Richard Lessells
- Infectious Diseases top 0.5%
- Epidemiology top 5%
- Virology top 0.5%
- General Health Professions top 5%
- Economics and Econometrics top 5%
- Co-authors
- Marie‐Louise NewellTúlio de OliveiraPortia MutevedziGraham CookeTom HellerTill BärnighausenRuth BlandCatherine Houlihan
- Topics
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (58 papers)HIV Research and Treatment (44 papers)HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (41 papers)
- Partner nations
- South AfricaUnited KingdomUnited States
In The Last Decade
Richard Lessells
107 papers receiving 2.5k citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 123
- Infectious Diseases 2.1k
- Epidemiology 922
- Virology 820
- General Health Professions 377
- Economics and Econometrics 230
Countries citing papers authored by Richard Lessells
This map shows the geographic impact of Richard Lessells's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Richard Lessells with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Richard Lessells more than expected).
Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Lessells
This network shows the impact of papers produced by Richard Lessells. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Richard Lessells. The network helps show where Richard Lessells may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Lessells
This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Richard Lessells. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Richard Lessells 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 Richard Lessells. Richard Lessells is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.
All Works
| # | Work | Indexed citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | |
| 2 | 0 | |
| 3 | 1 | |
| 4 | 8 | |
| 5 | 3 | |
| 6 | 1 | |
| 7 | 25 | |
| 8 | 52 | |
| 9 | 2 | |
| 10 | 24 | |
| 11 | 9 | |
| 12 | 3 | |
| 13 | 35 | |
| 14 | 7 | |
| 15 | 40 | |
| 16 | 50 | |
| 17 | 8 | |
| 18 | 7 | |
| 19 | 26 | |
| 20 | High levels of drug resistance after failure of first-line antiretroviral therapy in rural South Africa: impact on standardised second-line regimens | 1 |
About Richard Lessells
Richard Lessells is a scholar working on Virology, Infectious Diseases and Modeling and Simulation, having authored 111 papers that have together received 2.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (58 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (44 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (41 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Virology (820 citations), Infectious Diseases (2.1k citations) and Epidemiology (922 citations). Richard Lessells has collaborated with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and United States. Frequent co-authors include Marie‐Louise Newell, Túlio de Oliveira, Portia Mutevedzi, Graham Cooke, Tom Heller, Till Bärnighausen, Ruth Bland, Catherine Houlihan, Claudia Wallrauch and Alison Rodger. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Communications.
Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.