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Alastair van Heerden

Alastair van Heerden publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, General Health Professions and Epidemiology, on topics such as HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology.

World rank
#1,147,802
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#3,908
of 5,570
Works
25
Citations
22
Citations per work
0.9

What does Alastair van Heerden research?

Infectious Diseases: 24.1%General Health Professions: 13.8%Epidemiology: 6.9%Surgery: 6.9%other fields: 48.3%24%top field
Infectious Diseases24.1%General Health Professions13.8%Epidemiology6.9%Surgery6.9%other fields48.3%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Infectious Diseases24% of their works
  2. 2General Health Professions14% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology7% of their works
  4. 4Surgery7% of their works
  5. 5Applied Psychology7% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alastair van Heerden's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Antiretroviral Therapy, Epidemiology, HIV Transmission, Preexposure Prophylaxis, Vaccine, Adherence, Adolescent Health and Mobile Health.

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.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Antiretroviral Therapy52 topics
  2. Epidemiology42 topics
  3. HIV Transmission41 topic
  4. Preexposure Prophylaxis41 topic
  5. Vaccine42 topics
  6. Adherence32 topics
  7. Adolescent Health31 topic
  8. Mobile Health32 topics
  9. Mycobacterium tuberculosis31 topic
  10. Sexual Behavior31 topic
  11. Tuberculosis31 topic
  12. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy21 topic
  13. Internet-based Interventions21 topic
  14. AIDS11 topic
  15. Ayurveda11 topic
  16. HIV11 topic
  17. Health Apps11 topic
  18. Mycobacterium avium11 topic
  19. Nontuberculous Mycobacteria11 topic
  20. Traditional Chinese Medicine11 topic
  21. mHealth11 topic

Where does Alastair van Heerden work?

Alastair van Heerden's main affiliation in the publication record is Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Alastair van Heerden have?

Science Explorer counts 25 works and 22 citations for Alastair van Heerden, ranking #1,147,802 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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