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Researcher · Family Aids Caring Trust · Zimbabwe

Geoff Foster

Geoff Foster publishes mostly in Safety Research, General Health Professions and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses.

OpenAlex
World rank
#933,832
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Zimbabwe
#132
of 1,509
Works
27
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
39.7
h-index
15
i10-index 21Top 19% in Safety Research
Geoff Foster

What does Geoff Foster research?

Geoff Foster's work is mostly in Social Sciences (30%), Medicine (18%), Health Professions (16%).

Social Sciences: 11 works · 41.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 29.7% of their workSafety Research: 5 works · 18.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 10.8% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 works · 12.2% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 works · 12.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 9 works · 33.8% of their workMedicine: 5 works · 17.6% of their workInfectious Diseases: 3 works · 9.5% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 works · 8.1% of their workHealth Professions: 4 works · 16.2% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 4 works · 16.2% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 24.3% of their workTHEIR WORKGeoff Foster27works
Health Sciences34%Social Sciences42%

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. Social Sciences829.7%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance312.2%
    1. Medicine517.6%
    2. Health Professions416.2%
  3. Everything else724.3%
  1. 1Safety Research19% of their works
  2. 2General Health Professions16% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics12% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  5. 5Infectious Diseases10% of their works
  6. 6Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Geoff Foster's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Conditional Cash Transfers, School Subsidies, Adolescent Health, Sexual Behavior, Economic Growth, HIV/AIDS, HIV Transmission and Antiretroviral Therapy.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Conditional Cash Transfers141 topic
  2. School Subsidies141 topic
  3. Adolescent Health111 topic
  4. Sexual Behavior111 topic
  5. Economic Growth91 topic
  6. HIV/AIDS91 topic
  7. HIV Transmission82 topics
  8. Antiretroviral Therapy71 topic
  9. Preexposure Prophylaxis71 topic
  10. Child Development61 topic
  11. Child Mortality61 topic
  12. Maternal Mortality61 topic
  13. Maternal and Child Undernutrition61 topic
  14. Family Support21 topic
  15. Intergenerational Relations21 topic
  16. Sexually Transmitted Infections11 topic
  17. Vaginal Microbiome11 topic

Where does Geoff Foster work?

Geoff Foster's main affiliation in the publication record is Family Aids Caring Trust, Zimbabwe.

How many publications and citations does Geoff Foster have?

OpenAlex counts 27 works and 1,071 citations for Geoff Foster, an h-index of 15, ranking #933,832 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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