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Social Sciences and Humanities
South Africa
2023

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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 66 Citations 13,300 358 World Ranking 610 National Ranking 9

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Awards & Achievements

2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in South Africa Leader Award

2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study Kathleen Kahn is best known for:

  • Epidemiology
  • Pneumonia
  • Tuberculosis

As part of her studies on Population, Kathleen Kahn often connects relevant subjects like Demography. Her work on Population expands to the thematically related Demography. She conducts interdisciplinary study in the fields of Environmental health and Epidemiology through her works. She integrates many fields in her works, including Epidemiology and Environmental health. Her Internal medicine study frequently involves adjacent topics like Logistic regression. Her research is interdisciplinary, bridging the disciplines of Rural area and Pathology. Kathleen Kahn regularly links together related areas like Pathology in her Rural area studies. Kathleen Kahn connects Gerontology with Nursing in her study. Kathleen Kahn integrates Nursing and Gerontology in her studies.

Her most cited work include:

  • Profile: Agincourt Health and Socio-demographic Surveillance System (378 citations)
  • Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa (320 citations)
  • The prevalence of stunting, overweight and obesity, and metabolic disease risk in rural South African children (220 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date

Her Environmental health study often links to related topics such as Population. Her study connects Environmental health and Population. Kathleen Kahn integrates many fields in her works, including Demography and Gerontology. She combines Gerontology and Demography in her research. Her research links Odds ratio with Internal medicine. Her research on Pathology often connects related areas such as Rural area. Her Rural area study typically links adjacent topics like Pathology. She connects Nursing with Public health in her research. Kathleen Kahn carries out multidisciplinary research, doing studies in Public health and Nursing.

Kathleen Kahn most often published in these fields:

  • Environmental health (62.35%)
  • Demography (60.73%)
  • Population (57.09%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2020-2022)?

  • Environmental health (53.85%)
  • Internal medicine (53.85%)
  • Population (46.15%)

In recent works Kathleen Kahn was focusing on the following fields of study:

Kathleen Kahn is involved in relevant fields of research such as Kenya and Taxon in the domain of Ecology. Her Population research extends to Environmental health, which is thematically connected. Her Population study frequently intersects with other fields, such as Environmental health. She merges Internal medicine with Pediatrics in her research. She performs integrative study on Pediatrics and Internal medicine in her works. With her scientific publications, her incorporates both Demography and Gerontology. She brings together Gerontology and Demography to produce work in her papers. Her study deals with a combination of Immunology and Virus. She merges Virus with Genotype in her study.

Between 2020 and 2022, her most popular works were:

  • SARS-CoV-2 transmission, persistence of immunity, and estimates of Omicron’s impact in South African population cohorts (28 citations)
  • SARS-CoV-2 incidence, transmission and reinfection in a rural and an urban setting: results of the PHIRST-C cohort study, South Africa, 2020-2021 (20 citations)
  • Short- and long-read metagenomics of urban and rural South African gut microbiomes reveal a transitional composition and undescribed taxa (14 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited works focused on:

  • Immune system
  • Epidemiology
  • Herd immunity

Environmental health and Population are commonly linked in her work. Kathleen Kahn regularly ties together related areas like Demography in her Population studies. In her works, she conducts interdisciplinary research on Demography and Cohort. Cohort and Pathology are frequently intertwined in her study. Her Pathology study frequently draws parallels with other fields, such as Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Her research is interdisciplinary, bridging the disciplines of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is often connected to Disease in her work. By researching both Disease and Immunity, she produces research that crosses academic boundaries. In her research, Kathleen Kahn undertakes multidisciplinary study on Immunity and Vaccination.

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Best Publications

Profile: Agincourt Health and Socio-demographic Surveillance System

Kathleen Kahn;Mark A Collinson;F Xavier Gómez-Olivé;Obed Mokoena.
International Journal of Epidemiology (2012)

410 Citations

The prevalence of stunting, overweight and obesity, and metabolic disease risk in rural South African children

Elizabeth W Kimani-Murage;Kathleen Kahn;Kathleen Kahn;John M Pettifor;Stephen M Tollman;Stephen M Tollman.
BMC Public Health (2010)

329 Citations

Implications of mortality transition for primary health care in rural South Africa: a population-based surveillance study

Stephen M Tollman;Stephen M Tollman;Kathleen Kahn;Kathleen Kahn;Benn Sartorius;Mark A Collinson.
The Lancet (2008)

303 Citations

Validation and application of verbal autopsies in a rural area of South Africa.

Kathleen Kahn;Stephen M. Tollman;Michel Garenne;John S. S. Gear.
Tropical Medicine & International Health (2000)

297 Citations

Research capacity. Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa

Charles Rotimi;Akin Abayomi;Alash'le Abimiku;Victoria May Adabayeri.
Science (2014)

281 Citations

Returning home to die : Circular labour migration and mortality in South Africa

Samuel J. Clark;Mark A. Collinson;Kathleen Kahn;Kyle Drullinger.
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health (2007)

256 Citations

Predicting Bacteremia in Patients with Sepsis Syndrome

Bates Dw;Sands K;Miller E;Lanken Pn.
(1997)

251 Citations

Research into health, population and social transitions in rural South Africa: data and methods of the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System.

Kathleen Kahn;Stephen M. Tollman;Mark A. Collinson;Samuel J. Clark.
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health (2007)

220 Citations

Strengthening standardised interpretation of verbal autopsy data: the new InterVA-4 tool

Peter Byass;Daniel Chandramohan;Samuel J. Clark;Lucia D'Ambruoso.
Global Health Action (2012)

219 Citations

Highly prevalent circular migration: Households, mobility and economic status in rural South Africa

Mark Collinson;Stephen Tollman;Kathleen Kahn;Samuel Clark.
(2003)

216 Citations

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