, and South Africa. Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases. 16. 100109–100109. 37 indexed citations

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Daniels, Benjamin, Ada Kwan, Srinath Satyanarayana, et al.. (2019). Use of standardised patients to assess gender differences in quality of tuberculosis care in urban India: a two-city, cross-sectional study. The Lancet Global Health. 7(5). e633–e643. 19 indexed citations

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Bautista‐Arredondo, Sergio, Sandra G. Sosa‐Rubí, Marjorie Opuni, et al.. (2018). Influence of supply-side factors on voluntary medical male circumcision costs in Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, and Zambia. PLoS ONE. 13(9). e0203121–e0203121. 14 indexed citations

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Kwan, Ada, Benjamin Daniels, Vaibhav Saria, et al.. (2018). Variations in the quality of tuberculosis care in urban India: A cross-sectional, standardized patient study in two cities. PLoS Medicine. 15(9). e1002653–e1002653. 88 indexed citations

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Bautista‐Arredondo, Sergio, et al.. (2018). Efficiency of HIV services in Nigeria: Determinants of unit cost variation of HIV counseling and testing and prevention of mother-to-child transmission interventions. PLoS ONE. 13(9). e0201706–e0201706. 13 indexed citations

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Bautista‐Arredondo, Sergio, Sandra G. Sosa‐Rubí, Marjorie Opuni, et al.. (2016). Costs along the service cascades for HIV testing and counselling and prevention of mother-to-child transmission. AIDS. 30(16). 2495–2504. 29 indexed citations

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Das, Jishnu, Ada Kwan, Benjamin Daniels, et al.. (2015). Use of standardised patients to assess quality of tuberculosis care: a pilot, cross-sectional study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 15(11). 1305–1313. 161 indexed citations

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Bautista‐Arredondo, Sergio, Sandra G. Sosa‐Rubí, Marjorie Opuni, et al.. (2014). Assessing cost and technical efficiency of HIV prevention interventions in sub-Saharan Africa: the ORPHEA study design and methods. BMC Health Services Research. 14(1). 599–599. 21 indexed citations

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