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Researcher · Human Sciences Research Council · South Africa

Alastair van Heerden

Alastair van Heerden publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, General Health Professions and Applied Psychology, on topics such as HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Mobile Health and mHealth Applications and Digital Mental Health Interventions.

ORCID 0000-0003-2530-6885 OpenAlex
World rank
#196,619
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#670
of 29,826
Works
214
Citations
2.8k
Citations per work
13.1
h-index
29
i10-index 63Top 11% in Infectious Diseases
Alastair van Heerden

What does Alastair van Heerden research?

Alastair van Heerden's work is mostly in Medicine (27%), Health Professions (17%), Psychology (11%).

Everything else: 97 works · 45.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 94 works · 43.8% of their workMedicine: 58 works · 26.9% of their workInfectious Diseases: 37 works · 17.4% of their workEpidemiology: 12 works · 5.6% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 8 works · 3.9% of their workHealth Professions: 36 works · 16.9% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 36 works · 16.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 23 works · 10.8% of their workPsychology: 23 works · 10.8% of their workApplied Psychology: 15 works · 6.9% of their workClinical Psychology: 8 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKAlastair vanHeerden214works
Health Sciences44%Social Sciences11%

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. Everything else9745.4%
    1. Medicine5826.9%
    2. Health Professions3616.9%
    1. Psychology2310.8%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases17% of their works
  2. 2General Health Professions17% of their works
  3. 3Applied Psychology7% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology6% of their works
  5. 5Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health4% of their works
  6. 6Clinical Psychology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alastair van Heerden's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Adherence, Mobile Health, Antiretroviral Therapy, HIV Transmission, Preexposure Prophylaxis, Health Apps, mHealth and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Adherence842 topics
  2. Mobile Health842 topics
  3. Antiretroviral Therapy812 topics
  4. HIV Transmission701 topic
  5. Preexposure Prophylaxis701 topic
  6. Health Apps441 topic
  7. mHealth441 topic
  8. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy401 topic
  9. Internet-based Interventions401 topic
  10. Adolescent Health371 topic
  11. Sexual Behavior371 topic
  12. Immune Response322 topics
  13. Vaccine322 topics
  14. Epidemiology312 topics
  15. HIV212 topics
  16. Mycobacterium tuberculosis211 topic
  17. Tuberculosis211 topic
  18. Mobile Technology181 topic
  19. Rural Communities181 topic
  20. AIDS111 topic
  21. Antibodies111 topic
  22. drug use101 topic
  23. harm reduction101 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?

OpenAlex counts 214 works and 2,801 citations for Alastair van Heerden, an h-index of 29, ranking #196,619 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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