2026 Jennifer Keiser: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	88	13043	12277	183	176	462	32527

Overview

Jennifer Keiser is affiliated with the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Switzerland. Their research spans several main fields including Immunology and Microbiology, Veterinary science, and Environmental Science. These fields frame a broad interdisciplinary approach to studying parasites, hosts, and the environment.

Their subfields of study include Parasitology, Small Animals, Ecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Infectious Diseases, indicating a diverse focus on biological, ecological, and health-related dimensions of parasitic infections.

Key topics addressed in their work are:

Parasites and Host Interactions
Helminth infection and control
Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment
Research on Leishmaniasis Studies
Child Nutrition and Water Access
Global Maternal and Child Health

Jennifer Keiser has contributed publications to several journals and venues with notable frequency, including:

PLoS neglected tropical diseases
ACS Infectious Diseases
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively in their work include:

Cécile Häberli
Somphou Sayasone
Jean T. Coulibaly
Jan Hattendorf
Eveline Hürlimann

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Jennifer Keiser include:

Whipworm and roundworm infections, 2020, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
A systematic review and an individual patient data meta-analysis of ivermectin use in children weighing less than fifteen kilograms: Is it time to reconsider the current contraindication?, 2021, PLoS neglected tropical diseases
Efficacy and safety of co-administered ivermectin and albendazole in school-aged children and adults infected with Trichuris trichiura in Côte d'Ivoire, Laos, and Pemba Island, Tanzania: a double-blind, parallel-group, phase 3, randomised controlled trial, 2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminths using the Kato-Katz technique: What is the influence of stirring, storage time and storage temperature on stool sample egg counts?, 2021, PLoS neglected tropical diseases
Strongyloidiasis, 2024, Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Best Publications

Schistosomiasis and water resources development: systematic review, meta-analysis, and estimates of people at risk

Peter Steinmann;Jennifer Keiser;Robert Bos;Marcel Tanner

2591
Citations
The global burden of disease study 2010: interpretation and implications for the neglected tropical diseases.

Peter J. Hotez;Miriam Alvarado;María-Gloria Basáñez;Ian Bolliger

1246
Citations
Efficacy of Current Drugs Against Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Jennifer Keiser;Jürg Utzinger

1082
Citations
Emerging foodborne trematodiasis.

Jennifer Keiser;Jürg Utzinger

780
Citations
Food-Borne Trematodiases

Jennifer Keiser;Jürg Utzinger

758
Citations
Past, Present, and Future of Japanese Encephalitis

Tobias E. Erlanger;Svenja Weiss;Jennifer Keiser;Jürg Utzinger

716
Citations
Effect of Sanitation on Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Kathrin Ziegelbauer;Benjamin Speich;Benjamin Speich;Daniel Mäusezahl;Daniel Mäusezahl;Robert Bos

657
Citations
Global burden of human food-borne trematodiasis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Thomas Fürst;Jennifer Keiser;Jennifer Keiser;Jürg Utzinger;Jürg Utzinger

620
Citations
URBANIZATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND IMPLICATION FOR MALARIA CONTROL

Jennifer Keiser;Jürg Utzinger;Marcia Caldas De Castro;Thomas A. Smith

443
Citations
Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis: common drugs for treatment and control

Jürg Utzinger;Jennifer Keiser

443
Citations
Open Source Drug Discovery with the Malaria Box Compound Collection for Neglected Diseases and Beyond.

Wesley C. Van Voorhis;John H. Adams;Roberto Adelfio;Roberto Adelfio;Vida Ahyong

425
Citations
EFFECT OF IRRIGATION AND LARGE DAMS ON THE BURDEN OF MALARIA ON A GLOBAL AND REGIONAL SCALE

Jennifer Keiser;Marcia Caldas De Castro;Michael F. Maltese;Robert Bos

412
Citations
The Drugs We Have and the Drugs We Need Against Major Helminth Infections

Jennifer Keiser;Jürg Utzinger;Jürg Utzinger

385
Citations
Efficacy of recommended drugs against soil transmitted helminths: systematic review and network meta-analysis

Wendelin Moser;Wendelin Moser;Christian Schindler;Christian Schindler;Jennifer Keiser;Jennifer Keiser

342
Citations
Reducing the burden of malaria in different eco-epidemiological settings with environmental management: a systematic review

Jennifer Keiser;Burton H Singer;Jürg Utzinger

342
Citations
Artemisinins for schistosomiasis and beyond.

Jürg Utzinger;Shu-Hua Xiao;Marcel Tanner;Jennifer Keiser

305
Citations
Neglected tropical diseases: diagnosis, clinical management, treatment and control

Jürg Utzinger;Sören L. Becker;Stefanie Knopp;Johannes Blum

300
Citations
From innovation to application: social-ecological context, diagnostics, drugs and integrated control of schistosomiasis

Jürg Utzinger;Jürg Utzinger;Eliézer K. N’Goran;Conor R. Caffrey;Jennifer Keiser;Jennifer Keiser

290
Citations
Combination chemotherapy of schistosomiasis in laboratory studies and clinical trials

Jürg Utzinger;Jennifer Keiser;Xiao Shuhua;Marcel Tanner

286
Citations
Mefloquine—An Aminoalcohol with Promising Antischistosomal Properties in Mice

Jennifer Keiser;Jacques Chollet;Shu-Hua Xiao;Jin-Yan Mei

268
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürg Utzinger University of Basel

Jan Hattendorf University of Basel

Marcel Tanner Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

Jonathan L. Vennerstrom University of Nebraska Medical Center

Eliézer K. N’Goran Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Gilles Gasser Chimie ParisTech

Bruno Levecke Ghent University

Elaine Holmes Imperial College London

Penelope Vounatsou University of Basel

Laura Rinaldi University of Naples Federico II

External Links

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