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Researcher · Makerere University · Uganda

Bruce Kirenga

Bruce Kirenga publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Epidemiology, on topics such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology and Asthma and respiratory diseases.

ORCID 0000-0002-2023-2840 OpenAlex
World rank
#139,138
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Uganda
#34
of 3,724
Works
314
Citations
6.6k
Citations per work
21.0
h-index
43
i10-index 145Top 4.1% in Infectious Diseases
Bruce Kirenga

What does Bruce Kirenga research?

Bruce Kirenga's work is mostly in Medicine (56%), Social Sciences (4%).

Health Sciences: 176 works · 56.0% of their workMedicine: 176 works · 56.0% of their workInfectious Diseases: 58 works · 18.4% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 57 works · 18.0% of their workEpidemiology: 31 works · 10.0% of their workPhysiology: 15 works · 4.8% of their workSurgery: 15 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 127 works · 40.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 3.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 3.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 11 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKBruce Kirenga314works
Health Sciences56%Social Sciences4%

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. Medicine17656.0%
  2. Everything else12740.4%
    1. Social Sciences113.6%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases18% of their works
  2. 2Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine18% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology10% of their works
  4. 4Surgery5% of their works
  5. 5Physiology5% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Bruce Kirenga's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Treatment, COPD, spirometry, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Tuberculosis and Allergic Diseases.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Diagnosis1903 topics
  2. Epidemiology1393 topics
  3. Treatment1393 topics
  4. COPD861 topic
  5. spirometry861 topic
  6. Mycobacterium tuberculosis841 topic
  7. Tuberculosis841 topic
  8. Allergic Diseases351 topic
  9. Asthma351 topic
  10. Consensus Building271 topic
  11. Delphi Method271 topic
  12. Abdominal Tuberculosis231 topic
  13. Diagnostic Challenges231 topic
  14. Air Pollution211 topic
  15. Household Fuel Use211 topic
  16. Indoor Air Pollution211 topic
  17. Particulate Matter211 topic
  18. Pneumocystis201 topic
  19. Pneumonia201 topic

Where does Bruce Kirenga work?

Bruce Kirenga's main affiliation in the publication record is Makerere University, Uganda.

How many publications and citations does Bruce Kirenga have?

OpenAlex counts 314 works and 6,584 citations for Bruce Kirenga, an h-index of 43, ranking #139,138 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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