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Researcher · University of Cape Town · South Africa

Heather Joy Zar

Heather Joy Zar publishes mostly in Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, on topics such as Respiratory viral infections research, Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections and Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology.

ORCID 0000-0002-9046-759X OpenAlex
World rank
#40,677
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#82
of 29,826
Works
907
Citations
65k
Citations per work
72.2
h-index
99
i10-index 465Top 0.2% in Epidemiology
Heather Joy Zar

What does Heather Joy Zar research?

Heather Joy Zar's work is mostly in Medicine (57%).

Health Sciences: 518 works · 57.1% of their workMedicine: 518 works · 57.1% of their workEpidemiology: 173 works · 19.1% of their workInfectious Diseases: 104 works · 11.5% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 95 works · 10.5% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 70 works · 7.7% of their workSurgery: 44 works · 4.8% of their workPhysiology: 32 works · 3.5% of their workEverything else: 389 works · 42.9% of their workTHEIR WORKHeather Joy Zar907works
Health Sciences57%

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. Medicine51857.1%
  2. Everything else38942.9%
  1. 1Epidemiology19% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases12% of their works
  3. 3Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine10% of their works
  4. 4Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health8% of their works
  5. 5Surgery5% of their works
  6. 6Physiology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Heather Joy Zar's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Treatment, Diagnosis, Human Metapneumovirus, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine 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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology6235 topics
  2. Treatment2913 topics
  3. Diagnosis2152 topics
  4. Human Metapneumovirus1671 topic
  5. Respiratory Syncytial Virus1671 topic
  6. Community-Acquired Pneumonia1651 topic
  7. Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine1651 topic
  8. Antiretroviral Therapy1422 topics
  9. Mycobacterium tuberculosis1321 topic
  10. Tuberculosis1321 topic
  11. Pneumocystis831 topic
  12. Pneumonia831 topic
  13. Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia811 topic
  14. Preterm Infants811 topic
  15. Allergic Diseases761 topic
  16. Asthma761 topic
  17. HIV Transmission591 topic
  18. Preexposure Prophylaxis591 topic
  19. Maternal Mental Health521 topic
  20. Perinatal Depression521 topic

Where does Heather Joy Zar work?

Heather Joy Zar's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cape Town, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Heather Joy Zar have?

OpenAlex counts 907 works and 65,448 citations for Heather Joy Zar, an h-index of 99, ranking #40,677 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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