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Researcher · Kenya Medical Research Institute · Kenya

Alex Macharia

Alex Macharia publishes mostly in Hematology, Genetics and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders, Iron Metabolism and Disorders and Malaria Research and Control.

ORCID 0000-0001-5364-9610 OpenAlex
World rank
#553,461
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#446
of 7,520
Works
84
Citations
2.3k
Citations per work
27.6
h-index
25
i10-index 36Top 17% in Hematology
Alex Macharia

What does Alex Macharia research?

Alex Macharia's work is mostly in Medicine (54%), Nursing (9%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (4%).

Health Sciences: 53 works · 63.3% of their workMedicine: 45 works · 54.1% of their workHematology: 15 works · 17.6% of their workGenetics: 14 works · 16.3% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 12 works · 13.7% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 5 works · 6.5% of their workNursing: 8 works · 9.2% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 8 works · 9.2% of their workEverything else: 28 works · 32.8% of their workLife Sciences: 3 works · 3.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 works · 3.9% of their workGenetics: 3 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKAlex Macharia84works
Life Sciences4%Health Sciences63%

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. Medicine4554.1%
    2. Nursing89.2%
  2. Everything else2832.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology33.9%
  1. 1Hematology18% of their works
  2. 2Genetics16% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health14% of their works
  4. 4Nutrition and Dietetics9% of their works
  5. 5Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health6% of their works
  6. 6Genetics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alex Macharia's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Anemia, Sickle-cell Disease, Thalassemia, Hepcidin, Iron Regulation, Artemisinin Resistance and Plasmodium falciparum.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology392 topics
  2. Anemia272 topics
  3. Sickle-cell Disease231 topic
  4. Thalassemia231 topic
  5. Hepcidin211 topic
  6. Iron Regulation211 topic
  7. Artemisinin Resistance161 topic
  8. Plasmodium falciparum161 topic
  9. Child Development101 topic
  10. Maternal and Child Undernutrition101 topic
  11. Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency81 topic
  12. Neonatal Jaundice81 topic
  13. Alloimmunization61 topic
  14. Blood Groups61 topic
  15. Deficiency51 topic
  16. Vitamin D51 topic
  17. Helminth Infections31 topic
  18. Schistosomiasis31 topic

Where does Alex Macharia work?

Alex Macharia's main affiliation in the publication record is Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Alex Macharia have?

OpenAlex counts 84 works and 2,316 citations for Alex Macharia, an h-index of 25, ranking #553,461 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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