Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
Researcher · Charles Darwin Foundation · Ecuador

Alberto Vélez

Alberto Vélez publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Genetics, on topics such as SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research and Respiratory viral infections research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,066,798
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Ecuador
#2,503
of 6,574
Works
30
Citations
347
Citations per work
11.6
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 71% in Infectious Diseases
Alberto Vélez

What does Alberto Vélez research?

Alberto Vélez's work is mostly in Medicine (43%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (13%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (5%).

Health Sciences: 13 works · 42.9% of their workMedicine: 13 works · 42.9% of their workInfectious Diseases: 11 works · 35.1% of their workEpidemiology: 2 works · 7.8% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 33.7% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 18.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 works · 13.0% of their workGenetics: 2 works · 6.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 2 works · 6.5% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 works · 5.2% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 2 works · 5.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 2 works · 5.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 2 works · 5.2% of their workEcology: 2 works · 5.2% of their workTHEIR WORKAlberto Vélez30works
Life Sciences18%Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences43%

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. Medicine1342.9%
  2. Everything else1033.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology413.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences25.2%
    1. Environmental Science25.2%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases35% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology8% of their works
  3. 3Genetics6% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology6% of their works
  5. 5Ecology5% of their works
  6. 6Agronomy and Crop Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alberto Vélez's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: SARS-CoV-2, Vaccine, COVID-19, Diagnostics, Coronavirus, Epidemiology, spike protein and Pathogenesis.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. SARS-CoV-2212 topics
  2. Vaccine132 topics
  3. COVID-19111 topic
  4. Diagnostics111 topic
  5. Coronavirus101 topic
  6. Epidemiology103 topics
  7. spike protein101 topic
  8. Pathogenesis62 topics
  9. Human Metapneumovirus41 topic
  10. Respiratory Syncytial Virus41 topic
  11. African Swine Fever31 topic
  12. Foot-and-Mouth Disease31 topic
  13. Norovirus31 topic
  14. One Health31 topic
  15. Quantitative31 topic
  16. Real-Time PCR31 topic
  17. Rotavirus31 topic
  18. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers31 topic
  19. Zoonotic Diseases31 topic
  20. Zoonotic Infections31 topic

Where does Alberto Vélez work?

Alberto Vélez's main affiliation in the publication record is Charles Darwin Foundation, Ecuador.

How many publications and citations does Alberto Vélez have?

OpenAlex counts 30 works and 347 citations for Alberto Vélez, an h-index of 9, ranking #5,066,798 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.

Papers, co-authors, who cited this work and researchers on the nearest topics have tabs of their own, above. Is this your page? Claim it with your ORCID iD, or request a correction or removal.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about Alberto Vélez. Keep it to the research: no personal attacks, advertising or links. Any reader can report a post, which collapses it for everyone until it is opened.