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Researcher · Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration · Uganda

Abel Kakuru

Abel Kakuru publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Immunology, on topics such as Malaria Research and Control, Parasites and Host Interactions and Mosquito-borne diseases and control.

ORCID 0000-0001-9941-1309 OpenAlex
World rank
#374,860
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Uganda
#139
of 3,724
Works
157
Citations
3.5k
Citations per work
22.4
h-index
31
i10-index 76Top 8.3% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Abel Kakuru

What does Abel Kakuru research?

Abel Kakuru's work is mostly in Medicine (61%), Immunology and Microbiology (16%).

Health Sciences: 95 works · 60.8% of their workMedicine: 95 works · 60.8% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 57 works · 36.4% of their workObstetrics and Gynecology: 14 works · 8.9% of their workInfectious Diseases: 13 works · 8.4% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 11 works · 7.1% of their workEverything else: 37 works · 23.3% of their workLife Sciences: 25 works · 15.9% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 25 works · 15.9% of their workImmunology: 14 works · 8.6% of their workParasitology: 11 works · 7.3% of their workTHEIR WORKAbel Kakuru157works
Life Sciences16%Health Sciences61%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine9560.8%
  2. Everything else3723.3%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology2515.9%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health36% of their works
  2. 2Obstetrics and Gynecology9% of their works
  3. 3Immunology9% of their works
  4. 4Infectious Diseases8% of their works
  5. 5Parasitology7% of their works
  6. 6Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Abel Kakuru's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Vaccine Development, Artemisinin Resistance, Plasmodium falciparum, Helminth Infections, Immune Regulation, Maternal Mortality and Schistosomiasis.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology1412 topics
  2. Vaccine Development1412 topics
  3. Artemisinin Resistance1091 topic
  4. Plasmodium falciparum1091 topic
  5. Helminth Infections502 topics
  6. Immune Regulation502 topics
  7. Maternal Mortality502 topics
  8. Schistosomiasis331 topic
  9. Soil-Transmitted Helminths331 topic
  10. Arboviral Diseases321 topic
  11. Zika Virus321 topic
  12. Placental Development311 topic
  13. Preeclampsia311 topic
  14. Child Mortality191 topic
  15. Health Systems191 topic
  16. Decidual NK Cells171 topic
  17. Ivermectin171 topic
  18. Lymphatic Filariasis171 topic
  19. Regulatory T Cells171 topic
  20. Counterfeit Drugs131 topic
  21. Substandard Medicines131 topic

Where does Abel Kakuru work?

Abel Kakuru's main affiliation in the publication record is Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Uganda.

How many publications and citations does Abel Kakuru have?

OpenAlex counts 157 works and 3,513 citations for Abel Kakuru, an h-index of 31, ranking #374,860 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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