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Researcher · Kabale University · Uganda

Alex Mwesigwa

Alex Mwesigwa publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Parasitology, on topics such as Malaria Research and Control, Parasites and Host Interactions and Antifungal resistance and susceptibility.

ORCID 0000-0002-7544-3872 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,761,661
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Uganda
#1,652
of 3,724
Works
17
Citations
97
Citations per work
5.7
h-index
5
i10-index 2Top 85% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Alex Mwesigwa

What does Alex Mwesigwa research?

Alex Mwesigwa's work is mostly in Medicine (59%), Immunology and Microbiology (16%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%).

Health Sciences: 10 works · 58.9% of their workMedicine: 10 works · 58.9% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 6 works · 37.3% of their workInfectious Diseases: 3 works · 15.7% of their workEpidemiology: 1 works · 5.9% of their workLife Sciences: 4 works · 23.5% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 works · 15.7% of their workParasitology: 2 works · 11.8% of their workImmunology: 1 works · 3.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 works · 7.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 1 works · 7.8% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 17.6% of their workTHEIR WORKAlex Mwesigwa17works
Life Sciences23%Health Sciences59%

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. Medicine1058.9%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology315.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology17.8%
  3. Everything else317.6%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health37% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases16% of their works
  3. 3Parasitology12% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology8% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology6% of their works
  6. 6Immunology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alex Mwesigwa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Candidiasis, Vaccine Development, Artemisinin Resistance, Plasmodium falciparum, Aspergillosis, Helminth Infections and HIV.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology183 topics
  2. Candidiasis122 topics
  3. Vaccine Development122 topics
  4. Artemisinin Resistance91 topic
  5. Plasmodium falciparum91 topic
  6. Aspergillosis61 topic
  7. HIV61 topic
  8. Helminth Infections61 topic
  9. Invasive Fungal Infections61 topic
  10. Oral Manifestations61 topic
  11. Schistosomiasis61 topic
  12. Arboviral Diseases31 topic
  13. Zika Virus31 topic
  14. Bioinformatics21 topic
  15. DNA Barcoding21 topic
  16. Education21 topic
  17. Food Authentication21 topic
  18. Host Defense21 topic
  19. Invertebrate Immunity21 topic

Where does Alex Mwesigwa work?

Alex Mwesigwa's main affiliation in the publication record is Kabale University, Uganda.

How many publications and citations does Alex Mwesigwa have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 97 citations for Alex Mwesigwa, an h-index of 5, ranking #2,761,661 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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