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Researcher · Stellenbosch University · South Africa

Gerhard Walzl

Gerhard Walzl publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Surgery, on topics such as Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis and Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis.

ORCID 0000-0003-2487-125X OpenAlex
World rank
#76,609
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#199
of 29,826
Works
427
Citations
20k
Citations per work
47.6
h-index
77
i10-index 254Top 0.5% in Infectious Diseases
Gerhard Walzl

What does Gerhard Walzl research?

Gerhard Walzl's work is mostly in Medicine (63%), Immunology and Microbiology (14%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%).

Health Sciences: 269 works · 63.1% of their workMedicine: 269 works · 63.1% of their workInfectious Diseases: 118 works · 27.7% of their workEpidemiology: 77 works · 18.0% of their workSurgery: 64 works · 15.1% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 10 works · 2.3% of their workLife Sciences: 81 works · 19.0% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 60 works · 14.1% of their workImmunology: 60 works · 14.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 21 works · 4.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 21 works · 4.9% of their workEverything else: 76 works · 17.9% of their workTHEIR WORKGerhard Walzl427works
Life Sciences19%Health Sciences63%

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. Medicine26963.1%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology6014.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology214.9%
  3. Everything else7617.9%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases28% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology18% of their works
  3. 3Surgery15% of their works
  4. 4Immunology14% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology5% of their works
  6. 6Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerhard Walzl's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Tuberculosis, Antiretroviral Therapy, Clinical Practice Guidelines and Mycobacterium avium.

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.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology4694 topics
  2. Diagnosis4373 topics
  3. Treatment4373 topics
  4. Mycobacterium tuberculosis2891 topic
  5. Tuberculosis2891 topic
  6. Antiretroviral Therapy1252 topics
  7. Clinical Practice Guidelines1152 topics
  8. Mycobacterium avium1061 topic
  9. Nontuberculous Mycobacteria1061 topic
  10. Abdominal Tuberculosis851 topic
  11. Diagnostic Challenges851 topic
  12. Spinal Epidural Abscess831 topic
  13. Tuberculous Meningitis831 topic
  14. Pneumocystis421 topic
  15. Pneumonia421 topic
  16. Community-Acquired Pneumonia321 topic
  17. Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine321 topic
  18. Innate Memory311 topic
  19. Trained Immunity311 topic
  20. Genetic Mutations281 topic
  21. Primary Immunodeficiency281 topic

Where does Gerhard Walzl work?

Gerhard Walzl's main affiliation in the publication record is Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Gerhard Walzl have?

OpenAlex counts 427 works and 20,310 citations for Gerhard Walzl, an h-index of 77, ranking #76,609 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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