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Researcher · National Health Laboratory Service · South Africa

Nelesh Premapragasan Govender

Nelesh Premapragasan Govender publishes mostly in Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Fungal Infections and Studies, Antifungal resistance and susceptibility and Nail Diseases and Treatments.

ORCID 0000-0001-7869-9462 OpenAlex
World rank
#98,130
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#282
of 29,826
Works
270
Citations
17k
Citations per work
61.3
h-index
57
i10-index 151Top 1.9% in Epidemiology
Nelesh Premapragasan Govender

What does Nelesh Premapragasan Govender research?

Nelesh Premapragasan Govender's work is mostly in Medicine (75%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (4%), Veterinary (3%).

Health Sciences: 210 works · 77.7% of their workMedicine: 202 works · 74.7% of their workEpidemiology: 115 works · 42.6% of their workInfectious Diseases: 68 works · 25.1% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 15 works · 5.4% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 4 works · 1.6% of their workVeterinary: 8 works · 3.0% of their workSmall Animals: 8 works · 3.0% of their workEverything else: 51 works · 18.8% of their workLife Sciences: 9 works · 3.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 9 works · 3.5% of their workCell Biology: 9 works · 3.5% of their workTHEIR WORKNeleshPremapragasan…270works
Life Sciences4%Health Sciences78%

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. Medicine20274.7%
    2. Veterinary83.0%
  2. Everything else5118.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology93.5%
  1. 1Epidemiology43% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases25% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health5% of their works
  4. 4Cell Biology4% of their works
  5. 5Small Animals3% of their works
  6. 6Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nelesh Premapragasan Govender's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Antifungal Therapy, Epidemiology, Fungal Pathogens, Cryptococcal Disease, Histoplasmosis, Immunocompromised Patients, Candidiasis and Invasive Fungal Infections.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Antifungal Therapy3973 topics
  2. Epidemiology2634 topics
  3. Fungal Pathogens2032 topics
  4. Cryptococcal Disease1771 topic
  5. Histoplasmosis1771 topic
  6. Immunocompromised Patients1722 topics
  7. Candidiasis1421 topic
  8. Invasive Fungal Infections1421 topic
  9. Diagnosis1082 topics
  10. Dermatophytes781 topic
  11. Onychomycosis781 topic
  12. Pneumocystis301 topic
  13. Pneumonia301 topic
  14. Endophytic Fungi261 topic
  15. Phylogenetic Analysis261 topic
  16. Oomycetes211 topic
  17. Retroviruses211 topic
  18. Group B Streptococcus191 topic
  19. Neonatal Sepsis191 topic
  20. Community-Acquired Pneumonia131 topic
  21. Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine131 topic

Where does Nelesh Premapragasan Govender work?

Nelesh Premapragasan Govender's main affiliation in the publication record is National Health Laboratory Service, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Nelesh Premapragasan Govender have?

OpenAlex counts 270 works and 16,541 citations for Nelesh Premapragasan Govender, an h-index of 57, ranking #98,130 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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