Foday Dafae

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 615 citations indexed

About

Foday Dafae is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Emergency Medical Services and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Foday Dafae has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 615 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Infectious Diseases, 4 papers in Emergency Medical Services and 3 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Foday Dafae's work include Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (7 papers), Disaster Response and Management (4 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (3 papers). Foday Dafae is often cited by papers focused on Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (7 papers), Disaster Response and Management (4 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (3 papers). Foday Dafae collaborates with scholars based in Sierra Leone, United States and Switzerland. Foday Dafae's co-authors include Mohamed F. Jalloh, Sara Hersey, John T. Redd, Wenshu Li, Paul Sengeh, Oliver Morgan, Rebecca Bunnell, Barbara J. Marston, Ann O’Leary and Mohammad B. Jalloh and has published in prestigious journals such as Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Emerging infectious diseases and American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

In The Last Decade

Foday Dafae

12 papers receiving 599 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.

Impact of Ebola experiences and risk perceptions on mental health in Sierra Leone, July 2015

2018 298 citations Mohamed F. Jalloh, Wenshu Li et al. BMJ Global Health profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Foday Dafae Sierra Leone	11	257	242	138	84	83	12	615
Beverley Stringer United Kingdom	12	96 0.4×	226 0.9×	124 0.9×	119 1.4×	35 0.4×	26	454
Katrina Hann Sierra Leone	13	336 1.3×	105 0.4×	83 0.6×	157 1.9×	41 0.5×	34	695
Rosa Crestani Belgium	8	170 0.7×	192 0.8×	26 0.2×	57 0.7×	81 1.0×	12	496
Wafaa Y. Abdel Wahed Egypt	11	355 1.4×	79 0.3×	53 0.4×	187 2.2×	75 0.9×	37	752
Hülya Akan Türkiye	10	86 0.3×	120 0.5×	93 0.7×	50 0.6×	29 0.3×	31	433
Cristian Díaz-Vélez Peru	12	120 0.5×	78 0.3×	28 0.2×	129 1.5×	34 0.4×	122	440
Mary M. Ramos United States	17	83 0.3×	296 1.2×	68 0.5×	176 2.1×	22 0.3×	43	695
Margaret McDonald United States	12	154 0.6×	101 0.4×	164 1.2×	100 1.2×	23 0.3×	26	515
Sandra Valongueiro Alves Brazil	17	118 0.5×	246 1.0×	155 1.1×	226 2.7×	76 0.9×	47	1.0k
Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim Malaysia	14	226 0.9×	106 0.4×	62 0.4×	72 0.9×	33 0.4×	96	658

Countries citing papers authored by Foday Dafae

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Fields of papers citing papers by Foday Dafae

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Foday Dafae

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

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Jalloh, Mohamed F., Wenshu Li, Rebecca Bunnell, et al.. (2018). Impact of Ebola experiences and risk perceptions on mental health in Sierra Leone, July 2015. BMJ Global Health. 3(2). e000471–e000471. 298 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kaiser, Reinhard, Natalie Johnson, Mohamed F. Jalloh, et al.. (2017). The WHO global reference list of 100 core health indicators: the example of Sierra Leone. Pan African Medical Journal. 27. 246–246. 15 indexed citations

3.

Jalloh, Mohamed F., Rebecca Bunnell, Susan Robinson, et al.. (2017). Assessments of Ebola knowledge, attitudes and practices in Forécariah, Guinea and Kambia, Sierra Leone, July–August 2015. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 372(1721). 20160304–20160304. 21 indexed citations

4.

Kaiser, Reinhard, Natalie Johnson, Mohamed F. Jalloh, et al.. (2017). The WHO global reference list of 100 core health indicators: the example of Sierra Leone. Pan African Medical Journal. 27. 1 indexed citations

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Alpren, Charles, Mohamed F. Jalloh, Reinhard Kaiser, et al.. (2017). The 117 call alert system in Sierra Leone: from rapid Ebola notification to routine death reporting. BMJ Global Health. 2(3). e000392–e000392. 16 indexed citations

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Olu, Olushayo Oluseun, et al.. (2016). Incident Management Systems Are Essential for Effective Coordination of Large Disease Outbreaks: Perspectives from the Coordination of the Ebola Outbreak Response in Sierra Leone. Frontiers in Public Health. 4. 254–254. 18 indexed citations

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Olu, Olushayo Oluseun, et al.. (2016). Contact Tracing during an Outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in the Western Area Districts of Sierra Leone: Lessons for Future Ebola Outbreak Response. Frontiers in Public Health. 4. 130–130. 37 indexed citations

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Lu, Huijun, Jun Qian, David Kargbo, et al.. (2015). Ebola Virus Outbreak Investigation, Sierra Leone, September 28–November 11, 2014. Emerging infectious diseases. 21(11). 1921–1927. 23 indexed citations

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Sreenivasan, Nandini, Eugene Lam, Tracy Ayers, et al.. (2014). Cholera Epidemic Associated with Consumption of Unsafe Drinking Water and Street-Vended Water—Eastern Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2012. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 90(3). 518–523. 51 indexed citations

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Steffen, Christoph A., Katelijn Vandemaele, Wondimagegnehu Alemu, et al.. (2013). Establishing a national influenza sentinel surveillance system in a limited resource setting, experience of Sierra Leone. Health Research Policy and Systems. 11(1). 22–22. 11 indexed citations

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Feuerriegel, Silke, et al.. (2012). Sequence analysis for detection of first-line drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from a high-incidence setting. BMC Microbiology. 12(1). 90–90. 67 indexed citations

12.

Homolka, Susanne, Erik Post, Lars Westman, et al.. (2008). High genetic diversity among Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains from Sierra Leone. BMC Microbiology. 8(1). 103–103. 57 indexed citations

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