Jürg Utzinger

50.2k total citations · 13 hit papers
690 papers, 34.4k citations indexed

About

Jürg Utzinger is a scholar working on Parasitology, Ecology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Jürg Utzinger has authored 690 papers receiving a total of 34.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 434 papers in Parasitology, 246 papers in Ecology and 242 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Jürg Utzinger's work include Parasites and Host Interactions (424 papers), Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (242 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (228 papers). Jürg Utzinger is often cited by papers focused on Parasites and Host Interactions (424 papers), Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (242 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (228 papers). Jürg Utzinger collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Ivory Coast and United Kingdom. Jürg Utzinger's co-authors include Jennifer Keiser, Marcel Tanner, Eliézer K. N’Goran, Xiao‐Nong Zhou, Peter Steinmann, Penelope Vounatsou, Robert Bergquist, Robert Bos, Burton H. Singer and Stefanie Knopp and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jürg Utzinger

674 papers receiving 33.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Schistosomiasis and water resources development: systematic review, meta-analysis, and estimates of people at risk

2006 1.7k citations Peter Steinmann, Jennifer Keiser et al. profile →
Schistosomiasis

2018 714 citations Jürg Utzinger, Xiao‐Nong Zhou et al. profile →
Efficacy of Current Drugs Against Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections

2008 592 citations Jennifer Keiser, Jürg Utzinger profile →
Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

2014 545 citations Jürg Utzinger et al. profile →
Time to set the agenda for schistosomiasis elimination

2012 471 citations Jürg Utzinger et al. Acta Tropica profile →
Past, Present, and Future of Japanese Encephalitis

2008 452 citations Jennifer Keiser, Jürg Utzinger et al. profile →
Food-Borne Trematodiases

2009 450 citations Jennifer Keiser, Jürg Utzinger profile →
Emerging Foodborne Trematodiasis

2005 447 citations Jennifer Keiser, Jürg Utzinger profile →
Effect of Sanitation on Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

2012 422 citations Benjamin Speich, Jennifer Keiser et al. profile →
FLOTAC: new multivalent techniques for qualitative and quantitative copromicroscopic diagnosis of parasites in animals and humans

2010 403 citations Jürg Utzinger et al. profile →
The effects of iron fortification on the gut microbiota in African children: a randomized controlled trial in Côte d'Ivoire

2010 400 citations Eliézer K. N’Goran, Jürg Utzinger et al. profile →
Global burden of human food-borne trematodiasis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2011 397 citations Jennifer Keiser, Jürg Utzinger et al. profile →
Soil-Transmitted Helminth Reinfection after Drug Treatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

2012 309 citations Jürg Utzinger, Xiao‐Nong Zhou et al. PLoS neglected tropical diseases profile →

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All Works

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Acceptability and perceived feasibility of the KaziKidz health promotion intervention among educators and caregivers in schools from South Africa: a qualitative descriptive study 2024 ·BMC Public Health ·Patricia Arnaiz, Manfred Max Bergman, Harald Seelig, (unknown), (unknown), Markus Gerber, (unknown), Siphesihle Nqweniso, Peter Steinmann, Jürg Utzinger, Rosa du Randt, Cheryl Walter, Uwe Pühse, Ivan Müller	2
2	Prevalence and Risk Factors of Hypertension in Hargeisa, Somaliland: A Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Mohamed I. Ali, (unknown), Nicole Probst‐Hensch, Jürg Utzinger	3
3	Repurposing Know-how for Drug Development: Case Studies from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute 2023 ·CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry ·Lukas Meier, (unknown), C. Burri, Nakul Chitnis, (unknown), Jennifer Keiser, Sarah Moore, Pie Müller, Melissa A. Penny, Till S. Voss, Pascal Mäser, Jürg Utzinger	2
4	Species composition and insecticide resistance in malaria vectors in Ellibou, southern Côte d’Ivoire and first finding of Anopheles arabiensis in Côte d’Ivoire 2023 ·Malaria Journal ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Behi K. Fodjo, Giovanna Raso, Jürg Utzinger, Pie Müller, Mouhamadou Chouaïbou	5
5	Effect of the KaziBantu school-based health intervention on noncommunicable disease risk factors of children from low-income schools in Gqeberha, South Africa 2023 ·(unknown), Rosa du Randt, Markus Gerber, Uwe Pühse, Patricia Arnaiz, Ann Aerts, (unknown), (unknown), Ivan Müller, Siphesihle Nqweniso, Harald Seelig, Peter Steinmann, Jürg Utzinger, Cheryl Walter	1
6	Egg excretion indicators for the measurement of soil-transmitted helminth response to treatment 2022 ·PLoS neglected tropical diseases ·Piero Olliaro, Michel Vaillant, Aïssatou Diawara, Benjamin Speich, Marco Albonico, Jürg Utzinger, Jennifer Keiser	5
7	Dietary diversity in primary schoolchildren of south-central Côte d’Ivoire and risk factors for non-communicable diseases 2022 ·BMC Pediatrics ·(unknown), (unknown), Jean T. Coulibaly, (unknown), (unknown), Christin Lang, Kurt Z. Long, Daouda Dao, Markus Gerber, Nicole Probst‐Hensch, Uwe Pühse, Jürg Utzinger, Bassirou Bonfoh	6
8	Effectiveness of school-based preventive chemotherapy strategies for sustaining the control of schistosomiasis in Côte d’Ivoire: Results of a 5-year cluster randomized trial 2021 ·PLoS neglected tropical diseases ·Mamadou Ouattara, Nana R. Diakité, (unknown), (unknown), Jean T. Coulibaly, Rufin K. Assaré, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jan Hattendorf, Jürg Utzinger, Eliézer K. N’Goran	11
9	Efforts to mitigate the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: potential entry points for neglected tropical diseases 2021 ·Infectious Diseases of Poverty ·John P. Ehrenberg, Jürg Utzinger, Gilberto Fontes, Eliana Maria Maurício da Rocha, Nieves Ehrenberg, Xiao‐Nong Zhou, Peter Steinmann	33
10	Identification of Adult Fasciola spp. Using Matrix-Assisted Laser/Desorption Ionization Time-of-Flight (MALDI-TOF) Mass Spectrometry 2020 ·Microorganisms ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Mohammed I. Adah, (unknown), Jennifer Keiser, (unknown), Jürg Utzinger, Sven Poppert, Sören L. Becker	16
11	A Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) Assay for Rapid Identification of <em>Bemisia tabaci</em> 2018 ·Journal of Visualized Experiments ·(unknown), (unknown), Andreas von Felten, Morgan Gueuning, Michael Andreou, Neil Boonham, (unknown), Pie Müller, Jürg Utzinger, Beatrice Frey, Jürg E. Frey, Andreas Bühlmann	1
12	A Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) Assay for Rapid Identification of <em>Bemisia tabaci</em> 2018 ·Journal of Visualized Experiments ·(unknown), (unknown), Andreas von Felten, Morgan Gueuning, Michael Andreou, Neil Boonham, J. A. TOMLINSON, Pie Müller, Jürg Utzinger, Beatrice Frey, Jürg E. Frey, Andreas Bühlmann	7
13	An Integrated Approach to Control Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis, Schistosomiasis, Intestinal Protozoa Infection, and Diarrhea: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Trial 2018 ·JMIR Research Protocols ·Giovanna Raso, (unknown), Kouassi Dongo, Mamadou Ouattara, (unknown), Eveline Hürlimann, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Richard B. Yapi, Siaka Koné, Jean T. Coulibaly, Aboulaye Meïté, (unknown), Bassirou Bonfoh, Eliézer K. N’Goran, Jürg Utzinger	10
14	Perceptions, knowledge, attitudes and practices for the prevention and control of lymphatic filariasis in Conakry, Republic of Guinea 2017 ·Acta Tropica ·(unknown), (unknown), Kathrin Heitz-Tokpa, Stefanie J. Krauth, (unknown), (unknown), Oumar Barry, (unknown), Moses J. Bockarie, Benjamin G. Koudou, Jürg Utzinger	19
15	Metagenomic diagnostics for the simultaneous detection of multiple pathogens in human stool specimens from Côte d'Ivoire: a proof-of-concept study 2015 ·Infection Genetics and Evolution ·Pierre H. H. Schneeberger, Sören L. Becker, Joël F. Pothier, Brion Duffy, Eliézer K. N’Goran, Christian Beuret, Jürg E. Frey, Jürg Utzinger	37
16	Comparing systemic metabolic responses in mice to single or dual infection with Plasmodium berghei and Heligmosomoides bakeri 2014 ·Molecular BioSystems ·Lucienne Tritten, Jennifer Keiser, (unknown), Jürg Utzinger, Elaine Holmes, Jasmina Saric	2
17	[Bio-ecological characteristics of Anopheles gambiae s.s. in irrigated rice fields of central Côte d'Ivoire]. 2011 ·PubMed ·(unknown), (unknown), Christian Nsanzabana, (unknown), Jürg Utzinger, (unknown), Benjamin G. Koudou	1
18	Urbanization and tropical health — then and now 2006 ·Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology ·Jürg Utzinger, Jennifer Keiser	52
19	Metabonomic investigations in mice infected with Schistosoma mansoni : An approach for biomarker identification 2004 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Yulan Wang, Elaine Holmes, Jeremy K. Nicholson, Olivier Cloarec, Jacques Chollet, Marcel Tanner, Burton H. Singer, Jürg Utzinger	229
20	Acridine Orange for malaria diagnosis: its diagnostic performance, its promotion and implementation in Tanzania, and the implications for malaria control 2002 ·Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology ·Jennifer Keiser, Jürg Utzinger, Zul Premji, Yoichi YAMAGATA, Burton H. Singer	46

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