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Keertan Dheda

Keertan Dheda publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Surgery, on topics such as Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis and Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis.

World rank
#14,838
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#21
of 5,570
Works
71
Citations
432
Citations per work
6.1

What does Keertan Dheda research?

Infectious Diseases: 38.9%Epidemiology: 19.4%Surgery: 12.5%Emergency Medicine: 2.8%other fields: 26.4%39%top field
Infectious Diseases38.9%Epidemiology19.4%Surgery12.5%Emergency Medicine2.8%other fields26.4%

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

  1. 1Infectious Diseases39% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology19% of their works
  3. 3Surgery12% of their works
  4. 4Emergency Medicine3% of their works
  5. 5Health3% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Keertan Dheda's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Vaccine, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Tuberculosis, Antiretroviral Therapy and Clinical Practice Guidelines.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology314 topics
  2. Diagnosis273 topics
  3. Treatment273 topics
  4. Vaccine202 topics
  5. Mycobacterium tuberculosis181 topic
  6. Tuberculosis181 topic
  7. Antiretroviral Therapy103 topics
  8. Clinical Practice Guidelines72 topics
  9. Mycobacterium avium71 topic
  10. Nontuberculous Mycobacteria71 topic
  11. Abdominal Tuberculosis61 topic
  12. Diagnostic Challenges61 topic
  13. HIV Transmission51 topic
  14. Preexposure Prophylaxis51 topic
  15. Community-Acquired Pneumonia41 topic
  16. Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine41 topic
  17. Spinal Epidural Abscess31 topic
  18. Tuberculous Meningitis31 topic
  19. Coronavirus21 topic
  20. Pneumocystis21 topic
  21. Pneumonia21 topic
  22. SARS-CoV-221 topic

Where does Keertan Dheda work?

Keertan Dheda's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cape Town, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Keertan Dheda have?

Science Explorer counts 71 works and 432 citations for Keertan Dheda, ranking #14,838 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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