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Researcher · Kenya Medical Research Institute · Kenya

David Obor

David Obor publishes mostly in General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Global Maternal and Child Health, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Child Nutrition and Water Access.

ORCID 0000-0002-2852-6368 OpenAlex
World rank
#178,182
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#136
of 7,520
Works
71
Citations
2.5k
Citations per work
35.5
h-index
25
i10-index 35Top 8.5% in General Health Professions
David Obor

What does David Obor research?

David Obor's work is mostly in Medicine (30%), Health Professions (16%), Environmental Science (10%).

Health Sciences: 37 works · 52.4% of their workMedicine: 21 works · 29.7% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 8 works · 11.9% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 8 works · 11.9% of their workInfectious Diseases: 4 works · 5.9% of their workHealth Professions: 11 works · 15.8% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 11 works · 15.8% of their workNursing: 5 works · 6.9% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 5 works · 6.9% of their workEverything else: 27 works · 37.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 7 works · 9.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 7 works · 9.9% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 7 works · 9.9% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid Obor71works
Physical Sciences10%Health Sciences52%

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. Medicine2129.7%
    2. Health Professions1115.8%
    3. Nursing56.9%
  2. Everything else2737.7%
    1. Environmental Science79.9%
  1. 1General Health Professions16% of their works
  2. 2Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health12% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health12% of their works
  4. 4Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis10% of their works
  5. 5Nutrition and Dietetics7% of their works
  6. 6Infectious Diseases6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Obor's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Child Mortality, Maternal Mortality, Public Health, Adolescent Health, Sexual Behavior, Child Development, Epidemiology and Maternal and Child Undernutrition.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Child Mortality231 topic
  2. Maternal Mortality231 topic
  3. Public Health162 topics
  4. Adolescent Health151 topic
  5. Sexual Behavior151 topic
  6. Child Development141 topic
  7. Epidemiology142 topics
  8. Maternal and Child Undernutrition141 topic
  9. Climate Change91 topic
  10. Human Health91 topic
  11. Mobile Health81 topic
  12. mHealth81 topic
  13. Antiretroviral Therapy71 topic
  14. Artemisinin Resistance71 topic
  15. Environmental Exposure71 topic
  16. Exposome71 topic
  17. HIV Transmission71 topic
  18. Plasmodium falciparum71 topic

Where does David Obor work?

David Obor's main affiliation in the publication record is Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does David Obor have?

OpenAlex counts 71 works and 2,523 citations for David Obor, an h-index of 25, ranking #178,182 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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