Lucy Platt

6.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
89 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Lucy Platt is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Lucy Platt has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Epidemiology, 48 papers in Infectious Diseases and 45 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Lucy Platt's work include HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (74 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (45 papers) and Sex work and related issues (45 papers). Lucy Platt is often cited by papers focused on HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (74 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (45 papers) and Sex work and related issues (45 papers). Lucy Platt collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Russia. Lucy Platt's co-authors include Tim Rhodes, Peter Vickerman, Matthew Hickman, Vivian Hope, Anya Sarang, Catherine R. McGowan, Pippa Grenfell, Bethan McDonald, Keith Sabin and Philippa Easterbrook and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Lucy Platt

85 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Prevalence and burden of HCV co-infection in people living with HIV: a global systematic review and meta-analysis

2016 485 citations Lucy Platt, Peter Vickerman et al. profile →
Associations between sex work laws and sex workers’ health: A systematic review and meta-analysis of quantitative and qualitative studies

2018 288 citations Lucy Platt, Pippa Grenfell et al. PLoS Medicine profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Lucy Platt	3.2k	1.7k	1.5k	983	648	89	3.9k
Mark Stoové	3.0k 0.9×	1.9k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	913 0.9×	795 1.2×	296	4.9k
Jennifer L. Evans	2.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	816 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	677 1.0×	106	3.8k
Patricia M. Spittal	3.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	997 0.7×	420 0.4×	1.3k 2.0×	94	3.9k
Lawrence J. Ouellet	2.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	596 0.4×	754 0.8×	774 1.2×	74	3.0k
Alan Neaigus	4.1k 1.3×	2.8k 1.6×	1.3k 0.8×	594 0.6×	936 1.4×	117	5.1k
Hanne Thiede	3.3k 1.0×	2.1k 1.2×	688 0.5×	1.2k 1.3×	654 1.0×	75	4.1k
Carlos Magis‐Rodríguez	3.0k 0.9×	2.1k 1.2×	2.2k 1.5×	145 0.1×	663 1.0×	146	4.0k
Jennifer Lorvick	2.0k 0.6×	978 0.6×	651 0.4×	405 0.4×	796 1.2×	83	2.6k
Richard S. Garfein	3.3k 1.0×	1.8k 1.1×	540 0.4×	1.0k 1.0×	1.0k 1.6×	108	3.9k
John K. Watters	3.4k 1.1×	2.0k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	240 0.2×	984 1.5×	48	4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Lucy Platt

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lucy Platt

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All Works

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Weir, Sharon S., Maganizo Chagomerana, Jessie K. Edwards, et al.. (2024). Characterizing HIV Acquisition Risk, Treatment Gaps, and Populations Reached Through Venue-Based Outreach and Clinical Services in Blantyre, Malawi: Findings From a District-wide CLOVE Study. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 97(4). 315–324.

Hartney, Thomas, Maganizo Chagomerana, Bridon M’baya, et al.. (2024). Use of routinely collected blood donation data for expanded HIV and Syphilis surveillance in Blantyre district, Malawi. PLoS ONE. 19(8). e0300647–e0300647.

Pickles, Michael, Joseph Larmarange, Kate M. Mitchell, et al.. (2024). From conceptualising to modelling structural determinants and interventions in HIV transmission dynamics models: a scoping review and methodological framework for evidence-based analyses. BMC Medicine. 22(1). 404–404. 2 indexed citations

Walker, Josephine G., Jocelyn Elmes, Pippa Grenfell, et al.. (2024). The impact of policing and homelessness on violence experienced by women who sell sex in London: a modelling study. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 8191–8191. 2 indexed citations

Croxford, Sara, Claire Edmundson, Samreen Ijaz, et al.. (2023). Adverse health outcomes among people who inject drugs who engaged in recent sex work: findings from a national survey. Public Health. 225. 79–86. 3 indexed citations

Anderson, Rebecca L., R. Scott McClelland, Barbra A. Richardson, et al.. (2023). HIV incidence among women engaging in sex work in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis. medRxiv. 2 indexed citations

Hensen, Bernadette, Albert Takaruza, Sungai T. Chabata, et al.. (2023). Temporal trends in, and risk factors for, HIV seroconversion among female sex workers accessing Zimbabwe's national sex worker programme, 2009–19: a retrospective cohort analysis of routinely collected HIV testing data. The Lancet HIV. 10(7). e442–e452. 6 indexed citations

Ali, M. Sanni, Sungai T. Chabata, Jeffrey Dirawo, et al.. (2022). Estimation of HIV incidence from analysis of HIV prevalence patterns by age and years since starting sex work among female sex workers in Zimbabwe. LSTM Online Archive (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine). 12 indexed citations

Johnson, Luke, Lucy Potter, Robert W Aldridge, et al.. (2022). Interventions to improve health and the determinants of health among sex workers in high-income countries: a systematic review. The Lancet Public Health. 8(2). e141–e154. 15 indexed citations

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Guise, Andy, et al.. (2022). Why were COVID-19 infections lower than expected amongst people who are homeless in London, UK in 2020? Exploring community perspectives and the multiple pathways of health inequalities in pandemics. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 100038–100038. 4 indexed citations

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Sweeney, Sedona, Zoë Ward, Lucy Platt, et al.. (2019). Evaluating the cost‐effectiveness of existing needle and syringe programmes in preventing hepatitis C transmission in people who inject drugs. Addiction. 114(3). 560–570. 22 indexed citations

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Platt, Lucy, Pippa Grenfell, Rebecca Meiksin, et al.. (2018). Associations between sex work laws and sex workers’ health: A systematic review and meta-analysis of quantitative and qualitative studies. PLoS Medicine. 15(12). e1002680–e1002680. 288 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ward, Zoë, Lucy Platt, Sedona Sweeney, et al.. (2018). Impact of current and scaled‐up levels of hepatitis C prevention and treatment interventions for people who inject drugs in three UK settings—what is required to achieve the WHO's HCV elimination targets?. Addiction. 113(9). 1727–1738. 23 indexed citations

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Prakash, Ravi, Shajy Isac, H L Mohan, et al.. (2018). Violence experience by perpetrator and associations with HIV/STI risk and infection: a cross-sectional study among female sex workers in Karnataka, south India. BMJ Open. 8(9). e021389–e021389. 17 indexed citations

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Platt, Lucy, Silvia Minozzi, Jennifer Reed, et al.. (2017). Needle and syringe programmes and opioid substitution therapy for preventing HCV transmission among people who inject drugs: findings from a Cochrane Review and meta‐analysis. Addiction. 113(3). 545–563. 244 indexed citations

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Rhodes, Tim, Andy Guise, James Ndimbii, et al.. (2015). Is the promise of methadone Kenya’s solution to managing HIV and addiction? A mixed-method mathematical modelling and qualitative study. BMJ Open. 5(3). e007198–e007198. 42 indexed citations

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Fitzgerald, Niamh, et al.. (2015). Large-scale implementation of alcohol brief interventions in new settings in Scotland: a qualitative interview study of a national programme. BMC Public Health. 15(1). 289–289. 18 indexed citations

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Jolley, Emma, Tim Rhodes, Lucy Platt, et al.. (2012). HIV among people who inject drugs in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia: a systematic review with implications for policy. BMJ Open. 2(5). e001465–e001465. 98 indexed citations

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Mayhew, Susannah, et al.. (2009). Protecting the unprotected: mixed-method research on drug use, sex work and rights in Pakistan's fight against HIV/AIDS. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 85(Suppl 2). ii31–ii36. 49 indexed citations

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Rhodes, Tim, Ali Judd, Larissa Mikhailova, et al.. (2004). Injecting Equipment Sharing Among Injecting Drug Users in Togliatti City, Russian Federation. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 35(3). 293–300. 44 indexed citations

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