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Researcher · Ministry of Health · Uganda

Joseph Francis Wamala

Joseph Francis Wamala publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Hepatology, on topics such as Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research, COVID-19 epidemiological studies and Vibrio bacteria research studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-9966-7790 OpenAlex
World rank
#302,521
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Uganda
#100
of 3,724
Works
119
Citations
3.9k
Citations per work
32.6
h-index
35
i10-index 58Top 7.1% in Infectious Diseases
Joseph Francis Wamala

What does Joseph Francis Wamala research?

Joseph Francis Wamala's work is mostly in Medicine (58%), Mathematics (9%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%).

Health Sciences: 68 works · 57.5% of their workMedicine: 68 works · 57.5% of their workInfectious Diseases: 35 works · 29.5% of their workEpidemiology: 13 works · 10.8% of their workHepatology: 12 works · 9.8% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 9 works · 7.4% of their workEverything else: 30 works · 25.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 11 works · 8.9% of their workMathematics: 11 works · 8.9% of their workModeling and Simulation: 11 works · 8.9% of their workLife Sciences: 10 works · 8.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 10 works · 8.3% of their workEndocrinology: 10 works · 8.3% of their workTHEIR WORKJoseph FrancisWamala119works
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences9%Health Sciences58%

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. Medicine6857.5%
  2. Everything else3025.3%
    1. Mathematics118.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology108.3%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases30% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology11% of their works
  3. 3Hepatology10% of their works
  4. 4Modeling and Simulation9% of their works
  5. 5Endocrinology8% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Joseph Francis Wamala's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Vaccine, Pathogenesis, Immune Response, Ebola Virus, Outbreak, Infectious Diseases and Genetic Diversity.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology1055 topics
  2. Vaccine793 topics
  3. Pathogenesis703 topics
  4. Immune Response592 topics
  5. Ebola Virus441 topic
  6. Outbreak441 topic
  7. Infectious Diseases432 topics
  8. Genetic Diversity372 topics
  9. COVID-19291 topic
  10. Modeling291 topic
  11. Public Health282 topics
  12. Cholera271 topic
  13. Vibrio cholerae271 topic
  14. Hepatitis E Virus231 topic
  15. Zoonotic Transmission231 topic
  16. Chronic Hepatitis B151 topic
  17. Hepatitis B Virus151 topic
  18. Disaster Response141 topic
  19. Triage141 topic
  20. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers141 topic
  21. Zoonotic Infections141 topic
  22. Norovirus121 topic
  23. Rotavirus121 topic

Where does Joseph Francis Wamala work?

Joseph Francis Wamala's main affiliation in the publication record is Ministry of Health, Uganda.

How many publications and citations does Joseph Francis Wamala have?

OpenAlex counts 119 works and 3,879 citations for Joseph Francis Wamala, an h-index of 35, ranking #302,521 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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