Nwabisa Shai

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Nwabisa Shai is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nwabisa Shai has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in General Health Professions, 34 papers in Health and 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Nwabisa Shai's work include Intimate Partner and Family Violence (34 papers), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (32 papers) and Child Abuse and Trauma (17 papers). Nwabisa Shai is often cited by papers focused on Intimate Partner and Family Violence (34 papers), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (32 papers) and Child Abuse and Trauma (17 papers). Nwabisa Shai collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and United Kingdom. Nwabisa Shai's co-authors include Rachel Jewkes, Kristin Dunkle, Mzikazi Nduna, Andrew Gibbs, Samantha Willan, Yandisa Sikweyiya, Laura Washington, Esnat Chirwa, Ian Colman and Nicola Christofides and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Nwabisa Shai

56 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Intimate partner violence, relationship power inequity, a... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 250 500 750
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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. Intimate partner violence, relationship power inequity, and incidence of HIV infection in young women in South Africa: a cohort study
    2010 907 citations Rachel Jewkes, Kristin Dunkle et al. The Lancet profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nwabisa Shai South Africa 23 1.7k 1.1k 964 676 517 58 2.5k
Nata Duvvury Ireland 15 1.3k 0.8× 937 0.9× 771 0.8× 514 0.8× 281 0.5× 46 2.0k
Jennifer A. Wagman United States 21 1.2k 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 862 0.9× 438 0.6× 291 0.6× 83 2.0k
Nwabisa Jama South Africa 8 1.4k 0.9× 790 0.7× 817 0.8× 587 0.9× 289 0.6× 8 1.9k
Abigail M. Hatcher United States 30 2.0k 1.2× 855 0.8× 789 0.8× 1.3k 2.0× 318 0.6× 94 3.1k
Nambusi Kyegombe United Kingdom 23 997 0.6× 820 0.8× 637 0.7× 289 0.4× 506 1.0× 55 1.7k
Nicola Christofides South Africa 23 1.0k 0.6× 722 0.7× 578 0.6× 346 0.5× 355 0.7× 99 1.9k
Mzikazi Nduna South Africa 25 2.8k 1.7× 1.5k 1.4× 1.7k 1.7× 1.3k 1.9× 775 1.5× 61 4.0k
Elizabeth Reed United States 28 1.0k 0.6× 1.0k 0.9× 1.0k 1.1× 376 0.6× 682 1.3× 97 2.6k
Kathryn E. Moracco United States 30 849 0.5× 1.8k 1.6× 1.3k 1.3× 261 0.4× 866 1.7× 92 2.8k
Manuela Colombini United Kingdom 23 922 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 575 0.6× 368 0.5× 624 1.2× 60 2.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nwabisa Shai

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Colombini, Manuela, Nwabisa Shai, & Pinky Mahlangu. (2025). Exploring the impact of COVID-19 hard lockdown on service provision for survivors of violence against women in South Africa: a qualitative study. BMJ Open. 15(2). e095058–e095058.
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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
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Gibbs, Andrew, Laura Washington, Esnat Chirwa, et al.. (2025). Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Plus: A pilot randomised controlled trial of a co-developed intervention with young South Africans. PLOS Global Public Health. 5(4). e0004494–e0004494. 1 indexed citations
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Jewkes, Rachel, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Naeemah Abrahams, et al.. (2025). Impact of witnessing abuse of their mother and childhood trauma on men's perpetration of intimate partner violence in the cross-sectional UN multi-country study on men and violence in Asia and the Pacific. SSM - Mental Health. 7. 100391–100391. 2 indexed citations
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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
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Willan, Samantha, et al.. (2024). South African rape survivors’ expressions of shame, self-blame and internalized-stigma. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 100310–100310. 2 indexed citations
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Mahlangu, Pinky, Yandisa Sikweyiya, Andrew Gibbs, Nwabisa Shai, & Mercilene Machisa. (2023). “I Carry the Trauma and Can Vividly Remember”: Mental Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Frontline Health Care Workers in South Africa. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(3). 2365–2365. 2 indexed citations
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Stoebenau, Kirsten, Kristin Dunkle, Samantha Willan, Nwabisa Shai, & Andrew Gibbs. (2023). Assessing risk factors and health impacts across different forms of exchange sex among young women in informal settlements in South Africa: A cross-sectional study. Social Science & Medicine. 318. 115637–115637. 9 indexed citations
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Mannell, Jeneviève, Laura Washington, Rochelle A. Burgess, et al.. (2023). Challenges and opportunities in coproduction: reflections on working with young people to develop an intervention to prevent violence in informal settlements in South Africa. BMJ Global Health. 8(3). e011463–e011463. 13 indexed citations
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Shai, Nwabisa, Leane Ramsoomar, & Naeemah Abrahams. (2022). Femicide Prevention Strategy Development Process: The South African Experience. Peace Review. 34(2). 227–245. 8 indexed citations
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Jewkes, Rachel, et al.. (2022). Quantitative evaluation of Zindagii Shoista (Living with Dignity) intervention to prevent violence against women in Tajikistan. Global Health Action. 15(1). 2122994–2122994. 2 indexed citations
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Mahlangu, Pinky, et al.. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 lockdown and link to women and children’s experiences of violence in the home in South Africa. BMC Public Health. 22(1). 1029–1029. 46 indexed citations
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Mahlangu, Pinky, Esnat Chirwa, Mercilene Machisa, et al.. (2021). Prevalence and factors associated with experience of corporal punishment in public schools in South Africa. PLoS ONE. 16(8). e0254503–e0254503. 16 indexed citations
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Gibbs, Andrew, Kristin Dunkle, Leane Ramsoomar, et al.. (2020). New learnings on drivers of men’s physical and/or sexual violence against their female partners, and women’s experiences of this, and the implications for prevention interventions. Global Health Action. 13(1). 1739845–1739845. 89 indexed citations
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Jewkes, Rachel, Aní­k Gevers, Esnat Chirwa, et al.. (2019). RCT evaluation of Skhokho: A holistic school intervention to prevent gender-based violence among South African Grade 8s. PLoS ONE. 14(10). e0223562–e0223562. 24 indexed citations
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Gibbs, Andrew, Laura Washington, Nada Abdelatif, et al.. (2019). Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Intervention to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence Among Young People: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Adolescent Health. 66(3). 323–335. 87 indexed citations
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Shai, Nwabisa, Yandisa Sikweyiya, Ingrid van der Heijden, Naeemah Abrahams, & Rachel Jewkes. (2017). "I was in the darkness but the group brought me light": Development, relevance and feasibility of the Sondela HIV adjustment and coping intervention. PLoS ONE. 12(6). e0178135–e0178135. 5 indexed citations
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Christofides, Nicola, Rachel Jewkes, Kristin Dunkle, et al.. (2014). Perpetration of physical and sexual abuse and subsequent fathering of pregnancies among a cohort of young South African men: a longitudinal study. BMC Public Health. 14(1). 947–947. 9 indexed citations
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Gevers, Aní­k, Nwabisa Shai, & Yandisa Sikweyiya. (2013). Gender-based violence and the need for evidence-based primary prevention in South Africa : perspectives. 11(2). 14–20. 8 indexed citations
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Jewkes, Rachel, Kristin Dunkle, Mzikazi Nduna, & Nwabisa Shai. (2010). Intimate partner violence, relationship power inequity, and incidence of HIV infection in young women in South Africa: a cohort study. The Lancet. 376(9734). 41–48. 907 indexed citations breakdown →

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