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Researcher · Kenya Medical Research Institute · Kenya

Andrew Karanja Githeko

Andrew Karanja Githeko publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Parasitology, on topics such as Malaria Research and Control, Mosquito-borne diseases and control and Parasites and Host Interactions.

OpenAlex
World rank
#35,385
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#18
of 7,520
Works
263
Citations
15k
Citations per work
55.8
h-index
69
i10-index 182Top 0.8% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Andrew Karanja Githeko

What does Andrew Karanja Githeko research?

Andrew Karanja Githeko's work is mostly in Medicine (62%), Immunology and Microbiology (10%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (5%).

Health Sciences: 163 works · 61.9% of their workMedicine: 163 works · 61.9% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 143 works · 54.2% of their workInfectious Diseases: 20 works · 7.7% of their workLife Sciences: 54 works · 20.5% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 27 works · 10.1% of their workParasitology: 18 works · 6.9% of their workImmunology: 8 works · 3.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 14 works · 5.2% of their workPlant Science: 14 works · 5.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 14 works · 5.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 14 works · 5.2% of their workEverything else: 46 works · 17.6% of their workTHEIR WORKAndrew KaranjaGitheko263works
Life Sciences21%Health Sciences62%

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. Medicine16361.9%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology2710.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences145.2%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology145.2%
  3. Everything else4617.6%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health54% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases8% of their works
  3. 3Parasitology7% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology5% of their works
  5. 5Plant Science5% of their works
  6. 6Immunology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Andrew Karanja Githeko's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Vaccine Development, Insecticide Resistance, Artemisinin Resistance, Plasmodium falciparum, Arboviral Diseases, Zika Virus and Helminth Infections.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology3773 topics
  2. Vaccine Development3602 topics
  3. Insecticide Resistance2292 topics
  4. Artemisinin Resistance2011 topic
  5. Plasmodium falciparum2011 topic
  6. Arboviral Diseases1591 topic
  7. Zika Virus1591 topic
  8. Helminth Infections762 topics
  9. Zoonotic Infections512 topics
  10. Schistosomiasis421 topic
  11. Soil-Transmitted Helminths421 topic
  12. Ivermectin341 topic
  13. Lymphatic Filariasis341 topic
  14. Botanical Insecticides331 topic
  15. Essential Oils331 topic
  16. Bacillus thuringiensis281 topic
  17. RNA Interference281 topic
  18. Host Defense211 topic
  19. Invertebrate Immunity211 topic
  20. Bunyavirus171 topic
  21. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers171 topic

Where does Andrew Karanja Githeko work?

Andrew Karanja Githeko's main affiliation in the publication record is Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Andrew Karanja Githeko have?

OpenAlex counts 263 works and 14,688 citations for Andrew Karanja Githeko, an h-index of 69, ranking #35,385 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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