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Researcher · Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS · Switzerland

Peter Denis Ghys

Peter Denis Ghys publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and General Health Professions, on topics such as HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk and Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health.

ORCID 0009-0003-3641-9065 OpenAlex
World rank
#103,185
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#2,172
of 80,918
Works
145
Citations
9.9k
Citations per work
68.5
h-index
50
i10-index 100Top 2.6% in Infectious Diseases
Peter Denis Ghys

What does Peter Denis Ghys research?

Peter Denis Ghys's work is mostly in Medicine (44%), Health Professions (12%), Social Sciences (8%).

Health Sciences: 81 works · 56.2% of their workMedicine: 64 works · 44.2% of their workInfectious Diseases: 40 works · 27.5% of their workEpidemiology: 24 works · 16.7% of their workHealth Professions: 17 works · 12.0% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 17 works · 12.0% of their workEverything else: 31 works · 21.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 24 works · 16.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 12 works · 8.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 12 works · 8.4% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 12 works · 8.1% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 12 works · 8.1% of their workLife Sciences: 9 works · 6.1% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 9 works · 6.1% of their workVirology: 9 works · 6.1% of their workTHEIR WORKPeter Denis Ghys145works
Life Sciences6%Health Sciences56%Social Sciences17%

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. Medicine6444.2%
    2. Health Professions1712.0%
  2. Everything else3121.2%
    1. Social Sciences128.4%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance128.1%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology96.1%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases28% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology17% of their works
  3. 3General Health Professions12% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics8% of their works
  6. 6Virology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter Denis Ghys's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Antiretroviral Therapy, HIV Transmission, Preexposure Prophylaxis, Stigma and Discrimination, HIV, HIV/AIDS, drug use and harm reduction.

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. Antiretroviral Therapy1303 topics
  2. HIV Transmission1072 topics
  3. Preexposure Prophylaxis951 topic
  4. Stigma and Discrimination951 topic
  5. HIV792 topics
  6. HIV/AIDS622 topics
  7. drug use541 topic
  8. harm reduction541 topic
  9. Adolescent Health451 topic
  10. Sexual Behavior451 topic
  11. Economic Growth321 topic
  12. Sub-Saharan Africa321 topic
  13. Sex Work301 topic
  14. Trafficking301 topic
  15. AIDS251 topic
  16. Vaccine251 topic
  17. Sexually Transmitted Infections121 topic
  18. Vaginal Microbiome121 topic
  19. Drug Resistance101 topic
  20. HIV Infection101 topic

Where does Peter Denis Ghys work?

Peter Denis Ghys's main affiliation in the publication record is Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Peter Denis Ghys have?

OpenAlex counts 145 works and 9,928 citations for Peter Denis Ghys, an h-index of 50, ranking #103,185 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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