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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Kathleen Kahn

Kathleen Kahn publishes mostly in General Health Professions, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, on topics such as Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions and Global Maternal and Child Health.

ORCID 0000-0003-3339-3931 OpenAlex
World rank
#34,394
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#64
of 29,826
Works
618
Citations
21k
Citations per work
33.4
h-index
76
i10-index 339Top 0.2% in General Health Professions
Kathleen Kahn

What does Kathleen Kahn research?

Kathleen Kahn's work is mostly in Medicine (36%), Health Professions (15%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (6%).

Health Sciences: 314 works · 50.8% of their workMedicine: 221 works · 35.7% of their workInfectious Diseases: 72 works · 11.7% of their workEpidemiology: 60 works · 9.7% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 55 works · 8.9% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 33 works · 5.4% of their workHealth Professions: 93 works · 15.1% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 93 works · 15.1% of their workEverything else: 267 works · 43.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 37 works · 6.0% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 37 works · 6.0% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 37 works · 6.0% of their workTHEIR WORKKathleen Kahn618works
Health Sciences51%Social Sciences6%

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. Medicine22135.7%
    2. Health Professions9315.1%
  2. Everything else26743.2%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance376.0%
  1. 1General Health Professions15% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases12% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology10% of their works
  4. 4Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health9% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics6% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kathleen Kahn's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Adolescent Health, Sexual Behavior, Antiretroviral Therapy, HIV Transmission, Child Mortality, Maternal Mortality, Economic Growth and HIV/AIDS.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Adolescent Health1511 topic
  2. Sexual Behavior1511 topic
  3. Antiretroviral Therapy1361 topic
  4. HIV Transmission1361 topic
  5. Child Mortality1251 topic
  6. Maternal Mortality1251 topic
  7. Economic Growth921 topic
  8. HIV/AIDS921 topic
  9. Epidemiology812 topics
  10. Conditional Cash Transfers721 topic
  11. School Subsidies721 topic
  12. Human Metapneumovirus461 topic
  13. Respiratory Syncytial Virus461 topic
  14. Child Development391 topic
  15. Maternal and Child Undernutrition391 topic
  16. Obesity351 topic
  17. Overweight351 topic

Where does Kathleen Kahn work?

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

How many publications and citations does Kathleen Kahn have?

OpenAlex counts 618 works and 20,615 citations for Kathleen Kahn, an h-index of 76, ranking #34,394 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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