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Researcher · Instituto de Salud Carlos III · Spain

Jorge Alvar

Jorge Alvar publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology and Parasitology, on topics such as Research on Leishmaniasis Studies, Trypanosoma species research and implications and Parasites and Host Interactions.

ORCID 0000-0003-2920-742X OpenAlex
World rank
#54,205
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Spain
#597
of 204,306
Works
179
Citations
18k
Citations per work
101.9
h-index
59
i10-index 124Top 1.4% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Jorge Alvar

What does Jorge Alvar research?

Jorge Alvar's work is mostly in Medicine (65%), Immunology and Microbiology (16%), Environmental Science (2%).

Health Sciences: 116 works · 65.0% of their workMedicine: 116 works · 65.0% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 67 works · 37.7% of their workEpidemiology: 40 works · 22.2% of their workInfectious Diseases: 9 works · 5.1% of their workEverything else: 31 works · 17.3% of their workLife Sciences: 28 works · 15.7% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 28 works · 15.7% of their workParasitology: 25 works · 13.7% of their workImmunology: 4 works · 2.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 4 works · 2.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 4 works · 2.0% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 4 works · 2.0% of their workTHEIR WORKJorge Alvar179works
Life Sciences16%Physical Sciences2%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. Medicine11665.0%
  2. Everything else3117.3%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology2815.7%
    1. Environmental Science42.0%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health38% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology22% of their works
  3. 3Parasitology14% of their works
  4. 4Infectious Diseases5% of their works
  5. 5Immunology2% of their works
  6. 6Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jorge Alvar's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Drug Resistance, Vaccine Development, Diagnosis, Leishmaniasis, Treatment, Genome Sequence and Chagas Disease.

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 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology2486 topics
  2. Drug Resistance2212 topics
  3. Vaccine Development1503 topics
  4. Diagnosis1422 topics
  5. Leishmaniasis1371 topic
  6. Treatment1371 topic
  7. Genome Sequence922 topics
  8. Chagas Disease841 topic
  9. Trypanosoma cruzi841 topic
  10. Helminth Infections411 topic
  11. Schistosomiasis411 topic
  12. Insecticide Resistance152 topics
  13. Public Health152 topics
  14. Pathogenesis142 topics
  15. Artemisinin Resistance81 topic
  16. Plasmodium falciparum81 topic
  17. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers81 topic
  18. Zoonotic Infections81 topic
  19. Cockroaches71 topic
  20. Pathogens71 topic
  21. Bluetongue Virus61 topic
  22. Culicoides Biting Midges61 topic
  23. Leptospira51 topic
  24. Zoonotic Disease51 topic

Where does Jorge Alvar work?

Jorge Alvar's main affiliation in the publication record is Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain.

How many publications and citations does Jorge Alvar have?

OpenAlex counts 179 works and 18,244 citations for Jorge Alvar, an h-index of 59, ranking #54,205 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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