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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Kennedy J. Ngwira

Kennedy J. Ngwira publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Oncology and Pharmacology, on topics such as Computational Drug Discovery Methods, Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications and Metal complexes synthesis and properties.

ORCID 0000-0003-1719-7930 OpenAlex
World rank
#5,148,965
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#22,217
of 29,826
Works
48
Citations
263
Citations per work
5.5
h-index
10
i10-index 12Top 63% in Organic Chemistry
Kennedy J. Ngwira

What does Kennedy J. Ngwira research?

Kennedy J. Ngwira's work is mostly in Medicine (23%), Chemistry (18%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (7%).

Everything else: 21 works · 43.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 11 works · 23.4% of their workMedicine: 11 works · 23.4% of their workOncology: 4 works · 8.5% of their workPharmacology: 4 works · 8.5% of their workComplementary and alternative medicine: 3 works · 6.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 9 works · 18.1% of their workChemistry: 9 works · 18.1% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 9 works · 18.1% of their workLife Sciences: 7 works · 14.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 works · 7.4% of their workPlant Science: 4 works · 7.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 works · 7.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 4 works · 7.4% of their workTHEIR WORKKennedy J. Ngwira48works
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences18%Health Sciences23%

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. Everything else2143.7%
    1. Medicine1123.4%
    1. Chemistry918.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences47.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology47.4%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry18% of their works
  2. 2Oncology8% of their works
  3. 3Pharmacology8% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science7% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology7% of their works
  6. 6Complementary and alternative medicine6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kennedy J. Ngwira's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Pharmacokinetics, Anticancer Agents, Marine Natural Products, Molecular Docking, Pharmacology, Virtual Screening, Cisplatin Resistance and Ginkgo Biloba.

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. Pharmacokinetics112 topics
  2. Anticancer Agents82 topics
  3. Marine Natural Products62 topics
  4. Molecular Docking61 topic
  5. Pharmacology62 topics
  6. Virtual Screening61 topic
  7. Cisplatin Resistance51 topic
  8. Ginkgo Biloba51 topic
  9. Neuroprotective51 topic
  10. Platinum-Based Drugs51 topic
  11. Alkaloids31 topic
  12. Amaryllidaceae31 topic
  13. Drug Discovery31 topic
  14. Microbial Symbionts31 topic
  15. Natural Products31 topic
  16. Olefin Metathesis31 topic
  17. Quinones31 topic
  18. Ruthenium Catalysts31 topic
  19. Sponge-Associated Microorganisms31 topic
  20. Toxicology31 topic

Where does Kennedy J. Ngwira work?

Kennedy J. Ngwira's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Kennedy J. Ngwira have?

OpenAlex counts 48 works and 263 citations for Kennedy J. Ngwira, an h-index of 10, ranking #5,148,965 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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