Richard Lester

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
116 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Richard Lester is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Infectious Diseases and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Lester has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in General Health Professions, 58 papers in Infectious Diseases and 30 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Richard Lester's work include HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (53 papers), Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (53 papers) and ICT in Developing Communities (26 papers). Richard Lester is often cited by papers focused on HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (53 papers), Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (53 papers) and ICT in Developing Communities (26 papers). Richard Lester collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Kenya. Richard Lester's co-authors include Edward J. Mills, Lehana Thabane, Sarah Karanja, Francis A. Plummer, Joshua Kimani, Carlo A. Marra, Kristian Thorlund, Lawrence Gelmon, Harsha Thirumurthy and T. Blake Ball and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Richard Lester

114 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

Effects of a mobile phone short message service on antire... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 250 500 750
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.

  1. Effects of a mobile phone short message service on antiretroviral treatment adherence in Kenya (WelTel Kenya1): a randomised trial
    2010 989 citations Richard Lester, Edward J. Mills et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard Lester Canada 37 2.6k 2.1k 1.2k 772 469 116 5.0k
Harsha Thirumurthy United States 37 2.4k 0.9× 2.7k 1.3× 1.4k 1.2× 362 0.5× 354 0.8× 186 5.5k
John E. Sidle United States 27 1.3k 0.5× 1.8k 0.8× 836 0.7× 264 0.3× 228 0.5× 54 2.9k
Sylvester Kimaiyo United States 26 1.2k 0.5× 1.5k 0.7× 670 0.6× 275 0.4× 241 0.5× 54 2.8k
Marta Ackers United States 19 1.1k 0.4× 1.3k 0.6× 769 0.7× 331 0.4× 136 0.3× 27 2.2k
Sheana Bull United States 45 4.1k 1.6× 1.9k 0.9× 1.3k 1.2× 309 0.4× 938 2.0× 177 7.2k
Kumanan Wilson Canada 48 1.8k 0.7× 2.6k 1.3× 2.3k 2.0× 136 0.2× 1.4k 3.0× 305 9.7k
Elizabeth Ngugi Kenya 40 2.3k 0.9× 3.4k 1.6× 2.3k 2.0× 331 0.4× 425 0.9× 97 6.7k
Mark J. Siedner United States 43 1.2k 0.4× 2.6k 1.2× 1.4k 1.2× 163 0.2× 584 1.2× 281 5.6k
Jessica E. Haberer United States 57 5.0k 1.9× 8.1k 3.9× 4.1k 3.6× 693 0.9× 745 1.6× 337 10.9k
T. Blake Ball Canada 13 823 0.3× 847 0.4× 375 0.3× 325 0.4× 94 0.2× 26 1.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Lester

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Lester

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hazlewood, Glen, Karen L. Then, Richard Lester, et al.. (2024). “How are you?” Perspectives From Patients and Health Care Providers of Text Messaging to Support Rheumatoid Arthritis Care: A Thematic Analysis. ACR Open Rheumatology. 6(5). 276–286. 2 indexed citations
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Logie, Carmen H., Moses Okumu, Isha Berry, et al.. (2023). Findings from the Tushirikiane mobile health (mHealth) HIV self‐testing pragmatic trial with refugee adolescents and youth living in informal settlements in Kampala, Uganda. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 26(10). e26185–e26185. 17 indexed citations
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Bardosh, Kevin, Richard Musoke, Binyam Tilahun, et al.. (2021). Evaluation of the implementation process of the mobile health platform ‘WelTel’ in six sites in East Africa and Canada using the modified consolidated framework for implementation research (mCFIR). BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 21(1). 293–293. 9 indexed citations
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Park, Jay, Ofir Harari, Ellie Siden, et al.. (2020). Interventions to improve birth outcomes of pregnant women living in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 1657–1657. 11 indexed citations
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Jongbloed, Kate, Margo Pearce, Richa Sharma, et al.. (2020). The Cedar Project - Mobile Phone Use and Acceptability of Mobile Health Among Young Indigenous People Who Have Used Drugs in British Columbia, Canada: Mixed Methods Exploratory Study. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 8(7). e16783–e16783. 13 indexed citations
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Harari, Ofir, Ellie Siden, Michael J. Zoratti, et al.. (2019). Interventions to improve birth outcomes of pregnant women living in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and network meta-analysis [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]. 3. 1 indexed citations
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Endehabtu, Berhanu Fikadie, et al.. (2018). Mobile Phone Access and Willingness Among Mothers to Receive a Text-Based mHealth Intervention to Improve Prenatal Care in Northwest Ethiopia: Cross-Sectional Study. JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting. 1(2). e9–e9. 18 indexed citations
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Tilahun, Binyam, Kirsten Smillie, Kevin Bardosh, et al.. (2018). Identifying Barriers and Facilitators of 13 mHealth Projects in North America and Africa: Protocol for a 5-Year Implementation Science Study. JMIR Research Protocols. 7(7). e162–e162. 8 indexed citations
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Poureslami, Iraj, Jessica Shum, Richard Lester, et al.. (2018). A pilot randomized controlled trial on the impact of text messaging check-ins and a web-based asthma action plan versus a written action plan on asthma exacerbations. Journal of Asthma. 56(8). 897–909. 19 indexed citations
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Guo, Michael, et al.. (2018). Interactive Two-Way mHealth Interventions for Improving Medication Adherence: An Evaluation Using The Behaviour Change Wheel Framework. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 6(4). e87–e87. 43 indexed citations
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Singh, Ameeta E., Jennifer Gratrix, Irene Martín, et al.. (2015). Gonorrhea Treatment Failures With Oral and Injectable Expanded Spectrum Cephalosporin Monotherapy vs Dual Therapy at 4 Canadian Sexually Transmitted Infection Clinics, 2010–2013. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 42(6). 331–336. 27 indexed citations
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Liu, Cindy M., Bruce A. Hungate, Aaron A.R. Tobian, et al.. (2013). Male Circumcision Significantly Reduces Prevalence and Load of Genital Anaerobic Bacteria. mBio. 4(2). e00076–e00076. 115 indexed citations
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Biggs, Holly M., Richard Lester, Behzad Nadjm, et al.. (2013). Invasive Salmonella Infections in Areas of High and Low Malaria Transmission Intensity in Tanzania. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 58(5). 638–647. 75 indexed citations
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Mbuagbaw, Lawrence, Mia L. van der Kop, Richard Lester, et al.. (2013). Mobile phone text messages for improving adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART): an individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised trials. BMJ Open. 3(12). e003950–e003950. 121 indexed citations

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