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Researcher · Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit · Thailand

Direk Limmathurotsakul

Direk Limmathurotsakul publishes mostly in Epidemiology, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Burkholderia infections and melioidosis, Antibiotic Use and Resistance and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria.

ORCID 0000-0001-7240-5320 OpenAlex
World rank
#110,612
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Thailand
#100
of 23,698
Works
450
Citations
34k
Citations per work
75.9
h-index
69
i10-index 231Top 1% in Epidemiology
Direk Limmathurotsakul

What does Direk Limmathurotsakul research?

Direk Limmathurotsakul's work is mostly in Medicine (41%), Immunology and Microbiology (8%), Engineering (7%).

Health Sciences: 186 works · 41.4% of their workMedicine: 186 works · 41.4% of their workEpidemiology: 129 works · 28.7% of their workInfectious Diseases: 29 works · 6.5% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 28 works · 6.2% of their workEverything else: 173 works · 38.5% of their workLife Sciences: 60 works · 13.3% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 37 works · 8.3% of their workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 37 works · 8.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 22 works · 5.0% of their workMolecular Medicine: 22 works · 5.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 31 works · 6.8% of their workEngineering: 31 works · 6.8% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 31 works · 6.8% of their workTHEIR WORKDirekLimmathurotsakul450works
Life Sciences13%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences41%

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. Medicine18641.4%
  2. Everything else17338.5%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology378.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology225.0%
    1. Engineering316.8%
  1. 1Epidemiology29% of their works
  2. 2Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology8% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering7% of their works
  4. 4Infectious Diseases6% of their works
  5. 5Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health6% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Medicine5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Direk Limmathurotsakul's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Antibiotic Resistance, Pathogenesis, Burkholderia pseudomallei, Melioidosis, Public Health, Antimicrobial Stewardship and Global 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.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology3094 topics
  2. Antibiotic Resistance2963 topics
  3. Pathogenesis2102 topics
  4. Burkholderia pseudomallei1821 topic
  5. Melioidosis1821 topic
  6. Public Health992 topics
  7. Antimicrobial Stewardship711 topic
  8. Global Health711 topic
  9. ESKAPE Pathogens431 topic
  10. Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria431 topic
  11. Chemical-Looping Combustion411 topic
  12. Solar Thermochemical Production411 topic
  13. Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry351 topic
  14. Microorganism Identification351 topic
  15. Brucellosis281 topic
  16. Sepsis281 topic
  17. Septic Shock281 topic
  18. Zoonosis281 topic
  19. ICU201 topic
  20. Ventilator-associated Pneumonia201 topic

Where does Direk Limmathurotsakul work?

Direk Limmathurotsakul's main affiliation in the publication record is Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Thailand.

How many publications and citations does Direk Limmathurotsakul have?

OpenAlex counts 450 works and 34,150 citations for Direk Limmathurotsakul, an h-index of 69, ranking #110,612 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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