Beverley Townsend

453 total citations
29 papers, 229 citations indexed

About

Beverley Townsend is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Beverley Townsend has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 229 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 8 papers in Physiology and 5 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Beverley Townsend's work include Ethics in Clinical Research (15 papers), Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (8 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers). Beverley Townsend is often cited by papers focused on Ethics in Clinical Research (15 papers), Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (8 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers). Beverley Townsend collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and United States. Beverley Townsend's co-authors include Donrich Thaldar, Radu Călinescu, Maurice Mars, Richard E. Scott, Ana Cavalcanti, Katherine L. Plant, Julian Kinderlerer, Joanna Hodge, Alan Thomas and Colin Paterson and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Pharmacology and Frontiers in Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Beverley Townsend

25 papers receiving 223 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Beverley Townsend South Africa 11 95 56 47 44 33 29 229
Donrich Thaldar South Africa 11 128 1.3× 90 1.6× 65 1.4× 59 1.3× 31 0.9× 72 306
Santa Slokenberga Sweden 8 100 1.1× 38 0.7× 27 0.6× 15 0.3× 45 1.4× 25 194
Michaela Th. Mayrhofer Netherlands 10 139 1.5× 68 1.2× 31 0.7× 86 2.0× 83 2.5× 28 325
Miranda Mourby United Kingdom 8 66 0.7× 27 0.5× 17 0.4× 22 0.5× 49 1.5× 19 212
Johannes Starkbaum Austria 9 213 2.2× 99 1.8× 29 0.6× 10 0.2× 30 0.9× 17 298
Liam Curren United Kingdom 6 214 2.3× 104 1.9× 31 0.7× 15 0.3× 39 1.2× 7 355
Dov Fox United States 7 92 1.0× 16 0.3× 43 0.9× 13 0.3× 116 3.5× 48 272
Nadja Kanellopoulou United Kingdom 5 213 2.2× 99 1.8× 21 0.4× 18 0.4× 38 1.2× 8 302
Daniel B. Vorhaus United States 5 242 2.5× 120 2.1× 84 1.8× 8 0.2× 53 1.6× 6 408
Hank Greely United States 4 177 1.9× 103 1.8× 27 0.6× 13 0.3× 21 0.6× 8 236

Countries citing papers authored by Beverley Townsend

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Fields of papers citing papers by Beverley Townsend

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Beverley Townsend

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Townsend, Beverley, et al.. (2025). ‘Potato potahto’? Disentangling de-identification, anonymisation, and pseudonymisation for health research in Africa. Journal of Law and the Biosciences. 12(1). lsae029–lsae029. 1 indexed citations
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Townsend, Beverley, et al.. (2025). Cautious optimism: public voices on medical AI and sociotechnical harm. Frontiers in Digital Health. 7. 1625747–1625747.
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Mello, Victoria Oldemburgo de, Beverley Townsend, Genaína Nunes Rodrigues, et al.. (2024). Analyzing and Debugging Normative Requirements via Satisfiability Checking. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 1–12. 4 indexed citations
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Cavalcanti, Ana, et al.. (2024). Specification, validation and verification of social, legal, ethical, empathetic and cultural requirements for autonomous agents. Journal of Systems and Software. 220. 112229–112229.
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Townsend, Beverley, et al.. (2024). Normative Requirements Operationalization with Large Language Models. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 129–141. 6 indexed citations
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Townsend, Beverley, et al.. (2023). Repurposing research data for commercial use: POPIA, a foil or a facilitator?. South African Journal of Science. 119(7/8).
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Townsend, Beverley, et al.. (2023). Legal and ethical principles governing the use of artificial intelligence in radiology services in South Africa. Developing World Bioethics. 25(1). 35–45. 4 indexed citations
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Townsend, Beverley, et al.. (2023). Bridging the regulatory gaps created by Smart and Connected technologies in South Africa. South African Journal of Bioethics and Law. 16(2). 36–36. 2 indexed citations
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Townsend, Beverley, et al.. (2023). Mapping the regulatory landscape of AI in healthcare in Africa. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 14. 1214422–1214422. 22 indexed citations
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Townsend, Beverley, et al.. (2023). Medical practitioner perspectives on AI in emergency triage. Frontiers in Digital Health. 5. 1297073–1297073. 17 indexed citations
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Thaldar, Donrich, et al.. (2022). A deliberative public engagement study on heritable human genome editing among South Africans: Study results. PLoS ONE. 17(11). e0275372–e0275372. 10 indexed citations
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Thaldar, Donrich, et al.. (2022). The multidimensional legal nature of personal genomic sequence data: A South African perspective. Frontiers in Genetics. 13. 997595–997595. 13 indexed citations
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Kinderlerer, Julian, et al.. (2021). Future of global regulation of human genome editing: a South African perspective on the WHO Draft Governance Framework on Human Genome Editing. Journal of Medical Ethics. 48(3). 165–168. 8 indexed citations
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Thaldar, Donrich, et al.. (2021). A virtual deliberative public engagement study on heritable genome editing among South Africans: Study protocol. PLoS ONE. 16(8). e0256097–e0256097. 5 indexed citations
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Townsend, Beverley. (2021). The lawful sharing of health research data in South Africa and beyond. Information & Communications Technology Law. 31(1). 17–34. 20 indexed citations
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Thaldar, Donrich & Beverley Townsend. (2021). Protecting personal information in research: Is a code of conduct the solution?. South African Journal of Science. 117(3/4). 2 indexed citations
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Townsend, Beverley. (2020). Software as a medical device: critical rights issues regarding artificial intelligence software-based health technologies in South Africa. 2020(4). 747–762. 2 indexed citations
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Townsend, Beverley. (2020). Human genome editing: how to prevent rogue actors. BMC Medical Ethics. 21(1). 95–95. 11 indexed citations
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Thaldar, Donrich & Beverley Townsend. (2020). Genomic research and privacy: A response to Staunton et al.. South African Medical Journal. 110(3). 172–172. 13 indexed citations
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Townsend, Beverley, et al.. (2010). In search of more robust decoding algorithms for neural prostheses, a data driven approach. PubMed. 296. 4172–4175. 3 indexed citations

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