Joseph J Amon

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
96 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Joseph J Amon is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph J Amon has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 35 papers in Epidemiology and 33 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Joseph J Amon's work include HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (31 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (28 papers) and Sex work and related issues (24 papers). Joseph J Amon is often cited by papers focused on HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (31 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (28 papers) and Sex work and related issues (24 papers). Joseph J Amon collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Joseph J Amon's co-authors include Rebecca Schleifer, Chris Beyrer, Diederik Lohman, João Biehl, Kate Dolan, Mariana P. Socal, Frederick L. Altice, Martin McKee, Babak Moazen and Martial L. Ndeffo-Mbah and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Joseph J Amon

91 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Global burden of HIV, viral hepatitis, and tuberculosis i... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Global burden of HIV, viral hepatitis, and tuberculosis in prisoners and detainees
    2016 443 citations Joseph J Amon et al. The Lancet profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Joseph J Amon United States 27 1.2k 1.0k 890 565 551 96 3.0k
Kaveh Khoshnood United States 34 1.5k 1.2× 1.1k 1.0× 536 0.6× 882 1.6× 814 1.5× 176 3.2k
Adeeba Kamarulzaman Malaysia 35 2.0k 1.7× 2.1k 2.0× 538 0.6× 394 0.7× 555 1.0× 142 3.7k
Anita Heywood Australia 30 1.1k 0.9× 767 0.7× 404 0.5× 299 0.5× 582 1.1× 108 3.1k
Martial L. Ndeffo-Mbah United States 27 807 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 359 0.4× 202 0.4× 658 1.2× 78 2.5k
Sanjay Mehendale India 34 1.4k 1.2× 2.0k 1.9× 554 0.6× 701 1.2× 675 1.2× 146 3.5k
Adeeba Kamarulzaman Malaysia 34 2.4k 2.0× 2.3k 2.2× 436 0.5× 478 0.8× 747 1.4× 138 4.2k
Elizabeth D. Barnett United States 37 1.0k 0.8× 945 0.9× 221 0.2× 409 0.7× 1.4k 2.6× 166 3.8k
Handan Wand Australia 40 3.1k 2.6× 2.8k 2.7× 810 0.9× 1.5k 2.6× 980 1.8× 302 7.8k
Francis Martinson United States 33 1.6k 1.3× 2.1k 2.1× 432 0.5× 1.4k 2.5× 453 0.8× 92 3.8k
Linda M. Niccolai United States 37 2.3k 1.9× 1.3k 1.2× 746 0.8× 1.4k 2.5× 423 0.8× 181 4.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joseph J Amon

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Haar, Rohini J., et al.. (2025). Attacks on healthcare in war are being steadily normalized—we need to end impunity. BMJ. 390. r1964–r1964.
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Amon, Joseph J, et al.. (2025). Navigating trauma: Venezuelan women's and adolescent's experiences before and after migration amidst the humanitarian crisis. Journal of Migration and Health. 11. 100299–100299. 2 indexed citations
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Amon, Joseph J, et al.. (2023). Ensuring access to justice: the need for community paralegals to end AIDS by 2030. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 26(8). e26146–e26146. 5 indexed citations
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Braverman‐Bronstein, Ariela, et al.. (2023). The impact of social violence on HIV risk for women in Colombia: A concurrent mixed methods study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). e0001571–e0001571. 4 indexed citations
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Amon, Joseph J, et al.. (2023). Barriers and facilitators to HIV prevention and care for Venezuelan migrant/refugee women and girls in Colombia. Journal of Migration and Health. 8. 100206–100206. 1 indexed citations
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Lyons, Carrie, Christine Bourey, Omar Syarif, et al.. (2022). Global assessment of existing HIV and key population stigma indicators: A data mapping exercise to inform country-level stigma measurement. PLoS Medicine. 19(2). e1003914–e1003914. 5 indexed citations
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Stoicescu, Claudia, Karen Peters, Joseph J Amon, et al.. (2022). End compulsory drug treatment in the Asia-Pacific region. The Lancet. 399(10323). 419–421. 6 indexed citations
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Amon, Joseph J, et al.. (2020). Cross-border COVID-19 spread amidst malaria re-emergence in Venezuela: a human rights analysis. Globalization and Health. 16(1). 118–118. 7 indexed citations
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Reid, Steven D., et al.. (2018). Baseline trachoma prevalence in Guinea: Results of national trachoma mapping in 31 health districts. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 12(6). e0006585–e0006585. 7 indexed citations
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Biehl, João, Mariana P. Socal, & Joseph J Amon. (2016). The Judicialization of Health and the Quest for State Accountability: Evidence from 1,262 Lawsuits for Access to Medicines in Southern Brazil.. PubMed. 18(1). 209–220. 62 indexed citations
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Lohman, Diederik & Joseph J Amon. (2015). Evaluating a Human Rights-Based Advocacy Approach to Expanding Access to Pain Medicines and Palliative Care: Global Advocacy and Case Studies from India, Kenya, and Ukraine.. PubMed. 17(2). 149–65. 14 indexed citations
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Berland, Gretchen, et al.. (2015). Hospitals as debtor prisons. The Lancet Global Health. 3(5). e253–e254. 8 indexed citations
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Amon, Joseph J. (2014). The political epidemiology of HIV. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 17(1). 19327–19327. 29 indexed citations
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Amon, Joseph J, et al.. (2013). Failing Siracusa: governments' obligations to find the least restrictive options for tuberculosis control. Public Health Action. 3(1). 7–10. 17 indexed citations
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Amon, Joseph J, et al.. (2013). Compulsory drug detention in East and Southeast Asia: Evolving government, UN and donor responses. International Journal of Drug Policy. 25(1). 13–20. 54 indexed citations
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Amon, Joseph J, et al.. (2011). Imprisoned and imperiled: access to HIV and TB prevention and treatment, and denial of human rights, in Zambian prisons. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 14(1). 8–8. 46 indexed citations
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Schleifer, Rebecca, et al.. (2010). El acceso al tratamiento del dolor como derecho humano. 6(2). 1–8. 3 indexed citations
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Hafkin, Jeffrey, Victoria M. Gammino, & Joseph J Amon. (2010). Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Sub-Saharan Africa. Current Infectious Disease Reports. 12(1). 36–45. 5 indexed citations
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Amon, Joseph J, et al.. (2009). Access to Antiretroviral Treatment for Migrant Populations in the Global South. SSRN Electronic Journal. 8 indexed citations
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Biehl, João, Adriana Petryna, Alex K. Gertner, Joseph J Amon, & Paulo Dornelles Picon. (2009). Judicialisation of the right to health in Brazil. The Lancet. 373(9682). 2182–2184. 52 indexed citations

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