Ibrahim Abubakar

54.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
356 papers, 13.1k citations indexed

About

Ibrahim Abubakar is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Ibrahim Abubakar has authored 356 papers receiving a total of 13.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 242 papers in Infectious Diseases, 196 papers in Epidemiology and 76 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Ibrahim Abubakar's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (211 papers), Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (80 papers) and Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (74 papers). Ibrahim Abubakar is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (211 papers), Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (80 papers) and Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (74 papers). Ibrahim Abubakar collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Nigeria. Ibrahim Abubakar's co-authors include Marc Lipman, Paul Hunter, Michelle E. Kruijshaar, Helen R. Stagg, Laura C. Rodrigues, Punam Mangtani, Delan Devakumar, Alimuddin Zumla, Timothy D. McHugh and Geordan Shannon and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ibrahim Abubakar

340 papers receiving 12.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Global Tuberculosis Report 2020 – Reflections on the Global TB burden, treatment and prevention efforts

2021 673 citations Timothy D. McHugh, Ibrahim Abubakar et al. profile →
Protection by BCG Vaccine Against Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

2013 656 citations Punam Mangtani, Ibrahim Abubakar et al. profile →
Racism and discrimination in COVID-19 responses

2020 399 citations Delan Devakumar, Ibrahim Abubakar et al. profile →
The effect of global change on mosquito-borne disease

2019 375 citations Ibrahim Abubakar et al. profile →
Advances in tuberculosis diagnostics: the Xpert MTB/RIF assay and future prospects for a point-of-care test

2013 356 citations Timothy D. McHugh, Ibrahim Abubakar et al. profile →
Occupational health outcomes among international migrant workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2019 199 citations Delan Devakumar, Robert W Aldridge et al. profile →
Racism, xenophobia, discrimination, and the determination of health

2022 80 citations Delan Devakumar, Ibrahim Abubakar et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Community-based testing of migrants for infectious diseases (COMBAT-ID): observational cohort study measuring the effectiveness of routine testing for infectious diseases among migrants attending primary care 2025 ·EClinicalMedicine ·Rebecca F. Baggaley, Christopher Martin, Helen Eborall, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), George Hills, Mayur B. Patel, Iain Stephenson, Pranabashis Haldar, Ibrahim Abubakar, (unknown), Helena White, William Jones, Mark A. Pierce, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Chris Griffiths, Manish Pareek	0
2	Estimating the risk of post-COVID condition in deprived communities, migrants and ethnic minorities in England: findings from Virus Watch—a prospective community cohort study 2025 ·Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health ·Wing Lam Erica Fong, Sarah Beale, Vincent Nguyen, Jana Kovar, Alexei Yavlinsky, Andrew Hayward, Ibrahim Abubakar, Sander M. J. van Kuijk, Robert W Aldridge	0
3	A pilot cross-sectional study of non-communicable diseases in TB household contacts 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Yohhei Hamada, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Issa Sabi, Samuel H. Wilson, Andrew Copas, Kavindhran Velen, Nyanda Elias Ntinginya, Lilian Tina Minja, Ibrahim Abubakar, Salome Charalambous, Molebogeng X. Rangaka	1
4	Improving the quality of the Global Burden of Disease tuberculosis estimates from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation 2023 ·International Journal of Epidemiology ·Peter J. Dodd, Christopher Finn McQuaid, (unknown), Ibrahim Abubakar, Nimalan Arinaminpathy, (unknown), Frank Cobelens, David W. Dowdy, Kathy Fiekert, Alison D. Grant, Jing Wu, (unknown), Nabila Shaikh, Rein M G J Houben, Richard G. White	4
5	A Systematic Review on the Safety of Mycobacterium tuberculosis–Specific Antigen–Based Skin Tests for Tuberculosis Infection Compared With Tuberculin Skin Tests 2023 ·Open Forum Infectious Diseases ·Yohhei Hamada, Irina Kontsevaya, Elena Surkova, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Claudia M. Denkinger, Alexei Korobitsyn, Nazir Ismail, Ibrahim Abubakar, Molebogeng X. Rangaka	13
6	Drivers determining tuberculosis disease screening yield in four European screening programmes: a comparative analysis 2023 ·European Respiratory Journal ·Dominik Zenner, (unknown), (unknown), Dee Menezes, Robert W Aldridge, Sarah R. Anderson, Gèrard de Vries, Connie Erkens, Valentina Marchese, Alberto Matteelli, Morris C Muzyamba, Job van Rest, (unknown), John Were, Giovanni Battista Migliori, Knut Lönnroth, Frank Cobelens, Ibrahim Abubakar	6
7	Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups in England are at increased risk of death from COVID-19: indirect standardisation of NHS mortality data [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] 2020 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Robert W Aldridge, Dan Lewer, (unknown), Rohini Mathur, Neha Pathak, Ryan Burns, (unknown), (unknown), Delan Devakumar, Ibrahim Abubakar, Andrew Hayward	14
8	Management and control of tuberculosis control in socially complex groups: a research programme including three RCTs 2020 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Alistair Story, Elizabeth Garber, Robert W Aldridge, Catherine M. Smith, (unknown), Gloria Ferenando, (unknown), (unknown), Fatima Wurie, Serena Luchenski, Ibrahim Abubakar, Timothy D. McHugh, Peter J White, John Watson, Marc Lipman, Richard S. Garfein, Andrew Hayward	5
9	The relationship between social risk factors and latent tuberculosis infection among individuals residing in England: a cross-sectional study 2020 ·BMJ Global Health ·Swaib A. Lule, Rishi K Gupta, Maria Krutikov, Charlotte Jackson, Jo Southern, Ibrahim Abubakar	5
10	IMPACT study on intervening with a manualised package to achieve treatment adherence in people with tuberculosis: protocol paper for a mixed-methods study, including a pilot randomised controlled trial 2019 ·BMJ Open ·Helen R. Stagg, Ibrahim Abubakar, Colin Campbell, Andrew Copas, Marcia Darvell, Robert Horne, Karina Kielmann, Heinke Kunst, (unknown), (unknown), Alistair Story, Nicole Vidal, Fatima Wurie, Marc Lipman	6
11	Effectiveness of interventions for reducing TB incidence in countries with low TB incidence: a systematic review of reviews 2019 ·European Respiratory Review ·Simon M. Collin, Fatima Wurie, Morris C Muzyamba, Gèrard de Vries, Knut Lönnroth, Giovanni Battista Migliori, Ibrahim Abubakar, Sarah R. Anderson, Dominik Zenner	17
12	Two interferon gamma release assays for predicting active tuberculosis: the UK PREDICT TB prognostic test study 2018 ·Health Technology Assessment ·Ibrahim Abubakar, Ajit Lalvani, (unknown), Alice Sitch, Charlotte Jackson, Olu Onyimadu, Marc Lipman, Jonathan J Deeks, Chris Griffiths, Graham Bothamley, Onn Min Kon, Andrew Hayward, Joanne Lord, Francis Drobniewski	21
13	Tuberculosis in the European Union and European Economic Area: a survey of national tuberculosis programmes 2018 ·European Respiratory Journal ·Simon M. Collin, Gèrard de Vries, Knut Lönnroth, Giovanni Battista Migliori, Ibrahim Abubakar, Sarah R. Anderson, Dominik Zenner	20
14	Measurement of Skin Induration Size Using Smartphone Images and Photogrammetric Reconstruction: Pilot Study 2017 ·Ronald Dendere, Tinashe Mutsvangwa, René Goliath, Molebogeng X. Rangaka, Ibrahim Abubakar, Tania S. Douglas	8
15	ERROR ANALYSIS IN SOLVING SIMULTANEOUS AND QUADRATIC EQUATIONS IN SOME SELECTED SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN SABON GARI ZARIA IN KADUNA STATE 2017 ·ATBU Journal of Science, Technology & Education ·Ibrahim Abubakar	1
16	Testing for TB in a contemporary UK HIV clinic - is it really worth it? 2016 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·(unknown), Janey Sewell, Colette Smith, (unknown), Sanjay Bhagani, (unknown), Ibrahim Abubakar, Sherry Johnson, Marc Lipman	3
17	Systematic review and meta-analysis of the current evidence on the duration of protection by bacillus Calmette–Guérin vaccination against tuberculosis 2013 ·Health Technology Assessment ·Ibrahim Abubakar, Laura Pimpin, Cono Ariti, Rhys Beynon, Punam Mangtani, Jonathan A C Sterne, (unknown), Peter G. Smith, Marc Lipman, David Elliman, (unknown), Lydia N. Drumright, Penny Whiting, Emilia Vynnycky, Laura C. Rodrigues	344
18	Tuberculosis screening of migrants to low-burden nations: insights from evaluation of UK practice 2010 ·European Respiratory Journal ·Manish Pareek, Ibrahim Abubakar, Paul J. White, (unknown), Ajit Lalvani	37
19	Tuberculosis contact investigation in low prevalence countries: a European consensus 2010 ·European Respiratory Journal ·Connie Erkens, (unknown), Ibrahim Abubakar, G. Bothamley, Daniel Chemtob, Walter Haas, Giovanni Battista Migliori, Hans L. Rieder, Zellweger Jp, Christoph Lange	170
20	Developing a career in health protection⇓ 2004 ·BMJ ·Ibrahim Abubakar	1

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