David Obor

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

David Obor is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, David Obor has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in General Health Professions, 12 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 10 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in David Obor's work include Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (10 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (9 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (8 papers). David Obor is often cited by papers focused on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (10 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (9 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (8 papers). David Obor collaborates with scholars based in Kenya, United States and United Kingdom. David Obor's co-authors include Kayla F. Laserson, Frank Odhiambo, Elizabeth Nyothach, Linda Mason, Penelope A. Phillips‐Howard, Stephen Munga, Dustin G. Gibson, Till Bärnighausen, Sandra Barteit and Ali Sié and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Clinical Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

David Obor

41 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

The Impact of Wearable Technologies in Health Research: Scoping Review

2022 184 citations Sophie Huhn, Hanns‐Christian Gunga et al. JMIR mhealth and uhealth profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Obor Kenya	18	349	262	173	154	144	44	1.0k
Suneela Garg India	24	414 1.2×	383 1.5×	305 1.8×	150 1.0×	133 0.9×	152	1.9k
Kate Zinszer Canada	19	200 0.6×	379 1.4×	136 0.8×	153 1.0×	263 1.8×	132	1.2k
Ruwan Ratnayake United States	22	283 0.8×	241 0.9×	170 1.0×	141 0.9×	411 2.9×	63	1.6k
Rosemeire Leovigildo Fiaccone Brazil	24	334 1.0×	371 1.4×	241 1.4×	111 0.7×	174 1.2×	85	1.8k
Madhu Gupta India	23	232 0.7×	109 0.4×	362 2.1×	212 1.4×	261 1.8×	131	1.5k
Pradeep Deshmukh India	24	300 0.9×	388 1.5×	280 1.6×	73 0.5×	132 0.9×	107	1.4k
Sonu Goel India	22	334 1.0×	316 1.2×	230 1.3×	77 0.5×	110 0.8×	191	1.5k
Amanda Kvalsvig New Zealand	20	282 0.8×	130 0.5×	125 0.7×	166 1.1×	286 2.0×	48	1.4k
Maria Yury Ichihara Brazil	21	251 0.7×	116 0.4×	235 1.4×	162 1.1×	571 4.0×	75	1.3k
Sudhvir Singh New Zealand	15	303 0.9×	143 0.5×	86 0.5×	107 0.7×	201 1.4×	22	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Obor

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Eijk, Anna Maria van, Linda Mason, Elizabeth Nyothach, et al.. (2025). Factors associated with school dropout and sexual and reproductive health: a cross-sectional analysis among out-of-school girls in western Kenya. BMJ Public Health. 3(1). e001528–e001528. 1 indexed citations

Barteit, Sandra, Charlotte Müller, Pascal Zabré, et al.. (2025). Assessing heat exposure and its effects on farmer health, harvest yields, and nutrition: a study protocol for Burkina Faso and Kenya. Global Health Action. 18(1). 2513719–2513719.

Kwaro, Daniel, David Obor, Stephen Munga, et al.. (2025). Wearable device monitoring of HIV health in the face of climate change and weather exposures: protocol for a mixed-methods study. BMJ Open. 15(6). e092307–e092307.

Nyothach, Elizabeth, Garazi Zulaika, Anna Maria van Eijk, et al.. (2024). “He’ll come with some sugar.” A qualitative study exploring the drivers and consequences of schoolgirls transactional sex behaviours. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 1325038–1325038. 2 indexed citations

Kwaro, Daniel, Kathryn Risher, Sammy Khagayi, et al.. (2023). Comparison of programmatic data from antenatal clinics with population-based HIV prevalence estimates in the era of universal test and treat in western Kenya. PLoS ONE. 18(6). e0287626–e0287626.

Reniers, Georges, Clara Calvert, Momodou Jasseh, et al.. (2023). Pregnancy‐related mortality up to 1 year postpartum in sub‐Saharan Africa: an analysis of verbal autopsy data from six countries. BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 131(2). 163–174. 5 indexed citations

Zulaika, Garazi, Elizabeth Nyothach, Anna Maria van Eijk, et al.. (2023). Menstrual cups and cash transfer to reduce sexual and reproductive harm and school dropout in adolescent schoolgirls in western Kenya: a cluster randomised controlled trial. EClinicalMedicine. 65. 102261–102261. 6 indexed citations

Deichsel, E, Helen Powell, Christopher Troeger, et al.. (2023). Drivers of Decline in Diarrhea Mortality Between GEMS and VIDA Studies. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 76(Supplement_1). S58–S65. 1 indexed citations

Nyawanda, Bryan O., Anton Beloconi, Sammy Khagayi, et al.. (2023). The relative effect of climate variability on malaria incidence after scale-up of interventions in western Kenya: A time-series analysis of monthly incidence data from 2008 to 2019. Parasite Epidemiology and Control. 21. e00297–e00297. 19 indexed citations

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Sewe, Maquins Odhiambo, et al.. (2023). Public health determinants of child malaria mortality: a surveillance study within Siaya County, Western Kenya. Malaria Journal. 22(1). 5 indexed citations

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Spinhoven, Philip, Garazi Zulaika, Elizabeth Nyothach, et al.. (2022). Quality of life and well-being problems in secondary schoolgirls in Kenya: Prevalence, associated characteristics, and course predictors. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(12). e0001338–e0001338. 1 indexed citations

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Huhn, Sophie, Hanns‐Christian Gunga, Martina Anna Maggioni, et al.. (2022). Wearables for Measuring Health Effects of Climate Change–Induced Weather Extremes: Scoping Review. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 10(9). e39532–e39532. 19 indexed citations

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Huhn, Sophie, Hanns‐Christian Gunga, Martina Anna Maggioni, et al.. (2022). The Impact of Wearable Technologies in Health Research: Scoping Review. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 10(1). e34384–e34384. 184 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zulaika, Garazi, Elizabeth Nyothach, Linda Mason, et al.. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on adolescent pregnancy and school dropout among secondary schoolgirls in Kenya. BMJ Global Health. 7(1). e007666–e007666. 74 indexed citations

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Benshaul-Tolonen, Anja, Garazi Zulaika, Elizabeth Nyothach, et al.. (2022). Cost-Effectiveness and Cost–Benefit Analyses of Providing Menstrual Cups and Sanitary Pads to Schoolgirls in Rural Kenya. Women s Health Reports. 3(1). 773–784. 15 indexed citations

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Nyothach, Elizabeth, Anna Maria van Eijk, David Obor, et al.. (2021). Pregnancy and marriage among teenage schoolgirls in rural western Kenya; a secondary analysis of a menstrual solution feasibility COHORT study. International Journal of Reproduction Contraception Obstetrics and Gynecology. 10(9). 3277–3277. 5 indexed citations

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Zulaika, Garazi, Elizabeth Nyothach, Anna Maria van Eijk, et al.. (2021). Factors associated with the prevalence of HIV, HSV-2, pregnancy, and reported sexual activity among adolescent girls in rural western Kenya: A cross-sectional analysis of baseline data in a cluster randomized controlled trial. PLoS Medicine. 18(9). e1003756–e1003756. 16 indexed citations

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Samuels, Aaron M., Wycliffe Odongo, Bernard Abong’o, et al.. (2019). Community-based intermittent mass testing and treatment for malaria in an area of high transmission intensity, western Kenya: development of study site infrastructure and lessons learned. Malaria Journal. 18(1). 255–255. 8 indexed citations

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Gibson, Dustin G., et al.. (2019). Text Message Reminders and Unconditional Monetary Incentives to Improve Measles Vaccination in Western Kenya: Study Protocol for the Mobile and Scalable Innovations for Measles Immunization Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols. 8(7). e13221–e13221. 7 indexed citations

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McMorrow, Meredith, Gideon O. Emukule, David Obor, et al.. (2017). Maternal influenza vaccine strategies in Kenya: Which approach would have the greatest impact on disease burden in pregnant women and young infants?. PLoS ONE. 12(12). e0189623–e0189623. 8 indexed citations

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