Lori Michau

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Lori Michau is a scholar working on Health, General Health Professions and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Lori Michau has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Health, 17 papers in General Health Professions and 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Lori Michau's work include Intimate Partner and Family Violence (23 papers), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (17 papers) and Sex work and related issues (11 papers). Lori Michau is often cited by papers focused on Intimate Partner and Family Violence (23 papers), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (17 papers) and Sex work and related issues (11 papers). Lori Michau collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Uganda. Lori Michau's co-authors include Tina Musuya, Charlotte Watts, Karen Devries, Janet Nakuti, Nambusi Kyegombe, Tanya Abramsky, Elizabeth Starmann, Lígia Kiss, Cathy Zimmerman and Leilani Francisco and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Social Science & Medicine and BMC Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Lori Michau

25 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Findings from the SASA! Study: a cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of a community mobilization intervention to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV risk in Kampala, Uganda

2014 333 citations Tanya Abramsky, Karen Devries et al. BMC Medicine profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lori Michau United Kingdom	16	847	751	490	355	290	26	1.3k
Janet Nakuti United Kingdom	12	661 0.8×	625 0.8×	346 0.7×	211 0.6×	349 1.2×	21	1.1k
Sarah Bott United States	18	744 0.9×	563 0.7×	454 0.9×	302 0.9×	474 1.6×	37	1.4k
Esnat Chirwa South Africa	21	830 1.0×	666 0.9×	435 0.9×	317 0.9×	367 1.3×	73	1.4k
Tina Musuya United Kingdom	14	595 0.7×	605 0.8×	359 0.7×	200 0.6×	182 0.6×	17	910
Ana Maria Buller United Kingdom	18	540 0.6×	543 0.7×	510 1.0×	247 0.7×	246 0.8×	51	1.1k
Samantha Willan South Africa	20	616 0.7×	905 1.2×	562 1.1×	296 0.8×	242 0.8×	55	1.4k
Nambusi Kyegombe United Kingdom	23	820 1.0×	997 1.3×	637 1.3×	276 0.8×	506 1.7×	55	1.7k
Sarah R. Meyer United States	19	652 0.8×	450 0.6×	514 1.0×	231 0.7×	502 1.7×	66	1.3k
Erin Stern United Kingdom	19	382 0.5×	496 0.7×	278 0.6×	196 0.6×	127 0.4×	41	929
Kristin VanderEnde United States	18	481 0.6×	337 0.4×	235 0.5×	229 0.6×	146 0.5×	23	900

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lori Michau

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Michau, Lori & Sophie Namy. (2021). SASA! Together: An evolution of the SASA! approach to prevent violence against women. Evaluation and Program Planning. 86. 101918–101918. 6 indexed citations

Carlson, Catherine, Sophie Namy, Andrea Norcini Pala, et al.. (2020). Violence against children and intimate partner violence against women: overlap and common contributing factors among caregiver-adolescent dyads. BMC Public Health. 20(1). 124–124. 25 indexed citations

Lundgren, Rebecka, et al.. (2019). On the CUSP: the politics and prospects of scaling social norms change programming. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters. 27(2). 51–63. 16 indexed citations

Starmann, Elizabeth, Lori Heise, Nambusi Kyegombe, et al.. (2018). Examining diffusion to understand the how of SASA!, a violence against women and HIV prevention intervention in Uganda. BMC Public Health. 18(1). 616–616. 38 indexed citations

Abramsky, Tanya, Tina Musuya, Sophie Namy, Charlotte Watts, & Lori Michau. (2018). Changing the norms that drive intimate partner violence: findings from a cluster randomised trial on what predisposes bystanders to take action in Kampala, Uganda. BMJ Global Health. 3(6). e001109–e001109. 17 indexed citations

Namy, Sophie, Catherine Carlson, Kathleen O’Hara, et al.. (2017). Towards a feminist understanding of intersecting violence against women and children in the family. Social Science & Medicine. 184. 40–48. 84 indexed citations

Michau, Lori, et al.. (2017). Hashtag activism: popularizing feminist analysis of violence against women in the Horn, East and Southern Africa. Feminist Media Studies. 17(5). 899–902. 9 indexed citations

Zimmerman, Cathy, Lori Michau, Mazeda Hossain, et al.. (2016). Rigged or rigorous? Partnerships for research and evaluation of complex social problems: Lessons from the field of violence against women and girls. Journal of Public Health Policy. 37(S1). 95–109. 11 indexed citations

Abramsky, Tanya, Karen Devries, Lori Michau, et al.. (2016). Ecological pathways to prevention: How does the SASA! community mobilisation model work to prevent physical intimate partner violence against women?. BMC Public Health. 16(1). 339–339. 65 indexed citations

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Starmann, Elizabeth, Martine Collumbien, Nambusi Kyegombe, et al.. (2016). Exploring Couples’ Processes of Change in the Context of SASA!, a Violence Against Women and HIV Prevention Intervention in Uganda. Prevention Science. 18(2). 233–244. 36 indexed citations

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Michaels-Igbokwe, Christine, Tanya Abramsky, Karen Devries, et al.. (2016). Cost and cost-effectiveness analysis of a community mobilisation intervention to reduce intimate partner violence in Kampala, Uganda. BMC Public Health. 16(1). 196–196. 17 indexed citations

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Kyegombe, Nambusi, Tanya Abramsky, Karen Devries, et al.. (2015). What is the potential for interventions designed to prevent violence against women to reduce children's exposure to violence? Findings from the SASA! study, Kampala, Uganda. Child Abuse & Neglect. 50. 128–140. 31 indexed citations

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Michau, Lori, et al.. (2014). Prevention of violence against women and girls: lessons from practice. The Lancet. 385(9978). 1672–1684. 209 indexed citations

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Kyegombe, Nambusi, Tanya Abramsky, Karen Devries, et al.. (2014). The impact of SASA!, a community mobilization intervention, on reported HIV‐related risk behaviours and relationship dynamics in Kampala, Uganda. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 17(1). 19232–19232. 74 indexed citations

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Abramsky, Tanya, Karen Devries, Lígia Kiss, et al.. (2014). Findings from the SASA! Study: a cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of a community mobilization intervention to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV risk in Kampala, Uganda. BMC Medicine. 12(1). 122–122. 333 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kyegombe, Nambusi, Elizabeth Starmann, Karen Devries, et al.. (2014). ‘SASA! is the medicine that treats violence’. Qualitative findings on how a community mobilisation intervention to prevent violence against women created change in Kampala, Uganda. Global Health Action. 7(1). 25082–25082. 63 indexed citations

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Francisco, Leilani, Tanya Abramsky, Lígia Kiss, et al.. (2013). Violence Against Women and HIV Risk Behaviors in Kampala, Uganda. Violence Against Women. 19(7). 814–832. 15 indexed citations

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Abramsky, Tanya, Karen Devries, Lígia Kiss, et al.. (2012). A community mobilisation intervention to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV/AIDS risk in Kampala, Uganda (the SASA! Study): study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. Trials. 13(1). 96–96. 87 indexed citations

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Naker, Dipak & Lori Michau. (2004). Preventing Gender-Based Violence in the Horn, East, and Southern Africa: A Regional Dialogue. 78.

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Michau, Lori, et al.. (2002). Mobilizing Communities to End Violence Against Women in Tanzania. 415–433. 2 indexed citations

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