Jinal N. Bhiman

19.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Jinal N. Bhiman is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jinal N. Bhiman has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Infectious Diseases, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Virology. Recurrent topics in Jinal N. Bhiman's work include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (13 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (9 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (8 papers). Jinal N. Bhiman is often cited by papers focused on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (13 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (9 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (8 papers). Jinal N. Bhiman collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and Australia. Jinal N. Bhiman's co-authors include Penny L. Moore, Lynn Morris, Constantinos Kurt Wibmer, Bronwen E. Lambson, Tandile Hermanus, Anne von Gottberg, Cheryl Cohen, Carolyn Williamson, Salim S. Abdool Karim and Karin van den Berg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jinal N. Bhiman

24 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 escapes neutralization by South African COVID-19 donor plasma

2021 657 citations Constantinos Kurt Wibmer, Frances Ayres et al. Nature Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jinal N. Bhiman South Africa	13	937	536	411	408	240	29	1.5k
Tandile Hermanus South Africa	10	919 1.0×	679 1.3×	389 0.9×	450 1.1×	222 0.9×	24	1.5k
Constantinos Kurt Wibmer South Africa	12	972 1.0×	923 1.7×	460 1.1×	593 1.5×	296 1.2×	17	1.7k
Kshitij Wagh United States	16	568 0.6×	489 0.9×	294 0.7×	281 0.7×	173 0.7×	28	1.1k
Kevin O. Saunders United States	21	786 0.8×	696 1.3×	733 1.8×	701 1.7×	418 1.7×	58	1.9k
Andrew Fioré-Gartland United States	13	770 0.8×	102 0.2×	404 1.0×	622 1.5×	134 0.6×	37	1.4k
Chungen Pan China	17	594 0.6×	300 0.6×	230 0.6×	139 0.3×	117 0.5×	35	1.1k
Shan Su China	19	570 0.6×	172 0.3×	279 0.7×	320 0.8×	67 0.3×	45	1.1k
Frank Konings United States	15	815 0.9×	373 0.7×	168 0.4×	94 0.2×	63 0.3×	39	1.2k
Lilian Nogueira United States	12	761 0.8×	941 1.8×	231 0.6×	686 1.7×	321 1.3×	12	1.5k
Leo Heyndríckx Belgium	24	938 1.0×	1.1k 2.0×	236 0.6×	365 0.9×	143 0.6×	63	1.5k

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Bhiman, Jinal N., Cathrine Scheepers, Tandile Hermanus, et al.. (2025). Population shift in antibody immunity following the emergence of a SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 5549–5549.

Cohen, Cheryl, Jackie Kleynhans, Anne von Gottberg, et al.. (2024). Characteristics of infections with ancestral, Beta and Delta variants of SARS-CoV-2 in the PHIRST-C community cohort study, South Africa, 2020-2021. BMC Infectious Diseases. 24(1). 336–336. 2 indexed citations

Planas, Delphine, Lin Peng, Lingyi Zheng, et al.. (2024). Beta-variant recombinant booster vaccine elicits broad cross-reactive neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 including Omicron variants. Heliyon. 10(5). e27033–e27033.

Williams, Thomas, Sandra Jackson, Ian Barr, et al.. (2023). Results from the second WHO external quality assessment for the molecular detection of respiratory syncytial virus, 2019–2020. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. 17(1). e13073–e13073. 4 indexed citations

Wolter, Nicole, Stefano Tempia, Anne von Gottberg, et al.. (2023). Healthcare utilization during the first two waves of the COVID-19 epidemic in South Africa: A cross-sectional household survey. PLoS ONE. 18(8). e0290787–e0290787.

Yousif, Mukhlid, R. Saïd, Chinwe Juliana Iwu, et al.. (2023). SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance in wastewater as a model for monitoring evolution of endemic viruses. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6325–6325. 26 indexed citations

Kleynhans, Jackie, Sibongile Walaza, Neil Martinson, et al.. (2022). Household Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 From Adult Index Cases With and Without Human Immunodeficiency Virus in South Africa, 2020–2021: A Case-Ascertained, Prospective, Observational Household Transmission Study. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 76(3). e71–e81. 5 indexed citations

Walaza, Sibongile, Stefano Tempia, Anne von Gottberg, et al.. (2022). Risk Factors for Severe Coronavirus Disease 2019 Among Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected and -Uninfected Individuals in South Africa, April 2020–March 2022: Data From Sentinel Surveillance. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 9(12). ofac578–ofac578. 4 indexed citations

Sawry, Shobna, Nicole Wolter, Philile Mbatha, et al.. (2022). High prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in pregnant women after the second wave of infections in the inner-city of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 125. 241–249. 7 indexed citations

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Meiring, Susan, Jinal N. Bhiman, Jackie Kleynhans, et al.. (2022). Prolonged shedding of SARS-CoV-2 at high viral load amongst hospitalised immunocompromised persons living with HIV in South Africa. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 116. S25–S25. 3 indexed citations

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Kleynhans, Jackie, Stefano Tempia, Nicole Wolter, et al.. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in a Rural and Urban Household Cohort during First and Second Waves of Infections, South Africa, July 2020–March 2021. Emerging infectious diseases. 27(12). 3020–3029. 47 indexed citations

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Wibmer, Constantinos Kurt, Frances Ayres, Tandile Hermanus, et al.. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 escapes neutralization by South African COVID-19 donor plasma. Nature Medicine. 27(4). 622–625. 657 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ondoa, Pascale, Yenew Kebede, Marguerite Massinga Loembé, et al.. (2020). COVID-19 testing in Africa: lessons learnt. The Lancet Microbe. 1(3). e103–e104. 58 indexed citations

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Pooe, Ofentse Jacob, Lusisizwe Kwezi, Stoyan Stoychev, et al.. (2020). Plant-based production of highly potent anti-HIV antibodies with engineered posttranslational modifications. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 6201–6201. 28 indexed citations

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Havenar‐Daughton, Colin, Diane G. Carnathan, Archana V. Boopathy, et al.. (2019). Rapid Germinal Center and Antibody Responses in Non-human Primates after a Single Nanoparticle Vaccine Immunization. Cell Reports. 29(7). 1756–1766.e8. 44 indexed citations

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Johnson, E. L., Nicole A. Doria‐Rose, Jason Gorman, et al.. (2018). Sequencing HIV-neutralizing antibody exons and introns reveals detailed aspects of lineage maturation. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4136–4136. 6 indexed citations

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Sheward, Daniel J., Valerie Bekker, Ben Murrell, et al.. (2018). HIV Superinfection Drives De Novo Antibody Responses and Not Neutralization Breadth. Cell Host & Microbe. 24(4). 593–599.e3. 17 indexed citations

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Wibmer, Constantinos Kurt, Daniel J. Sheward, Jinal N. Bhiman, et al.. (2014). Viral Escape Pathways from Broadly Neutralising Antibodies Targeting the HIV Envelope Cleavage Site Enhance MPER Mediated Neutralisation. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 30(S1). A20–A21. 1 indexed citations

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Wibmer, Constantinos Kurt, Jinal N. Bhiman, Elin S. Gray, et al.. (2013). Viral Escape from HIV-1 Neutralizing Antibodies Drives Increased Plasma Neutralization Breadth through Sequential Recognition of Multiple Epitopes and Immunotypes. PLoS Pathogens. 9(10). e1003738–e1003738. 144 indexed citations

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Moore, Penny L., Elin S. Gray, Constantinos Kurt Wibmer, et al.. (2012). Evolution of an HIV glycan–dependent broadly neutralizing antibody epitope through immune escape. Nature Medicine. 18(11). 1688–1692. 211 indexed citations

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