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Researcher · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · United States

Govinda S. Visvesvara

Govinda S. Visvesvara publishes mostly in Endocrinology, Parasitology and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Legionella and Acanthamoeba research, Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics and Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide.

OpenAlex
World rank
#199,885
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#74,231
of 1,627,098
Works
283
Citations
20k
Citations per work
70.5
h-index
76
i10-index 234Top 0.8% in Endocrinology
Govinda S. Visvesvara

What does Govinda S. Visvesvara research?

Govinda S. Visvesvara's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (41%), Immunology and Microbiology (20%), Medicine (10%).

Life Sciences: 181 works · 64.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 117 works · 41.4% of their workEndocrinology: 82 works · 28.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 36 works · 12.6% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 57 works · 20.0% of their workParasitology: 57 works · 20.0% of their workNeuroscience: 7 works · 2.6% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 7 works · 2.6% of their workEverything else: 74 works · 26.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 28 works · 9.9% of their workMedicine: 28 works · 9.9% of their workInfectious Diseases: 21 works · 7.4% of their workOphthalmology: 7 works · 2.5% of their workTHEIR WORKGovinda S.Visvesvara283works
Life Sciences64%Health Sciences10%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11741.4%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology5720.0%
    3. Neuroscience72.6%
  2. Everything else7426.1%
    1. Medicine289.9%
  1. 1Endocrinology29% of their works
  2. 2Parasitology20% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology13% of their works
  4. 4Infectious Diseases7% of their works
  5. 5Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience3% of their works
  6. 6Ophthalmology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Govinda S. Visvesvara's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Treatment, Virulence Factors, Amoebae, Legionella and Zoonotic Transmission.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Diagnosis2263 topics
  2. Epidemiology2254 topics
  3. Pathogenesis1982 topics
  4. Treatment1982 topics
  5. Virulence Factors1842 topics
  6. Amoebae1561 topic
  7. Legionella1561 topic
  8. Zoonotic Transmission1382 topics
  9. Cryptosporidium1101 topic
  10. Giardia1101 topic
  11. Immune Response702 topics
  12. Carbon Monoxide461 topic
  13. Heme Oxygenase-1461 topic
  14. Cholera451 topic
  15. Vibrio cholerae451 topic
  16. Entamoeba histolytica421 topic
  17. pyogenic liver abscess421 topic
  18. Bacteria311 topic
  19. Biofilms311 topic
  20. Neosporosis281 topic
  21. Toxoplasma gondii281 topic
  22. Cerebrospinal Fluid191 topic
  23. Glymphatic System191 topic

Where does Govinda S. Visvesvara work?

Govinda S. Visvesvara's main affiliation in the publication record is Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States.

How many publications and citations does Govinda S. Visvesvara have?

OpenAlex counts 283 works and 19,951 citations for Govinda S. Visvesvara, an h-index of 76, ranking #199,885 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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