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Researcher · South African Medical Research Council · South Africa

Charles Shey Wiysonge

Charles Shey Wiysonge publishes mostly in Health, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, on topics such as Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, Global Maternal and Child Health and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-1273-4779 OpenAlex
World rank
#75,133
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#191
of 29,826
Works
636
Citations
127k
Citations per work
199.4
h-index
87
i10-index 296Top 0.4% in Health
Charles Shey Wiysonge

What does Charles Shey Wiysonge research?

Charles Shey Wiysonge's work is mostly in Medicine (37%), Social Sciences (15%), Health Professions (8%).

Health Sciences: 289 works · 45.4% of their workMedicine: 235 works · 37.0% of their workInfectious Diseases: 93 works · 14.7% of their workEpidemiology: 72 works · 11.3% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 35 works · 5.5% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 35 works · 5.5% of their workHealth Professions: 53 works · 8.4% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 53 works · 8.4% of their workEverything else: 251 works · 39.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 96 works · 15.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 96 works · 15.1% of their workHealth: 96 works · 15.1% of their workTHEIR WORKCharles SheyWiysonge636works
Health Sciences45%Social Sciences15%

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. Medicine23537.0%
    2. Health Professions538.4%
  2. Everything else25139.5%
    1. Social Sciences9615.1%
  1. 1Health15% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases15% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology11% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions8% of their works
  5. 5Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health6% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Charles Shey Wiysonge's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: COVID-19 Vaccine, Vaccine Hesitancy, Vaccine, Epidemiology, Pandemic, Pathogenesis, Immune Response and Infectious 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. 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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. COVID-19 Vaccine2411 topic
  2. Vaccine Hesitancy2411 topic
  3. Vaccine1713 topics
  4. Epidemiology1383 topics
  5. Pandemic1242 topics
  6. Pathogenesis1192 topics
  7. Immune Response1022 topics
  8. Infectious Diseases842 topics
  9. Child Mortality821 topic
  10. Maternal Mortality821 topic
  11. Coronavirus691 topic
  12. SARS-CoV-2691 topic
  13. Ebola Virus641 topic
  14. Outbreak641 topic
  15. Influenza551 topic
  16. Virus551 topic
  17. COVID-19451 topic
  18. Modeling451 topic
  19. Innate Memory391 topic
  20. Trained Immunity391 topic
  21. Nipah Virus381 topic
  22. Paramyxovirus381 topic

Where does Charles Shey Wiysonge work?

Charles Shey Wiysonge's main affiliation in the publication record is South African Medical Research Council, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Charles Shey Wiysonge have?

OpenAlex counts 636 works and 126,824 citations for Charles Shey Wiysonge, an h-index of 87, ranking #75,133 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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