Zaza Avaliani

1.3k total citations
47 papers, 576 citations indexed

About

Zaza Avaliani is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Zaza Avaliani has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 576 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Infectious Diseases, 26 papers in Epidemiology and 17 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Zaza Avaliani's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (41 papers), Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis (12 papers) and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (11 papers). Zaza Avaliani is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (41 papers), Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis (12 papers) and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (11 papers). Zaza Avaliani collaborates with scholars based in Georgia, United States and Switzerland. Zaza Avaliani's co-authors include Russell R. Kempker, Henry M. Blumberg, Nestani Tukvadze, Maia Kipiani, Nino Bablishvili, Charles A. Peloquin, Sébastien Gagneux, Catherine Hewison, Sergo Vashakidze and Lali Mikiashvili and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Zaza Avaliani

45 papers receiving 563 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zaza Avaliani Georgia 13 455 352 223 89 35 47 576
Jon Warkentin United States 12 408 0.9× 335 1.0× 197 0.9× 45 0.5× 21 0.6× 22 510
Nestani Tukvadze Georgia 19 705 1.5× 540 1.5× 267 1.2× 150 1.7× 43 1.2× 54 897
Anja Reuter South Africa 13 400 0.9× 276 0.8× 114 0.5× 61 0.7× 14 0.4× 31 469
Julia Ershova United States 13 409 0.9× 334 0.9× 139 0.6× 42 0.5× 12 0.3× 28 486
Nancy Hooper United States 12 494 1.1× 489 1.4× 222 1.0× 48 0.5× 17 0.5× 18 573
Maria Tarcela Gler United States 9 462 1.0× 370 1.1× 181 0.8× 70 0.8× 11 0.3× 15 531
Lidya Chaidir Indonesia 12 303 0.7× 217 0.6× 231 1.0× 75 0.8× 12 0.3× 41 465
Rosângela Siqueira de Oliveira Brazil 12 271 0.6× 271 0.8× 70 0.3× 50 0.6× 9 0.3× 39 354
Agnieszka Broda United Kingdom 9 200 0.4× 220 0.6× 63 0.3× 63 0.7× 11 0.3× 14 337
Allison Wolf United States 13 295 0.6× 237 0.7× 67 0.3× 59 0.7× 6 0.2× 30 422

Countries citing papers authored by Zaza Avaliani

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zaza Avaliani

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Aspindzelashvili, Rusudan, Zaza Avaliani, Maia Kipiani, et al.. (2025). Drug-induced differential culturability in diverse strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 3588–3588. 1 indexed citations
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Kempker, Russell R., Argita D. Salindri, Hardy Kornfeld, et al.. (2025). High rates of post-tuberculosis lung disease among persons successfully treated for drug-susceptible and resistant tuberculosis. Thorax. 81(2). 170–178. 1 indexed citations
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Collins, Jeffrey M., Maia Kipiani, Ashish Sharma, et al.. (2025). Pharmacometabolomics in TB meningitis—Understanding the pharmacokinetic, metabolic, and immune factors associated with anti-TB drug concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid. PLoS ONE. 20(3). e0315999–e0315999. 1 indexed citations
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Goig, Galo A., Manuela Torres‐Puente, Sergo Vashakidze, et al.. (2024). Genetic diversity within diagnostic sputum samples is mirrored in the culture of Mycobacterium tuberculosis across different settings. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7114–7114. 2 indexed citations
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Loiseau, Chloé, Etthel M. Windels, Sebastian M. Gygli, et al.. (2023). The relative transmission fitness of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a drug resistance hotspot. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1988–1988. 38 indexed citations
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Benkeser, David, Maia Kipiani, Lali Mikiashvili, et al.. (2023). The effect of anti-tuberculosis drug pharmacokinetics on QTc prolongation. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 62(4). 106939–106939. 4 indexed citations
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Mikiashvili, Lali, Russell R. Kempker, Tsira Chakhaia, et al.. (2023). Impact of Prior Tuberculosis Treatment With New/Companion Drugs on Clinical Outcomes in Patients Receiving Concomitant Bedaquiline and Delamanid for Multidrug- and Rifampicin-Resistant Tuberculosis. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 78(4). 1043–1052. 5 indexed citations
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Tomalka, Jeffrey, Ashish Sharma, Alison Smith, et al.. (2023). Combined cerebrospinal fluid metabolomic and cytokine profiling in tuberculosis meningitis reveals robust and prolonged changes in immunometabolic networks. Tuberculosis. 144. 102462–102462. 8 indexed citations
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Evans, Emily E, Maia Kipiani, Alison Smith, et al.. (2022). Long term outcomes of patients with tuberculous meningitis: The impact of drug resistance. PLoS ONE. 17(6). e0270201–e0270201. 19 indexed citations
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Kiria, Nana, Nino Lomtadze, Rusudan Aspindzelashvili, et al.. (2022). Tuberculosis recovery in Georgia: implementing more by 24. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 23(8). 893–894. 1 indexed citations
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Gomez, Gabriela B., Mariana Siapka, Francesca Conradie, et al.. (2021). Cost-effectiveness of bedaquiline, pretomanid and linezolid for treatment of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa, Georgia and the Philippines. BMJ Open. 11(12). e051521–e051521. 18 indexed citations
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Shubladze, Natalia, Zaza Avaliani, Nino Bablishvili, et al.. (2021). Genomic analyses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from human lung resections reveal a high frequency of polyclonal infections. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2716–2716. 29 indexed citations
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Gygli, Sebastian M., Chloé Loiseau, Levan Jugheli, et al.. (2021). Publisher Correction: Prisons as ecological drivers of fitness-compensated multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nature Medicine. 27(7). 1308–1308. 4 indexed citations
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Kiria, Nana, et al.. (2020). Trends in tuberculosis notification and treatment in Georgia. Tuberculosis. 460–460. 2 indexed citations
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Vashakidze, Sergo, et al.. (2020). Impact of adjuvant therapeutic surgery on the health-related quality of life of pulmonary tuberculosis patients. ERJ Open Research. 6(3). 83–2020. 5 indexed citations
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Jugheli, Levan, Sònia Borrell, Nestani Tukvadze, et al.. (2019). Classifying recurrent Mycobacterium tuberculosis cases in Georgia using MIRU-VNTR typing. PLoS ONE. 14(10). e0223610–e0223610. 12 indexed citations
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Kempker, Russell R., Nestani Tukvadze, Lisa Sharling, et al.. (2018). The Impact of a Fogarty International Center-Supported Tuberculosis Research Training Program in the Country of Georgia. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 98(4). 1069–1074. 8 indexed citations
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Tukvadze, Nestani, Paula Cardona, Paula Cardona, et al.. (2016). Development of the food supplement Nyaditum resae as a new tool to reduce the risk of tuberculosis development. International Journal of Mycobacteriology. 5. S101–S102. 7 indexed citations
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Kiria, Nana, Zaza Avaliani, & Lali Mikiashvili. (2016). Steps of bedaquline implementation in Georgia. OA3516–OA3516. 1 indexed citations
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Bablishvili, Nino, et al.. (2015). A comparison of the Xpert<SUP>®</SUP> MTB/RIF and GenoType<SUP>®</SUP> MTBDR<I>plus</I> assays in Georgia. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 19(6). 676–678. 12 indexed citations

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