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Researcher · University of KwaZulu-Natal · South Africa

Richard J. Lessells

Richard J. Lessells publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Virology and Epidemiology, on topics such as SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment.

ORCID 0000-0003-0926-710X OpenAlex
World rank
#73,533
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#185
of 29,826
Works
275
Citations
18k
Citations per work
65.6
h-index
58
i10-index 153Top 1.6% in Infectious Diseases
Richard J. Lessells

What does Richard J. Lessells research?

Richard J. Lessells's work is mostly in Medicine (56%), Immunology and Microbiology (7%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%).

Health Sciences: 155 works · 56.2% of their workMedicine: 155 works · 56.2% of their workInfectious Diseases: 130 works · 47.3% of their workEpidemiology: 17 works · 6.2% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 7 works · 2.7% of their workEverything else: 75 works · 27.3% of their workLife Sciences: 35 works · 12.8% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 18 works · 6.6% of their workVirology: 18 works · 6.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 17 works · 6.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 17 works · 6.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 10 works · 3.7% of their workMathematics: 10 works · 3.7% of their workModeling and Simulation: 10 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard J.Lessells275works
Life Sciences13%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences56%

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. Medicine15556.2%
  2. Everything else7527.3%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology186.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology176.2%
    1. Mathematics103.7%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases47% of their works
  2. 2Virology7% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology6% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology6% of their works
  5. 5Modeling and Simulation4% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard J. Lessells's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Antiretroviral Therapy, Vaccine, SARS-CoV-2, ACE2 Receptor, Pandemic, Viral Load, Immune Response and Drug Resistance.

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 26 words, with their numbers
  1. Antiretroviral Therapy2083 topics
  2. Vaccine1783 topics
  3. SARS-CoV-21413 topics
  4. ACE2 Receptor1142 topics
  5. Pandemic1142 topics
  6. Viral Load1132 topics
  7. Immune Response1103 topics
  8. Drug Resistance1072 topics
  9. Coronavirus911 topic
  10. spike protein911 topic
  11. Epidemiology883 topics
  12. HIV Transmission861 topic
  13. Preexposure Prophylaxis861 topic
  14. HIV Infection711 topic
  15. Integrase Inhibitors711 topic
  16. COVID-19562 topics
  17. AIDS511 topic
  18. HIV511 topic
  19. Mycobacterium tuberculosis361 topic
  20. Tuberculosis361 topic
  21. Modeling291 topic
  22. transmission dynamics291 topic
  23. Diagnostics271 topic
  24. wastewater surveillance271 topic
  25. Clinical Characteristics231 topic
  26. Thrombosis231 topic

Where does Richard J. Lessells work?

Richard J. Lessells's main affiliation in the publication record is University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Richard J. Lessells have?

OpenAlex counts 275 works and 18,043 citations for Richard J. Lessells, an h-index of 58, ranking #73,533 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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