John Batani

1.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
29 papers, 542 citations indexed

About

John Batani is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Information Systems and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, John Batani has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 542 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in General Health Professions, 9 papers in Information Systems and 5 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in John Batani's work include Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (8 papers), COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing (5 papers) and COVID-19 diagnosis using AI (5 papers). John Batani is often cited by papers focused on Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (8 papers), COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing (5 papers) and COVID-19 diagnosis using AI (5 papers). John Batani collaborates with scholars based in Lesotho, Eswatini and South Africa. John Batani's co-authors include Elliot Mbunge, Benhildah Muchemwa, Goabaone Gaobotse, Stephen Gbenga Fashoto, Manoj Maharaj, Tafadzwa Dzinamarira, Andile Metfula, Boluwaji Akinnuwesi, Innocent Chingombe and Munyaradzi Mapingure and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Child Health Care and Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease.

In The Last Decade

John Batani

25 papers receiving 516 citations

Hit Papers

Sensors and healthcare 5.0: transformative shift in virtu... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2022 50 100 150
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. Sensors and healthcare 5.0: transformative shift in virtual care through emerging digital health technologies
    2021 154 citations Elliot Mbunge, Benhildah Muchemwa et al. Global Health Journal profile →
  2. Virtual healthcare services and digital health technologies deployed during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in South Africa: a systematic review
    2022 108 citations Elliot Mbunge, John Batani et al. Global Health Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Batani Lesotho 11 120 107 90 81 60 29 542
Benhildah Muchemwa Eswatini 8 89 0.7× 69 0.6× 80 0.9× 55 0.7× 55 0.9× 14 419
Eric Perakslis United States 14 152 1.3× 119 1.1× 161 1.8× 63 0.8× 32 0.5× 38 835
Alvin Marcelo Philippines 15 139 1.2× 240 2.2× 160 1.8× 98 1.2× 75 1.3× 57 704
Saira Ghafur United Kingdom 10 177 1.5× 119 1.1× 167 1.9× 46 0.6× 46 0.8× 41 549
Pekka Ruotsalainen Finland 12 81 0.7× 97 0.9× 92 1.0× 104 1.3× 24 0.4× 62 460
Dimitrios G. Katehakis Greece 13 157 1.3× 174 1.6× 60 0.7× 112 1.4× 55 0.9× 60 648
Kuang-Ming Kuo Taiwan 18 189 1.6× 123 1.1× 100 1.1× 125 1.5× 27 0.5× 57 881
Nasim Aslani Iran 10 91 0.8× 51 0.5× 85 0.9× 46 0.6× 24 0.4× 28 399
Sokratis Nifakos Sweden 8 51 0.4× 144 1.3× 50 0.6× 62 0.8× 46 0.8× 17 400
Ali Garavand Iran 16 253 2.1× 83 0.8× 178 2.0× 85 1.0× 20 0.3× 66 947

Countries citing papers authored by John Batani

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Batani

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Batani

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

All Works

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Mbunge, Elliot, Tafadzwa Dzinamarira, Godfrey Musuka, et al.. (2025). Socioeconomic and demographic factors associated with anaemia among women of reproductive age in Zimbabwe: a supervised machine learning approach. Discover Public Health. 22(1).
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Batani, John & Manoj Maharaj. (2024). Harnessing emerging technologies for sustainable child health: Rethinking strategies for advancing SDG 3.2 in resource-constrained environments. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(4). 75–83. 1 indexed citations
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Mbunge, Elliot, Innocent Chingombe, Munyaradzi Mapingure, et al.. (2024). Predicting sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men in Zimbabwe using deep learning and ensemble machine learning models. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(7). e0000541–e0000541. 1 indexed citations
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Batani, John, et al.. (2024). Towards Artificial Intelligence-Driven Marketing: An Adoption Framework for Lesotho. 17. 12–19. 1 indexed citations
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Mapingure, Munyaradzi, Innocent Chingombe, Elliot Mbunge, et al.. (2024). Prevalence and Risk Factors of HIV Drug Resistance in Zimbabwe: Evidence from Zimbabwe Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment (ZIMPHIA) 2020 Survey. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease. 9(11). 257–257. 1 indexed citations
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Mbunge, Elliot & John Batani. (2023). Application of deep learning and machine learning models to improve healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa: Emerging opportunities, trends and implications. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11. 100097–100097. 24 indexed citations
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Mbunge, Elliot, et al.. (2023). A review of deep learning models to detect malware in Android applications. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 100014–100014. 11 indexed citations
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Gaobotse, Goabaone, Elliot Mbunge, John Batani, & Benhildah Muchemwa. (2022). The future of smart implants towards personalized and pervasive healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities, barriers and policy recommendations. Sensors International. 3. 100173–100173. 10 indexed citations
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Mbunge, Elliot, John Batani, Goabaone Gaobotse, & Benhildah Muchemwa. (2022). Virtual healthcare services and digital health technologies deployed during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in South Africa: a systematic review. Global Health Journal. 6(2). 102–113. 108 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gaobotse, Goabaone, Elliot Mbunge, John Batani, & Benhildah Muchemwa. (2022). Non-invasive smart implants in healthcare: Redefining healthcare services delivery through sensors and emerging digital health technologies. Sensors International. 3. 100156–100156. 27 indexed citations
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Batani, John & Manoj Maharaj. (2022). Towards Data-Driven Pediatrics in Zimbabwe. 1–7. 10 indexed citations
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Mbunge, Elliot, et al.. (2022). Predicting Student Dropout in Massive Open Online Courses Using Deep Learning Models - A Systematic Review. Lecture notes in networks and systems. 212–231. 8 indexed citations
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Mbunge, Elliot, Tafadzwa Dzinamarira, Stephen Gbenga Fashoto, & John Batani. (2021). Emerging technologies and COVID-19 digital vaccination certificates and passports. Public Health in Practice. 2. 100136–100136. 41 indexed citations
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Mbunge, Elliot, Benhildah Muchemwa, & John Batani. (2021). Are we there yet? Unbundling the potential adoption and integration of telemedicine to improve virtual healthcare services in African health systems. Sensors International. 3. 100152–100152. 53 indexed citations
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Batani, John, et al.. (2018). Household Power Optimisation and Monitoring System. 17(2). 1 indexed citations
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Batani, John. (2017). An Adaptive and Real-Time Fraud Detection Algorithm in Online Transactions. 17(2). 6 indexed citations

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