Nambusi Kyegombe

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Nambusi Kyegombe is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nambusi Kyegombe has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in General Health Professions, 28 papers in Health and 24 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Nambusi Kyegombe's work include Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (35 papers), Intimate Partner and Family Violence (28 papers) and Sex work and related issues (18 papers). Nambusi Kyegombe is often cited by papers focused on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (35 papers), Intimate Partner and Family Violence (28 papers) and Sex work and related issues (18 papers). Nambusi Kyegombe collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Uganda. Nambusi Kyegombe's co-authors include Karen Devries, Charlotte Watts, Janet Nakuti, Tina Musuya, Lori Michau, Tanya Abramsky, Elizabeth Starmann, Lori Heise, Ana Maria Buller and Lígia Kiss and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Social Science & Medicine and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Nambusi Kyegombe

52 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Findings from the SASA! Study: a cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of a community mobilization intervention to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV risk in Kampala, Uganda

2014 333 citations Tanya Abramsky, Karen Devries et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nambusi Kyegombe United Kingdom	23	997	820	637	506	289	55	1.7k
Nicola Christofides South Africa	23	1.0k 1.0×	722 0.9×	578 0.9×	355 0.7×	346 1.2×	99	1.9k
Samantha Willan South Africa	20	905 0.9×	616 0.8×	562 0.9×	242 0.5×	268 0.9×	55	1.4k
Nata Duvvury Ireland	15	1.3k 1.3×	937 1.1×	771 1.2×	281 0.6×	514 1.8×	46	2.0k
Jennifer A. Wagman United States	21	1.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	862 1.4×	291 0.6×	438 1.5×	83	2.0k
Sarah Bott United States	18	563 0.6×	744 0.9×	454 0.7×	474 0.9×	152 0.5×	37	1.4k
Nwabisa Shai South Africa	23	1.7k 1.7×	1.1k 1.3×	964 1.5×	517 1.0×	676 2.3×	58	2.5k
Elizabeth Baumler United States	26	1.3k 1.3×	429 0.5×	437 0.7×	507 1.0×	462 1.6×	84	2.1k
Manuela Colombini United Kingdom	23	922 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	575 0.9×	624 1.2×	368 1.3×	60	2.0k
Nwabisa Jama South Africa	8	1.4k 1.4×	790 1.0×	817 1.3×	289 0.6×	587 2.0×	8	1.9k
Esnat Chirwa South Africa	21	666 0.7×	830 1.0×	435 0.7×	367 0.7×	91 0.3×	73	1.4k

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Kyegombe, Nambusi, et al.. (2025). Sleep health epidemiology and associations with menstrual health, mental health, and educational performance among in-school female adolescents in Uganda: A longitudinal study. Sleep Health. 11(2). 174–183. 1 indexed citations

Stern, Erin, et al.. (2025). The role of jealousy and infidelity in intimate partner violence against women: a qualitative meta-synthesis of five studies. BMC Public Health. 25(1). 3502–3502.

Meiksin, Rebecca, Ruth Ponsford, Nambusi Kyegombe, & Chris Bonell. (2024). Social norms relating to gender and dating and relationship violence in English secondary schools: Exploring student, staff and parent/carer accounts. Social Science & Medicine. 366. 117621–117621.

Kyegombe, Nambusi, Sophie Namy, Janet Nakuti, et al.. (2024). Adapting a complex violence prevention intervention: a case study of the Good School Toolkit in Uganda. BMC Public Health. 24(1). 417–417. 1 indexed citations

Shah, Pooja, Tara Beattie, Rupert Kaul, et al.. (2023). Syndemic of factors that shape the early lives of women who enter into sex work: a qualitative methods study from Nairobi, Kenya. BMJ Open. 13(4). e068886–e068886. 3 indexed citations

Chimbindi, Natsayi, Nondumiso Mthiyane, Thembelihle Zuma, et al.. (2023). Evaluating use of mass-media communication intervention ‘MTV-Shuga’ on increased awareness and demand for HIV and sexual health services by adolescent girls and young women in South Africa: an observational study. BMJ Open. 13(5). e062804–e062804. 4 indexed citations

Shah, Pooja, Rupert Kaul, Nambusi Kyegombe, et al.. (2023). Childhood and adolescent factors shaping vulnerability to underage entry into sex work: a quantitative hierarchical analysis of female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya. BMJ Open. 13(12). e078618–e078618. 2 indexed citations

Kyegombe, Nambusi, et al.. (2023). Youth and healthcare workers’ perspectives on the feasibility and acceptability of self-testing for HIV, Hepatitis and Syphilis among young people: Qualitative findings from a pilot study in Gaborone, Botswana. PLoS ONE. 18(7). e0288971–e0288971. 4 indexed citations

Kyegombe, Nambusi, et al.. (2022). Language, meaning and measure: Community perspectives and experiences of physical punishments and the transforming child protection and child rights landscapes in Tanzania. Child Abuse & Neglect. 129. 105663–105663. 3 indexed citations

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Kyegombe, Nambusi, Kirsten Stoebenau, Natsayi Chimbindi, et al.. (2021). Measuring transactional sex in different contexts: How do tools to measure this practice perform in rural South Africa?. African Journal of AIDS Research. 20(4). 329–335. 5 indexed citations

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Kyegombe, Nambusi, Erin Stern, & Ana Maria Buller. (2021). “We saw that jealousy can also bring violence”: A qualitative exploration of the intersections between jealousy, infidelity and intimate partner violence in Rwanda and Uganda. Social Science & Medicine. 292. 114593–114593. 20 indexed citations

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Kyegombe, Nambusi, et al.. (2019). How to conduct good quality research on violence against children with disabilities: key ethical, measurement, and research principles. BMC Public Health. 19(1). 1133–1133. 10 indexed citations

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Stoebenau, Kirsten, et al.. (2019). Developing Experimental Vignettes to Identify Gender Norms Associated With Transactional Sex for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Central Uganda. Journal of Adolescent Health. 64(4). S60–S66. 25 indexed citations

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Starmann, Elizabeth, Lori Heise, Nambusi Kyegombe, et al.. (2018). Examining diffusion to understand the how of SASA!, a violence against women and HIV prevention intervention in Uganda. BMC Public Health. 18(1). 616–616. 38 indexed citations

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Devries, Karen, Louise Knight, Jennifer Child, et al.. (2017). Witnessing intimate partner violence and child maltreatment in Ugandan children: a cross-sectional survey. BMJ Open. 7(2). e013583–e013583. 37 indexed citations

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Devries, Karen, Hannah Kuper, Louise Knight, et al.. (2017). Reducing Physical Violence Toward Primary School Students With Disabilities. Journal of Adolescent Health. 62(3). 303–310. 24 indexed citations

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Banks, Lena Morgon, et al.. (2017). “If he could speak, he would be able to point out who does those things to him”: Experiences of violence and access to child protection among children with disabilities in Uganda and Malawi. PLoS ONE. 12(9). e0183736–e0183736. 24 indexed citations

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Kyegombe, Nambusi, Tanya Abramsky, Karen Devries, et al.. (2015). What is the potential for interventions designed to prevent violence against women to reduce children's exposure to violence? Findings from the SASA! study, Kampala, Uganda. Child Abuse & Neglect. 50. 128–140. 31 indexed citations

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Devries, Karen, Nambusi Kyegombe, Maria Zuurmond, et al.. (2014). Violence against primary school children with disabilities in Uganda: a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health. 14(1). 1017–1017. 51 indexed citations

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Abramsky, Tanya, Karen Devries, Lígia Kiss, et al.. (2012). A community mobilisation intervention to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV/AIDS risk in Kampala, Uganda (the SASA! Study): study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. Trials. 13(1). 96–96. 87 indexed citations

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