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Researcher · Kenya Medical Research Institute · Kenya

Dickson Gethi

Dickson Gethi publishes mostly in Epidemiology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, on topics such as Global Maternal and Child Health, Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes and Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#627,126
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#502
of 7,520
Works
23
Citations
452
Citations per work
19.7
h-index
8
i10-index 8Top 70% in Epidemiology
Dickson Gethi

What does Dickson Gethi research?

Dickson Gethi's work is mostly in Medicine (65%).

Health Sciences: 15 works · 65.1% of their workMedicine: 15 works · 65.1% of their workEpidemiology: 3 works · 14.5% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 works · 13.0% of their workInfectious Diseases: 2 works · 10.1% of their workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 works · 10.1% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 works · 8.7% of their workSurgery: 2 works · 8.7% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 34.9% of their workTHEIR WORKDickson Gethi23works
Health Sciences65%

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. Medicine1565.1%
  2. Everything else834.9%
  1. 1Epidemiology14% of their works
  2. 2Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health13% of their works
  3. 3Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging10% of their works
  4. 4Infectious Diseases10% of their works
  5. 5Surgery9% of their works
  6. 6Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine9% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dickson Gethi's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Health Inequalities, Child Mortality, Maternal Mortality, Post-mortem Imaging, Virtual Autopsy, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Tuberculosis.

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. Epidemiology102 topics
  2. Health Inequalities102 topics
  3. Child Mortality81 topic
  4. Maternal Mortality81 topic
  5. Post-mortem Imaging71 topic
  6. Virtual Autopsy71 topic
  7. Mycobacterium tuberculosis61 topic
  8. Tuberculosis61 topic
  9. Central Chemoreception41 topic
  10. Community-Acquired Pneumonia41 topic
  11. Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine41 topic
  12. Respiratory Rhythm41 topic
  13. Abdominal Tuberculosis31 topic
  14. Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia31 topic
  15. Diagnostic Challenges31 topic
  16. Preterm Infants31 topic
  17. Child Health21 topic
  18. Maternal Health21 topic

Where does Dickson Gethi work?

Dickson Gethi's main affiliation in the publication record is Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Dickson Gethi have?

OpenAlex counts 23 works and 452 citations for Dickson Gethi, an h-index of 8, ranking #627,126 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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