Peter Ouma

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Peter Ouma is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Ouma has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 27 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 7 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Peter Ouma's work include Global Maternal and Child Health (28 papers), Malaria Research and Control (26 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (10 papers). Peter Ouma is often cited by papers focused on Global Maternal and Child Health (28 papers), Malaria Research and Control (26 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (10 papers). Peter Ouma collaborates with scholars based in Kenya, United States and United Kingdom. Peter Ouma's co-authors include Mary J. Hamel, Laurence Slutsker, Meghna Desai, Feiko O. ter Kuile, Simon Kariuki, Florence Were, Anna Maria van Eijk, Kephas Otieno, John Ayisi and Piet A. Kager and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Peter Ouma

42 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.

Factors Affecting Antenatal Care Attendance: Results from Qualitative Studies in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi

2013 297 citations Mary J. Hamel, Peter Ouma et al. PLoS ONE profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Ouma Kenya	21	992	974	287	246	199	42	1.7k
Harry Tagbor Ghana	23	856 0.9×	1.0k 1.0×	261 0.9×	211 0.9×	175 0.9×	67	1.6k
John Ayisi Kenya	25	741 0.7×	704 0.7×	311 1.1×	230 0.9×	245 1.2×	38	1.8k
Christopher Pell Netherlands	28	890 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	278 1.0×	388 1.6×	202 1.0×	77	2.2k
Jayne Webster United Kingdom	28	1.4k 1.4×	1.5k 1.6×	348 1.2×	313 1.3×	256 1.3×	121	2.3k
Laura C. Steinhardt United States	23	902 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	199 0.7×	400 1.6×	177 0.9×	61	2.1k
Caroline Shulman United Kingdom	22	629 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	234 0.8×	373 1.5×	225 1.1×	51	2.1k
Kubaje Adazu United States	17	816 0.8×	594 0.6×	420 1.5×	228 0.9×	149 0.7×	21	1.6k
Stephanie Dellicour United Kingdom	18	748 0.8×	751 0.8×	156 0.5×	150 0.6×	157 0.8×	29	1.2k
Caroline A. Lynch United Kingdom	19	565 0.6×	501 0.5×	135 0.5×	351 1.4×	81 0.4×	45	1.1k
A.M. Greenwood Gambia	22	689 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	335 1.2×	153 0.6×	291 1.5×	37	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Ouma

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Pons‐Duran, Clara, Ghyslain Mombo‐Ngoma, Eusébio Macete, et al.. (2022). Burden of malaria in pregnancy among adolescent girls compared to adult women in 5 sub-Saharan African countries: A secondary individual participant data meta-analysis of 2 clinical trials. PLoS Medicine. 19(9). e1004084–e1004084. 8 indexed citations

Hoyt, Jenna, et al.. (2021). Healthcare provider and pregnant women’s perspectives on the implementation of intermittent screening and treatment with dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine for malaria in pregnancy in western Kenya: a qualitative study. Malaria Journal. 20(1). 291–291. 4 indexed citations

Ouma, Peter, et al.. (2020). Intermittent screening and treatment with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for the prevention of malaria in pregnancy: implementation feasibility in a routine healthcare system setting in western Kenya. Malaria Journal. 19(1). 433–433. 5 indexed citations

Augusto, Orvalho, Andy Stergachis, Stephanie Dellicour, et al.. (2020). First trimester use of artemisinin-based combination therapy and the risk of low birth weight and small for gestational age. Malaria Journal. 19(1). 144–144. 9 indexed citations

Afrane, Yaw A., et al.. (2016). Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness among Women Attending Antenatal Care Clinic in Health Facilities within Bureti Sub County of Kericho County, Kenya. American Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences. 6(4). 123–128. 11 indexed citations

Dellicour, Stephanie, George Aol, Peter Ouma, et al.. (2016). Weekly miscarriage rates in a community-based prospective cohort study in rural western Kenya. BMJ Open. 6(4). e011088–e011088. 29 indexed citations

Were, Vincent, Peter Ouma, Meghna Desai, et al.. (2016). Large-scale implementation of disease control programmes: a cost-effectiveness analysis of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed net distribution channels in a malaria-endemic area of western Kenya—a study protocol. BMJ Open. 6(11). e012776–e012776. 4 indexed citations

Green, Michael, Kephas Otieno, Abraham Katana, et al.. (2016). Pharmacokinetics of mefloquine and its effect on sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim steady-state blood levels in intermittent preventive treatment (IPTp) of pregnant HIV-infected women in Kenya. Malaria Journal. 15(1). 7–7. 8 indexed citations

Dellicour, Stephanie, Peter Ouma, Feiko O. ter Kuile, et al.. (2016). Knowledge and Adherence to the National Guidelines for Malaria Case Management in Pregnancy among Healthcare Providers and Drug Outlet Dispensers in Rural, Western Kenya. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0145616–e0145616. 29 indexed citations

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Desai, Meghna, Julie Gutman, Kephas Otieno, et al.. (2015). Intermittent screening and treatment or intermittent preventive treatment with dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine versus intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine for the control of malaria during pregnancy in western Kenya: an open-label, three-group, randomised controlled superiority trial. The Lancet. 386(10012). 2507–2519. 146 indexed citations

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Kayentao, Kassoum, Stephanie Dellicour, Sory Ibrahim Diawara, et al.. (2015). Access and Use of Interventions to Prevent and Treat Malaria among Pregnant Women in Kenya and Mali: A Qualitative Study. PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0119848–e0119848. 41 indexed citations

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Iriemenam, Nnaemeka C., Monica P. Shah, Wangeci Gatei, et al.. (2012). Temporal trends of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) drug-resistance molecular markers in Plasmodium falciparum parasites from pregnant women in western Kenya. Malaria Journal. 11(1). 134–134. 66 indexed citations

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Ouma, Peter, Anna Maria van Eijk, Mary J. Hamel, et al.. (2010). Antenatal and delivery care in rural western Kenya: the effect of training health care workers to provide "focused antenatal care". Reproductive Health. 7(1). 1–1. 119 indexed citations

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Skarbinski, Jacek, Peter Ouma, Louise Causer, et al.. (2009). Effect of malaria rapid diagnostic tests on the management of uncomplicated malaria with artemether-lumefantrine in Kenya: a cluster randomized trial.. PubMed. 80(6). 919–26. 78 indexed citations

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Hamel, Mary J., Amanda Poe, Peter Bloland, et al.. (2008). Dihydrofolate reductase I164L mutations in Plasmodium falciparum isolates: clinical outcome of 14 Kenyan adults infected with parasites harbouring the I164L mutation. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 102(4). 338–345. 16 indexed citations

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Eijk, Anna Maria van, Kim A. Lindblade, Frank Odhiambo, et al.. (2008). Reproductive health issues in rural Western Kenya. Reproductive Health. 5(1). 1–1. 26 indexed citations

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Eijk, Anna Maria van, Peter Ouma, John Williamson, et al.. (2008). Plasma Folate Level and High‐Dose Folate Supplementation Predict Sulfadoxine‐Pyrimethamine Treatment Failure in Pregnant Women in Western Kenya Who Have Uncomplicated Malaria. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 198(10). 1550–1553. 19 indexed citations

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Skarbinski, Jacek, Peter Ouma, Louise Causer, et al.. (2007). Introduction of malaria rapid diagnostic tests, new guidelines, and artemether-lumefantrine in Kenya: A cluster randomized trial. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 77. 97–97. 2 indexed citations

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Ouma, Peter, Anna Maria van Eijk, Mary J. Hamel, et al.. (2007). The effect of health care worker training on the use of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy in rural western Kenya. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 12(8). 953–961. 46 indexed citations

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Ouma, Peter, Anna Maria van Eijk, Mary J. Hamel, et al.. (2007). Malaria and anaemia among pregnant women at first antenatal clinic visit in Kisumu, western Kenya. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 12(12). 1515–1523. 54 indexed citations

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