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Researcher · Public Health Institute of Malawi · Malawi

Benson Chilima

Benson Chilima publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Nutrition and Dietetics and Plant Science, on topics such as Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology, Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects and COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,469,071
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Malawi
#158
of 736
Works
25
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
43.4
h-index
13
i10-index 15Top 47% in Infectious Diseases
Benson Chilima

What does Benson Chilima research?

Benson Chilima's work is mostly in Medicine (23%), Nursing (13%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (9%).

Everything else: 11 works · 43.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 9 works · 36.2% of their workMedicine: 6 works · 23.2% of their workInfectious Diseases: 4 works · 17.4% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 works · 5.8% of their workNursing: 3 works · 13.0% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 3 works · 13.0% of their workLife Sciences: 2 works · 8.7% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 works · 8.7% of their workPlant Science: 2 works · 8.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 5.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 5.8% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 works · 5.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 5.8% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 works · 5.8% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 works · 5.8% of their workTHEIR WORKBenson Chilima25works
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences36%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. Everything else1143.5%
    1. Medicine623.2%
    2. Nursing313.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences28.7%
    1. Environmental Science15.8%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance15.8%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases17% of their works
  2. 2Nutrition and Dietetics13% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science9% of their works
  4. 4Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis6% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics6% of their works
  6. 6Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Benson Chilima's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Antioxidant, Biofortification, Nutrition, Campylobacter, Child Development, Child Mortality and Copper.

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. Epidemiology83 topics
  2. Antioxidant62 topics
  3. Biofortification62 topics
  4. Nutrition62 topics
  5. COVID-1931 topic
  6. Campylobacter31 topic
  7. Child Development31 topic
  8. Child Mortality31 topic
  9. Copper31 topic
  10. Maternal Mortality31 topic
  11. Maternal and Child Undernutrition31 topic
  12. Mineral Elements31 topic
  13. Modeling31 topic
  14. Plant Nutrition31 topic
  15. Salmonella31 topic
  16. Selenium31 topic
  17. Selenoproteins31 topic
  18. Zinc31 topic
  19. Cholera21 topic
  20. Vibrio cholerae21 topic

Where does Benson Chilima work?

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

How many publications and citations does Benson Chilima have?

OpenAlex counts 25 works and 1,085 citations for Benson Chilima, an h-index of 13, ranking #1,469,071 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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