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Researcher · Kenya Medical Research Institute · Kenya

Emelda A. Okiro

Emelda A. Okiro publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Infectious Diseases, on topics such as Global Maternal and Child Health, Malaria Research and Control and COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-9543-8360 OpenAlex
World rank
#79,862
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#47
of 7,520
Works
173
Citations
7k
Citations per work
40.6
h-index
46
i10-index 84Top 3.1% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Emelda A. Okiro

What does Emelda A. Okiro research?

Emelda A. Okiro's work is mostly in Medicine (50%), Mathematics (5%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (4%).

Health Sciences: 87 works · 50.2% of their workMedicine: 87 works · 50.2% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 32 works · 18.6% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 23 works · 13.2% of their workEpidemiology: 16 works · 9.2% of their workInfectious Diseases: 16 works · 9.2% of their workEverything else: 70 works · 40.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 9 works · 5.4% of their workMathematics: 9 works · 5.4% of their workModeling and Simulation: 9 works · 5.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 4.0% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 works · 4.0% of their workFinance: 7 works · 4.0% of their workTHEIR WORKEmelda A. Okiro173works
Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences50%Social Sciences4%

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. Medicine8750.2%
  2. Everything else7040.4%
    1. Mathematics95.4%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance74.0%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health19% of their works
  2. 2Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health13% of their works
  3. 3Infectious Diseases9% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology9% of their works
  5. 5Modeling and Simulation5% of their works
  6. 6Finance4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Emelda A. Okiro's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Vaccine Development, Child Mortality, Maternal Mortality, Artemisinin Resistance, Plasmodium falciparum, Disease Burden and COVID-19.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology974 topics
  2. Vaccine Development743 topics
  3. Child Mortality561 topic
  4. Maternal Mortality561 topic
  5. Artemisinin Resistance401 topic
  6. Plasmodium falciparum401 topic
  7. Disease Burden242 topics
  8. COVID-19231 topic
  9. Modeling231 topic
  10. Arboviral Diseases211 topic
  11. Zika Virus211 topic
  12. Health Financing171 topic
  13. Universal Coverage171 topic
  14. Ebola Virus141 topic
  15. Outbreak141 topic
  16. Human Metapneumovirus131 topic
  17. Respiratory Syncytial Virus131 topic
  18. Helminth Infections111 topic
  19. Schistosomiasis111 topic

Where does Emelda A. Okiro work?

Emelda A. Okiro's main affiliation in the publication record is Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Emelda A. Okiro have?

OpenAlex counts 173 works and 7,025 citations for Emelda A. Okiro, an h-index of 46, ranking #79,862 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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