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Researcher · Ifakara Health Institute · Tanzania

Gerry F. Killeen

Gerry F. Killeen publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Plant Science, on topics such as Malaria Research and Control, Mosquito-borne diseases and control and Insect Pest Control Strategies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#7,667
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Tanzania
#2
of 3,522
Works
207
Citations
16k
Citations per work
77.0
h-index
74
i10-index 154Top 0.6% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Gerry F. Killeen

What does Gerry F. Killeen research?

Gerry F. Killeen's work is mostly in Medicine (64%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (12%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (4%).

Health Sciences: 132 works · 63.7% of their workMedicine: 132 works · 63.7% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 113 works · 54.6% of their workInfectious Diseases: 19 works · 9.1% of their workEverything else: 39 works · 18.7% of their workLife Sciences: 36 works · 17.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 24 works · 11.7% of their workPlant Science: 16 works · 7.9% of their workInsect Science: 8 works · 3.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 works · 3.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 7 works · 3.6% of their workNeuroscience: 5 works · 2.3% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 5 works · 2.3% of their workTHEIR WORKGerry F. Killeen207works
Life Sciences18%Health Sciences64%

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. Medicine13263.7%
  2. Everything else3918.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2411.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology73.6%
    3. Neuroscience52.3%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health55% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases9% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science8% of their works
  4. 4Insect Science4% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology4% of their works
  6. 6Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerry F. Killeen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Vaccine Development, Artemisinin Resistance, Plasmodium falciparum, Vector Control, Arboviral Diseases, Zika Virus and Helminth Infections.

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. Epidemiology2812 topics
  2. Vaccine Development2812 topics
  3. Artemisinin Resistance1471 topic
  4. Plasmodium falciparum1471 topic
  5. Vector Control1442 topics
  6. Arboviral Diseases1341 topic
  7. Zika Virus1341 topic
  8. Helminth Infections472 topics
  9. Botanical Insecticides401 topic
  10. Essential Oils401 topic
  11. Ivermectin391 topic
  12. Lymphatic Filariasis391 topic
  13. Drosophila192 topics
  14. Genetics121 topic
  15. Neuroscience121 topic
  16. Symbiont101 topic
  17. Wolbachia101 topic
  18. Schistosomiasis81 topic
  19. Soil-Transmitted Helminths81 topic
  20. Host Defense71 topic
  21. Invertebrate Immunity71 topic

Where does Gerry F. Killeen work?

Gerry F. Killeen's main affiliation in the publication record is Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania.

How many publications and citations does Gerry F. Killeen have?

OpenAlex counts 207 works and 15,946 citations for Gerry F. Killeen, an h-index of 74, ranking #7,667 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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