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D-Index
69
Citations
15488
World Ranking
820
National Ranking
390

Audrey Pettifor publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Audrey Pettifor sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 330 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Audrey Pettifor D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Audrey Pettifor sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 69 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Audrey Pettifor is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields including Medicine, Health Professions, and Social Sciences, with a notable focus on General Health Professions and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's research concentrates on topics related to Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, and the broader HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses. Additional areas of interest include Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, as well as Sex Work and related issues, HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk, and Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy.

Pettifor has published extensively in several venues, with frequent publications in UNC Libraries, AIDS and Behavior, JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, PLoS ONE, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Pettifor include:

  • Multiple COVID-19 Clusters on a University Campus - North Carolina, August 2020 (2020, MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
  • HIV self-testing among young women in rural South Africa: A randomized controlled trial comparing clinic-based HIV testing to the choice of either clinic testing or HIV self-testing with secondary distribution to peers and partners (2020, EClinicalMedicine)
  • Cash transfers for HIV prevention: A systematic review (2021, PLoS Medicine)
  • The impact of an integrated depression and HIV treatment program on mental health and HIV care outcomes among people newly initiating antiretroviral therapy in Malawi (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • HIV risk, risk perception, and PrEP interest among adolescent girls and young women in Lilongwe, Malawi: operationalizing the PrEP cascade (2020, Journal of the International AIDS Society)

The scientist collaborates frequently with several researchers including Kathleen Kahn, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Sheri A. Lippman, Marie C. D. Stoner, and Rhian Twine.

Best Publications

  • Young people's sexual health in South Africa: HIV prevalence and sexual behaviors from a nationally representative household survey

    Audrey E Pettifor;Helen V Rees;Immo Kleinschmidt;Annie E Steffenson

  • Sexual Power and HIV Risk, South Africa

    Audrey E. Pettifor;Diana M. Measham;Helen V. Rees;Nancy S. Padian

  • Rethinking the heterosexual infectivity of HIV-1: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Kimberly A Powers;Charles Poole;Audrey E Pettifor;Myron S Cohen

  • Early age of first sex: a risk factor for HIV infection among women in Zimbabwe.

    Audrey E Pettifor;Ariane van der Straten;Megan S Dunbar;Megan S Dunbar;Stephen C Shiboski

  • HIV and sexual behaviour among young South Africans: a national survey of 15-24 year olds.

    Pettifor Ae;Rees Hv;Steffenson A;Hlongwa-Madikizela L

  • The role of acute and early HIV infection in the spread of HIV and implications for transmission prevention strategies in Lilongwe Malawi: a modelling study.

    Kimberly A. Powers;Azra C. Ghani;William C. Miller;Irving F. Hoffman

  • Early coital debut and associated HIV risk factors among young women and men in South Africa

    Audrey E Pettifor;Katie O'Brien;Catherine MacPhail;William C Miller

  • Predictors of Condom Use Among Young Adults in South Africa: The Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit National Youth Survey

    Ellen Setsuko Hendriksen;Audrey Pettifor;Sung Jae Lee;Thomas J. Coates

  • The effect of a conditional cash transfer on HIV incidence in young women in rural South Africa (HPTN 068): a phase 3, randomised controlled trial

    Audrey Pettifor;Catherine MacPhail;Catherine MacPhail;James P Hughes;James P Hughes;Amanda Selin

  • Can money prevent the spread of HIV? A review of cash payments for HIV prevention

    Audrey Pettifor;Catherine MacPhail;Nadia Nguyen;Molly Rosenberg

  • HIV partner notification is effective and feasible in sub-Saharan Africa: opportunities for HIV treatment and prevention.

    Lillian B Brown;William C Miller;Gift Kamanga;Naomi Nyirenda

  • Keep them in school: the importance of education as a protective factor against HIV infection among young South African women

    Audrey E Pettifor;Brooke A Levandowski;Catherine MacPhail;Nancy S Padian

  • Validity of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 to screen for depression in a high-HIV burden primary healthcare clinic in Johannesburg South Africa.

    Rushina Cholera;Bradley Gaynes;Brian Pence;Jean Bassett

  • The Government of Kenya’s cash transfer program reduces the risk of sexual debut among young people age 15-25.

    Sudhanshu Handa;Carolyn Tucker Halpern;Audrey Pettifor;Harsha Thirumurthy

  • Factors associated with self-efficacy for condom use and sexual negotiation among South african youth.

    Jennifer N. Sayles;Audrey Pettifor;Mitchell D. Wong;Catherine MacPhail;Catherine MacPhail

  • "What they wanted was to give birth; nothing else": barriers to retention in option B+ HIV care among postpartum women in South Africa

    Kate Clouse;Sheree R Schwartz;Annelies Van Rie;Jean Bassett

  • Effects of a Large-Scale Unconditional Cash Transfer Program on Mental Health Outcomes of Young People in Kenya

    Kelly Kilburn;Harsha Thirumurthy;Carolyn Tucker Halpern;Audrey Pettifor

  • How effective is syndromic management of STDs?: A review of current studies.

    Audrey Pettifor;Julia Walsh;Victoria Wilkins;Pratima Raghunathan

  • Impact of the Kenya Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children on early pregnancy and marriage of adolescent girls

    Sudhanshu Handa;Amber Peterman;Carolyn Huang;Carolyn Halpern

  • Contraception use and pregnancy among 15-24 year old South African women: a nationally representative cross-sectional survey.

    Catherine MacPhail;Audrey E Pettifor;Audrey E Pettifor;Sophie Pascoe;Helen V Rees

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine MacPhail
Catherine MacPhail University of Wollongong
Kathleen Kahn
Kathleen Kahn University of the Witwatersrand
Suzanne Maman
Suzanne Maman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Helen Rees
Helen Rees University of the Witwatersrand
William C. Miller
William C. Miller The Ohio State University
James P. Hughes
James P. Hughes University of Washington
Stephen Tollman
Stephen Tollman University of the Witwatersrand
Oliver Laeyendecker
Oliver Laeyendecker Johns Hopkins University
Irving F. Hoffman
Irving F. Hoffman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Myron S. Cohen
Myron S. Cohen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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