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Researcher · Kenya Medical Research Institute · Kenya

Derrick Ssewanyana

Derrick Ssewanyana publishes mostly in Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions and Safety Research, on topics such as Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions.

ORCID 0000-0002-7848-7643 OpenAlex
World rank
#243,255
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#199
of 7,520
Works
101
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
14.2
h-index
21
i10-index 33Top 17% in Clinical Psychology
Derrick Ssewanyana

What does Derrick Ssewanyana research?

Derrick Ssewanyana's work is mostly in Medicine (20%), Psychology (16%), Health Professions (13%).

Everything else: 45 works · 44.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 33 works · 32.4% of their workMedicine: 20 works · 19.8% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 7 works · 7.2% of their workInfectious Diseases: 7 works · 6.6% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 6 works · 6.0% of their workHealth Professions: 13 works · 12.6% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 13 works · 12.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 23 works · 22.8% of their workPsychology: 16 works · 15.6% of their workClinical Psychology: 16 works · 15.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 7.2% of their workSafety Research: 7 works · 7.2% of their workTHEIR WORKDerrickSsewanyana101works
Health Sciences32%Social Sciences23%

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. Everything else4544.8%
    1. Medicine2019.8%
    2. Health Professions1312.6%
    1. Psychology1615.6%
    2. Social Sciences77.2%
  1. 1Clinical Psychology16% of their works
  2. 2General Health Professions13% of their works
  3. 3Safety Research7% of their works
  4. 4Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health7% of their works
  5. 5Infectious Diseases7% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Derrick Ssewanyana's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Adolescent Health, Sexual Behavior, Conditional Cash Transfers, School Subsidies, Antiretroviral Therapy, HIV Transmission, Depression and Mental Health.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Adolescent Health131 topic
  2. Sexual Behavior131 topic
  3. Conditional Cash Transfers121 topic
  4. School Subsidies121 topic
  5. Antiretroviral Therapy101 topic
  6. HIV Transmission101 topic
  7. Depression92 topics
  8. Mental Health92 topics
  9. COVID-1972 topics
  10. Child Development71 topic
  11. Maternal and Child Undernutrition71 topic
  12. Comorbidity51 topic
  13. Emotion Regulation51 topic
  14. Pathological Gambling51 topic
  15. Psychopathology51 topic
  16. Anxiety41 topic
  17. Pandemic41 topic
  18. Modeling31 topic
  19. transmission dynamics31 topic

Where does Derrick Ssewanyana work?

Derrick Ssewanyana's main affiliation in the publication record is Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Derrick Ssewanyana have?

OpenAlex counts 101 works and 1,433 citations for Derrick Ssewanyana, an h-index of 21, ranking #243,255 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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