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Naomi Levitt

Naomi Levitt

University of Cape Town

ORCID: 0000-0001-6480-8066

Also affiliated with South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, National AIDS Commission

MedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

Top 3%percentile

1.2Author DataRank

Indexed papers

1in pilot corpus

datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology

Why this DataRank?

An author's DataRank is the sum of the DataRanks of all 1 indexed paper attributed to them. A prolific author with many moderate-impact papers can outrank one with a single high-impact paper.

Author scores recompute whenever paper DataRanks are refreshed, so this number lags the underlying paper scores by at most one batch run.

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Top data-sharing exemplar

The highest-impact dataset this researcher has shared, ranked by DataRank — the single contribution doing the most to lift their data-sharing standing.

Risk factors for COVID-19 hospitalisation and death in people living with diabetes: A virtual cohort study from the Western Cape Province, South Africa

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice(2021)10.1016/j.diabres.2021.108925

Top 17%

1.2DataRank

Top 17%30 citations

Tsaone Tamuhla, Nicki Tiffin, Naomi Levitt, Ian Louis Ross, William Toet +5 more

Papers

Driven by 13 papers — median percentile 83. Top paper: “Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults”.

Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

The Lancet(2017)10.1016/s0140-6736(17)32129-3

N/A

1.3DataRank · unranked

7558 citations

Ziad A Abdeen, Zargar Abdul Hamid, Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh, Benjamin Acosta-Cazares, Cecilia Acuin +1262 more

Risk factors for COVID-19 hospitalisation and death in people living with diabetes: A virtual cohort study from the Western Cape Province, South Africa

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice(2021)10.1016/j.diabres.2021.108925

Top 17%

1.2DataRank

Top 17%30 citations

Tsaone Tamuhla, Nicki Tiffin, Naomi Levitt, Ian Louis Ross, William Toet +5 more

Effectiveness of a task-sharing collaborative care model for identification and management of depressive symptoms in patients with hypertension attending public sector primary care clinics in South Africa: pragmatic parallel cluster randomised controlled trial.

Journal of Affective Disorders(2020)10.1016/j.jad.2020.12.123

N/A

1.0DataRank · unranked

38 citations

Lara Fairall, Babalwa Zani, Arvin Bhana, Carl Lombard, Naomi Folb +10 more

Evaluation of an adapted version of the Diabetes Prevention Program for low- and middle-income countries: A cluster randomized trial to evaluate “Lifestyle Africa” in South Africa

PLoS Medicine(2022)10.1371/journal.pmed.1003964

N/A

0.955DataRank · unranked

47 citations

Thandi Puoane, Lungiswa Tsolekile, Ken Resnicow, Kandace Fleming, Emily A. Hurley +7 more

Cost-effectiveness of Lifestyle Africa : an adaptation of the diabetes prevention programme for delivery by community health workers in urban South Africa

Global Health Action(2023)10.1080/16549716.2023.2212952

N/A

0.583DataRank · unranked

11 citations

Kathy Goggin, Lungiswa Tsolekile, Thandi Puoane, Andrew T. Fox, Ken Resnicow +9 more

Development of a core outcome set for multimorbidity trials in low/middle-income countries (COSMOS): study protocol

BMJ Open(2022)10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051810

N/A

0.385DataRank · unranked

12 citations

Rusham Zahra Rana, Jamie J Kirkham, Louise Rose, Gina Agarwal, Corrado Barbui +15 more

Core outcome sets for trials of interventions to prevent and to treat multimorbidity in adults in low and middle-income countries: the COSMOS study

BMJ Global Health(2024)10.1136/bmjgh-2024-015120

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

8 citations

Rubab Ayesha, Jan R. Boehnke, Jamie J Kirkham, Louise Rose, John R. Hurst +55 more

Perceptions of Health, Body Size, and Nutritional Risk Factors for Obesity in People with HIV in South Africa

UNC Libraries(2025)10.17615/6ajh-w916

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Naomi Levitt, François Venter, Jennifer Manne‐Goehler, Mark J. Siedner, Nomathemba Chandiwana +7 more

Development of a core outcome set for multimorbidity trials in low- and middle-income countries (COSMOS): Study Protocol

medRxiv(2021)10.1101/2021.03.23.21253685

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Rusham Zahra Rana, Jamie J Kirkham, Louise Rose, Gina Agarwal, Corrardo Barbui +15 more

Applying systems thinking to identify enablers and challenges to scale-up interventions for hypertension and diabetes in low-income and middle-income countries: protocol for a longitudinal mixed-methods study

BMJ Open(2022)10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053122

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

8 citations

Rohina Joshi, Josefien van Olmen, Edwin Wouters, Peter Delobelle, Rajesh Vedanthan +51 more

Correction to: Digital messaging to support control for type 2 diabetes (StAR2D): a multicentre randomised controlled trial

BMC Public Health(2022)10.1186/s12889-022-13085-0

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Kirsten Bobrow, Natalie Leon, N.P. Williams, Enita Phiri, Hazel Namadingo +14 more

Associations of HIV and antiretroviral therapy with gestational diabetes in South Africa

AIDS(2023)10.1097/qad.0000000000003678

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

8 citations

Hlengiwe P. Madlala, Mushi Matjila, Naomi Levitt, Julia H. Goedecke, Susan Cu‐Uvin +4 more

Perceptions of Health, Body Size, and Nutritional Risk Factors for Obesity in People with HIV in South Africa

AIDS and Behavior(2023)10.1007/s10461-023-04152-7

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Nicholas E. Rahim, Eva van Empel, Rebecca de Vlieg, Grace Chamberlin, Amanda Ihama +7 more