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Researcher · Makerere University · Uganda

Dickens Howard Akena

Dickens Howard Akena publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health, on topics such as Mental Health Treatment and Access, HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions and Schizophrenia research and treatment.

ORCID 0000-0002-8886-4553 OpenAlex
World rank
#292,637
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Uganda
#94
of 3,724
Works
127
Citations
6.3k
Citations per work
49.4
h-index
30
i10-index 58Top 7.8% in Social Psychology
Dickens Howard Akena

What does Dickens Howard Akena research?

Dickens Howard Akena's work is mostly in Medicine (30%), Psychology (23%), Health Professions (9%).

Health Sciences: 50 works · 39.4% of their workMedicine: 39 works · 30.5% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 14 works · 10.9% of their workInfectious Diseases: 13 works · 10.1% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 12 works · 9.5% of their workHealth Professions: 11 works · 8.9% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 11 works · 8.9% of their workEverything else: 47 works · 37.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 30 works · 23.3% of their workPsychology: 30 works · 23.3% of their workSocial Psychology: 15 works · 12.1% of their workClinical Psychology: 14 works · 11.2% of their workTHEIR WORKDickens HowardAkena127works
Health Sciences39%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. Medicine3930.5%
    2. Health Professions118.9%
  2. Everything else4737.3%
    1. Psychology3023.3%
  1. 1Social Psychology12% of their works
  2. 2Clinical Psychology11% of their works
  3. 3Psychiatry and Mental health11% of their works
  4. 4Infectious Diseases10% of their works
  5. 5Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health10% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions9% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dickens Howard Akena's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Depression, Prevalence, Mental Disorders, Stigma, Antiretroviral Therapy, HIV Transmission, Antipsychotic Drugs and Neurocognitive Deficits.

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. Depression492 topics
  2. Prevalence462 topics
  3. Mental Disorders381 topic
  4. Stigma381 topic
  5. Antiretroviral Therapy331 topic
  6. HIV Transmission331 topic
  7. Antipsychotic Drugs191 topic
  8. Neurocognitive Deficits191 topic
  9. Maternal Mental Health131 topic
  10. Perinatal Depression131 topic
  11. Adolescent Health121 topic
  12. Sexual Behavior121 topic
  13. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy111 topic
  14. Internet-based Interventions111 topic
  15. Phenomenology101 topic
  16. Psychiatric Disorders101 topic
  17. Bipolar Spectrum Disorder81 topic
  18. Neurobiology81 topic

Where does Dickens Howard Akena work?

Dickens Howard Akena's main affiliation in the publication record is Makerere University, Uganda.

How many publications and citations does Dickens Howard Akena have?

OpenAlex counts 127 works and 6,275 citations for Dickens Howard Akena, an h-index of 30, ranking #292,637 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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