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Researcher · Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé · Burkina Faso

Karim Derra

Karim Derra publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nutrition and Dietetics and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, on topics such as Malaria Research and Control, Child Nutrition and Water Access and Global Maternal and Child Health.

ORCID 0000-0002-2090-9698 OpenAlex
World rank
#953,527
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Burkina Faso
#55
of 1,533
Works
54
Citations
2k
Citations per work
36.7
h-index
18
i10-index 27Top 23% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Karim Derra

What does Karim Derra research?

Karim Derra's work is mostly in Medicine (42%), Immunology and Microbiology (9%), Nursing (7%).

Health Sciences: 26 works · 48.3% of their workMedicine: 23 works · 41.7% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 17 works · 31.1% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 works · 6.0% of their workInfectious Diseases: 2 works · 4.6% of their workNursing: 4 works · 6.6% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 4 works · 6.6% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 42.5% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 9.2% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 5 works · 9.2% of their workImmunology: 2 works · 4.6% of their workParasitology: 2 works · 4.6% of their workTHEIR WORKKarim Derra54works
Life Sciences9%Health Sciences48%

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. Medicine2341.7%
    2. Nursing46.6%
  2. Everything else2342.5%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology59.2%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health31% of their works
  2. 2Nutrition and Dietetics7% of their works
  3. 3Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health6% of their works
  4. 4Parasitology5% of their works
  5. 5Immunology5% of their works
  6. 6Infectious Diseases5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Karim Derra's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Vaccine Development, Genome Sequence, Artemisinin Resistance, Plasmodium falciparum, Vector Control, Child Development and Maternal and Child Undernutrition.

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. Epidemiology443 topics
  2. Vaccine Development412 topics
  3. Genome Sequence352 topics
  4. Artemisinin Resistance321 topic
  5. Plasmodium falciparum321 topic
  6. Vector Control122 topics
  7. Child Development101 topic
  8. Maternal and Child Undernutrition101 topic
  9. Arboviral Diseases91 topic
  10. Child Mortality91 topic
  11. Maternal Mortality91 topic
  12. Zika Virus91 topic
  13. Helminth Infections71 topic
  14. Schistosomiasis71 topic
  15. Innate Memory51 topic
  16. Trained Immunity51 topic
  17. Hepcidin41 topic
  18. Iron Regulation41 topic
  19. Chagas Disease31 topic
  20. Trypanosoma cruzi31 topic

Where does Karim Derra work?

Karim Derra's main affiliation in the publication record is Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Burkina Faso.

How many publications and citations does Karim Derra have?

OpenAlex counts 54 works and 1,980 citations for Karim Derra, an h-index of 18, ranking #953,527 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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