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Researcher · South African Medical Research Council · South Africa

Derek Yach

Derek Yach publishes mostly in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, General Health Professions and Nutrition and Dietetics, on topics such as Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Child Nutrition and Water Access and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations.

ORCID 0000-0001-5667-6446 OpenAlex
World rank
#71,778
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#131
of 5,570
Works
47
Citations
184
Citations per work
3.9

What does Derek Yach research?

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 28.9%General Health Professions: 11.1%Nutrition and Dietetics: 11.1%Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 6.7%other fields: 42.2%29%top field
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management28.9%General Health Professions11.1%Nutrition and Dietetics11.1%Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health6.7%other fields42.2%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management29% of their works
  2. 2General Health Professions11% of their works
  3. 3Nutrition and Dietetics11% of their works
  4. 4Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health7% of their works
  5. 5Physiology7% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Derek Yach's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Corporate Political Activity, Non-Communicable Diseases, Child Development, Maternal and Child Undernutrition, Economic Growth, Food Insecurity, Health Outcomes and HIV/AIDS.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Corporate Political Activity131 topic
  2. Non-Communicable Diseases131 topic
  3. Child Development51 topic
  4. Maternal and Child Undernutrition51 topic
  5. Economic Growth31 topic
  6. Food Insecurity31 topic
  7. HIV/AIDS31 topic
  8. Health Outcomes31 topic
  9. Smoking Cessation31 topic
  10. Tobacco Use31 topic
  11. Child Mortality21 topic
  12. Health Promoting Schools21 topic
  13. Maternal Mortality21 topic
  14. School Health Promotion21 topic
  15. Conflict of Interest11 topic
  16. Pharmaceutical Industry11 topic

Where does Derek Yach work?

Derek Yach's main affiliation in the publication record is South African Medical Research Council, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Derek Yach have?

Science Explorer counts 47 works and 184 citations for Derek Yach, ranking #71,778 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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