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Researcher · RTI International · United States

Alex H. Kral

Alex H. Kral publishes mostly in Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Infectious Diseases, on topics such as HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk, Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes.

ORCID 0000-0002-9092-3671 OpenAlex
World rank
#45,835
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#17,659
of 1,627,098
Works
312
Citations
11k
Citations per work
36.4
h-index
58
i10-index 197Top 1.8% in Epidemiology
Alex H. Kral

What does Alex H. Kral research?

Alex H. Kral's work is mostly in Medicine (63%), Health Professions (7%), Social Sciences (6%).

Health Sciences: 221 works · 70.8% of their workMedicine: 198 works · 63.4% of their workEpidemiology: 111 works · 35.7% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 60 works · 19.3% of their workInfectious Diseases: 26 works · 8.4% of their workHealth Professions: 23 works · 7.4% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 23 works · 7.4% of their workEverything else: 62 works · 19.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 18 works · 5.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 18 works · 5.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 18 works · 5.8% of their workLife Sciences: 11 works · 3.6% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 11 works · 3.6% of their workToxicology: 11 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKAlex H. Kral312works
Life Sciences4%Health Sciences71%Social Sciences6%

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. Medicine19863.4%
    2. Health Professions237.4%
  2. Everything else6219.8%
    1. Social Sciences185.8%
    1. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics113.6%
  1. 1Epidemiology36% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health19% of their works
  3. 3Infectious Diseases8% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions7% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  6. 6Toxicology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alex H. Kral's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Public Health, Substance Abuse, Epidemiology, Substance Use Disorders, drug use, HIV, Chronic Pain Management and Opioid Prescribing.

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. Public Health2722 topics
  2. Substance Abuse2722 topics
  3. Epidemiology2502 topics
  4. Substance Use Disorders2462 topics
  5. HIV2301 topic
  6. drug use2301 topic
  7. Chronic Pain Management1691 topic
  8. Opioid Prescribing1691 topic
  9. Alcohol Dependence771 topic
  10. Motivational Interviewing771 topic
  11. Antiretroviral Therapy611 topic
  12. HIV Transmission611 topic
  13. Health421 topic
  14. Homelessness421 topic
  15. Drug Analysis291 topic
  16. Forensic Toxicology291 topic
  17. Sex Work251 topic
  18. Trafficking251 topic
  19. Hepatitis C Virus201 topic
  20. Treatment201 topic

Where does Alex H. Kral work?

Alex H. Kral's main affiliation in the publication record is RTI International, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alex H. Kral have?

OpenAlex counts 312 works and 11,363 citations for Alex H. Kral, an h-index of 58, ranking #45,835 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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