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Researcher · Kenya Medical Research Institute · Kenya

Francis Maina Ndungu

Francis Maina Ndungu publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, on topics such as Malaria Research and Control, Complement system in diseases and Mosquito-borne diseases and control.

ORCID 0000-0002-8977-0030 OpenAlex
World rank
#419,147
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#350
of 7,520
Works
145
Citations
4.3k
Citations per work
29.8
h-index
34
i10-index 60Top 6.8% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Francis Maina Ndungu

What does Francis Maina Ndungu research?

Francis Maina Ndungu's work is mostly in Medicine (43%), Immunology and Microbiology (25%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%).

Health Sciences: 62 works · 42.9% of their workMedicine: 62 works · 42.9% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 43 works · 29.4% of their workInfectious Diseases: 13 works · 9.0% of their workHematology: 7 works · 4.5% of their workLife Sciences: 45 works · 30.8% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 37 works · 25.3% of their workImmunology: 29 works · 20.1% of their workParasitology: 8 works · 5.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 8 works · 5.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 8 works · 5.5% of their workEverything else: 38 works · 26.3% of their workTHEIR WORKFrancis MainaNdungu145works
Life Sciences31%Health Sciences43%

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. Medicine6242.9%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology3725.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology85.5%
  3. Everything else3826.3%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health29% of their works
  2. 2Immunology20% of their works
  3. 3Infectious Diseases9% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology6% of their works
  5. 5Parasitology5% of their works
  6. 6Hematology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Francis Maina Ndungu's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Vaccine Development, Artemisinin Resistance, Plasmodium falciparum, Complement, Immune, Arboviral Diseases and Zika Virus.

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. Epidemiology792 topics
  2. Vaccine Development792 topics
  3. Artemisinin Resistance591 topic
  4. Plasmodium falciparum591 topic
  5. Complement211 topic
  6. Immune211 topic
  7. Arboviral Diseases201 topic
  8. Zika Virus201 topic
  9. Helminth Infections141 topic
  10. Schistosomiasis141 topic
  11. Hepcidin121 topic
  12. Iron Regulation121 topic
  13. Epitope Prediction111 topic
  14. Peptide-MHC Binding111 topic
  15. Foxp3101 topic
  16. TGF-ß101 topic
  17. Innate Memory91 topic
  18. Trained Immunity91 topic

Where does Francis Maina Ndungu work?

Francis Maina Ndungu's main affiliation in the publication record is Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Francis Maina Ndungu have?

OpenAlex counts 145 works and 4,318 citations for Francis Maina Ndungu, an h-index of 34, ranking #419,147 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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