Jeremiah Chakaya

7.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
87 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Jeremiah Chakaya is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Jeremiah Chakaya has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Infectious Diseases, 41 papers in Epidemiology and 18 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Jeremiah Chakaya's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (53 papers), Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (22 papers) and Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (16 papers). Jeremiah Chakaya is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (53 papers), Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (22 papers) and Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (16 papers). Jeremiah Chakaya collaborates with scholars based in Kenya, United Kingdom and United States. Jeremiah Chakaya's co-authors include Alimuddin Zumla, Knut Lönnroth, Katherine Floyd, Mario Raviǵlione, Peter Mwaba, Kenneth G. Castro, Lakhbir Singh Chauhan, Philippe Glaziou, Markus Maeurer and Francine Ntoumi and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jeremiah Chakaya

83 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

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

2021 673 citations Jeremiah Chakaya, Francine Ntoumi et al. International Journal of Infectious Diseases profile →
Tuberculosis control and elimination 2010–50: cure, care, and social development

2010 632 citations Jeremiah Chakaya et al. profile →
The WHO Global Tuberculosis 2021 Report – not so good news and turning the tide back to End TB

2022 236 citations Jeremiah Chakaya, Eskild Petersen et al. International Journal of Infectious Diseases profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jeremiah Chakaya Kenya	27	2.5k	1.8k	798	520	295	87	3.9k
Sayoki Mfinanga Tanzania	30	2.5k 1.0×	1.9k 1.1×	696 0.9×	529 1.0×	376 1.3×	159	4.2k
Nathan Kapata Zambia	28	2.6k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	931 1.2×	416 0.8×	222 0.8×	97	3.6k
Jennifer Furin United States	35	3.7k 1.5×	2.7k 1.5×	1.5k 1.9×	575 1.1×	240 0.8×	174	5.0k
J. Lucian Davis United States	34	2.5k 1.0×	2.3k 1.3×	765 1.0×	354 0.7×	166 0.6×	164	3.8k
Kogieleum Naidoo South Africa	31	3.2k 1.3×	2.2k 1.2×	1.0k 1.3×	366 0.7×	139 0.5×	175	4.1k
Philippe Glaziou Switzerland	38	4.0k 1.6×	2.3k 1.3×	1.2k 1.4×	521 1.0×	419 1.4×	103	5.3k
Rein M G J Houben United Kingdom	32	3.8k 1.5×	2.6k 1.5×	1.4k 1.7×	307 0.6×	401 1.4×	114	4.9k
Salmaan Keshavjee United States	30	3.1k 1.2×	2.3k 1.3×	984 1.2×	396 0.8×	272 0.9×	107	4.7k
Matthew Bates United Kingdom	34	2.9k 1.2×	2.5k 1.4×	986 1.2×	672 1.3×	522 1.8×	93	4.3k
Afrânio Lineu Kritski Brazil	36	3.7k 1.5×	2.9k 1.6×	1.5k 1.8×	477 0.9×	154 0.5×	281	5.0k

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Ozoh, Obianuju B., Stellah Mpagama, Nora Engel, et al.. (2025). Challenges in respiratory medicine: the need for integrated tuberculosis and respiratory care in low-resource settings. Thorax. 81(3). 294–297.

Nair, Divya, Pruthu Thekkur, Mohammed Khogali, et al.. (2024). Timeliness metrics for screening and preventing TB in household contacts of pulmonary TB patients in Kenya. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 41–49. 2 indexed citations

Harries, Anthony, Divya Nair, Pruthu Thekkur, et al.. (2024). TB preventive therapy: uptake and time to initiation during implementation of ‘7-1-7’. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(4). 189–191.

Abdullahi, Leila, et al.. (2024). Gendered gaps to tuberculosis prevention and care in Kenya: a political economy analysis study. BMJ Open. 14(4). e077989–e077989. 1 indexed citations

Kirenga, Bruce, Jeremiah Chakaya, Tewodros Haile, et al.. (2024). The burden of severe asthma in sub-Saharan Africa: Findings from the African Severe Asthma Project. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 100209–100209. 5 indexed citations

Amukoye, Evans, Cressida Bowyer, Jeremiah Chakaya, et al.. (2024). Household carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations in a large African city: An unquantified public health burden?. Environmental Pollution. 351. 124054–124054. 3 indexed citations

Martínez, Leonardo, Joshua L. Warren, Anthony Harries, et al.. (2023). Global, regional, and national estimates of tuberculosis incidence and case detection among incarcerated individuals from 2000 to 2019: a systematic analysis. The Lancet Public Health. 8(7). e511–e519. 30 indexed citations

Saderi, Laura, Andrea Maurizio Cabibbe, Mariangela Valentina Puci, et al.. (2023). A systematic review of the costs of diagnosis for multidrug-resistant/extensively drug-resistant TB in different settings. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 27(5). 348–356. 3 indexed citations

Chakaya, Jeremiah, Eskild Petersen, Rebecca Nantanda, et al.. (2022). The WHO Global Tuberculosis 2021 Report – not so good news and turning the tide back to End TB. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 124. S26–S29. 236 indexed citations breakdown →

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Harries, Anthony, Pruthu Thekkur, Jeremiah Chakaya, et al.. (2021). Real-Time Operational Research: Case Studies from the Field of Tuberculosis and Lessons Learnt. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease. 6(2). 97–97. 3 indexed citations

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Nachega, Jean B., Markus Maeurer, Nadia A. Sam‐Agudu, et al.. (2021). Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine and potential cross-protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection — Assumptions, knowns, unknowns and need for developing an accurate scientific evidence base. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 113. S78–S81. 6 indexed citations

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Kock, Richard, Anita L. Michel, Dorothy Yeboah‐Manu, et al.. (2021). Zoonotic Tuberculosis – The Changing Landscape. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 113. S68–S72. 50 indexed citations

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Harries, A D, Leonardo Martínez, & Jeremiah Chakaya. (2021). Reply to: Climate change and TB: the soil and seed conceptual framework. Public Health Action. 11(2). 109–109. 1 indexed citations

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Harries, A D, Leonardo Martínez, & Jeremiah Chakaya. (2021). Tackling climate change: measuring the carbon footprint of preventing, diagnosing and treating TB. Public Health Action. 11(1). 40–40. 1 indexed citations

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Zumla, Alimuddin, Giuseppe Ippolito, Francine Ntoumi, et al.. (2020). Host-directed therapies and holistic care for tuberculosis. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. 8(4). 337–340. 13 indexed citations

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Chakaya, Jeremiah, et al.. (2013). Tuberculosis treatment outcomes among hospital workers at a public teaching and national referral hospital in Kenya. Public Health Action. 3(4). 323–327. 8 indexed citations

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Chakaya, Jeremiah, Haileyesus Getahun, Reuben Granich, & Diane V. Havlir. (2008). Confronting TB/HIV in the era of increasing anti‐TB drug resistance. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 11(1). 6–6. 8 indexed citations

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Yamaguchi, H, M. Kai, Koji Nagai, et al.. (2002). <i>Mycoplasma pnuemoniae</i> in children with pneumonia at Mbagathi District Hospital, Nairobi. East African Medical Journal. 79(6). 317–22. 4 indexed citations

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Chakaya, Jeremiah, et al.. (2002). Tuberculosis re-treatment outcomes within the public service in Nairobi, Kenya. East African Medical Journal. 79(1). 11–5. 8 indexed citations

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Hawken, Mark, Hellen Meme, Jeremiah Chakaya, et al.. (1997). Isoniazid preventive therapy for tuberculosis in HIV-1-infected adults. AIDS. 11(7). 875–882. 112 indexed citations

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