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University of Cape Town

EducationRondebosch, South Africa
About: University of Cape Town is a education organization based out in Rondebosch, South Africa. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Tuberculosis. The organization has 28270 authors who have published 63838 publications receiving 1997021 citations. The organization is also known as: UCT & South African College.


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Rafael Lozano1, Mohsen Naghavi1, Kyle J Foreman2, Stephen S Lim1  +192 moreInstitutions (95)
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010 aimed to estimate annual deaths for the world and 21 regions between 1980 and 2010 for 235 causes, with uncertainty intervals (UIs), separately by age and sex, using the Cause of Death Ensemble model.

11,809 citations

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TL;DR: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of prevalence, incidence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) for 328 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2016.

10,401 citations

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Stephen S Lim1, Theo Vos, Abraham D. Flaxman1, Goodarz Danaei2  +207 moreInstitutions (92)
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimated deaths and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs; sum of years lived with disability [YLD] and years of life lost [YLL]) attributable to the independent effects of 67 risk factors and clusters of risk factors for 21 regions in 1990 and 2010.

9,324 citations

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Georges Aad1, T. Abajyan2, Brad Abbott3, Jalal Abdallah4  +2964 moreInstitutions (200)
TL;DR: In this article, a search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented, which has a significance of 5.9 standard deviations, corresponding to a background fluctuation probability of 1.7×10−9.

9,282 citations

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Theo Vos, Abraham D. Flaxman1, Mohsen Naghavi1, Rafael Lozano1  +360 moreInstitutions (143)
TL;DR: Prevalence and severity of health loss were weakly correlated and age-specific prevalence of YLDs increased with age in all regions and has decreased slightly from 1990 to 2010, but population growth and ageing have increased YLD numbers and crude rates over the past two decades.

7,021 citations


Authors

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NameH-indexPapersCitations
David R. Williams1782034138789
Sidney C. Smith169467267569
Nicholas J. White1611352104539
Pete Smith1562464138819
Matthias Egger152901184176
Andrew D. Hamilton1511334105439
Peter J. Schwartz147647107695
Dan J. Stein1421727132718
Xin Chen1391008113088
Michael R. Hayden13589173619
David Taylor131246993220
David C. Rubinsztein13043488379
John S. Duncan13089879193
Peter Steinberg12891574168
Trevor Vickey12887376664
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
2023129
2022485
20214,389
20204,317
20193,876
20183,519