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Researcher · The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · United States

David Hughes Walker

David Hughes Walker publishes mostly in Parasitology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Vector-borne infectious diseases, Viral Infections and Vectors and Mosquito-borne diseases and control.

ORCID 0000-0002-3309-4360 OpenAlex
World rank
#140,627
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#53,198
of 1,627,098
Works
661
Citations
27k
Citations per work
40.5
h-index
83
i10-index 361Top 0.2% in Parasitology
David Hughes Walker

What does David Hughes Walker research?

David Hughes Walker's work is mostly in Immunology and Microbiology (31%), Medicine (31%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (4%).

Life Sciences: 231 works · 34.9% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 204 works · 30.8% of their workParasitology: 175 works · 26.4% of their workImmunology: 29 works · 4.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 27 works · 4.1% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 27 works · 4.1% of their workEverything else: 227 works · 34.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 204 works · 30.8% of their workMedicine: 204 works · 30.8% of their workInfectious Diseases: 120 works · 18.1% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 60 works · 9.1% of their workEpidemiology: 24 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid HughesWalker661works
Life Sciences35%Health Sciences31%

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. Immunology and Microbiology20430.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences274.1%
  2. Everything else22734.3%
    1. Medicine20430.8%
  1. 1Parasitology26% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases18% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health9% of their works
  4. 4Immunology4% of their works
  5. 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics4% of their works
  6. 6Epidemiology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Hughes Walker's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Public Health, Lyme Disease, Tick-Borne Diseases, Pathogenesis, Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, Zoonotic Infections and Vaccine Development.

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. Epidemiology7975 topics
  2. Public Health5632 topics
  3. Lyme Disease3581 topic
  4. Tick-Borne Diseases3581 topic
  5. Pathogenesis2692 topics
  6. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers2051 topic
  7. Zoonotic Infections2051 topic
  8. Vaccine Development1702 topics
  9. Arboviral Diseases1251 topic
  10. Zika Virus1251 topic
  11. Bluetongue Virus641 topic
  12. Culicoides Biting Midges641 topic
  13. Leptospira451 topic
  14. Zoonotic Disease451 topic
  15. Immunotoxin381 topic
  16. Ricin Poisoning381 topic
  17. Yersinia pestis371 topic
  18. plague371 topic
  19. Helminth Infections291 topic
  20. Schistosomiasis291 topic

Where does David Hughes Walker work?

David Hughes Walker's main affiliation in the publication record is The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, United States.

How many publications and citations does David Hughes Walker have?

OpenAlex counts 661 works and 26,747 citations for David Hughes Walker, an h-index of 83, ranking #140,627 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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