Olive Kobusingye

38.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Olive Kobusingye is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Emergency Medicine and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. According to data from OpenAlex, Olive Kobusingye has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 56 papers in Emergency Medicine and 38 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Recurrent topics in Olive Kobusingye's work include Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (54 papers), Trauma and Emergency Care Studies (53 papers) and Traffic and Road Safety (38 papers). Olive Kobusingye is often cited by papers focused on Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (54 papers), Trauma and Emergency Care Studies (53 papers) and Traffic and Road Safety (38 papers). Olive Kobusingye collaborates with scholars based in Uganda, United States and Australia. Olive Kobusingye's co-authors include Adnan A. Hyder, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, Colleen A. Wunderlich, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Robyn Norton, Ronald Lett, David Guwatudde, Charles Mock, Manjul Joshipura and David Bishai and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Olive Kobusingye

90 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

The impact of traumatic brain injuries: A global perspective

2007 1.3k citations Adnan A. Hyder, Prasanthi Puvanachandra et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Olive Kobusingye Uganda	24	2.1k	1.3k	997	883	662	94	3.7k
Alberto Nettel‐Aguirre Canada	35	516 0.2×	920 0.7×	300 0.3×	978 1.1×	123 0.2×	186	4.3k
Soheil Saadat Iran	26	509 0.2×	727 0.6×	168 0.2×	356 0.4×	255 0.4×	191	2.6k
Prasanthi Puvanachandra United States	13	754 0.4×	308 0.2×	948 1.0×	828 0.9×	153 0.2×	32	1.9k
Penelope M. Keyl United States	33	283 0.1×	595 0.5×	1.0k 1.0×	770 0.9×	434 0.7×	56	3.6k
Shinji Nakahara Japan	24	654 0.3×	508 0.4×	76 0.1×	169 0.2×	401 0.6×	126	2.0k
Michael Molloy Ireland	16	932 0.4×	712 0.6×	822 0.8×	1.6k 1.8×	24 0.0×	60	2.8k
Melissa A. Schiff United States	36	517 0.2×	1.6k 1.2×	116 0.1×	907 1.0×	123 0.2×	127	3.9k
Ronald Moscati United States	24	766 0.4×	328 0.3×	106 0.1×	175 0.2×	139 0.2×	49	1.8k
Ann M. Dellinger United States	28	367 0.2×	891 0.7×	123 0.1×	257 0.3×	1.1k 1.6×	71	2.4k
Marek Majdán Slovakia	28	1.1k 0.5×	185 0.1×	1.4k 1.4×	914 1.0×	54 0.1×	84	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Olive Kobusingye

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Olive Kobusingye

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

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Ssemugabo, Charles, et al.. (2025). Social, physical and economic drivers of unintentional injuries among children under-5 in low-resource communities in Jinja City, Uganda: a photovoice exploration. Injury Prevention. 31(4). 304–311.

Osuret, Jimmy, Ashley van Niekerk, Olive Kobusingye, Lynn Atuyambe, & Victoria Nankabirwa. (2023). Child pedestrian crossing behaviour and associated risk factors in school zones: a video-based observational study in Kampala, Uganda. Injury Prevention. 30(3). 216–223. 3 indexed citations

Oporia, Frederick, et al.. (2023). Lifejackets or just jackets? Seaworthiness of lifejackets sold at landing sites of Lake Albert, Uganda. International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics. 30(2). 343–350.

Puvanachandra, Prasanthi, et al.. (2022). The epidemiology and characteristics of injuries to under 5’s in a secondary city in Uganda: a retrospective review of hospital data. International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion. 29(4). 550–555. 2 indexed citations

Mehmood, Amber, Armaan A. Rowther, Olive Kobusingye, et al.. (2021). Delays in emergency department intervention for patients with traumatic brain injury in Uganda. Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open. 6(1). e000674–e000674. 8 indexed citations

Osuret, Jimmy, Mary Nakafeero, Milton Mutto, et al.. (2020). Estimating the burden of road traffic crashes in Uganda using police and health sector data sources. Injury Prevention. 27(3). 208–214. 15 indexed citations

Mowafi, Hani, Christine Ngaruiya, Gerard O’Reilly, et al.. (2019). Emergency care surveillance and emergency care registries in low-income and middle-income countries: conceptual challenges and future directions for research. BMJ Global Health. 4(Suppl 6). e001442–e001442. 38 indexed citations

Kwesiga, Doris, Olive Kobusingye, Jacob A. Bentley, et al.. (2019). Prevalence and factors associated with utilization of rehabilitation services among people with physical disabilities in Kampala, Uganda. A descriptive cross sectional study. BMC Public Health. 19(1). 1742–1742. 17 indexed citations

Mukama, Trasias, Charles Ssemugabo, Abdullah Ali Halage, et al.. (2018). Costs of unintentional injuries among children in an urban slum community in Kampala city, Uganda. International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion. 26(2). 129–136. 5 indexed citations

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Kobusingye, Olive, et al.. (2018). Motorcycle taxi programme increases safe riding behaviours among its drivers in Kampala, Uganda. Injury Prevention. 26(1). 5–10. 13 indexed citations

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Muhumuza, Christine, et al.. (2018). Road traffic injuries in Uganda: pre-hospital care time intervals from crash scene to hospital and related factors by the Uganda Police. International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion. 26(2). 170–175. 7 indexed citations

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Kobusingye, Olive, et al.. (2017). Disability Characteristics of Community-Based Rehabilitation Participants in Kayunga District, Uganda. Annals of Global Health. 83(3-4). 478–478. 12 indexed citations

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Tumwesigye, Nazarius Mbona, Lynn Atuyambe, & Olive Kobusingye. (2016). Factors Associated with Injuries among Commercial Motorcyclists: Evidence from a Matched Case Control Study in Kampala City, Uganda. PLoS ONE. 11(2). e0148511–e0148511. 49 indexed citations

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Babaniyi, Olusegun, et al.. (2008). Pattern of injuries in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A one-year descriptive study. TSpace. 13(2). 14–22. 24 indexed citations

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MacLeod, Jana, Olive Kobusingye, Chris Frost, & Ronald Lett. (2007). Kampala Trauma Score (KTS): Is it a new triage tool?. TSpace. 12(1). 74–82. 5 indexed citations

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Kobusingye, Olive, et al.. (2006). Exploring the perceived causes of road traffic crashes in Uganda and Pakistan: A pilot study. 4(3). 69–76. 1 indexed citations

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Kobusingye, Olive. (2004). Road Safety - Threats and Opportunities for Poor Countries. Bioline International (Bioline International). 1 indexed citations

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Lett, Ronald, et al.. (2004). Trauma team training course : evaluation of Ugandan implementation : short communication. 2(1). 78–82. 4 indexed citations

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Kobusingye, Olive, et al.. (2004). Trauma Team Training Course: Evaluation of Ugandan Implementation. 2(1). 6 indexed citations

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Kobusingye, Olive, et al.. (2001). Trauma registries as a tool for improved clinical assessment of trauma patients in an urban African hospital. East and Central African journal of surgery. 6(1). 23 indexed citations

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