Stephen D Lawn

22.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
204 papers, 15.5k citations indexed

About

Stephen D Lawn is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen D Lawn has authored 204 papers receiving a total of 15.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 162 papers in Infectious Diseases, 147 papers in Epidemiology and 51 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Stephen D Lawn's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (117 papers), Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (94 papers) and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (50 papers). Stephen D Lawn is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (117 papers), Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (94 papers) and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (50 papers). Stephen D Lawn collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, South Africa and United States. Stephen D Lawn's co-authors include Robin Wood, Linda‐Gail Bekker, Landon Myer, Alimuddin Zumla, Katharina Kranzer, Monica Vogt, Anthony Harries, Mark P. Nicol, Gavin Churchyard and Andrew D. Kerkhoff and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Stephen D Lawn

203 papers receiving 15.1k 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.

Tuberculosis

2011 570 citations Stephen D Lawn et al. profile →
Tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome: case definitions for use in resource-limited settings

2008 519 citations Graeme Meintjes, Stephen D Lawn et al. profile →
Early mortality among adults accessing antiretroviral treatment programmes in sub-Saharan Africa

2008 511 citations Stephen D Lawn, Landon Myer et al. AIDS profile →
Advances in tuberculosis diagnostics: the Xpert MTB/RIF assay and future prospects for a point-of-care test

2013 356 citations Stephen D Lawn et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Determining the future role of clinical practice guidelines: The experience of Australia and New Zealand 2024 ·Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry ·Steve Kisely, Helen Herrman, (unknown), (unknown), Stephen D Lawn, (unknown), Nicola Wright, Graham Mellsop	1
2	Advances in the Diagnosis of HIV-Associated Tuberculosis 2015 ·Ankur Gupta‐Wright, Stephen D Lawn	2
3	Accuracy of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay for diagnosis of extrapulmonary and pulmonary tuberculosis when testing non-respiratory samples: a systematic review 2014 ·BMC Infectious Diseases ·(unknown), Natasha Larke, J Peters, Stephen D Lawn	7
4	The Phenotype of the Cryptococcus-Specific CD4+ Memory T-Cell Response Is Associated With Disease Severity and Outcome in HIV-Associated Cryptococcal Meningitis 2013 ·The Journal of Infectious Diseases ·Joseph N Jarvis, Joseph P. Casazza, (unknown), Graeme Meintjes, Stephen D Lawn, Stuart M. Levitz, Thomas S. Harrison, Richard A. Koup	105
5	Prevalent and Incident Tuberculosis Are Independent Risk Factors for Mortality among Patients Accessing Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa 2013 ·PLoS ONE ·Ankur Gupta‐Wright, Robin Wood, Richard Kaplan, Linda‐Gail Bekker, Stephen D Lawn	50
6	Burden of New and Recurrent Tuberculosis in a Major South African City Stratified by Age and HIV-Status 2011 ·PLoS ONE ·Robin Wood, Stephen D Lawn, Judy Caldwell, Richard Kaplan, Keren Middelkoop, Linda‐Gail Bekker	78
7	Treatment Interruption in a Primary Care Antiretroviral Therapy Program in South Africa: Cohort Analysis of Trends and Risk Factors 2010 ·JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes ·Katharina Kranzer, James Lewis, Nathan Ford, Jennifer Zeinecker, Catherine Orrell, Stephen D Lawn, Linda‐Gail Bekker, Robin Wood	101
8	Tuberculosis Transmission to Young Children in a South African Community: Modeling Household and Community Infection Risks 2010 ·Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Robin Wood, Simon P. Johnstone-Robertson, Pieter Uys, John W. Hargrove, Keren Middelkoop, Stephen D Lawn, Linda‐Gail Bekker	54
9	Tuberculosis research update 2010 ·Tropical Medicine & International Health ·Willem A. Hanekom, Stephen D Lawn, Keertan Dheda, Andrew Whitelaw	12
10	Changing mortality risk associated with CD4 cell response to antiretroviral therapy in South Africa 2009 ·AIDS ·Stephen D Lawn, Francesca Little, Linda‐Gail Bekker, Richard Kaplan, (unknown), Catherine Orrell, Robin Wood	108
11	Short-term and long-term risk of tuberculosis associated with CD4 cell recovery during antiretroviral therapy in South Africa 2009 ·AIDS ·Stephen D Lawn, Landon Myer, David Edwards, Linda‐Gail Bekker, Robin Wood	253
12	Dynamic Variation in the Cellular Origin of HIV Type 1 during Treatment of Tuberculosis in Dually Infected Subjects 2007 ·AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses ·Zahra Toossi, Harriet Mayanja‐Kizza, Stephen D Lawn, Christina S. Hirsch, (unknown), Salvatore T. Butera	13
13	Utility of interferon-γ ELISPOT assay responses in highly tuberculosis-exposed patients with advanced HIV infection in South Africa 2007 ·BMC Infectious Diseases ·Stephen D Lawn, Nonzwakazi Bangani, Monica Vogt, Linda‐Gail Bekker, Motasim Badri, (unknown), Hazel M. Dockrell, Robert J. Wilkinson, Robin Wood	44
14	Immune reconstitution disease: recent developments and implications for antiretroviral treatment in resource-limited settings 2007 ·Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS ·Stephen D Lawn, Martyn A. French	17
15	Undiagnosed Tuberculosis in a Community with High HIV Prevalence 2006 ·American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Robin Wood, Keren Middelkoop, Landon Myer, Alison D. Grant, Andrew Whitelaw, Stephen D Lawn, Gilla Kaplan, Robin Huebner, James McIntyre, Linda‐Gail Bekker	196
16	Soluble Forms of Toll-Like Receptor (TLR)2 Capable of Modulating TLR2 Signaling Are Present in Human Plasma and Breast Milk 2003 ·The Journal of Immunology ·(unknown), (unknown), Neil K. Rushmere, Martin Grigorov, Stephen D Lawn, Michael Affolter, George E. Griffin, Pascual Ferrara, Eduardo J. Schiffrin, B. Paul Morgan, Mario O. Labéta	274
17	New world cutaneous leishmaniasis in returned travellers: treatment failures using intravenous sodium stibogluconate 2003 ·Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ·Stephen D Lawn, Vanessa Yardley, F. Vega‐López, Julie Watson, D.N.J. Lockwood	9
18	Serum C-reactive protein and detection of tuberculosis in persons co-infected with the human immunodeficiency virus 2001 ·Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ·Stephen D Lawn, Stefan Z. Wiktor, D Coulibaly, Alain Ackah, R. B. Lal	26
19	Pulmonary tuberculosis in adults: factors associated with mortality at a Ghanaian teaching hospital. 2000 ·PubMed ·Stephen D Lawn, Joseph Acheampong	21
20	Spoligotyping in molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in Ghana 1999 ·Journal of Infection ·Madhu Goyal, Stephen D Lawn, (unknown), Joseph Acheampong, George E. Griffin, Rory Shaw	30

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