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Researcher · University of Malawi · Malawi

Alister Munthali

Alister Munthali publishes mostly in Safety Research, General Health Professions and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Global Maternal and Child Health.

ORCID 0000-0002-3495-3446 OpenAlex
World rank
#81,450
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Malawi
#2
of 736
Works
174
Citations
4.1k
Citations per work
23.4
h-index
35
i10-index 85Top 2.5% in Safety Research
Alister Munthali

What does Alister Munthali research?

Alister Munthali's work is mostly in Social Sciences (24%), Medicine (13%), Health Professions (12%).

Everything else: 80 works · 46.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 51 works · 29.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 42 works · 23.9% of their workSafety Research: 23 works · 13.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 19 works · 10.8% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 10 works · 5.5% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 10 works · 5.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 43 works · 24.5% of their workMedicine: 22 works · 12.8% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 14 works · 8.0% of their workInfectious Diseases: 8 works · 4.8% of their workHealth Professions: 20 works · 11.7% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 20 works · 11.7% of their workTHEIR WORKAlister Munthali174works
Health Sciences24%Social Sciences29%

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. Everything else8046.1%
    1. Social Sciences4223.9%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance105.5%
    1. Medicine2212.8%
    2. Health Professions2011.7%
  1. 1Safety Research13% of their works
  2. 2General Health Professions12% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  4. 4Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health8% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics6% of their works
  6. 6Infectious Diseases5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alister Munthali's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Poverty, Conditional Cash Transfers, School Subsidies, Adolescent Health, Sexual Behavior, Child Mortality, Maternal Mortality and Economic Growth.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Poverty392 topics
  2. Conditional Cash Transfers381 topic
  3. School Subsidies381 topic
  4. Adolescent Health311 topic
  5. Sexual Behavior311 topic
  6. Child Mortality301 topic
  7. Maternal Mortality301 topic
  8. Economic Growth211 topic
  9. HIV/AIDS211 topic
  10. Epidemiological Study181 topic
  11. Social Model of Disability181 topic
  12. Active Travel171 topic
  13. Built Environment171 topic
  14. Antiretroviral Therapy151 topic
  15. Child Development151 topic
  16. HIV Transmission151 topic
  17. Maternal and Child Undernutrition151 topic

Where does Alister Munthali work?

Alister Munthali's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Malawi, Malawi.

How many publications and citations does Alister Munthali have?

OpenAlex counts 174 works and 4,063 citations for Alister Munthali, an h-index of 35, ranking #81,450 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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