Marie Laga

9.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
136 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Marie Laga is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Marie Laga has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Infectious Diseases, 75 papers in Epidemiology and 46 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Marie Laga's work include HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (78 papers), HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (55 papers) and Sex work and related issues (46 papers). Marie Laga is often cited by papers focused on HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (78 papers), HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (55 papers) and Sex work and related issues (46 papers). Marie Laga collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Netherlands. Marie Laga's co-authors include Peter Piot, Béa Vuylsteke, Eric Van Dyck, Virginie Ettiègne-Traoré, Michel Alary, N Nzila, Jelle J. Goeman, Lut Van Damme, Peter D. Ghys and Mamadou O. Diallo and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Marie Laga

133 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

Effectiveness of COL-1492, a nonoxynol-9 vaginal gel, on HIV-1 transmission in female sex workers: a randomised controlled trial

2002 632 citations Michel Alary, Béa Vuylsteke et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marie Laga Belgium	41	3.0k	2.4k	2.1k	1.8k	1.4k	136	5.7k
Philippe Mayaud United Kingdom	48	2.1k 0.7×	4.0k 1.7×	1.8k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	968 0.7×	241	7.1k
Michael E. St. Louis United States	48	2.3k 0.7×	2.6k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	624 0.4×	99	6.4k
Thomas A. Peterman United States	45	3.3k 1.1×	2.6k 1.1×	1.8k 0.9×	2.9k 1.6×	1.0k 0.7×	158	6.8k
Michel Alary Canada	37	4.1k 1.3×	4.0k 1.7×	1.9k 0.9×	2.3k 1.3×	2.7k 1.9×	255	7.4k
Kishorchandra Mandaliya United States	46	3.1k 1.0×	2.5k 1.0×	2.5k 1.2×	1.9k 1.0×	762 0.5×	131	6.6k
Anne Buvé Belgium	41	2.6k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	974 0.5×	2.0k 1.1×	976 0.7×	117	4.7k
Gina Dallabetta United States	34	1.9k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	996 0.7×	101	4.0k
Gita Ramjee South Africa	38	3.5k 1.2×	2.0k 0.9×	2.2k 1.1×	2.7k 1.5×	751 0.5×	212	6.3k
Basil Donovan Australia	46	1.9k 0.6×	4.6k 1.9×	3.0k 1.5×	1.9k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	361	8.7k
Irving Hoffman United States	42	4.2k 1.4×	2.8k 1.2×	1.5k 0.7×	2.1k 1.2×	853 0.6×	249	7.3k

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Nöstlinger, Christiana, et al.. (2023). Understanding why and how youth-friendly health services improve viral load suppression among adolescents and young people living with HIV in Nigeria: realist evaluation with qualitative comparative analysis. BMJ Global Health. 8(9). e012600–e012600. 2 indexed citations

Jongen, Vita W., Thijs Reyniers, Maarten F. Schim van der Loeff, et al.. (2023). Trajectories of PrEP use among men who have sex with men: a pooled analysis of two prospective, observational cohort studies. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 26(7). e26133–e26133. 3 indexed citations

Vanbaelen, Thibaut, Anke Rotsaert, Bart K. M. Jacobs, et al.. (2022). Why Do HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Users Discontinue Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Care? A Mixed Methods Survey in a Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Clinic in Belgium. AIDS Patient Care and STDs. 36(4). 159–167. 9 indexed citations

Vuylsteke, Béa, Lize Cuypers, Guy Baele, et al.. (2022). The role of airborne transmission in a large single source outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in a Belgian nursing home in 2020. Epidemics. 40. 100589–100589. 7 indexed citations

Vanhamel, Jef, Laurens Liesenborghs, Isabel Brosius, et al.. (2022). Understanding sexual transmission dynamics and transmission contexts of monkeypox virus: a mixed-methods study of the early outbreak in Belgium (May–June 2022). Sexually Transmitted Infections. 99(5). sextrans–2022. 7 indexed citations

Rotsaert, Anke, Thijs Reyniers, Jef Vanhamel, et al.. (2022). Putting 2-1-1 into Practice: PrEP Users’ Knowledge of Effectively Starting and Stopping Oral PrEP Use. AIDS and Behavior. 27(6). 1793–1799. 6 indexed citations

Reyniers, Thijs, Hanne M. L. Zimmermann, Udi Davidovich, et al.. (2021). The social meanings of PrEP use – A mixed‐method study of PrEP use disclosure in Antwerp and Amsterdam. Sociology of Health & Illness. 43(6). 1311–1327. 10 indexed citations

Ingelbeen, Brecht, et al.. (2021). Reducing contacts to stop SARS-CoV-2 transmission during the second pandemic wave in Brussels, Belgium, August to November 2020. Eurosurveillance. 26(7). 12 indexed citations

Okonkwo, Prosper, et al.. (2020). Multilevel modelling and multiple group analysis of disparities in continuity of care and viral suppression among adolescents and youths living with HIV in Nigeria. BMJ Global Health. 5(11). e003269–e003269. 7 indexed citations

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Reyniers, Thijs, Anke Rotsaert, Veerle Buffel, et al.. (2020). Reduced sexual contacts with non-steady partners and less PrEP use among MSM in Belgium during the first weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown: results of an online survey. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 97(6). 414–419. 62 indexed citations

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Reyniers, Thijs, Christiana Nöstlinger, Béa Vuylsteke, et al.. (2020). The Impact of PrEP on the Sex Lives of MSM at High Risk for HIV Infection: Results of a Belgian Cohort. AIDS and Behavior. 25(2). 532–541. 6 indexed citations

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Reyniers, Thijs, Béa Vuylsteke, Elske Hoornenborg, et al.. (2018). Physicians’ preparedness for pre-exposure prophylaxis: results of an online survey in Belgium. Sexual Health. 15(6). 606–611. 12 indexed citations

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Vuylsteke, Béa, Thijs Reyniers, Christiana Nöstlinger, et al.. (2018). High uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) during early roll-out in Belgium: results from surveillance reports. Sexual Health. 16(1). 80–83. 20 indexed citations

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Baetselier, Irith De, Thijs Reyniers, Christiana Nöstlinger, et al.. (2017). Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) as an Additional Tool for HIV Prevention Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in Belgium: The Be-PrEP-ared Study Protocol. JMIR Research Protocols. 6(1). e11–e11. 23 indexed citations

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Loos, Jasna, Béa Vuylsteke, Jessika Deblonde, et al.. (2016). TOGETHER Project to Increase Understanding of the HIV Epidemic Among Sub-Saharan African Migrants: Protocol of Community-Based Participatory Mixed-Method Studies. JMIR Research Protocols. 5(1). e48–e48. 7 indexed citations

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Alamo, Stella, et al.. (2012). Task-Shifting to Community Health Workers: Evaluation of the Performance of a Peer-Led Model in an Antiretroviral Program in Uganda. AIDS Patient Care and STDs. 26(2). 101–107. 49 indexed citations

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Nkengasong, John N., Luc Kestens, Peter D. Ghys, et al.. (2000). Dual Infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 and Type 2: Impact on HIV Type 1 Viral Load and Immune Activation Markers in HIV-Seropositive Female Sex Workers in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 16(14). 1371–1378. 34 indexed citations

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Diallo, Mamadou O., Peter D. Ghys, Béa Vuylsteke, et al.. (1998). Evaluation of simple diagnostic algorithms for Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis cervical infections in female sex workers in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.. PubMed. 74 Suppl 1. S106–11. 22 indexed citations

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Vuylsteke, Béa, Marie Laga, Michel Alary, et al.. (1993). Clinical Algorithms for the Screening of Women for Gonococcal and Chlamydial Infection: Evaluation of Pregnant Women and Prostitutes in Zaire. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 17(1). 82–88. 107 indexed citations

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Behets, Frieda, Thomas C. Quinn, Nzilambi Nzila, et al.. (1991). Detection of salivary HIV-1-specific IgG antibodies in high-risk populations in Zaire.. PubMed. 4(2). 183–7. 46 indexed citations

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