Janet Nakuti

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Janet Nakuti is a scholar working on Health, General Health Professions and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Janet Nakuti has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Health, 14 papers in General Health Professions and 13 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Janet Nakuti's work include Intimate Partner and Family Violence (19 papers), Child Abuse and Trauma (12 papers) and Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (12 papers). Janet Nakuti is often cited by papers focused on Intimate Partner and Family Violence (19 papers), Child Abuse and Trauma (12 papers) and Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (12 papers). Janet Nakuti collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Uganda and United States. Janet Nakuti's co-authors include Karen Devries, Nambusi Kyegombe, Charlotte Watts, Lori Michau, Tina Musuya, Tanya Abramsky, Elizabeth Starmann, Lígia Kiss, Dan K. Kaye and Leilani Francisco and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Janet Nakuti

19 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

Findings from the SASA! Study: a cluster randomized contr... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300
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.

  1. Findings from the SASA! Study: a cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of a community mobilization intervention to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV risk in Kampala, Uganda
    2014 333 citations Tanya Abramsky, Karen Devries et al. BMC Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Janet Nakuti United Kingdom 12 661 625 349 346 211 21 1.1k
Tina Musuya United Kingdom 14 595 0.9× 605 1.0× 182 0.5× 359 1.0× 200 0.9× 17 910
Ana Maria Buller United Kingdom 18 540 0.8× 543 0.9× 246 0.7× 510 1.5× 247 1.2× 51 1.1k
Lori Michau United Kingdom 16 847 1.3× 751 1.2× 290 0.8× 490 1.4× 355 1.7× 26 1.3k
Sarah Bott United States 18 744 1.1× 563 0.9× 474 1.4× 454 1.3× 302 1.4× 37 1.4k
Sarah R. Meyer United States 19 652 1.0× 450 0.7× 502 1.4× 514 1.5× 231 1.1× 66 1.3k
Alexa R. Yakubovich United Kingdom 16 372 0.6× 369 0.6× 243 0.7× 203 0.6× 116 0.5× 38 802
Laura Washington South Africa 14 387 0.6× 509 0.8× 165 0.5× 246 0.7× 154 0.7× 31 746
Elizabeth Starmann United Kingdom 7 414 0.6× 451 0.7× 138 0.4× 258 0.7× 145 0.7× 7 662
Erin Stern United Kingdom 19 382 0.6× 496 0.8× 127 0.4× 278 0.8× 196 0.9× 41 929
Jennifer McCleary‐Sills United States 11 567 0.9× 395 0.6× 278 0.8× 393 1.1× 230 1.1× 30 953

Countries citing papers authored by Janet Nakuti

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Janet Nakuti's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Janet Nakuti with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Janet Nakuti more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Janet Nakuti

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Janet Nakuti. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Janet Nakuti. The network helps show where Janet Nakuti may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Janet Nakuti

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Carter, Daniel J., Simone Datzberger, Colin Murray Parkes, et al.. (2024). Associations between violence in childhood, depression and suicide attempts in adolescence: evidence from a cohort study in Luwero district, Uganda. BMC Public Health. 24(1). 3405–3405. 1 indexed citations
2.
Bhatia, Amiya, Janet Nakuti, Alessandra Guedes, et al.. (2024). Putting children’s safety at the heart of violence research. Nature Medicine. 30(10). 2721–2724.
3.
Kyegombe, Nambusi, Sophie Namy, Janet Nakuti, et al.. (2024). Adapting a complex violence prevention intervention: a case study of the Good School Toolkit in Uganda. BMC Public Health. 24(1). 417–417. 1 indexed citations
4.
Devries, Karen, Clare Tanton, Louise Knight, et al.. (2024). Good School Toolkit-Secondary Schools to prevent violence against students: protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 14(2). e077788–e077788. 1 indexed citations
5.
Parkes, Colin Murray, et al.. (2024). Sexual violence through corporal punishment: Rethinking siloes in school violence prevention using feminist theory and data from Uganda. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 100413–100413. 1 indexed citations
6.
Merrill, Katherine G., Louise Knight, Janet Nakuti, et al.. (2023). The association between violence victimization and subsequent unplanned pregnancy among adolescent girls in Uganda: Do primary schools make a difference?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(7). e0001141–e0001141. 4 indexed citations
7.
Carlson, Catherine, Sophie Namy, Janet Nakuti, et al.. (2021). Student, teacher, and caregiver perceptions on implementing mental health interventions in Ugandan schools. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 5 indexed citations
8.
Carlson, Catherine, Sophie Namy, Andrea Norcini Pala, et al.. (2020). Violence against children and intimate partner violence against women: overlap and common contributing factors among caregiver-adolescent dyads. BMC Public Health. 20(1). 124–124. 25 indexed citations
9.
Knight, Louise, Elizabeth Allen, Sophie Namy, et al.. (2020). Long-Term Outcomes of the Good School Toolkit Primary School Violence Prevention Intervention Among Adolescents: Protocol for a Nonrandomized Quasi-Experimental Study. JMIR Research Protocols. 9(12). e20940–e20940.
10.
Knight, Louise, Elizabeth Allen, Janet Nakuti, et al.. (2018). Implementation of the Good School Toolkit in Uganda: a quantitative process evaluation of a successful violence prevention program. BMC Public Health. 18(1). 608–608. 18 indexed citations
11.
Namy, Sophie, Catherine Carlson, Kathleen O’Hara, et al.. (2017). Towards a feminist understanding of intersecting violence against women and children in the family. Social Science & Medicine. 184. 40–48. 84 indexed citations
12.
Kyegombe, Nambusi, Dipak Naker, Sophie Namy, et al.. (2017). How did the Good School Toolkit reduce the risk of past week physical violence from teachers to students? Qualitative findings on pathways of change in schools in Luwero, Uganda. Social Science & Medicine. 180. 10–19. 26 indexed citations
13.
Abramsky, Tanya, Karen Devries, Lori Michau, et al.. (2016). Ecological pathways to prevention: How does the SASA! community mobilisation model work to prevent physical intimate partner violence against women?. BMC Public Health. 16(1). 339–339. 65 indexed citations
14.
Kyegombe, Nambusi, Tanya Abramsky, Karen Devries, et al.. (2015). What is the potential for interventions designed to prevent violence against women to reduce children's exposure to violence? Findings from the SASA! study, Kampala, Uganda. Child Abuse & Neglect. 50. 128–140. 31 indexed citations
15.
Devries, Karen, Louise Knight, Jennifer Child, et al.. (2015). The Good School Toolkit for reducing physical violence from school staff to primary school students: a cluster-randomised controlled trial in Uganda. The Lancet Global Health. 3(7). e378–e386. 148 indexed citations
16.
Knight, Louise, et al.. (2015). Are school-level factors associated with primary school students' experience of physical violence from school staff in Uganda?. International Health. 8(1). ihv069–ihv069. 4 indexed citations
17.
Abramsky, Tanya, Karen Devries, Lígia Kiss, et al.. (2014). Findings from the SASA! Study: a cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of a community mobilization intervention to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV risk in Kampala, Uganda. BMC Medicine. 12(1). 122–122. 333 indexed citations breakdown →
18.
Kyegombe, Nambusi, Tanya Abramsky, Karen Devries, et al.. (2014). The impact of SASA!, a community mobilization intervention, on reported HIV‐related risk behaviours and relationship dynamics in Kampala, Uganda. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 17(1). 19232–19232. 74 indexed citations
19.
Kyegombe, Nambusi, Elizabeth Starmann, Karen Devries, et al.. (2014). ‘SASA! is the medicine that treats violence’. Qualitative findings on how a community mobilisation intervention to prevent violence against women created change in Kampala, Uganda. Global Health Action. 7(1). 25082–25082. 63 indexed citations
20.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Tina Musuya Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ana Maria Buller Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Lori Michau Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Sarah Bott Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Sarah R. Meyer Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Alexa R. Yakubovich Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Laura Washington Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Elizabeth Starmann Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Erin Stern Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Jennifer McCleary‐Sills
Rankless by CCL
2026