John A. Joska

9.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
265 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

John A. Joska is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Virology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, John A. Joska has authored 265 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Infectious Diseases, 83 papers in Virology and 51 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in John A. Joska's work include HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (112 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (83 papers) and Mental Health Treatment and Access (49 papers). John A. Joska is often cited by papers focused on HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (112 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (83 papers) and Mental Health Treatment and Access (49 papers). John A. Joska collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and United Kingdom. John A. Joska's co-authors include Dan J. Stein, Alan J. Flisher, Crick Lund, Leslie Swartz, Joanne Corrigall, Alison Breen, Ritsuko Kakuma, Vikram Patel, Robert Paul and Jacqueline Hoare and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

John A. Joska

249 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

Poverty and common mental disorders in low and middle income countries: A systematic review

2010 862 citations Crick Lund, John A. Joska et al. profile →
Cognitive impairment in people living with HIV: consensus recommendations for a new approach

2023 66 citations Sam Nightingale, Anna J. Dreyer et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John A. Joska South Africa	39	2.1k	1.6k	1.4k	1.2k	1.0k	265	5.4k
Douglas Longshore United States	40	2.0k 1.0×	508 0.3×	2.0k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	731 0.7×	140	6.3k
Héctor F. Myers United States	47	1.3k 0.6×	481 0.3×	1.7k 1.2×	2.5k 2.1×	1.4k 1.3×	143	7.1k
Adam W. Carrico United States	38	2.4k 1.2×	576 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	904 0.7×	995 1.0×	211	4.3k
Conall O’Cleirigh United States	46	3.9k 1.9×	532 0.3×	2.2k 1.5×	1.9k 1.5×	1.9k 1.9×	213	6.8k
Mallory O. Johnson United States	49	5.1k 2.5×	697 0.4×	3.0k 2.1×	983 0.8×	1.9k 1.9×	239	7.5k
David W. Pantalone United States	38	2.6k 1.3×	448 0.3×	1.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	1.7k 1.6×	139	5.0k
Andrew S. London United States	29	1.7k 0.8×	392 0.2×	1.4k 1.0×	504 0.4×	277 0.3×	105	3.9k
Christina S. Meade United States	35	1.4k 0.7×	413 0.3×	1.4k 1.0×	969 0.8×	338 0.3×	125	3.5k
Steven Shoptaw United States	61	5.0k 2.4×	1.0k 0.6×	3.0k 2.1×	1.8k 1.5×	1.8k 1.7×	432	13.4k
Sergio Rueda Canada	28	2.2k 1.1×	404 0.3×	1.3k 1.0×	361 0.3×	389 0.4×	83	3.7k

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Skrivankova, Veronika, Stephan Rabie, Mpho Tlali, et al.. (2025). Incidence and prognostic factors of self-harm and subsequent unnatural death in South Africa: A cohort study. PLoS Medicine. 22(9). e1004765–e1004765.

Dreyer, Anna J., Sam Nightingale, Christiaan Le Roux, et al.. (2024). The relationship between psychosocial factors and cognitive test performance in a South African cohort. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(S3). e088794–e088794.

Myers, Bronwyn, Kristen S. Regenauer, Alexandra L. Rose, et al.. (2024). Community health worker training to reduce mental health and substance use stigma towards patients who have disengaged from HIV/TB care in South Africa: protocol for a stepped wedge hybrid type II pilot implementation trial. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 1–1. 2 indexed citations

Regenauer, Kristen S., Alexandra L. Rose, Jennifer M. Belus, et al.. (2024). Piloting Siyakhana: A community health worker training to reduce substance use and depression stigma in South African HIV and TB care. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(5). e0002657–e0002657. 4 indexed citations

Decloedt, Eric, Henrik Zetterberg, Magnus Gisslén, et al.. (2023). Blood and cerebrospinal fluid biomarker changes in patients with HIV-associated neurocognitive impairment treated with lithium: analysis from a randomised placebo-controlled trial. Journal of NeuroVirology. 29(2). 156–166. 3 indexed citations

Joska, John A., et al.. (2023). “Trajectories of treatment response in a cognitive-behavioral therapy intervention for depression and adherence in persons with HIV in South Africa”. Journal of Affective Disorders. 343. 136–143.

Stanton, Amelia M., Conall O’Cleirigh, Lucia Knight, et al.. (2022). The importance of assessing and addressing mental health barriers to PrEP use during pregnancy and postpartum in sub‐Saharan Africa: state of the science and research priorities. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 25(10). e26026–e26026. 6 indexed citations

Tlali, Mpho, John A. Joska, Morna Cornell, et al.. (2022). The effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on mental health care use in South Africa: an interrupted time-series analysis. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 31. e43–e43. 12 indexed citations

Madden, Victoria J., Maia Lesosky, Mark R. Hutchinson, et al.. (2022). Study protocol: an observational study of distress, immune function and persistent pain in HIV. BMJ Open. 12(6). e059723–e059723.

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Belus, Jennifer M., et al.. (2022). The combination of HIV and alcohol use internalized stigmas are associated with greater symptoms of depression in a South African sample living with HIV.. Stigma and Health. 7(3). 370–373. 2 indexed citations

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Ruffieux, Yann, Orestis Efthimiou, Leigh L. van den Heuvel, et al.. (2021). The treatment gap for mental disorders in adults enrolled in HIV treatment programmes in South Africa: a cohort study using linked electronic health records. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 30. e37–e37. 16 indexed citations

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Belus, Jennifer M., Alexandra L. Rose, Lena S. Andersen, et al.. (2021). The role of reward and reinforcement in understanding alcohol use among adults living with HIV in South Africa.. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. 35(4). 424–431. 3 indexed citations

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Knettel, Brandon A., et al.. (2019). Women’s perspectives on ImpACT: a coping intervention to address sexual trauma and improve HIV care engagement in Cape Town, South Africa. AIDS Care. 31(11). 1389–1396. 15 indexed citations

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Robbins, Reuben N., Hetta Gouse, Travis M. Scott, et al.. (2018). A Mobile App to Screen for Neurocognitive Impairment: Preliminary Validation of NeuroScreen Among HIV-Infected South African Adults. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 6(1). e5–e5. 38 indexed citations

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Marais, Adéle, et al.. (2018). “If He’s Abusing You . . . the Baby Is Going to Be Affected”: HIV-Positive Pregnant Women’s Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence. Violence Against Women. 25(7). 839–861. 9 indexed citations

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Lesosky, Maia, John A. Joska, & Eric Decloedt. (2017). Simulating therapeutic drug monitoring results for dose individualisation to maintain investigator blinding in a randomised controlled trial. Trials. 18(1). 261–261. 1 indexed citations

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Ng, Lauren C., Jessica F. Magidson, Rebecca S. Hock, et al.. (2016). Proposed Training Areas for Global Mental Health Researchers. Academic Psychiatry. 40(4). 679–685. 11 indexed citations

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Rao, Vasudev R, Ujjwal Neogi, Joshua S. Talboom, et al.. (2013). Clade C HIV-1 isolates circulating in Southern Africa exhibit a greater frequency of dicysteine motif-containing Tat variants than those in Southeast Asia and cause increased neurovirulence. Retrovirology. 10(1). 61–61. 52 indexed citations

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Akena, Dickens, Seggane Musisi, John A. Joska, & Dan J. Stein. (2012). The Association between Aids Related Stigma and Major Depressive Disorder among HIV-Positive Individuals in Uganda. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e48671–e48671. 56 indexed citations

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Hoare, Jacqueline, Jean‐Paul Fouché, Bruce Spottiswoode, et al.. (2010). White Matter Correlates of Apathy in HIV-Positive Subjects: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study. Journal of Neuropsychiatry. 22(3). 313–320. 44 indexed citations

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