Peter MacPherson

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
152 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Peter MacPherson is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter MacPherson has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Infectious Diseases, 76 papers in Epidemiology and 26 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Peter MacPherson's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (60 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (41 papers) and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (25 papers). Peter MacPherson is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (60 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (41 papers) and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (25 papers). Peter MacPherson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Malawi and United States. Peter MacPherson's co-authors include Elizabeth L. Corbett, Rein M G J Houben, Katherine C. Horton, Augustine Choko, Richard G. White, Katharina Kranzer, S. Bertel Squire, David G. Lalloo, Hendramoorthy Maheswaran and Emily L. Webb and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Peter MacPherson

146 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Sex Differences in Tuberculosis Burden and Notifications in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

2016 319 citations Katherine C. Horton, Peter MacPherson et al. PLoS Medicine profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Peter MacPherson	2.5k	1.9k	574	510	441	152	3.6k
Neil Martinson	4.3k 1.7×	3.1k 1.7×	569 1.0×	1.2k 2.3×	866 2.0×	280	5.8k
Christian Wejse	2.5k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	278 0.5×	834 1.6×	353 0.8×	202	4.3k
Shona Dalal	1.1k 0.4×	1.4k 0.8×	560 1.0×	246 0.5×	317 0.7×	55	2.9k
Kathy Baisley	1.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 1.9×	304 0.6×	331 0.8×	145	4.1k
Nathan Ford	4.0k 1.6×	2.4k 1.3×	888 1.5×	341 0.7×	1.2k 2.8×	117	5.4k
Sabin Nsanzimana	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	570 1.0×	122 0.2×	585 1.3×	130	3.1k
Eleanor Gouws	2.6k 1.0×	2.1k 1.1×	1.4k 2.5×	1.2k 2.3×	1.3k 3.0×	134	7.4k
Shahin Lockman	3.7k 1.5×	1.8k 1.0×	616 1.1×	355 0.7×	1.5k 3.4×	232	5.6k
Barbara Castelnuovo	2.3k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	391 0.7×	145 0.3×	908 2.1×	190	3.1k
François Venter	4.4k 1.8×	2.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.8×	500 1.0×	1.8k 4.0×	271	6.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter MacPherson

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Ueno, Akitoshi, Ross Murtagh, Seyed Alireza Mortazavi, et al.. (2025). Diagnostic accuracy of the WHO clinical staging system for detection of immunologically defined advanced HIV disease: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. HIV Medicine. 27(1). 120–135.

Ghaderi, Ebrahim, Eisin McDonald, Melissa Llano, et al.. (2025). Risk and determinants of mortality associated with invasive group A streptococcus (iGAS) disease in Scotland: A national surveillance study. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 161. 108090–108090.

Rickman, Hannah M., Helena R. A. Feasey, Marriott Nliwasa, et al.. (2024). Tuberculosis Immunoreactivity Surveillance in Malawi (Timasamala)—A protocol for a cross-sectional Mycobacterium tuberculosis immunoreactivity survey in Blantyre, Malawi. PLoS ONE. 19(5). e0291215–e0291215. 1 indexed citations

Burke, Rachael M., Marriott Nliwasa, Ankur Gupta‐Wright, et al.. (2023). Interventions to reduce deaths in people living with HIV admitted to hospital in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). e0001557–e0001557. 7 indexed citations

Feasey, Helena R. A., McEwen Khundi, Christian Bottomley, et al.. (2023). Impact of active case-finding for tuberculosis on case-notifications in Blantyre, Malawi: A community-based cluster-randomised trial (SCALE). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(12). e0002683–e0002683. 7 indexed citations

Feasey, Helena R. A., McEwen Khundi, Emily Nightingale, et al.. (2023). Prevalence of bacteriologically-confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis in urban Blantyre, Malawi 2019–20: Substantial decline compared to 2013–14 national survey. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(10). e0001911–e0001911. 8 indexed citations

Mungai, Brenda, Marc Henrion, Ben Morton, et al.. (2022). Accuracy of computer-aided chest X-ray in community-based tuberculosis screening: Lessons from the 2016 Kenya National Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(11). e0001272–e0001272. 14 indexed citations

Finch, Lorna, Richard Body, Gail Hayward, et al.. (2022). A prospective diagnostic evaluation of accuracy of self-taken and healthcare worker-taken swabs for rapid COVID-19 testing. PLoS ONE. 17(6). e0270715–e0270715. 10 indexed citations

Alba, Sandra, Ente Rood, Jennifer M. Ross, et al.. (2022). TB Hackathon: Development and Comparison of Five Models to Predict Subnational Tuberculosis Prevalence in Pakistan. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease. 7(1). 13–13. 8 indexed citations

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Martinson, Neil, Limakatso Lebina, Emily L. Webb, et al.. (2021). Household Contact Tracing With Intensified Tuberculosis and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Screening in South Africa: A Cluster-Randomized Trial. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 75(5). 849–856. 15 indexed citations

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Bates, Jane, Stephen B. Gordon, Adamson S. Muula, et al.. (2021). Palliative care and catastrophic costs in Malawi after a diagnosis of advanced cancer: a prospective cohort study. The Lancet Global Health. 9(12). e1750–e1757. 24 indexed citations

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Khundi, McEwen, Peter MacPherson, Helena R. A. Feasey, et al.. (2021). Clinical, health systems and neighbourhood determinants of tuberculosis case fatality in urban Blantyre, Malawi: a multilevel epidemiological analysis of enhanced surveillance data. Epidemiology and Infection. 149. 2 indexed citations

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MacPherson, Peter, Emily L. Webb, Elizabeth Joekes, et al.. (2021). Computer-aided X-ray screening for tuberculosis and HIV testing among adults with cough in Malawi (the PROSPECT study): A randomised trial and cost-effectiveness analysis. PLoS Medicine. 18(9). e1003752–e1003752. 37 indexed citations

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MacPherson, Peter, McEwen Khundi, Helena R. A. Feasey, et al.. (2021). Durations of asymptomatic, symptomatic, and care-seeking phases of tuberculosis disease with a Bayesian analysis of prevalence survey and notification data. BMC Medicine. 19(1). 298–298. 27 indexed citations

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Burke, Rachael M., Hannah M. Rickman, Elizabeth L. Corbett, et al.. (2021). What is the optimum time to start antiretroviral therapy in people with HIV and tuberculosis coinfection? A systematic review and meta‐analysis. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 24(7). e25772–e25772. 14 indexed citations

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Mungai, Brenda, Elizabeth Joekes, Enos Masini, et al.. (2021). ‘If not TB, what could it be?’ Chest X-ray findings from the 2016 Kenya Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey. Thorax. 76(6). 607–614. 22 indexed citations

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Meghji, Jamilah, Maia Lesosky, Elizabeth Joekes, et al.. (2020). Patient outcomes associated with post-tuberculosis lung damage in Malawi: a prospective cohort study. Thorax. 75(3). 269–278. 104 indexed citations

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Neti, Sudhakar, et al.. (2004). Blood Flow Induced Wall Stress In The LeftVentricle Of The Heart. WIT transactions on engineering sciences. 45. 1 indexed citations

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MacPherson, Peter. (1996). Walk on by. As Medicaid managed care changes the need for--and nature of--emergency departments, will the poor and needy be left behind?. PubMed. 70(14). 60–2, 64. 1 indexed citations

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MacPherson, Peter. (1976). Association between previous tuberculous infection and glioma.. BMJ. 2(6044). 1112–1112. 3 indexed citations

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