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Victoria Hosegood 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 Victoria Hosegood sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 148 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Victoria Hosegood 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 Victoria Hosegood sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 48 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Victoria Hosegood is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields related to health, particularly in the domains of medicine and health professions, with a focus on general health professions and infectious diseases. Their work often addresses topics related to adolescent sexual and reproductive health as well as HIV/AIDS research and interventions.

Their recent publications cover various aspects of health and social behavior in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. These papers include:

  • Trends in the prevalence and incidence of orphanhood in children and adolescents <20 years in rural KwaZulu-Natal South Africa, 2000-2014 (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Optimising a couples-focused intervention to increase couples' HIV testing and counselling using the person-based approach: a qualitative study in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa (2021, BMJ Open)
  • Protocol: evaluation of an optimised couples-focused intervention to increase testing for HIV in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, the Igugu Lethu ('Our treasure') cohort study (2022, BMC Public Health)
  • Social Influence and Uptake of Couples HIV Testing and Counselling in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2021, AIDS and Behavior)
  • Two-way associations between relationship quality and uptake of couples health screening including HIV testing and counselling together: quantitative analysis of a couples cohort in rural South Africa (2024, AIDS Care)

Research topics frequently addressed in their work include:

  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Global Maternal and Child Health

Frequent coauthors who collaborate with Victoria Hosegood include:

  • Nuala McGrath
  • Thulani Ngubane
  • Heidi van Rooyen
  • Alastair van Heerden
  • Katherine Morton

Their publications have appeared in venues such as:

  • PLoS ONE
  • BMJ Open
  • BMC Public Health
  • AIDS and Behavior
  • AIDS Care

Victoria Hosegood's research integrates elements of social psychology, economics and econometrics, and safety research within the broader health sciences. Their scholarly focus includes the intersection of health, social behavior, and disease prevention in vulnerable populations, as evidenced by their extensive work on HIV testing uptake and relationship dynamics in rural South African communities.

Best Publications

  • Labor Supply Responses to Large Social Transfers: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa

    Cally Ardington;Anne Case;Victoria Hosegood

  • Cohort Profile: Africa Centre Demographic Information System (ACDIS) and population-based HIV survey

    Frank Tanser;Victoria Hosegood;Victoria Hosegood;Till Bärnighausen;Kobus Herbst

  • The socioeconomic determinants of HIV incidence: evidence from a longitudinal, population-based study in rural South Africa.

    Till Bärnighausen;Victoria Hosegood;Ian M Timaeus;Marie-Louise Newell

  • The reach and impact of Child Support Grants: evidence from KwaZulu-Natal

    Anne Case;Victoria Hosegood;Frances Lund

  • Dispensing with marriage: Marital and partnership trends in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 2000-2006.

    Victoria Hosegood;Nuala McGrath;Tom A. Moultrie

  • Continued very high prevalence of HIV infection in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a population-based longitudinal study.

    Tanya Welz;Victoria Hosegood;Shabbar Jaffar;Jörg Bätzing-Feigenbaum

  • Levels and causes of adult mortality in rural South Africa: The impact of AIDS

    Victoria Hosegood;Anna Maria Vanneste;Ian M. Timæus

  • Collaboration between traditional practitioners and primary health care staff in South Africa: developing a workable partnership for community mental health services.

    Vicky Campbell-Hall;Inge Petersen;Arvin Bhana;Sithembile Mjadu

  • Revealing the full extent of households’ experiences of HIV and AIDS in rural South Africa

    Victoria Hosegood;Eleanor Preston-Whyte;Joanna Busza;Sindile Moitse

  • Strengthening families to support children affected by HIV and AIDS.

    Linda M. Richter;Lorraine Sherr;Michèle Adato;Mark Belsey

  • Men's involvement in the South African family: engendering change in the AIDS era.

    Catherine M. Montgomery;Victoria Hosegood;Victoria Hosegood;Joanna Busza;Ian M. Timaeus;Ian M. Timaeus

  • Gendered Patterns of Migration in Rural South Africa

    Carol S. Camlin;Rachel C. Snow;Victoria Hosegood;Victoria Hosegood

  • Gender, migration and HIV in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

    Carol S. Camlin;Victoria Hosegood;Victoria Hosegood;Marie-Louise Newell;Marie-Louise Newell;Nuala McGrath;Nuala McGrath

  • The effects of high HIV prevalence on orphanhood and living arrangements of children in Malawi, Tanzania, and South Africa.

    Victoria Hosegood;Sian Floyd;Milly Marston;Caterina Hill

  • Age at first sex in rural South Africa.

    N. McGrath;M. Nyirenda;V. Hosegood;M. L. Newell

  • The impact of adult mortality on household dissolution and migration in rural South Africa

    Hosegood;McGrath N;Herbst K;Timaeus Im

  • Mortality trends in the era of antiretroviral therapy: evidence from the Network for Analysing Longitudinal Population based HIV/AIDS data on Africa (ALPHA).

    Georgesa Reniers;Emma Slaymaker;Jessica Nakiyingi-Miiro;Constance Nyamukapa

  • Migration, sexual behaviour, and HIV risk: a general population cohort in rural South Africa.

    Nuala McGrath;Nuala McGrath;Jeffrey W Eaton;Marie-Louise Newell;Marie-Louise Newell;Victoria Hosegood;Victoria Hosegood

  • Planning for district mental health services in South Africa: a situational analysis of a rural district site

    Inge Petersen;Arvin Bhana;Arvin Bhana;Victoria Campbell-Hall;Sithembile Mjadu

  • The demographic impact of HIV and AIDS across the family and household life-cycle: implications for efforts to strengthen families in sub-Saharan Africa.

    Victoria Hosegood

  • New approaches to spatially analyse primary health care usage patterns in rural South Africa.

    Frank Tanser;Victoria Hosegood;Justus Benzler;Geoffrey Clive Solarsh

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie-Louise Newell
Marie-Louise Newell University of Southampton
Nuala McGrath
Nuala McGrath University of Southampton
Till Bärnighausen
Till Bärnighausen Heidelberg University
Ian M. Timæus
Ian M. Timæus London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Lynae A. Darbes
Lynae A. Darbes University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jane Falkingham
Jane Falkingham University of Southampton
Linda Richter
Linda Richter University of the Witwatersrand
Anne Case
Anne Case Princeton University
Jim Todd
Jim Todd London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Frank Tanser
Frank Tanser University of Lincoln

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