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Researcher · Uganda Virus Research Institute · Uganda

Alex Tumusiime

Alex Tumusiime publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Emergency Medical Services, on topics such as Viral Infections and Vectors, Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research and Mosquito-borne diseases and control.

ORCID 0000-0002-2651-9703 OpenAlex
World rank
#495,657
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Uganda
#203
of 3,724
Works
48
Citations
1.3k
Citations per work
26.7
h-index
19
i10-index 30Top 26% in Infectious Diseases
Alex Tumusiime

What does Alex Tumusiime research?

Alex Tumusiime's work is mostly in Medicine (63%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (6%), Environmental Science (6%).

Health Sciences: 33 works · 69.5% of their workMedicine: 30 works · 63.1% of their workInfectious Diseases: 25 works · 51.1% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 works · 8.5% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 works · 3.5% of their workHealth Professions: 3 works · 6.4% of their workEmergency Medical Services: 3 works · 6.4% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 17.7% of their workLife Sciences: 3 works · 6.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 works · 6.4% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 works · 6.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 3 works · 6.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 6.4% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 works · 6.4% of their workTHEIR WORKAlex Tumusiime48works
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences70%

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. Medicine3063.1%
    2. Health Professions36.4%
  2. Everything else817.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences36.4%
    1. Environmental Science36.4%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases51% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health8% of their works
  3. 3Emergency Medical Services6% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change6% of their works
  6. 6Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alex Tumusiime's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Pathogenesis, Epidemiology, Public Health, Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, Zoonotic Infections, Ebola Virus, Outbreak and Climate Change.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Pathogenesis773 topics
  2. Epidemiology564 topics
  3. Public Health442 topics
  4. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers351 topic
  5. Zoonotic Infections351 topic
  6. Ebola Virus331 topic
  7. Outbreak331 topic
  8. Climate Change182 topics
  9. Infectious Diseases112 topics
  10. Arboviral Diseases101 topic
  11. Zika Virus101 topic
  12. Bluetongue Virus91 topic
  13. Culicoides Biting Midges91 topic
  14. Disaster Response91 topic
  15. Forest Fires91 topic
  16. Triage91 topic
  17. Wildfire Activity91 topic
  18. Child Mortality31 topic
  19. Maternal Mortality31 topic
  20. COVID-1921 topic
  21. Modeling21 topic

Where does Alex Tumusiime work?

Alex Tumusiime's main affiliation in the publication record is Uganda Virus Research Institute, Uganda.

How many publications and citations does Alex Tumusiime have?

OpenAlex counts 48 works and 1,283 citations for Alex Tumusiime, an h-index of 19, ranking #495,657 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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