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Researcher · Public Health Institute of Malawi · Malawi

Ben Chilima

Ben Chilima publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, on topics such as HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment and HIV Research and Treatment.

ORCID 0009-0003-1211-0768 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,129,405
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Malawi
#116
of 736
Works
30
Citations
1.6k
Citations per work
52.6
h-index
16
i10-index 17Top 35% in Infectious Diseases
Ben Chilima

What does Ben Chilima research?

Ben Chilima's work is mostly in Medicine (52%), Social Sciences (6%), Immunology and Microbiology (5%).

Health Sciences: 16 works · 51.8% of their workMedicine: 16 works · 51.8% of their workInfectious Diseases: 8 works · 26.5% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 works · 13.3% of their workEpidemiology: 2 works · 6.0% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 works · 6.0% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 37.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 6.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 6.0% of their workHealth: 2 works · 6.0% of their workLife Sciences: 1 works · 4.8% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 works · 4.8% of their workVirology: 1 works · 4.8% of their workTHEIR WORKBen Chilima30works
Life Sciences5%Health Sciences52%Social Sciences6%

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. Medicine1651.8%
  2. Everything else1137.4%
    1. Social Sciences26.0%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology14.8%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases26% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health13% of their works
  3. 3Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health6% of their works
  4. 4Health6% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology6% of their works
  6. 6Virology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ben Chilima's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Antiretroviral Therapy, Vaccine, Epidemiology, HIV Transmission, Preexposure Prophylaxis, Drug Resistance, HIV Infection and AIDS.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Antiretroviral Therapy153 topics
  2. Vaccine82 topics
  3. Epidemiology72 topics
  4. HIV Transmission61 topic
  5. Preexposure Prophylaxis61 topic
  6. Drug Resistance51 topic
  7. HIV Infection51 topic
  8. AIDS41 topic
  9. Artemisinin Resistance41 topic
  10. Child Mortality41 topic
  11. Coronavirus41 topic
  12. HIV41 topic
  13. Maternal Mortality41 topic
  14. Plasmodium falciparum41 topic
  15. SARS-CoV-241 topic
  16. COVID-1931 topic
  17. COVID-19 Vaccine31 topic
  18. Modeling31 topic
  19. Vaccine Hesitancy31 topic

Where does Ben Chilima work?

Ben Chilima's main affiliation in the publication record is Public Health Institute of Malawi, Malawi.

How many publications and citations does Ben Chilima have?

OpenAlex counts 30 works and 1,577 citations for Ben Chilima, an h-index of 16, ranking #1,129,405 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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