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Researcher · Makerere University · Uganda

Robert Opika Opoka

Robert Opika Opoka publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Genetics and Hematology, on topics such as Malaria Research and Control, Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders and Iron Metabolism and Disorders.

ORCID 0000-0003-3240-2058 OpenAlex
World rank
#261,002
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Uganda
#82
of 3,724
Works
341
Citations
9.8k
Citations per work
28.7
h-index
48
i10-index 161Top 2.7% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Robert Opika Opoka

What does Robert Opika Opoka research?

Robert Opika Opoka's work is mostly in Medicine (50%), Nursing (5%), Immunology and Microbiology (4%).

Health Sciences: 190 works · 55.6% of their workMedicine: 171 works · 50.2% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 79 works · 23.1% of their workGenetics: 40 works · 11.8% of their workHematology: 36 works · 10.6% of their workEpidemiology: 16 works · 4.7% of their workNursing: 18 works · 5.4% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 18 works · 5.4% of their workEverything else: 136 works · 39.9% of their workLife Sciences: 15 works · 4.5% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 15 works · 4.5% of their workImmunology: 15 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert OpikaOpoka341works
Life 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. Medicine17150.2%
    2. Nursing185.4%
  2. Everything else13639.9%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology154.5%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health23% of their works
  2. 2Genetics12% of their works
  3. 3Hematology11% of their works
  4. 4Nutrition and Dietetics5% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology5% of their works
  6. 6Immunology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert Opika Opoka's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Vaccine Development, Artemisinin Resistance, Plasmodium falciparum, Sickle-cell Disease, Thalassemia, Hepcidin and Iron Regulation.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology3104 topics
  2. Vaccine Development1912 topics
  3. Artemisinin Resistance1421 topic
  4. Plasmodium falciparum1421 topic
  5. Sickle-cell Disease971 topic
  6. Thalassemia971 topic
  7. Hepcidin811 topic
  8. Iron Regulation811 topic
  9. Arboviral Diseases491 topic
  10. Zika Virus491 topic
  11. Child Development371 topic
  12. Maternal and Child Undernutrition371 topic
  13. Helminth Infections291 topic
  14. Schistosomiasis291 topic
  15. Sepsis221 topic
  16. Septic Shock221 topic
  17. Complement171 topic
  18. Immune171 topic

Where does Robert Opika Opoka work?

Robert Opika Opoka's main affiliation in the publication record is Makerere University, Uganda.

How many publications and citations does Robert Opika Opoka have?

OpenAlex counts 341 works and 9,789 citations for Robert Opika Opoka, an h-index of 48, ranking #261,002 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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