Gunnar Bjune

8.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
153 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Gunnar Bjune is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Gunnar Bjune has authored 153 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 135 papers in Infectious Diseases, 94 papers in Epidemiology and 50 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Gunnar Bjune's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (97 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (49 papers) and Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (30 papers). Gunnar Bjune is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (97 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (49 papers) and Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (30 papers). Gunnar Bjune collaborates with scholars based in Norway, Ethiopia and Russia. Gunnar Bjune's co-authors include Solomon Abebe Yimer, Dag Gundersen Storla, Fekadu Abebe, Jan C. Frich, Carol Holm‐Hansen, Fekadu Abebe, Mahteme Haile, Gobena Ameni, Mette Sagbakken and Dominique A. Caugant and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Lancet and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Gunnar Bjune

152 papers receiving 6.2k 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.

A systematic review of delay in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis

2008 726 citations Dag Gundersen Storla, Solomon Abebe Yimer et al. BMC Public Health profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gunnar Bjune Norway	43	5.0k	3.9k	1.8k	612	563	153	6.6k
Annelies Van Rie United States	49	5.6k 1.1×	5.0k 1.3×	1.6k 0.9×	576 0.9×	1.0k 1.8×	234	8.2k
Peter Godfrey‐Faussett United Kingdom	48	6.0k 1.2×	4.8k 1.3×	2.2k 1.2×	447 0.7×	615 1.1×	162	7.4k
Amelia C. Crampin United Kingdom	46	4.2k 0.8×	3.0k 0.8×	870 0.5×	937 1.5×	1.1k 2.0×	223	7.0k
Philip C. Hill New Zealand	48	4.6k 0.9×	4.5k 1.2×	1.7k 0.9×	456 0.7×	347 0.6×	223	7.3k
S. Bertel Squire United Kingdom	39	4.1k 0.8×	3.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	658 1.1×	770 1.4×	217	6.0k
Martien W. Borgdorff Netherlands	56	7.7k 1.5×	6.2k 1.6×	3.8k 2.0×	306 0.5×	628 1.1×	210	9.2k
Sue J. Goldie United States	52	2.1k 0.4×	5.4k 1.4×	2.1k 1.1×	552 0.9×	793 1.4×	143	9.3k
Luís E. Cuevas United Kingdom	44	5.1k 1.0×	3.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	307 0.5×	219 0.4×	248	7.6k
Charles F. Gilks United Kingdom	52	7.9k 1.6×	5.8k 1.5×	1.0k 0.6×	679 1.1×	1.2k 2.1×	265	11.9k
Neil Martinson South Africa	40	4.3k 0.9×	3.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	371 0.6×	569 1.0×	280	5.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gunnar Bjune

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

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Elsony, Asma, et al.. (2020). Exploring the consequences of decentralization: has privatization of health services been the perceived effect of decentralization in Khartoum locality, Sudan?. BMC Health Services Research. 20(1). 669–669. 6 indexed citations

Mortimer, Kevin, et al.. (2016). Chronic respiratory disease in adults treated for tuberculosis in Khartoum, Sudan. Public Health Action. 6(3). 199–204. 13 indexed citations

Haile, Mahteme, Gunnar Bjune, & Solomon Abebe Yimer. (2016). Prevalence and Associated Factors of Diabetes Mellitus among Tuberculosis Patients in South-Eastern Amhara Region, Ethiopia: A Cross Sectional Study. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0147621–e0147621. 56 indexed citations

Belay, Mulugeta, Mengistu Legesse, Adane Mihret, et al.. (2015). Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines against Rv2031 Are Elevated during Latent Tuberculosis: A Study in Cohorts of Tuberculosis Patients, Household Contacts and Community Controls in an Endemic Setting. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0124134–e0124134. 35 indexed citations

Sagbakken, Mette, Jan C. Frich, Gunnar Bjune, & John Porter. (2013). Ethical aspects of directly observed treatment for tuberculosis: a cross-cultural comparison. BMC Medical Ethics. 14(1). 25–25. 38 indexed citations

Grjibovski, A M, et al.. (2013). Hopelessness as a basis for tuberculosis diagnostic delay in the Arkhangelsk region: a grounded theory study. BMC Public Health. 13(1). 712–712. 18 indexed citations

Mamo, Gezahegne, Fekadu Abebe, Mengistu Legesse, et al.. (2013). Bovine tuberculosis and its associated risk factors in pastoral and agro-pastoral cattle herds of Afar Region, Northeast Ethiopia. Journal of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Health. 5(6). 171–179. 32 indexed citations

Legesse, Mengistu, Gobena Ameni, Gezahegne Mamo, et al.. (2011). Community-based cross-sectional survey of latent tuberculosis infection in Afar pastoralists, Ethiopia, using QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube and tuberculin skin test. BMC Infectious Diseases. 11(1). 89–89. 41 indexed citations

Gele, Abdi, Mette Sagbakken, Fekadu Abebe, & Gunnar Bjune. (2010). Barriers to tuberculosis care: a qualitative study among Somali pastoralists in Ethiopia. BMC Research Notes. 3(1). 86–86. 49 indexed citations

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Hasle, Gunnar, et al.. (2010). Transport of Ixodes ricinus infected with Borrelia species to Norway by northward-migrating passerine birds. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 2(1). 37–43. 59 indexed citations

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Gele, Abdi, Gunnar Bjune, & Fekadu Abebe. (2009). Pastoralism and delay in diagnosis of TB in Ethiopia. BMC Public Health. 9(1). 5–5. 96 indexed citations

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Nyombi, Balthazar, Carol Holm‐Hansen, Knut Ivan Kristiansen, Gunnar Bjune, & Fredrik Müller. (2008). Prevalence of reverse transcriptase and protease mutations associated with antiretroviral drug resistance among drug-naïve HIV-1 infected pregnant women in Kagera and Kilimanjaro regions, Tanzania. AIDS Research and Therapy. 5(1). 13–13. 19 indexed citations

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Storla, Dag Gundersen, Zeaur Rahim, Bjørn Myrvang, et al.. (2006). Drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Sunamganj District of Bangladesh. Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases. 39(2). 142–145. 7 indexed citations

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Steen, Tore W., et al.. (2006). Patient and health care system delays in the start of tuberculosis treatment in Norway. BMC Infectious Diseases. 6(1). 33–33. 108 indexed citations

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Meyer, Helmut E., et al.. (2005). Long-term risk of tuberculosis among immigrants in Norway. International Journal of Epidemiology. 34(5). 1005–1011. 44 indexed citations

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Yimer, Solomon Abebe, Gunnar Bjune, & Getu Degu Alene. (2005). Diagnostic and treatment delay among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Ethiopia: a cross sectional study. BMC Infectious Diseases. 5(1). 112–112. 218 indexed citations

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Beyene, Demissew, Abraham Aseffa, M Harboe, et al.. (2003). Nasal carriage of Mycobacterium leprae DNA in healthy individuals in Lega Robi village, Ethiopia. Epidemiology and Infection. 131(2). 841–848. 26 indexed citations

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Caugant, Dominique A., et al.. (2002). Mycobacterium tuberculosismammalian cell entry operon (mce) homologs inMycobacteriumother than tuberculosis (MOTT). FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology. 33(2). 125–132. 52 indexed citations

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Oftung, Fredrik, et al.. (1999). A mouse model utilising human transferrin to study protection againstNeisseria meningitidisserogroup B induced by outer membrane vesicle vaccination. FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology. 26(1). 75–82. 15 indexed citations

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Andersen, Svein Rune, Jan Kolberg, E. Arne Høiby, et al.. (1997). Lipopolysaccharide heterogeneity and escape mechanisms ofNeisseria meningitidis: possible consequences for vaccine development. Microbial Pathogenesis. 23(3). 139–155. 18 indexed citations

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