James Orbinski

3.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
78 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

James Orbinski is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, James Orbinski has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 18 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 15 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in James Orbinski's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (14 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (10 papers) and COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts (8 papers). James Orbinski is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (14 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (10 papers) and COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts (8 papers). James Orbinski collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and South Africa. James Orbinski's co-authors include Nathan Ford, Els Torreele, Piero Olliaro, Patrice Trouiller, Richard Laing, Sonal Singh, Edward J. Mills, Beth Rachlis, Gordon Guyatt and Curtis Cooper and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, JAMA and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

James Orbinski

72 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa and North America

2006 704 citations Edward J. Mills, Jean B. Nachega et al. JAMA profile →
Drug development for neglected diseases: a deficient market and a public-health policy failure

2002 546 citations James Orbinski et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Orbinski Canada	19	790	460	447	391	270	78	2.1k
Louise C. Ivers United States	29	1.1k 1.4×	532 1.2×	736 1.6×	401 1.0×	165 0.6×	91	2.9k
Tolu Oni United Kingdom	27	1.4k 1.7×	1.4k 2.9×	368 0.8×	335 0.9×	387 1.4×	110	3.3k
Samuel Manda South Africa	27	474 0.6×	411 0.9×	471 1.1×	171 0.4×	232 0.9×	126	2.1k
Sonja Merten Switzerland	25	915 1.2×	942 2.0×	836 1.9×	246 0.6×	190 0.7×	106	2.4k
Tafadzwa Dzinamarira South Africa	24	806 1.0×	358 0.8×	398 0.9×	188 0.5×	263 1.0×	205	1.9k
Neeraj Dhingra India	18	358 0.5×	353 0.8×	255 0.6×	456 1.2×	104 0.4×	42	2.3k
Michael Bartoš Australia	13	709 0.9×	328 0.7×	560 1.3×	117 0.3×	206 0.8×	29	1.6k
Diego F. Cuadros United States	23	566 0.7×	528 1.1×	360 0.8×	237 0.6×	250 0.9×	90	1.6k
Musawenkosi Mabaso South Africa	26	1.1k 1.3×	529 1.1×	1.0k 2.3×	767 2.0×	310 1.1×	96	2.8k
Amir Attaran Canada	22	1.1k 1.3×	489 1.1×	605 1.4×	797 2.0×	699 2.6×	119	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by James Orbinski

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Orbinski

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Orbinski

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

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Brown, James E., et al.. (2025). Evaluating chlorine taste and odor acceptability to inform drinking water chlorination in humanitarian settings: Lessons from trials in Uganda. PLOS Water. 4(2). e0000267–e0000267. 1 indexed citations

Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi, et al.. (2025). Risk factors associated with human Mpox infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Global Health. 10(2). e016937–e016937. 10 indexed citations

Deng, Qi, Ali Asgary, Jude Dzevela Kong, et al.. (2025). Uncovering the impact of infection routes on within-host MPXV dynamics: Insights from a mathematical modeling study. PLoS Computational Biology. 21(5). e1013073–e1013073. 1 indexed citations

Brown, James E., et al.. (2024). Evaluation of the Safe Water Optimization Tool to Provide Evidence-Based Chlorination Targets in Surface Waters: Lessons from a Refugee Setting in Uganda. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(42). 18531–18540. 1 indexed citations

Talukder, Byomkesh, et al.. (2024). Exploring the nexus: Comparing and aligning Planetary Health, One Health, and EcoHealth. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 66–75. 8 indexed citations

Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi, et al.. (2024). Risk Factors of Human Mpox (Monkeypox) Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. medRxiv. 2 indexed citations

Fonkou, Maxime Descartes Mbogning, Ali Ahmadi, Ali Asgary, et al.. (2024). The determinants of COVID-19 case reporting across Africa. Frontiers in Public Health. 12. 1406363–1406363.

Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi, Ali Asgary, B. Mellado, et al.. (2023). Off-label drug use during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: topic modelling and sentiment analysis of ivermectin in South Africa and Nigeria as a case study. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 20(206). 20230200–20230200. 4 indexed citations

Talukder, Byomkesh, et al.. (2023). Collective intelligence for addressing community planetary health resulting from salinity prompted by sea level rise. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10. 100203–100203. 6 indexed citations

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Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi, et al.. (2023). Estimation of epidemiological parameters and ascertainment rate from early transmission of COVID-19 across Africa. Royal Society Open Science. 10(9). 230316–230316. 5 indexed citations

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Ogbuokiri, Blessing, Ali Ahmadi, B. R. Mellado Garcia, et al.. (2023). Vaccine Hesitancy Hotspots in Africa: An Insight From Geotagged Twitter Posts. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. 11(1). 1325–1338. 12 indexed citations

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Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi, et al.. (2023). Mpox Panic, Infodemic, and Stigmatization of the Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual Community: Geospatial Analysis, Topic Modeling, and Sentiment Analysis of a Large, Multilingual Social Media Database. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 25. e45108–e45108. 21 indexed citations

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Talukder, Byomkesh, Jochen E. Schubert, Ali Asgary, et al.. (2023). Complex adaptive systems-based framework for modeling the health impacts of climate change. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 15. 100292–100292. 7 indexed citations

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Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi, Jude Dzevela Kong, Ali Asgary, et al.. (2021). Development of an Early Alert System for an Additional Wave of COVID-19 Cases Using a Recurrent Neural Network with Long Short-Term Memory. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(14). 7376–7376. 5 indexed citations

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Talukder, Byomkesh, et al.. (2021). Climate change‐triggered land degradation and planetary health: A review. Land Degradation and Development. 32(16). 4509–4522. 38 indexed citations

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Dodd, Warren, Courtney Howard, Caren Rose, et al.. (2018). The summer of smoke: ecosocial and health impacts of a record wildfire season in the Northwest Territories, Canada. The Lancet Global Health. 6. S30–S30. 10 indexed citations

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Dodd, Warren, Patrick G. Scott, Courtney Howard, et al.. (2018). Lived experience of a record wildfire season in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 109(3). 327–337. 90 indexed citations

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Joffres, Michel R., et al.. (2010). Health and historical levels of freedom. Globalization and Health. 6(1). 11–11. 2 indexed citations

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Mills, Edward J., Jean B. Nachega, Iain Buchan, et al.. (2006). Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa and North America. JAMA. 296(6). 679–679. 704 indexed citations breakdown →

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Orbinski, James. (2001). Market Enticements Are Not Enough. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 79(8). 776. 4 indexed citations

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