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Researcher · University of Venda · South Africa

Pascal Obong Bessong

Pascal Obong Bessong publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Nutrition and Dietetics and Virology, on topics such as Child Nutrition and Water Access, Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology and HIV Research and Treatment.

ORCID 0000-0003-0561-272X OpenAlex
World rank
#497,140
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#1,867
of 29,826
Works
226
Citations
9.7k
Citations per work
42.8
h-index
47
i10-index 131Top 3.1% in Infectious Diseases
Pascal Obong Bessong

What does Pascal Obong Bessong research?

Pascal Obong Bessong's work is mostly in Medicine (26%), Nursing (15%), Immunology and Microbiology (11%).

Everything else: 100 works · 44.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 92 works · 40.5% of their workMedicine: 59 works · 25.9% of their workInfectious Diseases: 45 works · 20.0% of their workEpidemiology: 13 works · 5.9% of their workNursing: 33 works · 14.6% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 33 works · 14.6% of their workLife Sciences: 35 works · 15.3% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 26 works · 11.3% of their workVirology: 14 works · 6.3% of their workParasitology: 11 works · 5.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 9 works · 4.0% of their workEndocrinology: 9 works · 4.0% of their workTHEIR WORKPascal ObongBessong226works
Life Sciences15%Health Sciences40%

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 else10044.2%
    1. Medicine5925.9%
    2. Nursing3314.6%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology2611.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology94.0%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases20% of their works
  2. 2Nutrition and Dietetics15% of their works
  3. 3Virology6% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology6% of their works
  5. 5Parasitology5% of their works
  6. 6Endocrinology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Pascal Obong Bessong's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Antiretroviral Therapy, Vaccine, Child Development, Maternal and Child Undernutrition, Epidemiology, Norovirus, Rotavirus and AIDS.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Antiretroviral Therapy863 topics
  2. Vaccine812 topics
  3. Child Development751 topic
  4. Maternal and Child Undernutrition751 topic
  5. Epidemiology592 topics
  6. Norovirus421 topic
  7. Rotavirus421 topic
  8. AIDS391 topic
  9. HIV391 topic
  10. Drug Resistance281 topic
  11. HIV Infection281 topic
  12. HIV Transmission191 topic
  13. Preexposure Prophylaxis191 topic
  14. Cryptosporidium171 topic
  15. Giardia171 topic
  16. Escherichia coli161 topic
  17. Pathogenicity161 topic
  18. Human Milk Composition151 topic
  19. Preterm Infants151 topic

Where does Pascal Obong Bessong work?

Pascal Obong Bessong's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Venda, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Pascal Obong Bessong have?

OpenAlex counts 226 works and 9,669 citations for Pascal Obong Bessong, an h-index of 47, ranking #497,140 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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