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Researcher · Birzeit University · Palestine

Rita Giacaman

Rita Giacaman publishes mostly in General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Health and Conflict Studies, Migration, Health and Trauma and Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-7219-134X OpenAlex
World rank
#159,010
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Palestine
#19
of 1,137
Works
216
Citations
7.3k
Citations per work
33.7
h-index
40
i10-index 91Top 2.5% in General Health Professions
Rita Giacaman

What does Rita Giacaman research?

Rita Giacaman's work is mostly in Health Professions (26%), Social Sciences (20%), Psychology (18%).

Social Sciences: 82 works · 38.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 43 works · 20.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 33 works · 15.5% of their workHealth: 10 works · 4.5% of their workPsychology: 39 works · 18.1% of their workClinical Psychology: 39 works · 18.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 78 works · 36.1% of their workHealth Professions: 56 works · 26.0% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 56 works · 26.0% of their workMedicine: 22 works · 10.1% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 12 works · 5.4% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 10 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 56 works · 25.8% of their workTHEIR WORKRita Giacaman216works
Health Sciences36%Social Sciences38%

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. Social Sciences4320.0%
    2. Psychology3918.1%
    1. Health Professions5626.0%
    2. Medicine2210.1%
  3. Everything else5625.8%
  1. 1General Health Professions26% of their works
  2. 2Clinical Psychology18% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science16% of their works
  4. 4Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health5% of their works
  5. 5Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health5% of their works
  6. 6Health4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rita Giacaman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Public Health, Mental Health, Conflict, Mortality, Health Disparities, Immigrant, Refugee and Israel.

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. Public Health902 topics
  2. Mental Health893 topics
  3. Conflict761 topic
  4. Mortality761 topic
  5. Health Disparities752 topics
  6. Immigrant611 topic
  7. Refugee611 topic
  8. Israel281 topic
  9. Palestine281 topic
  10. Child Mortality211 topic
  11. Maternal Mortality211 topic
  12. Food Insecurity181 topic
  13. Health Outcomes181 topic
  14. Lebanon151 topic
  15. Sectarianism151 topic
  16. Social Relationships141 topic
  17. Socioeconomic Inequalities141 topic
  18. Adverse Experiences101 topic
  19. Childhood Trauma101 topic

Where does Rita Giacaman work?

Rita Giacaman's main affiliation in the publication record is Birzeit University, Palestine.

How many publications and citations does Rita Giacaman have?

OpenAlex counts 216 works and 7,284 citations for Rita Giacaman, an h-index of 40, ranking #159,010 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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