Tom Oluoch

University of Ghana

Health Scientist, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, since 2016per ORCID

Publishing since 2005, latest 2026

Infectious Diseases
General Health Professions
Epidemiology
Health Information Management
Information Systems
Management Science and Operations Research

Publications: 312005–2026
Citations: 927to those papers
h-index: 14i10-index 19
Field-weighted impact: 2.391.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 39%12 of 31 scored papers
Open access: 81%25 papers free to read

2 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Health Scientist, Division of Global HIV and TBUS Centers for Disease Control and Preventionsince 2016
Health Informatician, Division of Global HIV/TBUS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention2005–2016

Education

PhD, Medical InformaticsUniversity of Amsterdam

On their papers

Publications

31 in all

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Citations received each year

Peerford

To all their work, old papers included. Google Scholar also counts citations from theses, books and web pages, so its line runs higher.

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Infectious Diseases1652%
General Health Professions1239%
Epidemiology1032%
Health Information Management1032%
Information Systems516%
Management Science and Operations Research310%
Sociology and Political Science310%
Statistics and Probability310%
Virology310%
Microbiology26%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions16
Electronic Health Records Systems10
Mobile Health and mHealth Applications9
HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk6
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health3
Census and Population Estimation3
Data Quality and Management3
HIV Research and Treatment3
ICT in Developing Communities3
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies2
Employer Branding and e-HRM2
Hepatitis B Virus Studies2

Who they write with

Their most frequent co-authors, and the papers those co-authors share

Where their co-authors are

90% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

United States27
Kenya24
Rwanda7
Netherlands6
Uganda4
Sweden3
Nigeria2
Burkina Faso1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Centers for Disease Control and PreventionUS26 papers
Centers for Disease Control and PreventionKE23 papers
Kenya Medical Research InstituteKE10 papers
Rwanda Biomedical CenterRW7 papers
University of AmsterdamNL6 papers
Centers for Disease Control and PreventionUG6 papers
Amsterdam UMC Location University of AmsterdamNL5 papers
Center for Global HealthUS5 papers
Ministry of HealthKE5 papers
Ministry of HealthRW4 papers

Where they publish

JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes4
International Journal of Medical Informatics3
AIDS and Behavior2
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance2
Studies in health technology and informatics2
BMC Infectious Diseases1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being15
17Partnerships for the goals7
5Gender equality1

Most cited

A global network for investigating the genomic epidemiology of malaria
Nature17
2008169 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid
The effect of electronic medical record-based clinical decision support on HIV care in resource-constrained settings: A systematic review
International Journal of Medical Informatics
2012128 citationsWorld top 10%
Factors Associated with HIV Infection in Married or Cohabitating Couples in Kenya: Results from a Nationally Representative Study

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Implementation of an HIV Case Based Surveillance Using Standards-Based Health Information Exchange in Rwanda

2024Studies in health technology and informaticsBook chapterOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding2 citations10.3233/shti231090

Finding Hidden HIV Clusters to Support Geographic-Oriented HIV Interventions in Kenya

2018JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency SyndromesJournalOpen access22 citations10.1097/qai.0000000000001652

A structured approach to recording AIDS-defining illnesses in Kenya: A SNOMED CT based solution

2015Journal of Biomedical InformaticsJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding11 citations10.1016/j.jbi.2015.07.009

Tuberculosis and HIV at the National Level in Kenya

2014JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency SyndromesJournalOpen access14 citations10.1097/qai.0000000000000120

Using Information and Communications Technology in a National Population-Based Survey

2014JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency SyndromesJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding11 citations10.1097/qai.0000000000000116

Medical Injection Use Among Adults and Adolescents Aged 15 to 64 Years in Kenya

2014JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency SyndromesJournalOpen accessCorresponding8 citations10.1097/qai.0000000000000106

Inconsistencies between Recorded Opportunistic Infections and WHO HIV Staging in Western Kenya

2013Studies in health technology and informaticsBook chapterFirst author2 citations10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-1139

Male circumcision programmes in Kenya: lessons from the Kenya AIDS Indicator Survey 2007

2012Bulletin of the World Health OrganizationJournalOpen access7 citations10.2471/blt.11.096412

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Bulletin of the World Health Organization1

How it can be read

81% free to read

Diamond 1 · 3%Free to read and to publish
Gold 10 · 32%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 5 · 16%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 2 · 6%Free to read, no open licence
Green 7 · 23%A copy in a repository
Closed 6 · 19%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

25 of 31 papers name a funder

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention22
U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief16
National Institutes of Health7
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services2
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry1
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation1
European Commission1
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health1

2011104 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold