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Researcher · Kenya Medical Research Institute · Kenya

Meghna R. Desai

Meghna R. Desai publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Parasitology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, on topics such as Malaria Research and Control, Parasites and Host Interactions and Global Maternal and Child Health.

ORCID 0000-0002-6703-3355 OpenAlex
World rank
#210,680
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#176
of 7,520
Works
206
Citations
8.3k
Citations per work
40.3
h-index
45
i10-index 106Top 3.3% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Meghna R. Desai

What does Meghna R. Desai research?

Meghna R. Desai's work is mostly in Medicine (55%), Immunology and Microbiology (12%).

Health Sciences: 114 works · 55.4% of their workMedicine: 114 works · 55.4% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 73 works · 35.2% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 16 works · 7.6% of their workInfectious Diseases: 10 works · 5.0% of their workEpidemiology: 8 works · 4.0% of their workOncology: 7 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 68 works · 32.9% of their workLife Sciences: 24 works · 11.7% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 24 works · 11.7% of their workParasitology: 24 works · 11.7% of their workTHEIR WORKMeghna R. Desai206works
Life Sciences12%Health Sciences55%

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. Medicine11455.4%
  2. Everything else6832.9%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology2411.7%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health35% of their works
  2. 2Parasitology12% of their works
  3. 3Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health8% of their works
  4. 4Infectious Diseases5% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology4% of their works
  6. 6Oncology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Meghna R. Desai's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Vaccine Development, Artemisinin Resistance, Plasmodium falciparum, Immune Regulation, Helminth Infections, Schistosomiasis and Child Mortality.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology1803 topics
  2. Vaccine Development1662 topics
  3. Artemisinin Resistance1321 topic
  4. Plasmodium falciparum1321 topic
  5. Immune Regulation652 topics
  6. Helminth Infections531 topic
  7. Schistosomiasis531 topic
  8. Child Mortality351 topic
  9. Maternal Mortality351 topic
  10. Arboviral Diseases341 topic
  11. Zika Virus341 topic
  12. Lyme Disease141 topic
  13. Tick-Borne Diseases141 topic
  14. Medication Use131 topic
  15. Pregnancy131 topic
  16. Counterfeit Drugs121 topic
  17. Decidual NK Cells121 topic
  18. Regulatory T Cells121 topic
  19. Substandard Medicines121 topic

Where does Meghna R. Desai work?

Meghna R. Desai's main affiliation in the publication record is Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Meghna R. Desai have?

OpenAlex counts 206 works and 8,295 citations for Meghna R. Desai, an h-index of 45, ranking #210,680 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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