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Mignon du Plessis

Mignon du Plessis publishes mostly in Epidemiology, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases, on topics such as Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections, Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment and vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches.

World rank
#112,199
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#242
of 5,570
Works
47
Citations
361
Citations per work
7.7

What does Mignon du Plessis research?

Epidemiology: 64.0%Molecular Biology: 12.3%Infectious Diseases: 12.3%Microbiology: 3.5%other fields: 7.9%64%top field
Epidemiology64.0%Molecular Biology12.3%Infectious Diseases12.3%Microbiology3.5%other fields7.9%

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

  1. 1Epidemiology64% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology12% of their works
  3. 3Infectious Diseases12% of their works
  4. 4Microbiology4% of their works
  5. 5Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology2% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mignon du Plessis's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine, Pneumocystis, Pneumonia and Epitope Prediction.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology826 topics
  2. Diagnosis352 topics
  3. Treatment352 topics
  4. Community-Acquired Pneumonia321 topic
  5. Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine321 topic
  6. Pneumocystis271 topic
  7. Pneumonia271 topic
  8. Epitope Prediction121 topic
  9. Peptide-MHC Binding121 topic
  10. Vaccine112 topics
  11. Human Metapneumovirus91 topic
  12. Respiratory Syncytial Virus91 topic
  13. Mycobacterium tuberculosis81 topic
  14. Tuberculosis81 topic
  15. Pathogenesis62 topics
  16. Bacterial Meningitis31 topic
  17. Influenza31 topic
  18. Neisseria meningitidis31 topic
  19. Virus31 topic
  20. Phosphoethanolamine21 topic
  21. Synthetic21 topic

Where does Mignon du Plessis work?

Mignon du Plessis's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Mignon du Plessis have?

Science Explorer counts 47 works and 361 citations for Mignon du Plessis, ranking #112,199 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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