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Researcher · Kaduna State University · Nigeria

Basira Kankia Lawal

Basira Kankia Lawal publishes mostly in Geriatrics and Gerontology, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes, Antibiotic Use and Resistance and Patient Safety and Medication Errors.

ORCID 0000-0003-1975-0648 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,174,868
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Nigeria
#1,147
of 26,141
Works
34
Citations
13k
Citations per work
393.6
h-index
14
i10-index 16Top 30% in Geriatrics and Gerontology
Basira Kankia Lawal

What does Basira Kankia Lawal research?

Basira Kankia Lawal's work is mostly in Medicine (24%), Health Professions (11%), Immunology and Microbiology (7%).

Everything else: 19 works · 57.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 12 works · 35.4% of their workMedicine: 8 works · 24.4% of their workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 4 works · 12.2% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 works · 7.3% of their workEpidemiology: 2 works · 4.9% of their workHealth Professions: 4 works · 11.0% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 2 works · 6.1% of their workEmergency Medical Services: 2 works · 4.9% of their workLife Sciences: 2 works · 7.3% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 works · 7.3% of their workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 2 works · 7.3% of their workTHEIR WORKBasira KankiaLawal34works
Life Sciences7%Health Sciences35%

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 else1957.3%
    1. Medicine824.4%
    2. Health Professions411.0%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology27.3%
  1. 1Geriatrics and Gerontology12% of their works
  2. 2Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology7% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health7% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions6% of their works
  5. 5Emergency Medical Services5% of their works
  6. 6Epidemiology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Basira Kankia Lawal's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Inappropriate Medication Use, Polypharmacy, Epidemiology, Antibiotic Resistance, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Healthcare Quality, COVID-19 and Medical Errors.

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. Inappropriate Medication Use101 topic
  2. Polypharmacy101 topic
  3. Epidemiology82 topics
  4. Antibiotic Resistance61 topic
  5. Antimicrobial Stewardship61 topic
  6. Healthcare Quality62 topics
  7. COVID-1952 topics
  8. Medical Errors41 topic
  9. Patient Safety Culture41 topic
  10. Vaccine42 topics
  11. Counterfeit Drugs31 topic
  12. Substandard Medicines31 topic
  13. Telehealth31 topic
  14. Telemedicine31 topic
  15. Bacterial Meningitis21 topic
  16. Coronavirus21 topic
  17. Defensive Medicine21 topic
  18. Malpractice Risk21 topic
  19. Neisseria meningitidis21 topic
  20. Pandemic21 topic

Where does Basira Kankia Lawal work?

Basira Kankia Lawal's main affiliation in the publication record is Kaduna State University, Nigeria.

How many publications and citations does Basira Kankia Lawal have?

OpenAlex counts 34 works and 13,382 citations for Basira Kankia Lawal, an h-index of 14, ranking #1,174,868 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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