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Naeemah Abrahams 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 Naeemah Abrahams sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 128 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Naeemah Abrahams 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 Naeemah Abrahams sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 47 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Naeemah Abrahams is affiliated with the South African Medical Research Council in South Africa. Their research mainly addresses topics related to social sciences and psychology, with significant contributions in subfields such as clinical psychology, health, gender studies, sociology and political science, and general health professions.

The main topics covered by Naeemah Abrahams include:

  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Gender, Security, and Conflict

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Naeemah Abrahams are:

  • Rachel Jewkes
  • Shibe Mhlongo
  • Carl Lombard
  • Esnat Chirwa
  • Bianca Dekel

The scientist's publications often appear in several recurring venues, among them:

  • SSM - Mental Health
  • PLoS ONE
  • European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • Journal of Hypertension
  • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy

Recent papers by Naeemah Abrahams include:

  • 'I will rather be killed by corona than by him...': Experiences of abused women seeking shelter during South Africa's COVID-19 lockdown (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • Increase in HIV incidence in women exposed to rape (2020, AIDS)
  • Genome-wide differentially methylated genes associated with posttraumatic stress disorder and longitudinal change in methylation in rape survivors (2021, Translational Psychiatry)
  • Pathways to and factors associated with rape stigma experienced by rape survivors in South Africa: Analysis of baseline data from a rape cohort (2021, Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy)
  • Risk and protective factors affecting the symptom trajectory of posttraumatic stress disorder post-rape (2022, Journal of Affective Disorders)

Best Publications

  • Global and regional estimates of violence against women: prevalence and health effects of intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence.

    Garcia-Moreno C;Pallitto C;Devries K;Stockl H

  • The Global Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women

    K. M. Devries;Joelle Y. T. Mak;C. García-Moreno;M. Petzold

  • The global prevalence of intimate partner homicide: a systematic review.

    Heidi Stöckl;Karen Devries;Alexandra Rotstein;Naeemah Abrahams

  • The epidemiology of rape and sexual coercion in South Africa: an overview.

    Rachel Jewkes;Naeemah Abrahams

  • WHY DO NURSES ABUSE PATIENTS? REFLECTIONS FROM SOUTH AFRICAN OBSTETRIC SERVICES

    Rachel Jewkes;Naeemah Abrahams;Zodumo Mvo

  • Addressing violence against women: a call to action

    Claudia García-Moreno;Cathy Zimmerman;Alison Morris-Gehring;Lori Heise

  • A Systematic Review of African Studies on Intimate Partner Violence against Pregnant Women: Prevalence and Risk Factors

    Simukai Shamu;Naeemah Abrahams;Marleen Temmerman;Alfred Musekiwa

  • Worldwide prevalence of non-partner sexual violence: a systematic review

    Naeemah Abrahams;Karen Devries;Charlotte H. Watts;Christina Pallitto

  • Sexual violence against intimate partners in Cape Town: prevalence and risk factors reported by men

    Naeema Abrahams;Rachel K. Jewkes;Margaret Hoffman;Ria Laubsher

  • Intimate partner violence: Prevalence and risk factors for men in Cape Town, South Africa

    Naeemah Abrahams;Rachel Jewkes;Ria Laubscher;Margaret Hoffman

  • ‘You are a man because you have children’: experiences, reproductive health knowledge and treatment‐seeking behaviour among men suffering from couple infertility in South Africa

    S.J. Dyer;N. Abrahams;N.E. Mokoena;Z.M. van der Spuy

  • Mortality of Women From Intimate Partner Violence in South Africa: A National Epidemiological Study

    Naeemah Abrahams;Rachel Jewkes;Lorna J. Martin;Shanaaz Mathews

  • "Every six hours a woman is killed by her intimate partner": A National Study of Female Homicide in South Africa

    Shanaaz Mathews;Naeemah Abrahams;Lorna J Martin;Lisa Vetten

  • Effects of South African Men’s Having Witnessed Abuse of Their Mothers During Childhood on Their Levels of Violence in Adulthood

    Naeemah Abrahams;Rachel Jewkes

  • Intimate partner femicide in South Africa in 1999 and 2009.

    Naeemah Abrahams;Shanaaz Mathews;Lorna J. Martin;Carl Lombard

  • Who perpetrates violence against children? A systematic analysis of age-specific and sex-specific data

    Karen Devries;Louise Knight;Max Petzold;Katherine G. Merrill

  • Health care-seeking practices of pregnant women and the role of the midwife in Cape Town, South Africa

    Naeema Abrahams;Rachel K. Jewkes;Zoduma Mvo

  • Injury-related mortality in South Africa: a retrospective descriptive study of postmortem investigations

    Richard Matzopoulos;Megan Prinsloo;Victoria Pillay-van Wyk;Nomonde Gwebushe

  • Intimate partner violence after disclosure of HIV test results among pregnant women in Harare, Zimbabwe

    Simukai Shamu;Christina Zarowsky;Tamara Shefer;Marleen Temmerman

  • Infertility in South Africa: women's reproductive health knowledge and treatment-seeking behaviour for involuntary childlessness.

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  • The epidemiology of child homicides in South Africa

    Shanaaz Mathews;Naeemah Abrahams;Rachel Jewkes;Lorna J Martin

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachel Jewkes
Rachel Jewkes South African Medical Research Council
Carl Lombard
Carl Lombard Stellenbosch University
Claudia Garcia-Moreno
Claudia Garcia-Moreno World Health Organization
Charlotte Watts
Charlotte Watts London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Richard Matzopoulos
Richard Matzopoulos South African Medical Research Council
Karen Devries
Karen Devries London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Marleen Temmerman
Marleen Temmerman Aga Khan University
Theo Vos
Theo Vos Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Soraya Seedat
Soraya Seedat Stellenbosch University
Bronwyn Myers
Bronwyn Myers South African Medical Research Council

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