Amber Moodley

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 796 citations indexed

About

Amber Moodley is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Virology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Amber Moodley has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 796 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Infectious Diseases, 5 papers in Virology and 3 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Amber Moodley's work include HIV Research and Treatment (5 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (4 papers) and Reproductive tract infections research (2 papers). Amber Moodley is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (5 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (4 papers) and Reproductive tract infections research (2 papers). Amber Moodley collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Germany. Amber Moodley's co-authors include Thumbi Ndung’u, Bruce D. Walker, Krista L. Dong, Nasreen Ismail, Musie Ghebremichael, Douglas S. Kwon, Elizabeth H. Byrne, Brittany A. Bowman, Melis N. Anahtar and Curtis Huttenhower and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Immunity and Science Translational Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Amber Moodley

9 papers receiving 783 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Cervicovaginal Bacteria Are a Major Modulator of Host Inflammatory Responses in the Female Genital Tract

2015 520 citations Melis N. Anahtar, Elizabeth H. Byrne et al. Immunity profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amber Moodley United States	7	453	304	225	207	204	10	796
Brittany A. Bowman United States	7	455 1.0×	319 1.0×	273 1.2×	152 0.7×	163 0.8×	9	821
Nasreen Ismail United States	13	488 1.1×	362 1.2×	374 1.7×	237 1.1×	313 1.5×	19	1.0k
Kamnoosh Shahabi Canada	15	443 1.0×	389 1.3×	297 1.3×	295 1.4×	342 1.7×	24	1.1k
Lenine J. P. Liebenberg South Africa	13	343 0.8×	220 0.7×	229 1.0×	178 0.9×	173 0.8×	36	640
Krista L. Dong United States	14	491 1.1×	460 1.5×	370 1.6×	543 2.6×	562 2.8×	44	1.3k
Shameem Z. Jaumdally South Africa	16	530 1.2×	386 1.3×	171 0.8×	126 0.6×	43 0.2×	40	812
Sinaye Ngcapu South Africa	14	287 0.6×	212 0.7×	149 0.7×	153 0.7×	68 0.3×	50	558
Kenzie Birse Canada	12	262 0.6×	145 0.5×	141 0.6×	119 0.6×	118 0.6×	19	481
Laura Romas Canada	7	232 0.5×	127 0.4×	110 0.5×	97 0.5×	95 0.5×	7	381
Michael D. McRaven United States	10	156 0.3×	134 0.4×	183 0.8×	133 0.6×	254 1.2×	16	523

Countries citing papers authored by Amber Moodley

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Fields of papers citing papers by Amber Moodley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amber Moodley

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Amber Moodley. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Amber Moodley 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 Amber Moodley. Amber Moodley is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Ndembi, Nicaise, Shelly Karuna, Jessica Cowden, et al.. (2025). Accelerating vaccine development in Africa: lessons from HIV research. The Lancet. 405(10491). 1726–1728. 1 indexed citations

2.

Kunz, Anjali, Amber Moodley, Donn Colby, et al.. (2022). Feasibility, acceptability, and short-term impact of a brief sexually transmitted infection intervention targeting U.S. Military personnel and family members. BMC Public Health. 22(1). 640–640. 2 indexed citations

3.

Muema, Daniel, Nasreen Ismail, Mary Dong, et al.. (2020). Association between the cytokine storm, immune cell dynamics, and viral replicative capacity in hyperacute HIV infection. BMC Medicine. 18(1). 81–81. 50 indexed citations

4.

Moodley, Amber, et al.. (2019). Neutrophil Effector Functions Are Not Impaired in Duffy Antigen Receptor for Chemokines (DARC)-Null Black South Africans. Frontiers in Immunology. 10. 551–551. 9 indexed citations

5.

Ndhlovu, Zaza M., Samuel W. Kazer, Thandeka Nkosi, et al.. (2019). Augmentation of HIV-specific T cell function by immediate treatment of hyperacute HIV-1 infection. Science Translational Medicine. 11(493). 45 indexed citations

6.

Mabuka, Jenniffer M., Anne‐Sophie Dugast, Daniel Muema, et al.. (2017). Plasma CXCL13 but Not B Cell Frequencies in Acute HIV Infection Predicts Emergence of Cross-Neutralizing Antibodies. Frontiers in Immunology. 8. 1104–1104. 26 indexed citations

7.

Dong, Krista L., Amber Moodley, Douglas S. Kwon, et al.. (2017). Detection and treatment of Fiebig stage I HIV-1 infection in young at-risk women in South Africa: a prospective cohort study. The Lancet HIV. 5(1). e35–e44. 59 indexed citations

8.

Byrne, Elizabeth H., Melis N. Anahtar, Amber Moodley, et al.. (2015). Association between injectable progestin-only contraceptives and HIV acquisition and HIV target cell frequency in the female genital tract in South African women: a prospective cohort study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 16(4). 441–448. 83 indexed citations

9.

Anahtar, Melis N., Elizabeth H. Byrne, Brittany A. Bowman, et al.. (2015). Cervicovaginal Bacteria Are a Major Modulator of Host Inflammatory Responses in the Female Genital Tract. Immunity. 42(5). 965–976. 520 indexed citations breakdown →

10.

Ndhlovu, Zaza M., Philomena Kamya, Thandeka Nkosi, et al.. (2014). Massive Activation, Expansion and Subsequent Apoptosis of CD8 T-cells in Acute HIV Infection. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 30(S1). A74–A75. 1 indexed citations

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