James A. Berkley

36.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
237 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

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James A. Berkley is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, James A. Berkley has authored 237 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 76 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 58 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in James A. Berkley's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (115 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (50 papers) and Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (38 papers). James A. Berkley is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (115 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (50 papers) and Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (38 papers). James A. Berkley collaborates with scholars based in Kenya, United Kingdom and United States. James A. Berkley's co-authors include Charles R. Newton, Brett Lowe, Kevin Marsh, Kathryn Maitland, Isaiah Mwangi, Andrew J. Prendergast, Claire D. Bourke, Mike English, J. Anthony G. Scott and Phoebe Williams and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

James A. Berkley

230 papers receiving 8.9k 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.

Bacteremia among Children Admitted to a Rural Hospital in Kenya

2005 641 citations James A. Berkley, Mike English et al. profile →
Immune Dysfunction as a Cause and Consequence of Malnutrition

2016 446 citations James A. Berkley, Andrew J. Prendergast et al. profile →
Severe childhood malnutrition

2017 258 citations Zulfiqar A Bhutta, James A. Berkley et al. Nature Reviews Disease Primers profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
James A. Berkley	3.1k	2.3k	2.1k	2.0k	1.9k	237	9.2k
Nita Bhandari	5.1k 1.6×	1.3k 0.5×	3.6k 1.7×	2.6k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	185	9.6k
Mathuram Santosham	3.0k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	5.8k 2.7×	2.9k 1.4×	3.2k 1.7×	284	13.7k
Per Ashorn	4.2k 1.3×	1.3k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	2.1k 1.0×	956 0.5×	276	7.9k
Henrik Friis	3.1k 1.0×	1.1k 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	332	8.6k
José Martines	3.7k 1.2×	1.2k 0.5×	2.5k 1.2×	2.6k 1.3×	593 0.3×	72	6.7k
Kathryn Maitland	1.1k 0.4×	2.5k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	960 0.5×	671 0.4×	159	6.8k
Kenneth Maleta	4.8k 1.5×	1.1k 0.5×	742 0.3×	1.8k 0.9×	698 0.4×	249	7.5k
Andrew J. Prendergast	3.3k 1.0×	515 0.2×	1.1k 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	2.5k 1.3×	176	7.5k
Sunil Sazawal	3.8k 1.2×	562 0.2×	682 0.3×	991 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	98	6.8k
Elizabeth Molyneux	436 0.1×	1.6k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	2.0k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	226	6.9k

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Huybregts, Lieven, James A. Berkley, Kathryn G. Dewey, et al.. (2025). Addressing prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema in children requires an improved evidence base on resource use and cost-effectiveness of interventions. BMJ Global Health. 10(Suppl 5). e016220–e016220. 1 indexed citations

Ruel, Marie T., Per Ashorn, James A. Berkley, et al.. (2025). Prevention of wasting and nutritional oedema: evidence gaps identified during WHO guideline development. BMJ Global Health. 10(Suppl 5). e016314–e016314. 1 indexed citations

Schwinger, Catherine, James A. Berkley, Judd L. Walson, et al.. (2024). Cohort profile: the WHO Child Mortality Risk Stratification Multi-Country Pooled Cohort (WHO-CMRS) to identify predictors of mortality through early childhood. BMJ Open. 14(11). e085164–e085164. 3 indexed citations

Gwela, Agnes, Abraham Siika, Mutsa Bwakura‐Dangarembizi, et al.. (2024). Biomarkers of mortality in adults and adolescents with advanced HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5492–5492. 5 indexed citations

Briend, André, Mark Myatt, James A. Berkley, et al.. (2023). Prognostic value of different anthropometric indices over different measurement intervals to predict mortality in 6–59-month-old children. Public Health Nutrition. 26(6). 1210–1221. 3 indexed citations

Nyaguara, Amek, et al.. (2023). Spatial heterogeneity of low-birthweight deliveries on the Kenyan coast. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 23(1). 270–270. 2 indexed citations

Mbale, Emmie, Caroline Tigoi, Judd L. Walson, et al.. (2023). Evaluating blood culture collection practice in children hospitalized with acute illness at a tertiary hospital in Malawi. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics. 70(1).

Talbert, Alison W., Moses M. Ngari, Christina W. Obiero, et al.. (2023). Trends in inpatient and post-discharge mortality among young infants admitted to Kilifi County Hospital, Kenya: a retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open. 13(1). e067482–e067482. 4 indexed citations

Parker, Edward P K, Simon Fleming, Agnes Gwela, et al.. (2022). Cessation of exclusive breastfeeding and seasonality, but not small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, are associated with environmental enteric dysfunction: A birth cohort study amongst infants in rural Kenya. EClinicalMedicine. 47. 101403–101403. 6 indexed citations

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Lelijveld, Natasha, et al.. (2021). Anthropometric Criteria for Identifying Infants Under 6 Months of Age at Risk of Morbidity and Mortality: A Systematic Review. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 15. 173301680–173301680. 23 indexed citations

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Molla, Meseret Derbew, Christopher I. Jones, Stephen Bremner, et al.. (2020). Excess mortality among people with podoconiosis: secondary analysis of two Ethiopian cohorts. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 114(12). 1035–1037. 4 indexed citations

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Berkley, James A., et al.. (2020). Cost and cost-effectiveness analysis of treatment for child undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review. 5. 62–62. 11 indexed citations

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Aluvaala, Jalemba, et al.. (2020). Prediction modelling of inpatient neonatal mortality in high-mortality settings. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 106(5). 449–454. 3 indexed citations

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Mwangome, Martha, Alison W. Talbert, Neema Mturi, et al.. (2019). Individualized breastfeeding support for acutely ill, malnourished infants under 6 months old. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 16(1). e12868–e12868. 19 indexed citations

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Hassan, Amin S., David Bibby, Shalton Mwaringa, et al.. (2019). Presence, persistence and effects of pre-treatment HIV-1 drug resistance variants detected using next generation sequencing: A Retrospective longitudinal study from rural coastal Kenya. PLoS ONE. 14(2). e0210559–e0210559. 14 indexed citations

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Njunge, James M., Agnes Gwela, Nelson Kibinge, et al.. (2019). Biomarkers of post-discharge mortality among children with complicated severe acute malnutrition. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 5981–5981. 41 indexed citations

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Ngari, Moses M., Per Ole Iversen, Johnstone Thitiri, et al.. (2018). Linear growth following complicated severe malnutrition: 1-year follow-up cohort of Kenyan children. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 104(3). 229–235. 19 indexed citations

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Berkley, James A.. (2018). Mass antibiotic distribution to reduce mortality among preschool children?. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 104(3). 227–228. 1 indexed citations

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Williams, Phoebe & James A. Berkley. (2018). Guidelines for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition: a systematic review of the evidence for antimicrobial therapy. Paediatrics and International Child Health. 38(sup1). S32–S49. 38 indexed citations

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Bhutta, Zulfiqar A, et al.. (2017). Severe childhood malnutrition. Nature Reviews Disease Primers. 3(1). 17 indexed citations

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