Victor Omballa

616 total citations
15 papers, 272 citations indexed

About

Victor Omballa is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Victor Omballa has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 272 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Infectious Diseases, 7 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 4 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Victor Omballa's work include Viral Infections and Vectors (6 papers), Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (4 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (4 papers). Victor Omballa is often cited by papers focused on Viral Infections and Vectors (6 papers), Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (4 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (4 papers). Victor Omballa collaborates with scholars based in Kenya, United States and Belgium. Victor Omballa's co-authors include Robert F. Breiman, M. Kariuki Njenga, Elvis Oyugi, Joel M. Montgomery, Barry S. Fields, Daniel R. Feikin, Mark A. Katz, David Mutonga, Elizabeth T. Luman and Matthew Weiner and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Clinical Microbiology and The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Victor Omballa

15 papers receiving 260 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Victor Omballa Kenya 10 142 89 66 31 30 15 272
Firdevs Aksoy Türkiye 10 237 1.7× 144 1.6× 41 0.6× 91 2.9× 20 0.7× 37 413
Saliha Kanık Yüksek Türkiye 10 86 0.6× 32 0.4× 84 1.3× 11 0.4× 14 0.5× 63 235
Maresa Botha South Africa 14 178 1.3× 45 0.5× 51 0.8× 100 3.2× 7 0.2× 26 620
Christian Winter Germany 11 146 1.0× 70 0.8× 30 0.5× 31 1.0× 71 2.4× 22 311
Amadou T. Jallow Gambia 11 60 0.4× 36 0.4× 91 1.4× 39 1.3× 19 0.6× 16 348
Ferit Kuşçu Türkiye 12 185 1.3× 108 1.2× 108 1.6× 46 1.5× 32 1.1× 55 400
Michael G. Garner Australia 7 178 1.3× 149 1.7× 22 0.3× 87 2.8× 79 2.6× 10 355
Bülent Ahmet Beşirbellioğlu Türkiye 7 186 1.3× 50 0.6× 54 0.8× 50 1.6× 110 3.7× 19 296
Claire Martin France 10 61 0.4× 110 1.2× 22 0.3× 60 1.9× 21 0.7× 13 385
Areum Durey South Korea 11 118 0.8× 81 0.9× 73 1.1× 37 1.2× 98 3.3× 28 330

Countries citing papers authored by Victor Omballa

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Fields of papers citing papers by Victor Omballa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Victor Omballa

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Victor Omballa. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Victor Omballa 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 Victor Omballa. Victor Omballa is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Hunsperger, Elizabeth, Eric Osoro, Peninah Munyua, et al.. (2024). Seroconversion and seroprevalence of TORCH infections in a pregnant women cohort study, Mombasa, Kenya, 2017–2019. Epidemiology and Infection. 152. e68–e68. 1 indexed citations
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Osoro, Eric, Irene Inwani, Cyrus Mugo, et al.. (2022). Prevalence of microcephaly and Zika virus infection in a pregnancy cohort in Kenya, 2017–2019. BMC Medicine. 20(1). 291–291. 9 indexed citations
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Obonyo, Mark, Victor Omballa, Elvis Oyugi, et al.. (2020). Factors associated with malnutrition in children < 5 years in western Kenya: a hospital-based unmatched case control study. BMC Nutrition. 6(1). 33–33. 10 indexed citations
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Oyugi, Elvis, Jane Githuku, Mark Obonyo, et al.. (2020). Impact Evaluation of the Kenya Frontline Field Epidemiology Training Program: Repeated-Measures Study. JMIR Medical Education. 7(1). e18956–e18956. 7 indexed citations
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Hunsperger, Elizabeth, Albina Makio, Melvin Ochieng, et al.. (2020). Zika Virus Detection with 2013 Serosurvey, Mombasa, Kenya. Emerging infectious diseases. 26(7). 1603–1605. 6 indexed citations
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Hunsperger, Elizabeth, Bonventure Juma, Clayton Onyango, et al.. (2019). Building laboratory capacity to detect and characterize pathogens of public and global health security concern in Kenya. BMC Public Health. 19(S3). 477–477. 11 indexed citations
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Cosmas, Leonard, Ondari D. Mogeni, Newton Wamola, et al.. (2017). A diagnostic and epidemiologic investigation of acute febrile illness (AFI) in Kilombero, Tanzania. PLoS ONE. 12(12). e0189712–e0189712. 17 indexed citations
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Njuguna, Henry, Sandra S. Chaves, Gideon O. Emukule, et al.. (2017). The contribution of respiratory pathogens to fatal and non-fatal respiratory hospitalizations: a pilot study of Taqman Array Cards (TAC) in Kenya. BMC Infectious Diseases. 17(1). 591–591. 3 indexed citations
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Omballa, Victor, Amy Y. Vittor, Lilian W. Waiboci, et al.. (2015). Serologic Evidence of the Geographic Distribution of Bacterial Zoonotic Agents in Kenya, 2007. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 94(1). 43–51. 15 indexed citations
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Omballa, Victor, David Wang, Amy J. Lambert, et al.. (2014). An Outbreak of Acute Febrile Illness Caused by Sandfly Fever Sicilian Virus in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, 2011. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 91(6). 1250–1253. 18 indexed citations
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Bigogo, Godfrey, Robert F. Breiman, Daniel R. Feikin, et al.. (2013). Epidemiology of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Rural and Urban Kenya. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 208(suppl_3). S207–S216. 45 indexed citations
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Watson, John T., Hassan El Bushra, Emmaculate Lebo, et al.. (2011). Outbreak of Beriberi among African Union Troops in Mogadishu, Somalia. PLoS ONE. 6(12). e28345–e28345. 24 indexed citations
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Ari, Mary D., Moustafa Abdel Fadeel, Charles Njuguna, et al.. (2011). Challenges of Establishing the Correct Diagnosis of Outbreaks of Acute Febrile Illnesses in Africa: The Case of a Likely Brucella Outbreak among Nomadic Pastoralists, Northeast Kenya, March–July 2005. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 85(5). 909–912. 31 indexed citations
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Njenga, M. Kariuki, Janusz T. Pawęska, Carol Y. Rao, et al.. (2009). Using a Field Quantitative Real-Time PCR Test To Rapidly Identify Highly Viremic Rift Valley Fever Cases. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 47(4). 1166–1171. 51 indexed citations

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