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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Karen Hofman

Karen Hofman publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and General Health Professions, on topics such as Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations.

ORCID 0000-0001-9512-7220 OpenAlex
World rank
#39,170
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#56
of 5,570
Works
51
Citations
308
Citations per work
6.0

What does Karen Hofman research?

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 15.5%Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 15.5%General Health Professions: 15.5%Economics and Econometrics: 6.9%other fields: 46.6%16%top field
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health15.5%Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management15.5%General Health Professions15.5%Economics and Econometrics6.9%other fields46.6%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health16% of their works
  2. 2Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management16% of their works
  3. 3General Health Professions16% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics7% of their works
  5. 5Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health5% of their works
  6. 6Health Information Management3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Karen Hofman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Non-Communicable Diseases, Corporate Political Activity, Global Trade, Public Health, Obesity, Overweight, Food Insecurity and Health Outcomes.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Non-Communicable Diseases112 topics
  2. Corporate Political Activity91 topic
  3. Global Trade91 topic
  4. Public Health92 topics
  5. Obesity71 topic
  6. Overweight71 topic
  7. Food Insecurity51 topic
  8. Health Outcomes51 topic
  9. Child Mortality31 topic
  10. Cost-effectiveness Analysis31 topic
  11. Maternal Mortality31 topic
  12. Quality of Life31 topic
  13. Child Development21 topic
  14. Healthcare Policies21 topic
  15. Maternal and Child Undernutrition21 topic
  16. Medical Admissions21 topic
  17. Biochemical Genetics11 topic
  18. Metabolic Disorders11 topic

Where does Karen Hofman work?

Karen Hofman's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Karen Hofman have?

Science Explorer counts 51 works and 308 citations for Karen Hofman, ranking #39,170 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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