Meredith Evans

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Meredith Evans is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Meredith Evans has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in General Health Professions, 10 papers in Infectious Diseases and 7 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Meredith Evans's work include Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (13 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (10 papers) and HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (5 papers). Meredith Evans is often cited by papers focused on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (13 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (10 papers) and HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (5 papers). Meredith Evans collaborates with scholars based in Canada, South Africa and United States. Meredith Evans's co-authors include Olive Shisana, Nompumelelo Zungu, T. Rehle, Leickness C. Simbayi, Sizulu Moyo, Khangelani Zuma, Fareed Abdullah, Dorina Onoya, Demetre Labadarios and Sean Jooste and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Social Science & Medicine and BMC Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Meredith Evans

25 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

New insights into HIV epidemic in South Africa: key findings from the National HIV Prevalence, Incidence and Behaviour Survey, 2012

2016 480 citations Khangelani Zuma, Olive Shisana et al. African Journal of AIDS Research profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Meredith Evans Canada	13	614	600	400	242	240	29	1.3k
Élise Roy Canada	30	961 1.6×	499 0.8×	1.8k 4.4×	24 0.1×	113 0.5×	126	2.9k
Lindsey Richardson Canada	22	465 0.8×	310 0.5×	780 1.9×	11 0.0×	125 0.5×	73	1.7k
Georgina J MacArthur United Kingdom	16	316 0.5×	296 0.5×	835 2.1×	12 0.0×	106 0.4×	28	1.5k
Wei‐Ti Chen United States	23	351 0.6×	478 0.8×	339 0.8×	10 0.0×	22 0.1×	125	1.6k
Naoko Ishikawa Japan	22	319 0.5×	592 1.0×	538 1.3×	4 0.0×	332 1.4×	48	1.5k
James Austin United States	21	979 1.6×	1.1k 1.8×	634 1.6×	7 0.0×	36 0.1×	34	1.9k
Ashoo Grover India	15	167 0.3×	158 0.3×	118 0.3×	23 0.1×	30 0.1×	71	873
Linda Young United Kingdom	18	364 0.6×	52 0.1×	132 0.3×	47 0.2×	25 0.1×	78	1.0k
Harry Jin United States	20	241 0.4×	504 0.8×	452 1.1×	13 0.1×	13 0.1×	47	1.2k
Nádia Cristina Pinheiro Rodrigues Brazil	17	167 0.3×	113 0.2×	101 0.3×	20 0.1×	100 0.4×	75	719

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Meredith Evans

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20 of 20 papers shown

Evans, Meredith, et al.. (2025). “It's a low-key thing of eugenics”: Disability reproductive injustice in barriers to cervical cancer screening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Science & Medicine. 369. 117807–117807. 2 indexed citations

Tarasoff, Lesley A., et al.. (2024). Preconception health disparities among reproductive-aged women with and without disabilities in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 115(3). 493–501.

Evans, Meredith, Lesley A. Tarasoff, Yona Lunsky, et al.. (2024). Disability justice and collective access to labour and delivery care: a qualitative study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 24(1). 832–832. 2 indexed citations

Evans, Meredith. (2023). The pursuit of clinical recognition: Aesthetics, care, and music therapy in North American hospitals. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 37(4). 396–410.

Brown, Hilary K., et al.. (2023). Pregnancy Outcomes in Canadian Women With Disabilities: Results From Linked Survey and Health Administrative Data. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada. 45(10). 102179–102179.

Brown, Hilary K., et al.. (2023). Contraception use among female youth with disabilities: Secondary analysis of a Canadian cross-sectional survey. Disability and health journal. 16(2). 101445–101445. 1 indexed citations

George, Gavin, Brendan Maughan‐Brown, Sean Beckett, et al.. (2019). Coital frequency and condom use in age-disparate partnerships involving women aged 15 to 24: evidence from a cross-sectional study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. BMJ Open. 9(3). e024362–e024362. 22 indexed citations

Maughan‐Brown, Brendan, Gavin George, Sean Beckett, et al.. (2019). Age-disparate partnerships and HSV-2 among adolescent girls and young women in South Africa: implications for HIV infection risk. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 95(6). 443–448. 10 indexed citations

Evans, Meredith, Brendan Maughan‐Brown, Nompumelelo Zungu, & Gavin George. (2017). HIV Prevalence and ART Use Among Men in Partnerships with 15–29 Year Old Women in South Africa: HIV Risk Implications for Young Women in Age-Disparate Partnerships. AIDS and Behavior. 21(8). 2533–2542. 8 indexed citations

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Chersich, Matthew, Njeri Wabiri, Kathryn Risher, et al.. (2017). Contraception coverage and methods used among women in South Africa: A national household survey. South African Medical Journal. 107(4). 307–307. 76 indexed citations

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Maughan‐Brown, Brendan, Meredith Evans, & Gavin George. (2016). Sexual Behaviour of Men and Women within Age-Disparate Partnerships in South Africa: Implications for Young Women's HIV Risk. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0159162–e0159162. 65 indexed citations

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Zungu, Nompumelelo, Leickness C. Simbayi, Musawenkosi Mabaso, et al.. (2016). HIV risk perception and behavior among medically and traditionally circumcised males in South Africa. BMC Public Health. 16(1). 357–357. 11 indexed citations

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Zuma, Khangelani, Olive Shisana, T. Rehle, et al.. (2016). New insights into HIV epidemic in South Africa: key findings from the National HIV Prevalence, Incidence and Behaviour Survey, 2012. African Journal of AIDS Research. 15(1). 67–75. 480 indexed citations breakdown →

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Evans, Meredith, Kathryn Risher, Nompumelelo Zungu, et al.. (2016). Age‐disparate sex and HIV risk for young women from 2002 to 2012 in South Africa. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 19(1). 21310–21310. 57 indexed citations

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Evans, Meredith, Allanise Cloete, Nompumelelo Zungu, & Leickness C. Simbayi. (2016). HIV Risk Among Men Who Have Sex With Men, Women Who Have Sex With Women, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Populations in South Africa: A Mini-Review. The Open AIDS Journal. 10(1). 49–64. 24 indexed citations

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Simbayi, Leickness C., et al.. (2016). HIV Serostatus Disclosure to Sexual Partners Among Sexually Active People Living with HIV in South Africa: Results from the 2012 National Population-Based Household Survey. AIDS and Behavior. 21(1). 82–92. 23 indexed citations

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Shisana, Olive, et al.. (2015). The case for expanding the definition of ‘key populations’ to include high-risk groups in the general population to improve targeted HIV prevention efforts. South African Medical Journal. 105(8). 664–664. 13 indexed citations

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Shisana, Olive, Kathryn Risher, David D. Celentano, et al.. (2015). Does marital status matter in an HIV hyperendemic country? Findings from the 2012 South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence and Behaviour Survey. AIDS Care. 28(2). 234–241. 61 indexed citations

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Evans, Meredith & Olive Shisana. (2012). Gender differences in public perceptions on National Health Insurance. South African Medical Journal. 102(12). 918–918. 4 indexed citations

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Boily, Gino, Erin L. Seifert, Lisa Bevilacqua, et al.. (2008). SirT1 Regulates Energy Metabolism and Response to Caloric Restriction in Mice. PLoS ONE. 3(3). e1759–e1759. 358 indexed citations

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