Thiloshini Govender

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Thiloshini Govender is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Thiloshini Govender has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Infectious Diseases, 4 papers in Epidemiology and 2 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Thiloshini Govender's work include HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (5 papers), Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (3 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (3 papers). Thiloshini Govender is often cited by papers focused on HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (5 papers), Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (3 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (3 papers). Thiloshini Govender collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and United Kingdom. Thiloshini Govender's co-authors include Umesh Lalloo, Jason R. Andrews, Gerald Friedland, Anthony P. Moll, A. Willem Sturm, Neel R. Gandhi, Robert Pawinski, Hoosen Coovadia, C C Jinabhai and Sicelo S. Dlamini and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and BMC Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Thiloshini Govender

6 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis as a cause of death in patients co-infected with tuberculosis and HIV in a rural area of South Africa

2006 1.2k citations Neel R. Gandhi, Anthony P. Moll et al. The Lancet profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thiloshini Govender South Africa	5	1.1k	917	484	120	75	7	1.3k
Robert Pawinski South Africa	9	1.2k 1.1×	986 1.1×	493 1.0×	121 1.0×	77 1.0×	10	1.4k
Francis Varaine France	26	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	404 0.8×	263 2.2×	54 0.7×	62	1.6k
Shengfen Wang China	16	1.5k 1.3×	1.3k 1.5×	635 1.3×	228 1.9×	129 1.7×	48	1.7k
Duncan Chanda Zambia	15	910 0.8×	762 0.8×	227 0.5×	88 0.7×	57 0.8×	33	1.2k
Alena Skrahina Denmark	20	1.1k 0.9×	840 0.9×	400 0.8×	229 1.9×	95 1.3×	57	1.3k
C.S.B. Lambregts-van Weezenbeek United States	8	843 0.8×	721 0.8×	395 0.8×	112 0.9×	40 0.5×	12	985
Shaheed Vally Omar South Africa	23	1.2k 1.0×	985 1.1×	388 0.8×	247 2.1×	138 1.8×	86	1.5k
Wayne Van Gemert Switzerland	14	806 0.7×	651 0.7×	319 0.7×	101 0.8×	52 0.7×	29	1.0k
Nyanda Elias Ntinginya Tanzania	16	754 0.7×	576 0.6×	226 0.5×	157 1.3×	68 0.9×	79	1.1k
Sarah Royce United States	16	939 0.8×	767 0.8×	455 0.9×	65 0.5×	32 0.4×	31	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Thiloshini Govender

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thiloshini Govender

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Loveday, Marian, et al.. (2024). ‘Not taking medications and taking medication, it was the same thing:’ perspectives of antiretroviral therapy among people hospitalised with advanced HIV disease. BMC Infectious Diseases. 24(1). 819–819. 2 indexed citations

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Govender, Thiloshini, et al.. (2023). What clinic closure reveals about care for drug-resistant TB: a qualitative study. BMC Infectious Diseases. 23(1). 474–474.

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Govender, Thiloshini, et al.. (2023). Decentralized, Integrated Treatment of RR/MDR-TB and HIV Using a Bedaquiline-Based, Short-Course Regimen Is Effective and Associated With Improved HIV Disease Control. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 92(5). 385–392. 4 indexed citations

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Govender, Thiloshini & Hoosen Coovadia. (2013). Eliminating mother to child transmission of HIV-1 and keeping mothers alive: Recent progress. Journal of Infection. 68. S57–S62. 35 indexed citations

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Vella, Venanzio, Thiloshini Govender, Sicelo S. Dlamini, et al.. (2011). Cost-effectiveness of staff and workload profiles in retaining patients on antiretroviral therapy in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. AIDS Care. 23(9). 1146–1153. 6 indexed citations

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Vella, Venanzio, Thiloshini Govender, Sicelo S. Dlamini, et al.. (2010). Retrospective Study on the Critical Factors for Retaining Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 55(1). 109–116. 19 indexed citations

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Gandhi, Neel R., Anthony P. Moll, A. Willem Sturm, et al.. (2006). Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis as a cause of death in patients co-infected with tuberculosis and HIV in a rural area of South Africa. The Lancet. 368(9547). 1575–1580. 1203 indexed citations breakdown →

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