Harsha Thirumurthy

9.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
186 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Harsha Thirumurthy is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, General Health Professions and Safety Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Harsha Thirumurthy has authored 186 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 103 papers in Infectious Diseases, 71 papers in General Health Professions and 47 papers in Safety Research. Recurrent topics in Harsha Thirumurthy's work include HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (102 papers), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (52 papers) and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (47 papers). Harsha Thirumurthy is often cited by papers focused on HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (102 papers), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (52 papers) and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (47 papers). Harsha Thirumurthy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Uganda and Kenya. Harsha Thirumurthy's co-authors include Joshua Graff Zivin, Markus Goldstein, Kawango Agot, Audrey Pettifor, Carolyn Tucker Halpern, Sudhanshu Handa, Sue Napierala, Soojong Kim, Guy Grossman and Cristian Pop-Eleches and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Harsha Thirumurthy

171 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

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.

Mobile phone technologies improve adherence to antiretroviral treatment in a resource-limited setting: a randomized controlled trial of text message reminders

2011 757 citations Cristian Pop-Eleches, Harsha Thirumurthy et al. AIDS profile →
Political partisanship influences behavioral responses to governors’ recommendations for COVID-19 prevention in the United States

2020 353 citations Harsha Thirumurthy et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Harsha Thirumurthy United States	37	2.7k	2.4k	1.4k	884	816	186	5.5k
F. Xavier Gómez‐Olivé South Africa	43	2.0k 0.7×	2.6k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	609 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	258	6.7k
James G. Kahn United States	42	2.2k 0.8×	1.6k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	252 0.3×	935 1.1×	202	6.5k
Paula Braitstein Kenya	41	3.2k 1.2×	2.1k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	623 0.7×	754 0.9×	164	5.1k
Catherine Mathews South Africa	44	2.4k 0.9×	3.5k 1.4×	1.3k 0.9×	536 0.6×	612 0.8×	236	5.5k
Basia Żaba United Kingdom	46	4.2k 1.5×	3.3k 1.4×	2.1k 1.4×	983 1.1×	1.7k 2.0×	182	6.6k
Agnès Binagwaho Rwanda	39	1.2k 0.4×	1.7k 0.7×	897 0.6×	282 0.3×	1.7k 2.1×	180	5.6k
Khangelani Zuma South Africa	32	3.3k 1.2×	3.3k 1.3×	1.7k 1.2×	607 0.7×	465 0.6×	103	5.7k
Audrey Pettifor United States	52	5.6k 2.0×	6.0k 2.5×	2.5k 1.7×	1.6k 1.9×	1.1k 1.4×	312	9.2k
Rachel Vreeman United States	35	2.5k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	852 0.6×	759 0.9×	642 0.8×	144	4.4k
Kobus Herbst South Africa	30	1.5k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	823 0.6×	291 0.3×	739 0.9×	99	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Harsha Thirumurthy

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Harsha Thirumurthy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Harsha Thirumurthy

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kwena, Zachary, Holly Nishimura, Kawango Agot, et al.. (2025). “There is no need to leave the beach to test”: a qualitative study of HIV self-testing knowledge and acceptability of HIV self-test kit distribution among social networks of fishermen in Western Kenya. BMC Public Health. 25(1). 1005–1005. 1 indexed citations

Sheira, Lila A., Zachary Kwena, Edwin D. Charlebois, et al.. (2025). The effect of a social network-based intervention on adherence to HIV preexposure prophylaxis and HIV viral suppression among Kenyan fishermen. AIDS. 39(7). 912–917.

Theilmann, Michaela, Pascal Geldsetzer, Shivani A. Patel, et al.. (2025). Does home-based screening improve hypertension diagnosis, treatment and control? A regression discontinuity analysis in urban India. BMJ Global Health. 10(6). e017167–e017167.

Richterman, Aaron, et al.. (2024). Acceptability, Feasibility, and Appropriateness of the B-OK Bottles as an Implementation Strategy for Treatment Adherence Support by Medical Case Managers. PubMed. 4(4). 433–445.

Ali, Mohammed K., Nikkil Sudharsanan, & Harsha Thirumurthy. (2023). Behaviour change in the era of biomedical advances. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(9). 1417–1419. 1 indexed citations

Richterman, Aaron, Christina A. Roberto, & Harsha Thirumurthy. (2023). Associations Between Ending Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Emergency Allotments and Food Insufficiency. JAMA Health Forum. 4(8). e232511–e232511. 9 indexed citations

Anderson, Rebecca L., R. Scott McClelland, Barbra A. Richardson, et al.. (2023). HIV incidence among women engaging in sex work in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis. medRxiv. 2 indexed citations

Marcus, Noora, Elizabeth F. Bair, Sue Napierala, et al.. (2022). Adoption of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among women at high risk of HIV infection in Kenya. PLoS ONE. 17(9). e0273409–e0273409. 4 indexed citations

Pulerwitz, Julie, Harsha Thirumurthy, Elizabeth E. Tolley, & Ariane van der Straten. (2021). Mitigating the COVID-19 challenges to HIV prevention efforts in Africa: A socio-behavioral perspective. Global Public Health. 16(11). 1786–1789. 1 indexed citations

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Smith, Philip, Dvora Joseph Davey, Linda‐Gail Bekker, et al.. (2021). Participatory Prototyping of a Tailored Undetectable Equals Untransmittable Message to Increase HIV Testing Among Men in Western Cape, South Africa. AIDS Patient Care and STDs. 35(11). 428–434. 10 indexed citations

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Chamie, Gabriel, Dalsone Kwarisiima, Kara Marson, et al.. (2021). Financial incentives and deposit contracts to promote HIV retesting in Uganda: A randomized trial. PLoS Medicine. 18(5). e1003630–e1003630. 12 indexed citations

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Chamie, Gabriel, Devy Emperador, Kara Marson, et al.. (2019). Men’s Beliefs About the Likelihood of Serodiscordance in Couples with an HIV-Positive Partner: Survey Evidence from Rural Uganda. AIDS and Behavior. 24(3). 967–974. 8 indexed citations

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Gichane, Margaret W., Kathryn E. Moracco, Harsha Thirumurthy, et al.. (2018). Intimate partner violence and prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV: Evidence from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. PLoS ONE. 13(8). e0203471–e0203471. 16 indexed citations

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Chamie, Gabriel, Devy Emperador, Dalsone Kwarisiima, et al.. (2018). Comparative effectiveness of novel nonmonetary incentives to promote HIV testing. AIDS. 32(11). 1443–1451. 25 indexed citations

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Zanolini, Arianna, Jenala Chipungu, Michael J. Vinikoor, et al.. (2017). HIV Self-Testing in Lusaka Province, Zambia: Acceptability, Comprehension of Testing Instructions, and Individual Preferences for Self-Test Kit Distribution in a Population-Based Sample of Adolescents and Adults. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 34(3). 254–260. 50 indexed citations

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Mufuka, Juliet, Sergio Bautista‐Arredondo, Harsha Thirumurthy, et al.. (2016). Results of a cluster-randomized trial of non-financial incentives to increase uptake of couples counselling and testing among clients attending PSI mobile HIV services in rural Zimbabwe. UCL Discovery (University College London). 3 indexed citations

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Rosenberg, Molly, Audrey Pettifor, Sheri A. Lippman, et al.. (2015). Relationship Between Community-Level Alcohol Outlet Accessibility and Individual-Level Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Infection Among Young Women in South Africa. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 42(5). 259–265. 1 indexed citations

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Geissler, Kimberley H., Charles Becker, Sally C. Stearns, Harsha Thirumurthy, & George M. Holmes. (2014). Exploring the Association of Homicides in Northern Mexico and Healthcare Access for US Residents. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 17(4). 1214–1224. 1 indexed citations

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Johnson, Kiersten L., Cristian Pop-Eleches, Harsha Thirumurthy, et al.. (2007). Demographic shifts and the spread of HIV in China.. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology. 28(3). 6 indexed citations

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Thirumurthy, Harsha. (1998). Household saving behavior and the real interest rate: an empirical study. OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network).

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