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Researcher · Universidade de Brasília · Brazil

Gerson Oliveira Penna

Gerson Oliveira Penna publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and General Health Professions, on topics such as Leprosy Research and Treatment, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis and Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis.

ORCID 0000-0001-8967-536X OpenAlex
World rank
#254,590
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#1,017
of 253,246
Works
193
Citations
5.5k
Citations per work
28.5
h-index
43
i10-index 105Top 4.1% in Infectious Diseases
Gerson Oliveira Penna

What does Gerson Oliveira Penna research?

Gerson Oliveira Penna's work is mostly in Medicine (53%), Health Professions (7%), Social Sciences (4%).

Health Sciences: 115 works · 59.5% of their workMedicine: 102 works · 52.7% of their workInfectious Diseases: 57 works · 29.5% of their workEpidemiology: 22 works · 11.2% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 12 works · 6.4% of their workSurgery: 11 works · 5.6% of their workHealth Professions: 13 works · 6.8% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 13 works · 6.8% of their workEverything else: 71 works · 36.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 3.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 3.8% of their workHealth: 7 works · 3.8% of their workTHEIR WORKGerson OliveiraPenna193works
Health Sciences60%Social Sciences4%

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. Medicine10252.7%
    2. Health Professions136.8%
  2. Everything else7136.7%
    1. Social Sciences73.8%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases30% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology11% of their works
  3. 3General Health Professions7% of their works
  4. 4Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health6% of their works
  5. 5Surgery6% of their works
  6. 6Health4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerson Oliveira Penna's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Immune Response, Public Health, Leprosy, Mycobacterium leprae, Vaccine 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. 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. Diagnosis1333 topics
  2. Epidemiology1333 topics
  3. Immune Response1052 topics
  4. Public Health1012 topics
  5. Leprosy861 topic
  6. Mycobacterium leprae861 topic
  7. Vaccine352 topics
  8. Mycobacterium avium281 topic
  9. Nontuberculous Mycobacteria281 topic
  10. Spinal Epidural Abscess271 topic
  11. Tuberculous Meningitis271 topic
  12. Mycobacterium tuberculosis191 topic
  13. Tuberculosis191 topic
  14. COVID-19 Vaccine171 topic
  15. Vaccine Hesitancy171 topic
  16. Coronavirus161 topic
  17. SARS-CoV-2161 topic
  18. Brazilian Health System151 topic
  19. Digital Epidemiology151 topic
  20. Disease Surveillance151 topic
  21. Primary Care151 topic

Where does Gerson Oliveira Penna work?

Gerson Oliveira Penna's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade de Brasília, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Gerson Oliveira Penna have?

OpenAlex counts 193 works and 5,502 citations for Gerson Oliveira Penna, an h-index of 43, ranking #254,590 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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