2026 Adaora A. Adimora: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	62	1270	1123	591	514	324	14803

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Adaora A. Adimora is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. The scholar's research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, General Health Professions, Emergency Medicine, and Sociology and Political Science.

The research work is heavily centered on HIV/AIDS, including various aspects of HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, HIV-related health complications and treatments, and HIV, Drug Use, and Sexual Risk. Additional focal topics include Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, HIV Research and Treatment, HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, and topics related to Sex work and associated issues.

Recent notable publications include:

Characteristics of the MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study: Opportunities for Research on Aging With HIV in the Longest US Observational Study of HIV, 2021, American Journal of Epidemiology
Toward Understanding COVID-19 Recovery: National Institutes of Health Workshop on Postacute COVID-19, 2021, Annals of Internal Medicine
HIV and women in the USA: what we know and where to go from here, 2021, The Lancet
Multisite Study of Women Living With HIV's Perceived Barriers to, and Interest in, Long-Acting Injectable Antiretroviral Therapy, 2020, JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
The Prevalence and Burden of Non-AIDS Comorbidities Among Women Living With or at Risk for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in the United States, 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, with prominent co-authors including Mardge H. Cohen, Margaret A. Fischl, Phyllis C. Tien, Deborah Konkle-Parker, and Seble Kassaye.

Publications are commonly found in several venues, such as UNC Libraries, Clinical Infectious Diseases, AIDS and Behavior, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, and the JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.

Recognition for contributions includes membership in the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), awarded in 2019.

Best Publications

Bacterial vaginosis and HIV acquisition: A meta-analysis of published studies

Julius Atashili;Charles L Poole;Peter M. Ndumbe;Adaora A Adimora

897
Citations
Social Context, Sexual Networks, and Racial Disparities in Rates of Sexually Transmitted Infections

Adaora A. Adimora;Victor J. Schoenbach

851
Citations
Recombinant Glycoprotein Vaccine for the Prevention of Genital HSV-2 Infection Two Randomized Controlled Trials

Lawrence Corey;Andria G.M. Langenberg;Rhoda Ashley;Rose E. Sekulovich

598
Citations
HIV and African Americans in the southern United States: sexual networks and social context.

Adaora A. Adimora;Victor J. Schoenbach;Irene A. Doherty

361
Citations
Concurrent Sexual Partnerships Among Men in the United States

Adaora A. Adimora;Victor J. Schoenbach;Irene A. Doherty

325
Citations
Concurrent sexual partnerships among women in the United States

Adaora A Adimora;Victor J Schoenbach;Dana M Bonas;Francis E A Martinson

304
Citations
Understanding and responding to disparities in HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in African Americans.

Sevgi O Aral;Adaora A Adimora;Kevin A Fenton

292
Citations
Cohort Profile: The Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS).

Adaora A. Adimora;Catalina Ramirez;Lorie Benning;Ruth M. Greenblatt

287
Citations
Contextual factors and the black-white disparity in heterosexual HIV transmission.

Adaora A. Adimora;Victor J. Schoenbach

283
Citations
Heterosexually transmitted HIV infection among African Americans in North Carolina.

Adaora A. Adimora;Victor J. Schoenbach;Francis E. A. Martinson;Tamera Coyne-Beasley

247
Citations
Perinatal HIV infection and the effect of zidovudine therapy on transmission in rural and urban counties

Susan A. Fiscus;Adaora A. Adimora;Victor J. Schoenbach;Wilma Lim

227
Citations
Structural interventions for HIV prevention in the United States.

Adaora A Adimora;Judith D Auerbach

202
Citations
Mechanisms for the Negative Effects of Internalized HIV-Related Stigma on Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence in Women: The Mediating Roles of Social Isolation and Depression.

Bulent Turan;Whitney Smith;Mardge H. Cohen;Tracey E. Wilson

200
Citations
Concurrent partnerships among rural African Americans with recently reported heterosexually transmitted HIV infection.

Adaora A. Adimora;Victor J. Schoenbach;Francis E. A. Martinson;Kathryn H. Donaldson

197
Citations
DEPRESSION, SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTION, AND SEXUAL RISK BEHAVIOR AMONG YOUNG ADULTS IN THE UNITED STATES

Maria R. Khan;Jay S. Kaufman;Brian Wells Pence;Bradley N. Gaynes

195
Citations
The Relationship between Condom Use and Herpes Simplex Virus Acquisition

Anna Wald;Andria G.M. Langenberg;Elizabeth Krantz;John M. Douglas

192
Citations
Social context of sexual relationships among rural African Americans.

Adaora A. Adimora;Victor J. Schoenbach;Francis E. A. Martinson;Kathryn H. Donaldson

191
Citations
Concurrent sexual partnerships among African Americans in the rural south.

Adaora A Adimora;Victor J Schoenbach;Francis E Martinson;Kathryn H. Donaldson

180
Citations
Policies and politics that promote HIV infection in the Southern United States.

Adaora A. Adimora;Catalina Ramirez;Victor J. Schoenbach;Myron S. Cohen

180
Citations
Ending the epidemic of heterosexual HIV transmission among African Americans.

Adaora A. Adimora;Victor J. Schoenbach;Michelle A. Floris-Moore

162
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mardge H. Cohen Rush University

Phyllis C. Tien University of California, San Francisco

Margaret A. Fischl University of Miami

Gina M. Wingood Columbia University

Tracey E. Wilson SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Lisa R. Metsch Columbia University

Carol E. Golin University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Janet M. Turan University of Alabama at Birmingham

Joseph J. Eron University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Hannah L.F. Cooper Emory University

External Links

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