Prudence Ditlopo

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 973 citations indexed

About

Prudence Ditlopo is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Emergency Medical Services and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Prudence Ditlopo has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 973 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in General Health Professions, 8 papers in Emergency Medical Services and 4 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Prudence Ditlopo's work include Global Health Workforce Issues (8 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (4 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (3 papers). Prudence Ditlopo is often cited by papers focused on Global Health Workforce Issues (8 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (4 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (3 papers). Prudence Ditlopo collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Ireland and Canada. Prudence Ditlopo's co-authors include Duane Blaauw, Stephen Thomas, Posy Bidwell, L. Wyness, Laetitia C. Rispel, Aziza Mwisongo, Fresier Maseko, Charles Normand, Maureen Chirwa and Loveday Penn‐Kekana and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, BMC Health Services Research and Health & Social Care in the Community.

In The Last Decade

Prudence Ditlopo

14 papers receiving 897 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.

Motivation and retention of health workers in developing countries: a systematic review

2008 626 citations Posy Bidwell, Stephen Thomas et al. BMC Health Services Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Prudence Ditlopo South Africa	8	523	370	351	194	152	14	973
Posy Bidwell United Kingdom	13	574 1.1×	428 1.2×	446 1.3×	217 1.1×	205 1.3×	18	1.2k
Lynne Miller Franco United States	7	483 0.9×	618 1.7×	157 0.4×	207 1.1×	197 1.3×	10	1.1k
James Avoka Asamani Republic of the Congo	17	315 0.6×	224 0.6×	152 0.4×	180 0.9×	136 0.9×	48	855
Kate Tulenko United States	9	344 0.7×	355 1.0×	130 0.4×	141 0.7×	144 0.9×	19	780
Khassoum Diallo Switzerland	10	653 1.2×	275 0.7×	634 1.8×	201 1.0×	127 0.8×	17	1.3k
Diana Jamal Lebanon	21	590 1.1×	128 0.3×	561 1.6×	182 0.9×	104 0.7×	35	1.4k
Andrea Nove Australia	17	454 0.9×	815 2.2×	251 0.7×	63 0.3×	98 0.6×	41	1.2k
Jacinta Nzinga Kenya	16	398 0.8×	298 0.8×	101 0.3×	135 0.7×	83 0.5×	59	747
Jennifer Nyoni Republic of the Congo	13	303 0.6×	233 0.6×	261 0.7×	125 0.6×	127 0.8×	24	611
Barbara Stilwell United States	10	478 0.9×	164 0.4×	524 1.5×	135 0.7×	76 0.5×	18	1.1k

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14 of 14 papers shown

Ditlopo, Prudence, Laetitia C. Rispel, Peter Van Bogaert, & Duane Blaauw. (2024). The impact of the nurse practice environment, workload, and professional support on job outcomes and standards of care at primary health care clinics in South Africa: A structural equation model approach. International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances. 7. 100241–100241. 5 indexed citations

Rispel, Laetitia C., et al.. (2023). Perspectives of the cohort of health professionals in the WiSDOM study on the learning environment, transformation, and social accountability at a South African University. Medical Education Online. 28(1). 2185121–2185121. 1 indexed citations

Rispel, Laetitia C., et al.. (2021). Methodological considerations in establishing and maintaining longitudinal health workforce studies: Lessons learned from the WiSDOM cohort in South Africa. Global Health Action. 14(1). 1996688–1996688. 2 indexed citations

Rispel, Laetitia C., et al.. (2019). Socio-economic characteristics and career intentions of the WiSDOM health professional cohort in South Africa. PLoS ONE. 14(10). e0223739–e0223739. 10 indexed citations

Eyles, John, et al.. (2018). Exploring the roles and factors influencing community health workers’ performance in managing and referring severe acute malnutrition cases in two subdistricts in South Africa. Health & Social Care in the Community. 26(6). 839–848. 7 indexed citations

Eyles, John, et al.. (2017). A critical appraisal of guidelines used for management of severe acute malnutrition in South Africa’s referral system. Health Research Policy and Systems. 15(1). 90–90. 7 indexed citations

Ditlopo, Prudence, et al.. (2015). An analysis of medical students’ training in supporting people with intellectual disabilities at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability. 40(4). 309–320. 6 indexed citations

Blaauw, Duane, Prudence Ditlopo, & Laetitia C. Rispel. (2014). Nursing education reform in South Africa – lessons from a policy analysis study. Global Health Action. 7(1). 26401–26401. 59 indexed citations

Ditlopo, Prudence, Duane Blaauw, Loveday Penn‐Kekana, & Laetitia C. Rispel. (2014). Contestations and complexities of nurses’ participation in policy-making in South Africa. Global Health Action. 7(1). 25327–25327. 29 indexed citations

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Ditlopo, Prudence, Duane Blaauw, Laetitia C. Rispel, Stephen Thomas, & Posy Bidwell. (2013). Policy implementation and financial incentives for nurses in South Africa: a case study on the occupation-specific dispensation. Global Health Action. 6(1). 19289–19289. 33 indexed citations

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Blaauw, Duane, Prudence Ditlopo, Fresier Maseko, et al.. (2013). Comparing the job satisfaction and intention to leave of different categories of health workers in Tanzania, Malawi, and South Africa. Global Health Action. 6(1). 19287–19287. 156 indexed citations

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Ditlopo, Prudence, Duane Blaauw, Posy Bidwell, & Stephen Thomas. (2011). Analyzing the implementation of the rural allowance in hospitals in North West Province, South Africa. Journal of Public Health Policy. 32(S1). S80–S93. 30 indexed citations

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Bidwell, Posy, et al.. (2008). Motivation and retention of health workers in developing countries: a systematic review. BMC Health Services Research. 8(1). 247–247. 626 indexed citations breakdown →

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Amoateng, Acheampong Yaw, et al.. (2003). ANALYSING CROSS-SECTIONAL DATA WITH TIME-DEPENDENT COVARIATES: THE CASE OF AGE AT FIRST BIRTH IN SOUTH AFRICA. Journal of Biosocial Science. 35(3). 353–367. 2 indexed citations

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