Joseph Maina

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 612 citations indexed

About

Joseph Maina is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Modeling and Simulation. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph Maina has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 612 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 3 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 3 papers in Modeling and Simulation. Recurrent topics in Joseph Maina's work include Travel-related health issues (3 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (3 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (3 papers). Joseph Maina is often cited by papers focused on Travel-related health issues (3 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (3 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (3 papers). Joseph Maina collaborates with scholars based in Kenya, United Kingdom and United States. Joseph Maina's co-authors include Robert W. Snow, Paul Ouma, Emelda A. Okiro, Peter M. Macharia, Victor A. Alegana, Mike English, Abdisalan M. Noor, Punam Amratia, Benn Sartorius and Philip Bejon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and BMC Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Joseph Maina

10 papers receiving 601 citations

Hit Papers

Access to emergency hospital care provided by the public ... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 50 100 150 200
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. Access to emergency hospital care provided by the public sector in sub-Saharan Africa in 2015: a geocoded inventory and spatial analysis
    2018 244 citations Paul Ouma, Joseph Maina et al. The Lancet Global Health 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 Maina Kenya 7 238 230 88 72 70 12 612
Paul Ouma Kenya 14 388 1.6× 176 0.8× 145 1.6× 136 1.9× 90 1.3× 26 860
Emmanuel Bonnet France 17 116 0.5× 365 1.6× 91 1.0× 147 2.0× 41 0.6× 107 875
Thiago Augusto Hernándes Rocha Brazil 16 137 0.6× 144 0.6× 60 0.7× 255 3.5× 73 1.0× 80 681
Anthony Ofosu Ghana 15 302 1.3× 201 0.9× 114 1.3× 215 3.0× 43 0.6× 55 809
Prestige Tatenda Makanga Zimbabwe 12 273 1.1× 58 0.3× 55 0.6× 126 1.8× 37 0.5× 31 499
Desmond Kuupiel South Africa 20 203 0.9× 113 0.5× 60 0.7× 163 2.3× 209 3.0× 74 816
Clara R. Burgert‐Brucker United States 16 370 1.6× 161 0.7× 110 1.3× 194 2.7× 93 1.3× 33 825
Vitalis Bawontuo Ghana 14 157 0.7× 67 0.3× 55 0.6× 79 1.1× 98 1.4× 41 469
Saji Saraswathy Gopalan United States 11 344 1.4× 88 0.4× 166 1.9× 219 3.0× 44 0.6× 20 653
Anja Schoeps Germany 13 282 1.2× 66 0.3× 91 1.0× 110 1.5× 96 1.4× 25 589

Countries citing papers authored by Joseph Maina

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joseph Maina

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joseph Maina

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

All Works

12 of 12 papers shown
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Maina, Joseph, et al.. (2025). Accessible Digital Reconstruction and Mechanical Prediction of 3D-Printed Prosthetics. Journal of Mechanical Design. 147(6).
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Asamoah, Ernest Frimpong, et al.. (2020). Effective Containment Explains the Velocity of COVID-19 Spread. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Maina, Joseph, Paul Ouma, Peter M. Macharia, et al.. (2019). A spatial database of health facilities managed by the public health sector in sub Saharan Africa. Scientific Data. 6(1). 134–134. 122 indexed citations
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Oliwa, Jacquie, Joseph Maina, Philip Ayieko, et al.. (2018). Variability in distribution and use of tuberculosis diagnostic tests in Kenya: a cross-sectional survey. BMC Infectious Diseases. 18(1). 328–328. 12 indexed citations
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Ibrahim, Ali, Mohammed Al‐Helal, Ibrahim M. Saeed, et al.. (2018). Cross-border movement, economic development and malaria elimination in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. BMC Medicine. 16(1). 98–98. 40 indexed citations
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Ouma, Paul, Joseph Maina, Peter M. Macharia, et al.. (2018). Access to emergency hospital care provided by the public sector in sub-Saharan Africa in 2015: a geocoded inventory and spatial analysis. The Lancet Global Health. 6(3). e342–e350. 244 indexed citations breakdown →
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Alegana, Victor A., Joseph Maina, Paul Ouma, et al.. (2018). National and sub-national variation in patterns of febrile case management in sub-Saharan Africa. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4994–4994. 35 indexed citations
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Snow, Robert W., Benn Sartorius, David Kyalo, et al.. (2017). The prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum in sub-Saharan Africa since 1900. Nature. 550(7677). 515–518. 137 indexed citations
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Maina, Joseph, Peter M. Macharia, Paul Ouma, Robert W. Snow, & Emelda A. Okiro. (2017). Coverage of routine reporting on malaria parasitological testing in Kenya, 2015–2016. Global Health Action. 10(1). 1413266–1413266. 19 indexed citations

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