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Researcher · Instituto Costarricense de Investigación y Enseñanza en Nutrición y Salud · Costa Rica

Carolina Porras

Carolina Porras publishes mostly in Epidemiology, Otorhinolaryngology and Microbiology, on topics such as Cervical Cancer and HPV Research, Head and Neck Cancer Studies and Reproductive tract infections research.

ORCID 0000-0002-4592-3883 OpenAlex
World rank
#201,737
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Costa Rica
#6
of 2,968
Works
170
Citations
7.9k
Citations per work
46.5
h-index
44
i10-index 96Top 4.2% in Epidemiology
Carolina Porras

What does Carolina Porras research?

Carolina Porras's work is mostly in Medicine (53%), Immunology and Microbiology (9%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%).

Health Sciences: 90 works · 52.7% of their workMedicine: 90 works · 52.7% of their workEpidemiology: 56 works · 32.8% of their workOtorhinolaryngology: 15 works · 9.0% of their workSurgery: 10 works · 5.6% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 9 works · 5.3% of their workEverything else: 52 works · 30.4% of their workLife Sciences: 29 works · 16.9% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 15 works · 8.7% of their workMicrobiology: 15 works · 8.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 14 works · 8.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 14 works · 8.2% of their workTHEIR WORKCarolina Porras170works
Life Sciences17%Health Sciences53%

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. Medicine9052.7%
  2. Everything else5230.4%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology158.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology148.2%
  1. 1Epidemiology33% of their works
  2. 2Otorhinolaryngology9% of their works
  3. 3Microbiology9% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology8% of their works
  5. 5Surgery6% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Carolina Porras's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Human Papillomavirus, Global Burden, Cervical Cancer, Epidemiology, HPV Vaccination, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Oropharyngeal Cancer and Radiotherapy.

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. Human Papillomavirus1393 topics
  2. Global Burden1172 topics
  3. Cervical Cancer1042 topics
  4. Epidemiology941 topic
  5. HPV Vaccination941 topic
  6. Sexually Transmitted Infections432 topics
  7. Oropharyngeal Cancer341 topic
  8. Radiotherapy341 topic
  9. Bacterial Vaginosis321 topic
  10. Vaginal Microbiome321 topic
  11. Chronic Hepatitis B231 topic
  12. Hepatitis B Virus231 topic
  13. HIV Prevention111 topic
  14. Male Circumcision111 topic
  15. Mastectomy101 topic
  16. Papanicolaou Test101 topic
  17. Phosphoethanolamine81 topic
  18. Synthetic81 topic
  19. Coronavirus71 topic
  20. SARS-CoV-271 topic

Where does Carolina Porras work?

Carolina Porras's main affiliation in the publication record is Instituto Costarricense de Investigación y Enseñanza en Nutrición y Salud, Costa Rica.

How many publications and citations does Carolina Porras have?

OpenAlex counts 170 works and 7,911 citations for Carolina Porras, an h-index of 44, ranking #201,737 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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