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Researcher · Instituto Evandro Chagas · Brazil

Edivaldo Costa Sousa

Edivaldo Costa Sousa publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, Animal Virus Infections Studies and Virus-based gene therapy research.

ORCID 0000-0002-5423-238X OpenAlex
World rank
#4,658,568
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#80,187
of 253,246
Works
74
Citations
838
Citations per work
11.3
h-index
15
i10-index 26Top 39% in Infectious Diseases
Edivaldo Costa Sousa

What does Edivaldo Costa Sousa research?

Edivaldo Costa Sousa's work is mostly in Medicine (54%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (7%).

Health Sciences: 40 works · 53.9% of their workMedicine: 40 works · 53.9% of their workInfectious Diseases: 18 works · 23.8% of their workEpidemiology: 10 works · 14.1% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 8 works · 10.2% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 4 works · 5.8% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 31.0% of their workLife Sciences: 11 works · 15.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 works · 7.8% of their workGenetics: 6 works · 7.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 works · 7.3% of their workAnimal Science and Zoology: 5 works · 7.3% of their workTHEIR WORKEdivaldo CostaSousa74works
Life Sciences15%Health Sciences54%

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. Medicine4053.9%
  2. Everything else2331.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology67.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences57.3%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases24% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology14% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health10% of their works
  4. 4Genetics8% of their works
  5. 5Animal Science and Zoology7% of their works
  6. 6Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Edivaldo Costa Sousa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Vaccine, Norovirus, Rotavirus, Vaccine Development, Coronavirus and Drug Resistance.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology977 topics
  2. Pathogenesis492 topics
  3. Vaccine492 topics
  4. Norovirus341 topic
  5. Rotavirus341 topic
  6. Vaccine Development293 topics
  7. Coronavirus151 topic
  8. Drug Resistance152 topics
  9. Gene Therapy151 topic
  10. Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus151 topic
  11. Vector Control152 topics
  12. Viral Vectors151 topic
  13. Human Metapneumovirus131 topic
  14. Respiratory Syncytial Virus131 topic
  15. Myocarditis121 topic
  16. Viral Infection121 topic
  17. Arboviral Diseases81 topic
  18. Leishmaniasis81 topic
  19. Treatment81 topic
  20. Zika Virus81 topic
  21. Chagas Disease71 topic
  22. Trypanosoma cruzi71 topic

Where does Edivaldo Costa Sousa work?

Edivaldo Costa Sousa's main affiliation in the publication record is Instituto Evandro Chagas, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Edivaldo Costa Sousa have?

OpenAlex counts 74 works and 838 citations for Edivaldo Costa Sousa, an h-index of 15, ranking #4,658,568 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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