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Researcher · Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University · Saudi Arabia

Balgis Osman Gaffar

Balgis Osman Gaffar publishes mostly in Periodontics, Clinical Psychology and Nutrition and Dietetics, on topics such as Dental Health and Care Utilization, Dental Research and COVID-19 and Child Nutrition and Water Access.

ORCID 0000-0001-7593-1887 OpenAlex
World rank
#484,135
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Saudi Arabia
#1,981
of 25,688
Works
97
Citations
2.1k
Citations per work
21.7
h-index
22
i10-index 41Top 16% in Periodontics
Balgis Osman Gaffar

What does Balgis Osman Gaffar research?

Balgis Osman Gaffar's work is mostly in Dentistry (29%), Psychology (13%), Nursing (7%).

Health Sciences: 45 works · 46.8% of their workDentistry: 28 works · 28.6% of their workPeriodontics: 21 works · 21.2% of their workGeneral Dentistry: 7 works · 7.4% of their workNursing: 7 works · 7.4% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 7 works · 7.4% of their workHealth Professions: 6 works · 6.7% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 6 works · 6.7% of their workMedicine: 4 works · 4.1% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 works · 4.1% of their workEverything else: 39 works · 40.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 12 works · 12.6% of their workPsychology: 12 works · 12.6% of their workClinical Psychology: 12 works · 12.6% of their workTHEIR WORKBalgis OsmanGaffar97works
Health Sciences47%Social Sciences13%

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. Dentistry2828.6%
    2. Nursing77.4%
    3. Health Professions66.7%
    4. Medicine44.1%
  2. Everything else3940.6%
    1. Psychology1212.6%
  1. 1Periodontics21% of their works
  2. 2Clinical Psychology13% of their works
  3. 3Nutrition and Dietetics7% of their works
  4. 4General Dentistry7% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions7% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Balgis Osman Gaffar's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Dental Caries, Social Determinants, COVID-19, Global Burden, Oral Health, Mental Health, Anxiety and Child Development.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Dental Caries562 topics
  2. Social Determinants462 topics
  3. COVID-19402 topics
  4. Global Burden401 topic
  5. Oral Health401 topic
  6. Mental Health323 topics
  7. Anxiety201 topic
  8. Child Development201 topic
  9. Dental Practice201 topic
  10. Depression201 topic
  11. Maternal and Child Undernutrition201 topic
  12. Transmission Routes201 topic
  13. Oral Microbiome161 topic
  14. Periodontal Diseases161 topic
  15. Child Mortality81 topic
  16. Maternal Mortality81 topic
  17. Adverse Experiences61 topic
  18. Childhood Trauma61 topic
  19. Food Insecurity61 topic
  20. Health Outcomes61 topic

Where does Balgis Osman Gaffar work?

Balgis Osman Gaffar's main affiliation in the publication record is Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia.

How many publications and citations does Balgis Osman Gaffar have?

OpenAlex counts 97 works and 2,103 citations for Balgis Osman Gaffar, an h-index of 22, ranking #484,135 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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