William Msemburi

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
19 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

William Msemburi is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, William Msemburi has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in General Health Professions, 5 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 4 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in William Msemburi's work include Global Maternal and Child Health (5 papers), HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses (4 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (4 papers). William Msemburi is often cited by papers focused on Global Maternal and Child Health (5 papers), HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses (4 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (4 papers). William Msemburi collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and Switzerland. William Msemburi's co-authors include Victoria Knutson, Jon Wakefield, Ariel Karlinsky, Serge Aleshin‐Guendel, Somnath Chatterji, Debbie Bradshaw, Victoria Pillay‐van Wyk, Ria Laubscher, Rob Dorrington and Nomonde Gwebushe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Lancet and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

William Msemburi

17 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

The WHO estimates of excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic

2022 462 citations William Msemburi, Ariel Karlinsky et al. Nature profile →
Mortality trends and differentials in South Africa from 1997 to 2012: second National Burden of Disease Study

2016 276 citations Victoria Pillay‐van Wyk, William Msemburi et al. The Lancet Global Health profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Msemburi South Africa	16	306	285	217	193	153	19	1.3k
Theresa A. Rowe United States	14	257 0.8×	181 0.6×	174 0.8×	525 2.7×	144 0.9×	32	1.7k
Piyush Ranjan India	23	328 1.1×	287 1.0×	207 1.0×	202 1.0×	295 1.9×	167	1.8k
Shishi Wu United Kingdom	14	267 0.9×	309 1.1×	88 0.4×	108 0.6×	100 0.7×	34	1.1k
Muktar A Gadanya Nigeria	17	205 0.7×	222 0.8×	184 0.8×	195 1.0×	172 1.1×	39	1.0k
Verna Welch United States	19	415 1.4×	307 1.1×	163 0.8×	373 1.9×	299 2.0×	66	1.7k
Liang En Wee Singapore	21	188 0.6×	384 1.3×	191 0.9×	175 0.9×	223 1.5×	108	1.3k
Eric Toner United States	24	367 1.2×	354 1.2×	86 0.4×	260 1.3×	160 1.0×	64	1.9k
Reed J D Sorensen United States	12	288 0.9×	124 0.4×	256 1.2×	179 0.9×	198 1.3×	19	1.2k
Chuan De Foo Singapore	13	281 0.9×	202 0.7×	91 0.4×	118 0.6×	87 0.6×	28	976
Corrina Moucheraud United States	18	301 1.0×	274 1.0×	106 0.5×	231 1.2×	101 0.7×	87	998

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19 of 19 papers shown

Alqahtani, Saleh A., Mariam M. Hamza, Saleh A. Alessy, et al.. (2024). Health and economic burden of insufficient physical activity in Saudi Arabia. PLoS ONE. 19(4). e0297278–e0297278.

Carter, Austin, William Msemburi, So Yoon Sim, et al.. (2023). Modeling the impact of vaccination for the immunization Agenda 2030: Deaths averted due to vaccination against 14 pathogens in 194 countries from 2021 to 2030. Vaccine. 42. S28–S37. 57 indexed citations

Knutson, Victoria, Serge Aleshin‐Guendel, Ariel Karlinsky, William Msemburi, & Jon Wakefield. (2023). Estimating global and country-specific excess mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Annals of Applied Statistics. 17(2). 25 indexed citations

Msemburi, William, Laura K. Cobb, Nicole Ide, et al.. (2022). Modeling global 80-80-80 blood pressure targets and cardiovascular outcomes. Nature Medicine. 28(8). 1693–1699. 38 indexed citations

Msemburi, William, Ariel Karlinsky, Victoria Knutson, et al.. (2022). The WHO estimates of excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature. 613(7942). 130–137. 462 indexed citations breakdown →

Hillis, Susan D., et al.. (2022). Orphanhood and Caregiver Loss Among Children Based on New Global Excess COVID-19 Death Estimates. 48(5). 254–254.

Hillis, Susan D., William Msemburi, Lucie Cluver, et al.. (2022). Orphanhood and Caregiver Loss Among Children Based on New Global Excess COVID-19 Death Estimates. JAMA Pediatrics. 176(11). 1145–1145. 31 indexed citations

Carter, Austin, William Msemburi, So Yoon Sim, et al.. (2021). Modeling the Impact of Vaccination for the Immunization Agenda 2030: Deaths Averted Due to Vaccination Against 14 Pathogens in 194 Countries from 2021-2030. SSRN Electronic Journal. 25 indexed citations

Nannan, Nadine, Pam Groenewald, Victoria Pillay‐van Wyk, et al.. (2019). Child mortality trends and causes of death in South Africa, 1997 - 2012, and the importance of a national burden of disease study. South African Medical Journal. 109(7). 480–480. 24 indexed citations

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Wyk, Victoria Pillay‐van, et al.. (2019). HIV/AIDS mortality trends pre and post ART for 1997 - 2012 in South Africa – have we turned the tide?. South African Medical Journal. 109(11b). 41–41. 10 indexed citations

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Bryer, Alan, et al.. (2018). Poor anticoagulation control in patients taking warfarin at a tertiary and district-level prothrombin clinic in Cape Town, South Africa. South African Medical Journal. 108(6). 490–490. 24 indexed citations

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Jager, Celeste A. de, et al.. (2017). Dementia Prevalence in a Rural Region of South Africa: A Cross-Sectional Community Study. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 60(3). 1087–1096. 50 indexed citations

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Nojilana, Beatrice, Debbie Bradshaw, Victoria Pillay‐van Wyk, et al.. (2016). Emerging trends in non-communicable disease mortality in South Africa, 1997 - 2010. South African Medical Journal. 106(5). 477–477. 60 indexed citations

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Wyk, Victoria Pillay‐van, William Msemburi, Ria Laubscher, et al.. (2016). Mortality trends and differentials in South Africa from 1997 to 2012: second National Burden of Disease Study. The Lancet Global Health. 4(9). e642–e653. 276 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bradshaw, Debbie, William Msemburi, Rob Dorrington, et al.. (2015). HIV/AIDS in South Africa. AIDS. 30(5). 771–778. 27 indexed citations

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Matzopoulos, Richard, Megan Prinsloo, Victoria Pillay‐van Wyk, et al.. (2015). Injury-related mortality in South Africa: a retrospective descriptive study of postmortem investigations. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 93(5). 303–313. 97 indexed citations

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Kerber, Kate, Joy E Lawn, Leigh F. Johnson, et al.. (2013). South African child deaths 1990–2011. AIDS. 27(16). 2637–2648. 29 indexed citations

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Wyk, Victoria Pillay‐van, William Msemburi, Ria Laubscher, et al.. (2013). Second National Burden of Disease Study South Africa: national and subnational mortality trends, 1997–2009. The Lancet. 381. S113–S113. 31 indexed citations

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Moyo, Sizulu, Suzanne Verver, Anthony Hawkridge, et al.. (2012). Tuberculosis case finding for vaccine trials in young children in high-incidence settings: a randomised trial. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 16(2). 185–191. 18 indexed citations

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