Charles Opondo

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Charles Opondo is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Nutrition and Dietetics and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles Opondo has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 37 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 32 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Charles Opondo's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (37 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (30 papers) and Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (15 papers). Charles Opondo is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (37 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (30 papers) and Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (15 papers). Charles Opondo collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ethiopia. Charles Opondo's co-authors include Marko Kerac, Gracia Fellmeth, Maria Quigley, Fiona Alderdice, Jonathan C. K. Wells, Mike English, André Briend, Andrew Seal, Maggie Redshaw and Grace Irimu and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Charles Opondo

83 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Health impacts of parental migration on left-behind children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2018 401 citations Gracia Fellmeth, Charles Opondo et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Charles Opondo United Kingdom	22	624	613	543	451	365	93	2.0k
Yusra Ribhi Shawar United States	15	948 1.5×	928 1.5×	548 1.0×	461 1.0×	457 1.3×	51	2.5k
Raghu Lingam Australia	27	1.1k 1.7×	219 0.4×	573 1.1×	580 1.3×	335 0.9×	158	2.8k
Darci Neves dos Santos Brazil	22	284 0.5×	291 0.5×	372 0.7×	553 1.2×	229 0.6×	54	1.5k
Christopher T Andersen United States	12	846 1.4×	1.0k 1.6×	351 0.6×	404 0.9×	310 0.8×	18	2.1k
Krishna C. Poudel Japan	29	378 0.6×	416 0.7×	906 1.7×	284 0.6×	413 1.1×	123	2.4k
Nathan Nickel Canada	24	328 0.5×	192 0.3×	571 1.1×	362 0.8×	379 1.0×	121	1.6k
Amanuel Alemu Abajobir Australia	26	595 1.0×	156 0.3×	775 1.4×	798 1.8×	316 0.9×	69	2.0k
Ryan G. Wagner South Africa	30	744 1.2×	193 0.3×	1.1k 2.0×	224 0.5×	239 0.7×	134	3.2k
Arjumand Siddiqi Canada	30	527 0.8×	223 0.4×	1.3k 2.3×	486 1.1×	499 1.4×	126	2.9k
Lisa Hurt United Kingdom	22	755 1.2×	494 0.8×	379 0.7×	222 0.5×	201 0.6×	57	1.6k

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Marchant, Tanya, Elias Asfaw, Alemneh Kabeta Daba, et al.. (2025). Effect of prenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation on birth weight in Ethiopia: protocol for a pragmatic cluster-randomised trial. BMJ Open. 15(2). e093385–e093385. 1 indexed citations

Opondo, Charles, et al.. (2025). Pilot implementation of short message service for randomisation in a multisite pragmatic factorial clinical trial in Kenya. Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 11(1). 29–29.

Defar, Atkure, Girum Taye, Alemneh Kabeta Daba, et al.. (2025). Piloting Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation Within the Routine Antenatal Care System in Ethiopia: Insights From Stakeholders. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 21(2). e13809–e13809. 2 indexed citations

Opondo, Charles, Baptiste Leurent, Erin Hunter, et al.. (2024). Impact of a school-based water and hygiene intervention on child health and school attendance in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. BMC Medicine. 22(1). 348–348. 2 indexed citations

Opondo, Charles, et al.. (2024). Rates and risk factors for antepartum and intrapartum stillbirths in 20 secondary hospitals in Imo state, Nigeria: A hospital-based case control study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(10). e0003771–e0003771. 1 indexed citations

O’Donovan, Grace, Mubarek Abera, Amir Kirolos, et al.. (2024). Weight Gain among Children with Severe Malnutrition in Therapeutic Feeding Programmes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 338–338. 2 indexed citations

Lelijveld, Natasha, Abena S. Amoah, Charles Opondo, et al.. (2023). Post-malnutrition growth and its associations with child survival and non-communicable disease risk: a secondary analysis of the Malawi ‘ChroSAM’ cohort. Public Health Nutrition. 26(8). 1658–1670. 7 indexed citations

Amoako, Yaw Ampem, Jacob Novignon, Adwoa Asante-Poku, et al.. (2023). Buruli-RifDACC: Evaluation of the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of high-dose versus standard-dose rifampicin on outcomes in Mycobacterium ulcerans disease, a protocol for a randomised controlled trial in Ghana. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 59–59. 1 indexed citations

Kurinczuk, Jennifer J., et al.. (2023). Effects of community-based interventions for stillbirths in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis. EClinicalMedicine. 67. 102386–102386. 2 indexed citations

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Thurstans, Susan, Charles Opondo, Jeanette Bailey, et al.. (2023). How age and sex affect treatment outcomes for children with severe malnutrition: A multi‐country secondary data analysis. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 20(3). e13596–e13596. 1 indexed citations

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Kurinczuk, Jennifer J., et al.. (2023). Types, reporting and acceptability of community-based interventions for stillbirth prevention in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): a systematic review. EClinicalMedicine. 62. 102133–102133. 5 indexed citations

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Amoako, Yaw Ampem, Jacob Novignon, Adwoa Asante-Poku, et al.. (2022). Additional files for BuruliRifDACC. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2 indexed citations

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Amoako, Yaw Ampem, Jacob Novignon, Adwoa Asante-Poku, et al.. (2022). Buruli-RifDACC: Evaluation of the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of high-dose versus standard-dose rifampicin on outcomes in Mycobacterium ulcerans disease, a protocol for a randomised controlled trial in Ghana. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 59–59. 1 indexed citations

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Alsharqi, Maryam, Saswati Sanyal Choudhury, Indrani Roy, et al.. (2022). Focused Cardiac Ultrasound to Guide the Diagnosis of Heart Failure in Pregnant Women in India. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. 35(12). 1281–1294. 4 indexed citations

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Kerac, Marko, et al.. (2021). The management of moderate acute malnutrition in children aged 6-59 months in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 115(11). 1317–1329. 4 indexed citations

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Thurstans, Susan, Charles Opondo, Andrew Seal, et al.. (2020). Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls: a systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in undernutrition. BMJ Global Health. 5(12). e004030–e004030. 149 indexed citations

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Opondo, Charles, et al.. (2020). Risk factors for maternal mortality among 1.9 million women in nine empowered action group states in India: secondary analysis of Annual Health Survey data. BMJ Open. 10(8). e038910–e038910. 30 indexed citations

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Fellmeth, Gracia, Charles Opondo, Jane Henderson, et al.. (2019). Identifying postnatal depression: Comparison of a self-reported depression item with Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale scores at three months postpartum. Journal of Affective Disorders. 251. 8–14. 15 indexed citations

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Opondo, Charles, Ron Gray, Jennifer Hollowell, et al.. (2019). Joint contribution of socioeconomic circumstances and ethnic group to variations in preterm birth, neonatal mortality and infant mortality in England and Wales: a population-based retrospective cohort study using routine data from 2006 to 2012. BMJ Open. 9(7). e028227–e028227. 20 indexed citations

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Bonell, Chris, Elizabeth Allen, Emily Warren, et al.. (2018). Initiating change in the school environment to reduce bullying and aggression: a cluster randomised controlled trial of the Learning Together (LT) intervention in English secondary schools. LSHTM Research Online (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). 1 indexed citations

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