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Researcher · National Autonomous University of Honduras · Honduras

Gustavo Adolfo Fontecha

Gustavo Adolfo Fontecha publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, on topics such as Malaria Research and Control, Mosquito-borne diseases and control and Fungal Infections and Studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-9756-4520 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,678,432
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Honduras
#10
of 203
Works
129
Citations
1.5k
Citations per work
12.0
h-index
24
i10-index 44Top 14% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Gustavo Adolfo Fontecha

What does Gustavo Adolfo Fontecha research?

Gustavo Adolfo Fontecha's work is mostly in Medicine (45%), Immunology and Microbiology (7%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (5%).

Health Sciences: 59 works · 45.4% of their workMedicine: 59 works · 45.4% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 37 works · 28.9% of their workInfectious Diseases: 11 works · 8.4% of their workEpidemiology: 10 works · 8.1% of their workEverything else: 49 works · 38.3% of their workLife Sciences: 21 works · 16.3% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 9 works · 7.0% of their workParasitology: 9 works · 7.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 works · 5.1% of their workPlant Science: 7 works · 5.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 works · 4.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 5 works · 4.2% of their workTHEIR WORKGustavo AdolfoFontecha129works
Life Sciences16%Health Sciences45%

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. Medicine5945.4%
  2. Everything else4938.3%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology97.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences75.1%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology54.2%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health29% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases8% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology8% of their works
  4. 4Parasitology7% of their works
  5. 5Plant Science5% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gustavo Adolfo Fontecha's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Vaccine Development, Artemisinin Resistance, Plasmodium falciparum, Arboviral Diseases, Zika Virus, Antifungal Therapy and Fungal Pathogens.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology1003 topics
  2. Vaccine Development862 topics
  3. Artemisinin Resistance491 topic
  4. Plasmodium falciparum491 topic
  5. Arboviral Diseases371 topic
  6. Zika Virus371 topic
  7. Antifungal Therapy302 topics
  8. Fungal Pathogens262 topics
  9. Cryptococcal Disease161 topic
  10. Histoplasmosis161 topic
  11. Candidiasis141 topic
  12. Invasive Fungal Infections141 topic
  13. Helminth Infections131 topic
  14. Schistosomiasis131 topic
  15. Endophytic Fungi101 topic
  16. Phylogenetic Analysis101 topic
  17. Host Defense91 topic
  18. Invertebrate Immunity91 topic
  19. Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency81 topic
  20. Neonatal Jaundice81 topic

Where does Gustavo Adolfo Fontecha work?

Gustavo Adolfo Fontecha's main affiliation in the publication record is National Autonomous University of Honduras, Honduras.

How many publications and citations does Gustavo Adolfo Fontecha have?

OpenAlex counts 129 works and 1,548 citations for Gustavo Adolfo Fontecha, an h-index of 24, ranking #1,678,432 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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