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Heather J. Zar publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Heather J. Zar sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 624 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Heather J. Zar D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Heather J. Zar sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 95 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Heather J. Zar is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa and works primarily in the field of Medicine, with a focus on several specialized subfields including Epidemiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Physiology.

The main topics covered in Heather J. Zar's research include:

  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Pneumonia and respiratory infections
  • Neonatal respiratory health research
  • Allergic rhinitis and sensitization
  • Tuberculosis research and epidemiology
  • Birth, development, and health

Frequent publication venues for Zar's work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Allergy
  • Clinical and Translational Allergy
  • The Lancet Global Health

Heather J. Zar has been involved in research published in notable papers such as:

  • Global, regional, and national disease burden estimates of acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in children younger than 5 years in 2019: a systematic analysis (2022, The Lancet)
  • Bivalent Prefusion F Vaccine in Pregnancy to Prevent RSV Illness in Infants (2023, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • Global burden of respiratory infections associated with seasonal influenza in children under 5 years in 2018: a systematic review and modelling study (2020, The Lancet Global Health)
  • Improving lung health in low-income and middle-income countries: from challenges to solutions (2021, The Lancet)
  • Respiratory syncytial virus prevention within reach: the vaccine and monoclonal antibody landscape (2022, The Lancet Infectious Diseases)

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Dan J. Stein
  • Kirsten A. Donald
  • Mark P. Nicol
  • Jean Bousquet
  • Nadia Hoffman

Best Publications

  • Global strategy for asthma management and prevention: GINA executive summary.

    Bateman Ed;Hurd Ss;Barnes Pj;Bousquet J

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Simon I Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national disease burden estimates of acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in young children in 2015: a systematic review and modelling study

    Ting Shi;David A. McAllister;Katherine L. O'Brien;Eric A. F. Simoes

  • Prevalence and attributable health burden of chronic respiratory diseases, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Joan B Soriano;Parkes J Kendrick;Katherine R Paulson;Vinay Gupta

  • Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Marissa B Reitsma;Parkes J Kendrick;Emad Ababneh;Cristiana Abbafati

  • After asthma: redefining airways diseases

    Ian D Pavord;Richard Beasley;Alvar Agusti;Gary P Anderson

  • International consensus on (ICON) pediatric asthma

    N. G. Papadopoulos;H. Arakawa;A. Custovic;J. Gern

  • Induced sputum versus gastric lavage for microbiological confirmation of pulmonary tuberculosis in infants and young children: a prospective study

    Heather J Zar;David Hanslo;Patricia Apolles;George Swingler

  • Diverse Pseudomonas aeruginosa gene products stimulate respiratory epithelial cells to produce interleukin-8.

    Emily DiMango;Heather J. Zar;Ruth Bryan;Alice Prince

  • Global patterns in monthly activity of influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza virus, and metapneumovirus: a systematic analysis

    You Li;Rachel M Reeves;Xin Wang;Quique Bassat

  • Research capacity. Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa

    Charles Rotimi;Akin Abayomi;Alash'le Abimiku;Victoria May Adabayeri

  • Global burden of respiratory infections associated with seasonal influenza in children under 5 years in 2018: a systematic review and modelling study.

    Xin Wang;You Li;Katherine L. O'Brien;Shabir A. Madhi

  • Global strategy for the diagnosis and management of asthma in children 5 years and younger.

    Soren Erik Pedersen;Suzanne S. Hurd;Robert F. Lemanske;Allan Becker

  • Accuracy of the Xpert MTB/RIF test for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children admitted to hospital in Cape Town, South Africa: a descriptive study.

    Mark P Nicol;Mark P Nicol;Lesley Workman;Washiefa Isaacs;Jacinta Munro

  • Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccination during Pregnancy and Effects in Infants

    Shabir A Madhi;Fernando P Polack;Pedro A Piedra;Flor M Munoz

  • Respiratory syncytial virus hospitalization and mortality: Systematic review and meta-analysis

    Renato T. Stein;Louis J. Bont;Heather Zar;Fernando P. Polack

  • Risk factors for respiratory syncytial virus associated with acute lower respiratory infection in children under five years: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Ting Shi;Evelyn Balsells;Elizabeth Wastnedge;Rosalyn Singleton

  • The global burden of respiratory disease—Impact on child health

    Heather J. Zar;Thomas W. Ferkol

  • Prevalence of symptoms of asthma, rhinitis and eczema in 13- to 14-year-old children in Africa: the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood Phase III.

    N. Ait-Khaled;J. Odhiambo;N. Pearce;K.S. Adjoh

  • Effect of isoniazid prophylaxis on mortality and incidence of tuberculosis in children with HIV: randomised controlled trial.

    Heather J Zar;Mark F Cotton;Stanzi Strauss;Janine Karpakis

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark P. Nicol
Mark P. Nicol University of Western Australia
Dan J. Stein
Dan J. Stein University of Cape Town
Landon Myer
Landon Myer University of Cape Town
Peter D. Sly
Peter D. Sly University of Queensland
Shabir A. Madhi
Shabir A. Madhi University of the Witwatersrand
Aziz Sheikh
Aziz Sheikh University of Oxford
Michael Levin
Michael Levin Tufts University
Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos
Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Cheryl Cohen
Cheryl Cohen University of the Witwatersrand
Andrew Bush
Andrew Bush Imperial College London

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