Michael Aidoo

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Michael Aidoo is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Molecular Biology and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Aidoo has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 15 papers in Virology. Recurrent topics in Michael Aidoo's work include Malaria Research and Control (35 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (25 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (14 papers). Michael Aidoo is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (35 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (25 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (14 papers). Michael Aidoo collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Michael Aidoo's co-authors include Hilton Whittle, Adrian V. S. Hill, Venkatachalam Udhayakumar, Brian Greenwood, Bernard L. Nahlen, Magdalena Plebanski, Dianne J. Terlouw, Feiko O. ter Kuile, MARGARETTE S. KOLCZAK and Peter D. McElroy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Michael Aidoo

55 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Molecular analysis of the... 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Molecular analysis of the association of HLA-B53 and resistance to severe malaria
    1992 520 citations Adrian V. S. Hill, Michael Aidoo et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Michael Aidoo 1.4k 845 552 473 322 56 2.7k
Bartholomew D. Akanmori 2.5k 1.8× 1.5k 1.8× 395 0.7× 507 1.1× 244 0.8× 97 3.8k
Tabitha Mwangi 2.6k 1.9× 877 1.0× 433 0.8× 240 0.5× 193 0.6× 48 3.5k
Myriam Arévalo‐Herrera 3.5k 2.5× 798 0.9× 712 1.3× 447 0.9× 275 0.9× 126 4.1k
Diane Wallace Taylor 3.0k 2.2× 1.4k 1.6× 433 0.8× 326 0.7× 202 0.6× 111 3.9k
John Waitumbi 1.5k 1.1× 506 0.6× 311 0.6× 377 0.8× 84 0.3× 85 2.3k
Collins Ouma 1.4k 1.0× 649 0.8× 248 0.4× 346 0.7× 74 0.2× 127 2.3k
Kevin K. A. Tetteh 2.3k 1.6× 904 1.1× 498 0.9× 201 0.4× 200 0.6× 88 2.9k
Alberto Moreno 1.6k 1.2× 851 1.0× 954 1.7× 1.1k 2.4× 325 1.0× 133 3.6k
Danielle I. Stanisic 2.0k 1.5× 1.0k 1.2× 497 0.9× 187 0.4× 145 0.5× 74 2.7k
Boubacar Traoré 1.4k 1.0× 1.1k 1.2× 298 0.5× 191 0.4× 105 0.3× 67 2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Aidoo

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Aidoo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Aidoo

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

All Works

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Tomar, Deepak, Balwan Singh, Masayuki Hirano, et al.. (2025). Thermostable lamprey variable lymphocyte receptor antibody for detection of Plasmodium falciparum histidine rich protein-2. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 17155–17155.
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Suffridge, Christopher P., H. Damon Matthews, Rachel C. Johnson, et al.. (2023). Connecting thiamine availability to the microbial community composition in Chinook salmon spawning habitats of the Sacramento River basin. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 90(1). e0176023–e0176023. 4 indexed citations
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Sabin, Susanna, Sophie Jones, Dhruviben Patel, et al.. (2023). Portable and cost-effective genetic detection and characterization of Plasmodium falciparum hrp2 using the MinION sequencer. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 2893–2893. 4 indexed citations
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Visser, Theodoor, Emilie Pothin, Jan Jacobs, et al.. (2021). A comparative evaluation of mobile medical APPS (MMAS) for reading and interpreting malaria rapid diagnostic tests. Malaria Journal. 20(1). 39–39. 7 indexed citations
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Gatton, Michelle L., A Chaudhry, Rosalynn Ord, et al.. (2020). Impact of Plasmodium falciparum gene deletions on malaria rapid diagnostic test performance. Malaria Journal. 19(1). 392–392. 27 indexed citations
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Jones, Sophie, et al.. (2020). One-step PCR: A novel protocol for determination of pfhrp2 deletion status in Plasmodium falciparum. PLoS ONE. 15(7). e0236369–e0236369. 10 indexed citations
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Pluciński, Mateusz M., Pedro Rafael Dimbu, Filomeno Fortes, et al.. (2017). Posttreatment HRP2 Clearance in Patients with Uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum Malaria. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 217(5). 685–692. 46 indexed citations
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Aidoo, Michael, Jaymin C. Patel, & John W. Barnwell. (2012). Dried Plasmodium falciparum-infected samples as positive controls for malaria rapid diagnostic tests. Malaria Journal. 11(1). 239–239. 15 indexed citations
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McMorrow, Meredith, Michael Aidoo, & S. Patrick Kachur. (2011). Malaria rapid diagnostic tests in elimination settings—can they find the last parasite?. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 17(11). 1624–1631. 146 indexed citations
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Ellenberger, Dennis, Ronald A. Otten, Bin Li, et al.. (2006). HIV-1 DNA/MVA vaccination reduces the per exposure probability of infection during repeated mucosal SHIV challenges. Virology. 352(1). 216–225. 37 indexed citations
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Terlouw, Dianne J., Michael Aidoo, Venkatachalam Udhayakumar, et al.. (2002). Increased Efficacy of Sulfadoxine‐Pyrimethamine in the Treatment of Uncomplicated Falciparum Malaria among Children with Sickle Cell Trait in Western Kenya. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 186(11). 1661–1668. 13 indexed citations
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Aidoo, Michael. (2001). The explanatory models of mental health amongst low-income women and health care practitioners in Lusaka, Zambia. Health Policy and Planning. 16(2). 206–213. 77 indexed citations
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Mulholland, E. Kim, Richard A. Adegbola, Martin Weber, et al.. (1999). Etiology of serious infections in young Gambian infants. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 18(Supplement). S35–S41. 85 indexed citations
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Aidoo, Michael, Ajit Lalvani, C.E.M. Allsopp, et al.. (1995). Identification of conserved antigenic components for a cytotoxic T lymphocyte-inducing vaccine against malaria. The Lancet. 345(8956). 1003–1007. 125 indexed citations
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Plebanski, Magdalena, Catherine E. M. Allsopp, Michael Aidoo, Hugh Reyburn, & Adrian V. S. Hill. (1995). Induction of peptide‐specific primary cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses from human peripheral blood. European Journal of Immunology. 25(6). 1783–1787. 42 indexed citations
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Hill, Adrian V. S., Catherine E. M. Allsopp, Sunetra Gupta, et al.. (1994). Human leukocyte antigens and natural selection by malaria. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 346(1317). 379–385. 51 indexed citations
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Lalvani, Ajit, Michael Aidoo, C.E.M. Allsopp, et al.. (1994). An HLA-based approach to the design of a CTL-inducing vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum. Research in Immunology. 145(6). 461–468. 27 indexed citations

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