Andrew Kitua

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Andrew Kitua is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Parasitology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew Kitua has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 13 papers in Parasitology and 12 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Andrew Kitua's work include Malaria Research and Control (37 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (32 papers) and Parasites and Host Interactions (12 papers). Andrew Kitua is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (37 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (32 papers) and Parasites and Host Interactions (12 papers). Andrew Kitua collaborates with scholars based in Tanzania, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Andrew Kitua's co-authors include Thomas A. Smith, Pedro L. Alonso, Marcel Tanner, Chris Drakeley, Clara Menéndez, Thor G. Theander, Ilona Carneiro, Emmanuel A. Makundi, Hugh Reyburn and Honorathy Urassa and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Andrew Kitua

61 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Overdiagnosis of malaria in patients with severe febrile illness in Tanzania: a prospective study

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew Kitua Tanzania	30	2.3k	647	513	460	302	62	3.1k
Ilona Carneiro United Kingdom	28	2.6k 1.1×	658 1.0×	526 1.0×	523 1.1×	239 0.8×	42	3.3k
Zul Premji Tanzania	37	2.1k 0.9×	639 1.0×	342 0.7×	321 0.7×	321 1.1×	73	3.1k
A J Oloo United States	37	2.8k 1.2×	798 1.2×	573 1.1×	309 0.7×	441 1.5×	63	3.8k
Dianne J. Terlouw United Kingdom	29	2.1k 0.9×	966 1.5×	477 0.9×	249 0.5×	580 1.9×	88	3.3k
Maryvonne Kombila Gabon	33	1.8k 0.8×	379 0.6×	739 1.4×	635 1.4×	152 0.5×	101	2.8k
Wendy Prudhomme O’Meara United States	28	2.1k 0.9×	608 0.9×	558 1.1×	343 0.7×	157 0.5×	78	2.7k
Vicki Marsh Kenya	31	2.1k 0.9×	847 1.3×	242 0.5×	596 1.3×	252 0.8×	69	3.5k
John J. Aponte Spain	34	2.5k 1.1×	633 1.0×	586 1.1×	443 1.0×	326 1.1×	95	4.0k
Monica E. Parise United States	36	3.4k 1.5×	1.5k 2.3×	1.0k 2.0×	513 1.1×	346 1.1×	55	4.6k
Ambrose Misore Kenya	25	1.3k 0.6×	605 0.9×	273 0.5×	564 1.2×	194 0.6×	27	3.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nzietchueng, Serge, Andrew Kitua, Thierry Nyatanyi, & Innocent B. Rwego. (2023). Facilitating implementation of the one health approach: A definition of a one health intervention. One Health. 16. 100491–100491. 19 indexed citations

Kitua, Andrew, Dominic Kambarage, Janneth Mghamba, et al.. (2019). Building a functional national One Health platform: the case of Tanzania. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 3–3. 17 indexed citations

Kitua, Andrew, et al.. (2011). To what extent can traditional medicine contribute a complementary or alternative solution to malaria control programmes?. Malaria Journal. 10(S1). S6–S6. 31 indexed citations

Kitua, Andrew, Peter I. Folb, Marian Warsame, et al.. (2010). The use of placebo in a trial of rectal artesunate as initial treatment for severe malaria patients en route to referral clinics: ethical issues. Journal of Medical Ethics. 36(2). 116–120. 3 indexed citations

Mfinanga, Godfrey S, Godfather Kimaro, Esther Ngadaya, et al.. (2009). Health facility-based Active Management of the Third Stage of Labor: findings from a national survey in Tanzania. Health Research Policy and Systems. 7(1). 6–6. 29 indexed citations

Mboera, Leonard E. G., Mathias Kamugisha, Susan F. Rumisha, et al.. (2008). Malaria and mosquito net utilisation among schoolchildren in villages with or without healthcare facilities at different altitudes in Iringa District, Tanzania.. PubMed. 8(2). 114–9. 21 indexed citations

Mboera, Leonard E. G., Benjamin K. Mayala, K.P. Senkoro, et al.. (2008). Mosquito Net Coverage and Utilisation for MalariaControl in Tanzania. 36(7). 338.e1–338.e11. 3 indexed citations

Mfinanga, Sayoki, Beatrice Mutayoba, Amos Kahwa, et al.. (2008). The magnitude and factors associated with delays in management of smear positive tuberculosis in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. BMC Health Services Research. 8(1). 158–158. 49 indexed citations

Miranda, Isabel Barreto, Mirjam Schunk, Leonard Maboko, et al.. (2007). Molecular surveillance of drug-resistance associated mutations of Plasmodium falciparum in south-west Tanzania. Malaria Journal. 6(1). 2–2. 31 indexed citations

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Eriksen, Jaran, S. Mwankusye, María Isabel Veiga, et al.. (2007). Antimalarial resistance and DHFR/DHPS genotypes of Plasmodium falciparum three years after introduction of sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine and amodiaquine in rural Tanzania. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 102(2). 137–142. 6 indexed citations

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Makundi, Emmanuel A., et al.. (2006). Role of traditional healers in the management of severe malaria among children below five years of age: the case of Kilosa and Handeni Districts, Tanzania. Malaria Journal. 5(1). 58–58. 93 indexed citations

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Mubyazi, Godfrey M., Paul Bloch, Mathias Kamugisha, Andrew Kitua, & Jasper N. Ijumba. (2005). Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria during pregnancy: a qualitative study of knowledge, attitudes and practices of district health managers, antenatal care staff and pregnant women in Korogwe District, North-Eastern Tanzania. Malaria Journal. 4(1). 31–31. 94 indexed citations

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Lusingu, John, Lasse S Vestergaard, Bruno P. Mmbando, et al.. (2004). Malaria morbidity and immunity among residents of villages with different Plasmodium falciparum transmission intensity in North-Eastern Tanzania.. Malaria Journal. 3(1). 26–26. 63 indexed citations

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Rumisha, Susan F., et al.. (2003). Community perceptions of malaria and its management in Iringa District, South-western Tanzania. Tanzania Journal of Health Research. 5(2). 41–47. 2 indexed citations

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Massaga, Julius J., Andrew Kitua, Martha M. Lemnge, et al.. (2003). Effect of intermittent treatment with amodiaquine on anaemia and malarial fevers in infants in Tanzania: a randomised placebo-controlled trial. The Lancet. 361(9372). 1853–1860. 110 indexed citations

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Kitua, Andrew, et al.. (2000). Implementation of a new anti-malaria treatment policy in Tanzania: the rationale for change and guide to the process of policy implementation. Tanzania Journal of Health Research. 2(1). 10–13. 5 indexed citations

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Smith, Thomas A., Hans‐Peter Beck, Andrew Kitua, et al.. (1999). 4. Age dependence of the multiplicity of Plasmodium falciparum infections and of other malariological indices in an area of high endemicity. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 93. 15–20. 116 indexed citations

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Smith, Thomas A., J. D. Charlwood, Andrew Kitua, et al.. (1998). Relationships of malaria morbidity with exposure to Plasmodium falciparum in young children in a highly endemic area.. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 59(2). 252–257. 41 indexed citations

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Alonso, Pedro L., Thomas A. Smith, Joanna Schellenberg, et al.. (1996). Duration of Protection and Age-Dependence of the Effects of the SPf66 Malaria Vaccine in African Children Exposed to Intense Transmission of Plasmodium falciparum. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 174(2). 367–372. 32 indexed citations

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Kitua, Andrew, Thomas A. Smith, Pedro L. Alonso, et al.. (1996). Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the first year of life in an area of intense and perennial transmission. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 1(4). 475–484. 100 indexed citations

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