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Researcher · Carter Center · United States

Frank O. Richards

Frank O. Richards publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Parasitology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment, Parasites and Host Interactions and Parasite Biology and Host Interactions.

OpenAlex
World rank
#950,355
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#311,865
of 1,627,098
Works
142
Citations
5k
Citations per work
35.1
h-index
42
i10-index 94Top 4.3% in Infectious Diseases
Frank O. Richards

What does Frank O. Richards research?

Frank O. Richards's work is mostly in Medicine (38%), Environmental Science (21%), Immunology and Microbiology (16%).

Health Sciences: 54 works · 37.7% of their workMedicine: 54 works · 37.7% of their workInfectious Diseases: 35 works · 24.5% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 19 works · 13.2% of their workEverything else: 31 works · 22.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 29 works · 20.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 29 works · 20.7% of their workEcology: 18 works · 12.6% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 12 works · 8.1% of their workLife Sciences: 28 works · 19.6% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 23 works · 16.1% of their workParasitology: 23 works · 16.1% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 works · 3.5% of their workInsect Science: 5 works · 3.5% of their workTHEIR WORKFrank O. Richards142works
Life Sciences20%Physical Sciences21%Health Sciences38%

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. Medicine5437.7%
  2. Everything else3122.0%
    1. Environmental Science2920.7%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology2316.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences53.5%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases24% of their works
  2. 2Parasitology16% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health13% of their works
  4. 4Ecology13% of their works
  5. 5Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis8% of their works
  6. 6Insect Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Frank O. Richards's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Helminth Infections, Ivermectin, Lymphatic Filariasis, Schistosomiasis, Soil-Transmitted Helminths, Insecticide Resistance, Ecosystem and Parasites.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Helminth Infections1442 topics
  2. Ivermectin851 topic
  3. Lymphatic Filariasis851 topic
  4. Schistosomiasis591 topic
  5. Soil-Transmitted Helminths591 topic
  6. Insecticide Resistance492 topics
  7. Ecosystem471 topic
  8. Parasites471 topic
  9. Epidemiology452 topics
  10. Vaccine Development452 topics
  11. Vector Control352 topics
  12. Cockroaches301 topic
  13. Pathogens301 topic
  14. Arboviral Diseases261 topic
  15. Zika Virus261 topic
  16. Artemisinin Resistance191 topic
  17. Plasmodium falciparum191 topic
  18. Child Mortality111 topic
  19. Maternal Mortality111 topic
  20. Symbiont91 topic
  21. Wolbachia91 topic

Where does Frank O. Richards work?

Frank O. Richards's main affiliation in the publication record is Carter Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does Frank O. Richards have?

OpenAlex counts 142 works and 4,983 citations for Frank O. Richards, an h-index of 42, ranking #950,355 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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