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Researcher · Blantyre Institute for Community Ophthalmology · Malawi

Khumbo Kalua

Khumbo Kalua publishes mostly in Epidemiology, Ophthalmology and Parasitology, on topics such as Reproductive tract infections research, Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies and Parasites and Host Interactions.

ORCID 0000-0001-9284-9009 OpenAlex
World rank
#721,279
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Malawi
#57
of 736
Works
104
Citations
2.4k
Citations per work
22.8
h-index
27
i10-index 56Top 13% in Epidemiology
Khumbo Kalua

What does Khumbo Kalua research?

Khumbo Kalua's work is mostly in Medicine (36%), Immunology and Microbiology (17%), Nursing (5%).

Everything else: 44 works · 42.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 42 works · 40.6% of their workMedicine: 37 works · 35.9% of their workEpidemiology: 21 works · 20.5% of their workOphthalmology: 10 works · 9.7% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 6 works · 5.7% of their workNursing: 5 works · 4.7% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 5 works · 4.7% of their workLife Sciences: 18 works · 17.2% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 18 works · 17.2% of their workParasitology: 9 works · 9.1% of their workMicrobiology: 8 works · 8.1% of their workTHEIR WORKKhumbo Kalua104works
Life Sciences17%Health Sciences41%

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 else4442.2%
    1. Medicine3735.9%
    2. Nursing54.7%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology1817.2%
  1. 1Epidemiology20% of their works
  2. 2Ophthalmology10% of their works
  3. 3Parasitology9% of their works
  4. 4Microbiology8% of their works
  5. 5Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health6% of their works
  6. 6Nutrition and Dietetics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Khumbo Kalua's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Global Epidemiology, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Vaginal Microbiome, Myopia, Visual Impairment, Helminth Infections and Schistosomiasis.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology382 topics
  2. Global Epidemiology332 topics
  3. Sexually Transmitted Infections241 topic
  4. Vaginal Microbiome241 topic
  5. Myopia231 topic
  6. Visual Impairment231 topic
  7. Helminth Infections211 topic
  8. Schistosomiasis211 topic
  9. Cervical Cancer151 topic
  10. Human Papillomavirus151 topic
  11. Child Mortality141 topic
  12. Maternal Mortality141 topic
  13. Ecosystem131 topic
  14. Parasites131 topic
  15. Child Development121 topic
  16. Maternal and Child Undernutrition121 topic
  17. Neurosyphilis121 topic
  18. Syphilis121 topic

Where does Khumbo Kalua work?

Khumbo Kalua's main affiliation in the publication record is Blantyre Institute for Community Ophthalmology, Malawi.

How many publications and citations does Khumbo Kalua have?

OpenAlex counts 104 works and 2,373 citations for Khumbo Kalua, an h-index of 27, ranking #721,279 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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