Robert J. Wilkinson

41.0k citations

427 papers · 20.7k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 74

Impact in

Infectious Diseases top 0.02%
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
Epidemiology top 0.05%
- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
- Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment

Papers in

Infectious Diseases 263
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology 234
Epidemiology 221
- Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment 109
- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis 99

Co-authors: Katalin A. Wilkinson Graeme Meintjes Gary Maartens Adrian R. Martineau Anne O’Garra Geoffrey Pasvol Molebogeng X. Rangaka Clifton E. Barry
Journals: Clinical Infectious Diseases (27 papers)PLoS ONE (21 papers)The Journal of Infectious Diseases (17 papers)Frontiers in Immunology (14 papers)American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (13 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom South Africa United States

In The Last Decade

Robert J. Wilkinson

403 papers receiving 20.2k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

Tuberculous meningitis 2017 · 287 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2017 Nature Reviews Neurology
2013 Annual Review of Immunology
2010 The Lancet Infectious Diseases
2009 Nature Reviews Microbiology
2008 The Lancet Infectious Diseases
2000 The Lancet

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1	Safety and immunogenicity of investigational tuberculosis vaccine M72/AS01E–4 in people living with HIV in South Africa: an observer-blinded, randomised, controlled, phase 2 trial The Lancet HIV ·Alemnew F. Dagnew, Ling Han, Kogieleum Naidoo, Lee Fairlie, 김동윤, Keren Middelkoop, Michèle Tameris, Robert J. Wilkinson, Jintanat Ananworanich, Avasthi Anupama Sharma, Brian Moser, Nicole Frahm, Martina Rosa Annoni, Michael W. Dunne, Alexander C. Schmidt	2025	2
2	Blood and urine early treatment response biomarkers in HIV-associated disseminated tuberculosis Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine ·Linda Boloko, Tanmay Nigam, Bianca Sossen, G.N. Xu, Luisa Geanela, Chad M. Centner, Robert J. Wilkinson, Charlotte Schutz, Graeme Meintjes, David Barr	2025	0
3	Discordance between measures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis sensitization and type 2 diabetes mellitus in the United States (NHANES): A population-based cohort study Journal of Infection ·Dipa Ashwini, Katalin A. Wilkinson, Brian Claggett, Ntobeko Ntusi, Mark J. Siedner, Robert J. Wilkinson	2025	0
4	Spatiotemporal dynamics of the oropharyngeal microbiome in a cohort of Ivorian school children Scientific Reports ·J.M. Parameswara, Ayako Nishiwaki, Fayiz Abukhadra, Н Ю Сафонова, Allassane Ouattara, Honglei Huo, 芳和新村, Anna Averianova, Joyce M. Ngoi, Robert J. Wilkinson, Gordon A. Awandare, Bassirou Bonfoh	2024	1
5	Influence of vitamin D supplementation on muscle strength and exercise capacity in South African schoolchildren: secondary outcomes from a randomised controlled trial (ViDiKids) BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine ·Keren Middelkoop, Lisa K. Micklesfield, PP Brons, Neil Walker, Bernhard Albert, David A. Jolliffe, Amy E. Mendham, Jonathan Tang, Cyrus Cooper, Nicholas C. Harvey, Robert J. Wilkinson, Adrian R. Martineau	2024	2
6	Association Between Mycobacterium tuberculosis Sensitization and Insulin Resistance Among US Adults Screened for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Open Forum Infectious Diseases ·Dipa Ashwini, Patrick J. Dickens, Brian Claggett, Moffat Nyirenda, Mark J. Siedner, Katalin A. Wilkinson, Robert J. Wilkinson, Ntobeko Ntusi	2024	2
7	IL-27 inhibits anti- Mycobacterium tuberculosis innate immune activity of primary human macrophages Tuberculosis ·金华瑛, James Barber, Robert J. Wilkinson, Sandra M. Newton, Ankita Garg	2023	2
8	Treatment of tuberculous meningitis: Overdue for concerted action Tuberculosis ·Robert J. Wilkinson, Joseph Donovan, Guy Thwaites, Reinout van Crevel, Sean Wasserman	2023	1
9	Characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis –Specific Th22 Cells and the Effect of Tuberculosis Disease and HIV Coinfection The Journal of Immunology ·Derese Tamiru Desta, D. H. Cavanagh, A.I. Ivantsev, Robert J. Wilkinson, Catherine Riou, Wendy A. Burgers	2022	5
10	Nanostars Carrying Multifunctional Neurotrophic Dendrimers Protect Neurons in Preclinical In Vitro Models of Neurodegenerative Disorders ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Javier Balsa Vázquez, Stanislava Pankratova, Pedro Machado, Nathalie Fernando, Anna Regoutz, Mohammad Ali Attar, Alessandra Pinna, Michał M. Kłosowski, Robert J. Wilkinson, Roland A. Fleck, Fang Xie, A. Slupinski, Darya Kiryushko	2022	17
11	Visualizing the dynamics of tuberculosis pathology using molecular imaging Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Alvaro A. Ordoñez, Elizabeth W. Tucker, Carolyn J. Anderson, Claire L. Carter, Shashank Ganatra, Deepak Kaushal, Igor Kramnik, Philana Ling Lin, Cressida A. Madigan, Susana Méndez, Jianghong Rao, Rada Savic, David M. Tobin, Gerhard Walzl, Robert J. Wilkinson, J J Polk, Laura E. Via, Sanjay K. Jain	2021	17
12	The diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis in adults and adolescents: protocol for a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis to inform a multivariable prediction model SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Tom Boyles, Anna Stadelman, Jayne Ellis, Fiona V Cresswell, Vittoria Lutje, Sean Wasserman, Nicki Tiffin, Robert J. Wilkinson	2021	3
13	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 ·Rachael M. Burke, Hannah M. Rickman, Meliha Sijaric, Elizabeth L. Corbett, Helen Ayles, Andreas Jahn, Mina C. Hosseinipour, Robert J. Wilkinson, Peter MacPherson	2021	14
14	Mycobacterium tuberculosis cords within lymphatic endothelial cells to evade host immunity JCI Insight ·Thomas R. Lerner, Christophe J. Queval, Rachel Lai, Matthew R. G. Russell, Antony Fearns, Daniel J. Greenwood, Lucy Collinson, Robert J. Wilkinson, Maximiliano G. Gutiérrez	2020	31
15	Expression of USP18 and IL2RA Is Increased in Individuals Receiving Latent Tuberculosis Treatment with Isoniazid Journal of Immunology Research ·Veselin Medenica, Lourdes García‐García, Claudia Rangel‐Escareño, Leticia Ferreyra-Reyes, Lorena Orozco, María Teresa Herrera, Claudia Carranza, Eduardo Sada, Esmeralda Juárez, Alfredo Ponce‐de‐León, José Sifuentes‐Osornio, Robert J. Wilkinson, Martha Torres	2019	18
16	HIV Skews the Lineage-Defining Transcriptional Profile of Mycobacterium tuberculosis–Specific CD4+ T Cells The Journal of Immunology ·Catherine Riou, K. K. Y. Liu, Andreia Soares, Björn Corleis, Douglas S. Kwon, E. John Wherry, Robert J. Wilkinson, Wendy A. Burgers	2016	17
17	Characterization of progressive HIV-associated tuberculosis using 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose positron emission and computed tomography Nature Medicine ·Hanif Esmail, Rachel Lai, Maia Lesosky, Katalin A. Wilkinson, Christine M. Graham, Anna K. Coussens, Tolu Oni, James Warwick, Qonita Said-Hartley, Coenraad F.N. Koegelenberg, Gerhard Walzl, JoAnne L. Flynn, Douglas Young, Clifton E. Barry, Anne O’Garra, Robert J. Wilkinson	2016	128
18	Vitamin D Status and Its Consequences for Health in South Africa International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ·Mary Norval, Anna K. Coussens, Robert J. Wilkinson, Liza Bornman, Robyn Lucas, Caradee Y. Wright	2016	23
19	Correction: Impairment of IFN-Gamma Response to Synthetic Peptides of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a 7-Day Whole Blood Assay PLoS ONE ·Hannah P. Gideon, Melissa Shea Hamilton, Kathryn J. Wood, Dominique J. Pepper, Tolu Oni, Ronnett Seldon, Claire M. Banwell, Paul R. Langford, Robert J. Wilkinson, Katalin A. Wilkinson	2013	1
20	Reciprocal seasonal variation in vitamin D status and tuberculosis notifications in Cape Town, South Africa Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Adrian R. Martineau, Shepherd Nhamoyebonde, Tolu Oni, Molebogeng X. Rangaka, Suzaan Marais, Nonzwakazi Bangani, Wang Wei, S. Kalafut, Virginia De Azevedo, Judy Caldwell, Timothy R Venton, Peter Timms, Katalin A. Wilkinson, Robert J. Wilkinson	2011	166

About Robert J. Wilkinson

Robert J. Wilkinson is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Virology, Microbiology and Surgery, having authored 427 papers that have together received 20.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (234 papers), Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis (130 papers), Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (109 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (99 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (28 papers), Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (27 papers), Orthopedic Infections and Treatments (23 papers) and Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (22 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Infectious Diseases (13.0k citations), Epidemiology (10.7k citations), Immunology (4.0k citations), Microbiology (1.2k citations) and Surgery (7.6k citations). Robert J. Wilkinson has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, South Africa and United States. Frequent co-authors include Katalin A. Wilkinson, Graeme Meintjes, Gary Maartens, Adrian R. Martineau, Anne O’Garra, Geoffrey Pasvol, Molebogeng X. Rangaka, Clifton E. Barry, Robert N. Davidson and Paul S. Redford. Their work appears in journals such as Clinical Infectious Diseases, PLoS ONE, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Frontiers in Immunology and American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

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