Didier Pittet
Didier Pittet publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, on topics such as Infection Control in Healthcare, Nosocomial Infections in ICU and Infection Control and Ventilation.
- World rank
- #93,098 of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
- Rank in Switzerland
- #1,967 of 80,918
- Works
- 1,083
- Citations
- 68k
- Citations per work
- 62.4
What does Didier Pittet research?
Didier Pittet's work is mostly in Medicine (54%).
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
- Health Sciences58353.8%
- Medicine58353.8%
- Everything else50046.2%
- 1Infectious Diseases22% of their works
- 2Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine7% of their works
- 3Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine7% of their works
- 4Epidemiology7% of their works
- 5Surgery6% of their works
- 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health4% of their works
Research topics
Which keywords describe Didier Pittet's research?
The keywords of their largest research topics: Healthcare-Associated Infections, Hand Hygiene, Infection Control, Epidemiology, ICU, Ventilator-associated Pneumonia, Airborne Transmission and Respiratory Viruses.
- Hygiene Practices
- Microorganism Identification
- Surgical Site Infection
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Respiratory Viruses
- Ventilator-associated Pneumonia
- Epidemiology
- Hand Hygiene
- Healthcare-Associated Infections
- Infection Control
- ICU
- Airborne Transmission
- Antibiotic Resistance
- MRSA
- Antimicrobial Prophylaxis
- Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry
- Food Safety
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
- Healthcare-Associated Infections6944 topics
- Hand Hygiene3701 topic
- Infection Control3701 topic
- Epidemiology2052 topics
- ICU1641 topic
- Ventilator-associated Pneumonia1641 topic
- Airborne Transmission1631 topic
- Respiratory Viruses1631 topic
- Antibiotic Resistance1161 topic
- Antimicrobial Stewardship1161 topic
- MRSA891 topic
- Staphylococcus aureus891 topic
- Antimicrobial Prophylaxis711 topic
- Surgical Site Infection711 topic
- Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry591 topic
- Microorganism Identification591 topic
- Food Safety521 topic
- Hygiene Practices521 topic
Where does Didier Pittet work?
Didier Pittet's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Geneva, Switzerland.
How many publications and citations does Didier Pittet have?
OpenAlex counts 1,083 works and 67,593 citations for Didier Pittet, an h-index of 121, ranking #93,098 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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