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Researcher · Mount Kenya University · Kenya

Jesse Gitaka

Jesse Gitaka publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, on topics such as Malaria Research and Control, Global Maternal and Child Health and Mosquito-borne diseases and control.

ORCID 0000-0001-7516-522X OpenAlex
World rank
#2,692,533
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#2,342
of 7,520
Works
173
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
7.9
h-index
19
i10-index 39Top 21% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Jesse Gitaka

What does Jesse Gitaka research?

Jesse Gitaka's work is mostly in Medicine (46%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (4%), Immunology and Microbiology (4%).

Everything else: 80 works · 46.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 79 works · 45.8% of their workMedicine: 79 works · 45.8% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 41 works · 23.9% of their workInfectious Diseases: 17 works · 9.9% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 14 works · 8.3% of their workEpidemiology: 6 works · 3.7% of their workLife Sciences: 13 works · 7.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 works · 3.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 7 works · 3.9% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 7 works · 3.9% of their workParasitology: 7 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKJesse Gitaka173works
Life Sciences8%Health Sciences46%

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. Everything else8046.4%
    1. Medicine7945.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology73.9%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology73.9%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health24% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases10% of their works
  3. 3Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health8% of their works
  4. 4Parasitology4% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology4% of their works
  6. 6Epidemiology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jesse Gitaka's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Vaccine Development, Artemisinin Resistance, Plasmodium falciparum, Child Mortality, Maternal Mortality, SARS-CoV-2 and Arboviral Diseases.

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.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology972 topics
  2. Vaccine Development972 topics
  3. Artemisinin Resistance661 topic
  4. Plasmodium falciparum661 topic
  5. Child Mortality351 topic
  6. Maternal Mortality351 topic
  7. SARS-CoV-2322 topics
  8. Arboviral Diseases311 topic
  9. Zika Virus311 topic
  10. Biosensors272 topics
  11. Coronavirus181 topic
  12. Vaccine181 topic
  13. Helminth Infections171 topic
  14. Schistosomiasis171 topic
  15. COVID-19141 topic
  16. Diagnostics141 topic
  17. Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification131 topic
  18. Paper-Based Microfluidics131 topic
  19. Sexually Transmitted Infections121 topic
  20. Vaginal Microbiome121 topic

Where does Jesse Gitaka work?

Jesse Gitaka's main affiliation in the publication record is Mount Kenya University, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Jesse Gitaka have?

OpenAlex counts 173 works and 1,366 citations for Jesse Gitaka, an h-index of 19, ranking #2,692,533 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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