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Researcher · Ministry of Health · Eswatini

Gugu P. Maphalala

Gugu P. Maphalala publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis and Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis.

ORCID 0000-0002-3635-8405 OpenAlex
World rank
#889,733
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Eswatini
#5
of 118
Works
74
Citations
2.2k
Citations per work
29.5
h-index
24
i10-index 34Top 17% in Infectious Diseases
Gugu P. Maphalala

What does Gugu P. Maphalala research?

Gugu P. Maphalala's work is mostly in Medicine (65%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (4%), Immunology and Microbiology (3%).

Health Sciences: 48 works · 65.2% of their workMedicine: 48 works · 65.2% of their workInfectious Diseases: 24 works · 31.9% of their workEpidemiology: 12 works · 15.7% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 7 works · 9.8% of their workSurgery: 6 works · 7.8% of their workEverything else: 20 works · 27.0% of their workLife Sciences: 6 works · 7.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 works · 4.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 3 works · 4.4% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 works · 3.4% of their workImmunology: 3 works · 3.4% of their workTHEIR WORKGugu P. Maphalala74works
Life Sciences8%Health Sciences65%

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. Medicine4865.2%
  2. Everything else2027.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology34.4%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology33.4%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases32% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology16% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health10% of their works
  4. 4Surgery8% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology4% of their works
  6. 6Immunology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gugu P. Maphalala's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Immune Response, Vaccine, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Tuberculosis 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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology533 topics
  2. Diagnosis432 topics
  3. Treatment432 topics
  4. Immune Response332 topics
  5. Vaccine332 topics
  6. Mycobacterium tuberculosis261 topic
  7. Tuberculosis261 topic
  8. Antiretroviral Therapy172 topics
  9. Mycobacterium avium171 topic
  10. Nontuberculous Mycobacteria171 topic
  11. Abdominal Tuberculosis121 topic
  12. Diagnostic Challenges121 topic
  13. Artemisinin Resistance101 topic
  14. HIV Transmission101 topic
  15. Plasmodium falciparum101 topic
  16. Preexposure Prophylaxis101 topic
  17. AIDS71 topic
  18. Adverse Drug Reactions71 topic
  19. Counterfeit Drugs71 topic
  20. HIV71 topic
  21. Pharmacovigilance71 topic
  22. Substandard Medicines71 topic

Where does Gugu P. Maphalala work?

Gugu P. Maphalala's main affiliation in the publication record is Ministry of Health, Eswatini.

How many publications and citations does Gugu P. Maphalala have?

OpenAlex counts 74 works and 2,181 citations for Gugu P. Maphalala, an h-index of 24, ranking #889,733 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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