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Researcher · University of Malawi · Malawi

Oscar Divala

Oscar Divala publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Nutrition and Dietetics and Psychiatry and Mental health, on topics such as Child Nutrition and Water Access, Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions.

ORCID 0000-0002-5039-2386 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,799,362
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Malawi
#339
of 736
Works
20
Citations
434
Citations per work
21.7
h-index
10
i10-index 11Top 64% in Infectious Diseases
Oscar Divala

What does Oscar Divala research?

Oscar Divala's work is mostly in Medicine (44%), Nursing (19%), Immunology and Microbiology (4%).

Health Sciences: 13 works · 63.4% of their workMedicine: 9 works · 44.2% of their workInfectious Diseases: 4 works · 19.2% of their workPhysiology: 2 works · 9.6% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 works · 9.6% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 works · 5.8% of their workNursing: 4 works · 19.2% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 4 works · 19.2% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 32.8% of their workLife Sciences: 1 works · 3.8% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 works · 3.8% of their workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 1 works · 3.8% of their workTHEIR WORKOscar Divala20works
Life Sciences4%Health Sciences63%

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. Medicine944.2%
    2. Nursing419.2%
  2. Everything else732.8%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology13.8%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases19% of their works
  2. 2Nutrition and Dietetics19% of their works
  3. 3Psychiatry and Mental health10% of their works
  4. 4Physiology10% of their works
  5. 5Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health6% of their works
  6. 6Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Oscar Divala's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Child Development, Maternal and Child Undernutrition, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Feeding Problems, ACE2 Receptor, Antibiotic Resistance, Epidemiology and SARS-CoV-2.

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. Child Development91 topic
  2. Maternal and Child Undernutrition91 topic
  3. Autism Spectrum Disorders51 topic
  4. Feeding Problems51 topic
  5. ACE2 Receptor42 topics
  6. Antibiotic Resistance42 topics
  7. Epidemiology42 topics
  8. SARS-CoV-242 topics
  9. Antiretroviral Therapy31 topic
  10. Cancer Cachexia31 topic
  11. HIV Transmission31 topic
  12. Sarcopenia31 topic
  13. Antimicrobial Stewardship21 topic
  14. Clinical Characteristics21 topic
  15. Coronavirus21 topic
  16. ESKAPE Pathogens21 topic
  17. Global Health21 topic
  18. Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria21 topic
  19. Thrombosis21 topic
  20. Vaccine21 topic

Where does Oscar Divala work?

Oscar Divala's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Malawi, Malawi.

How many publications and citations does Oscar Divala have?

OpenAlex counts 20 works and 434 citations for Oscar Divala, an h-index of 10, ranking #2,799,362 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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