Megan Prinsloo

928 total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 630 citations indexed

About

Megan Prinsloo is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Health and Emergency Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Megan Prinsloo has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 630 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 13 papers in Health and 11 papers in Emergency Medicine. Recurrent topics in Megan Prinsloo's work include Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (18 papers), Trauma and Emergency Care Studies (9 papers) and Traffic and Road Safety (8 papers). Megan Prinsloo is often cited by papers focused on Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (18 papers), Trauma and Emergency Care Studies (9 papers) and Traffic and Road Safety (8 papers). Megan Prinsloo collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and United States. Megan Prinsloo's co-authors include Richard Matzopoulos, Debbie Bradshaw, Ria Laubscher, Nomonde Gwebushe, Victoria Pillay‐van Wyk, William Msemburi, I Neethling, Pam Groenewald, Carl Lombard and Beatrice Nojilana and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Megan Prinsloo

33 papers receiving 594 citations

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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.

Mortality trends and differentials in South Africa from 1997 to 2012: second National Burden of Disease Study

2016 276 citations Victoria Pillay‐van Wyk, William Msemburi et al. The Lancet Global Health profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Megan Prinsloo South Africa	10	183	175	142	119	105	38	630
Nomonde Gwebushe South Africa	12	233 1.3×	270 1.5×	84 0.6×	76 0.6×	125 1.2×	14	767
Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque Bangladesh	21	412 2.3×	179 1.0×	105 0.7×	45 0.4×	142 1.4×	45	1.3k
Rajendra Karkee Nepal	22	411 2.2×	159 0.9×	48 0.3×	56 0.5×	400 3.8×	67	1.4k
I Neethling South Africa	9	158 0.9×	91 0.5×	58 0.4×	84 0.7×	82 0.8×	30	494
Cuong Pham Vietnam	12	226 1.2×	170 1.0×	85 0.6×	18 0.2×	74 0.7×	39	674
Bobby Paul India	14	120 0.7×	135 0.8×	26 0.2×	90 0.8×	87 0.8×	119	767
Paul M. Furbee United States	15	175 1.0×	276 1.6×	235 1.7×	68 0.6×	152 1.4×	20	765
Modena Wilson United States	15	266 1.5×	377 2.2×	89 0.6×	218 1.8×	53 0.5×	28	820
Dharma Nand Bhatta Nepal	15	183 1.0×	125 0.7×	38 0.3×	48 0.4×	99 0.9×	35	773
Shayne D. Bland United States	10	269 1.5×	198 1.1×	114 0.8×	100 0.8×	91 0.9×	11	703

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Megan Prinsloo

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Abrahams, Naeemah, Esnat Chirwa, Carl Lombard, et al.. (2025). Two decades of tracking femicide in South Africa: An analysis of four national surveys from 1999 to 2020/2021. Global Public Health. 20(1). 2576753–2576753. 1 indexed citations

Prinsloo, Megan, Rifqah Abeeda Roomaney, I Neethling, et al.. (2025). Tracking poison ingestion deaths for South Africa: The need for access to timely reliable data. South African Medical Journal. 115(5). e2993–e2993.

Abrahams, Naeemah, Carl Lombard, Nwabisa Shai, et al.. (2025). Association between alcohol use and femicide in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study. The Lancet Global Health. 13(7). e1291–e1300. 1 indexed citations

Prinsloo, Megan, Rifqah Abeeda Roomaney, Debbie Bradshaw, et al.. (2024). Injury mortality in South Africa: a 2009 and 2017 comparison to track progress to meeting sustainable development goal targets. Global Health Action. 17(1). 2377828–2377828. 2 indexed citations

Abrahams, Naeemah, Esnat Chirwa, Carl Lombard, et al.. (2024). Femicide, intimate partner femicide, and non-intimate partner femicide in South Africa: An analysis of 3 national surveys, 1999–2017. PLoS Medicine. 21(1). e1004330–e1004330. 10 indexed citations

Williams, Petal Petersen, Megan Prinsloo, Margaret Peden, et al.. (2024). Identifying and Validating Alcohol Diagnostics for Injury-Related Trauma in South Africa: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study. JMIR Research Protocols. 13. e52949–e52949.

Matzopoulos, Richard, Megan Prinsloo, Morna Cornell, et al.. (2023). South Africa’s male homicide epidemic hiding in plain sight: Exploring sex differences and patterns in homicide risk in a retrospective descriptive study of postmortem investigations. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(11). e0002595–e0002595. 6 indexed citations

Prinsloo, Megan, et al.. (2023). An investigation into the profile and temporal evolution of firearm-related fatalities at Tygerberg Forensic Pathology Laboratory. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine. 96. 102529–102529.

Navsaria, Pradeep H., et al.. (2023). firearm pandemic: time to act and flatten the curve. South African Medical Journal. 113(3). 113–114. 2 indexed citations

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Groenewald, Pam, Calla Holmgren, Tracy R. Glass, et al.. (2023). Further evidence of misclassification of the injury deaths in South Africa: When will the barriers to accurate injury death statistics be removed?. South African Medical Journal. 113(9). 30–35. 1 indexed citations

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Prinsloo, Megan, Mercilene Machisa, Reshma Kassanjee, et al.. (2022). Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to interpersonal violence in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012. South African Medical Journal. 112(8b). 693–704. 8 indexed citations

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Puvanachandra, Prasanthi, et al.. (2021). 1A.003 Affordability and availability of child restraints in under-served populations in South Africa. Abstracts. A1.3–A1. 1 indexed citations

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Matzopoulos, Richard, Naeemah Abrahams, Brett Bowman, et al.. (2019). Utility of crime surveys for Sustainable Development Goals monitoring and violence prevention using a public health approach. South African Medical Journal. 109(6). 382–382. 8 indexed citations

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Matzopoulos, Richard, Megan Prinsloo, Debbie Bradshaw, & Naeemah Abrahams. (2019). Reducing homicide through policy interventions: The case of gun control. South African Medical Journal. 109(11b). 63–63. 9 indexed citations

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Matzopoulos, Richard, Joseph A. Simonetti, Megan Prinsloo, et al.. (2018). A retrospective time trend study of firearm and non-firearm homicide in Cape Town from 1994 to 2013. South African Medical Journal. 108(3). 197–197. 17 indexed citations

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Prinsloo, Megan, Richard Matzopoulos, Ria Laubscher, John B. Myers, & Debbie Bradshaw. (2016). Validating homicide rates in the Western Cape Province, South Africa: Findings from the 2009 Injury Mortality Survey. South African Medical Journal. 106(2). 193–193. 9 indexed citations

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Wyk, Victoria Pillay‐van, William Msemburi, Ria Laubscher, et al.. (2016). Mortality trends and differentials in South Africa from 1997 to 2012: second National Burden of Disease Study. The Lancet Global Health. 4(9). e642–e653. 276 indexed citations breakdown →

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Prinsloo, Megan, Ria Laubscher, I Neethling, & Debbie Bradshaw. (2011). Fatal violence among children under 15 years in four cities of South Africa, 2001–2005. International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion. 19(2). 181–184. 6 indexed citations

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Prinsloo, Megan. (2007). 11th World Congress on Public Health and 8th Brazilian Congress on Collective Health. 5(1). 98–99. 1 indexed citations

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Matzopoulos, Richard, Megan Prinsloo, Alexander Butchart, Margie Peden, & Carl Lombard. (2005). Estimating the South African trauma caseload. International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion. 13(1). 49–51. 32 indexed citations

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