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Researcher · Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute · South Africa

D. J. Verwoerd

D. J. Verwoerd publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Viral Infections and Vectors, Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology and Vector-Borne Animal Diseases.

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World rank
#3,391,706
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#14,719
of 29,826
Works
21
Citations
589
Citations per work
28.0
h-index
10
i10-index 10Top 64% in Infectious Diseases
D. J. Verwoerd

What does D. J. Verwoerd research?

D. J. Verwoerd's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (29%), Medicine (27%), Immunology and Microbiology (8%).

Life Sciences: 8 works · 37.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 works · 28.9% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 2 works · 10.2% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 works · 10.2% of their workAnimal Science and Zoology: 2 works · 8.5% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 works · 8.5% of their workParasitology: 2 works · 8.5% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 35.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 6 works · 27.2% of their workMedicine: 6 works · 27.2% of their workInfectious Diseases: 3 works · 15.3% of their workEpidemiology: 2 works · 11.9% of their workTHEIR WORKD. J. Verwoerd21works
Life Sciences37%Health Sciences27%

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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences628.9%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology28.5%
  2. Everything else735.4%
    1. Medicine627.2%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases15% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology12% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics10% of their works
  4. 4Agronomy and Crop Science10% of their works
  5. 5Animal Science and Zoology8% of their works
  6. 6Parasitology8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe D. J. Verwoerd's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Genetic Characterization, Viral Pathogenesis, Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, Zoonotic Infections, Immune Response and Vaccine.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology256 topics
  2. Pathogenesis184 topics
  3. Genetic Characterization102 topics
  4. Viral Pathogenesis92 topics
  5. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers81 topic
  6. Zoonotic Infections81 topic
  7. Immune Response72 topics
  8. Vaccine72 topics
  9. Vaccines72 topics
  10. African Swine Fever51 topic
  11. Bluetongue Virus51 topic
  12. Culicoides Biting Midges51 topic
  13. Foot-and-Mouth Disease51 topic
  14. Nipah Virus41 topic
  15. Paramyxovirus41 topic
  16. Avian Malaria31 topic
  17. Coronavirus31 topic
  18. HTLV-131 topic
  19. Haemosporidian Parasites31 topic
  20. Infection31 topic
  21. Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus31 topic
  22. Influenza21 topic
  23. Virus21 topic

Where does D. J. Verwoerd work?

D. J. Verwoerd's main affiliation in the publication record is Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does D. J. Verwoerd have?

OpenAlex counts 21 works and 589 citations for D. J. Verwoerd, an h-index of 10, ranking #3,391,706 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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