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Researcher · Kenya Medical Research Institute · Kenya

Samuel Akech

Samuel Akech publishes mostly in Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Emergency Medicine, on topics such as Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment, Global Maternal and Child Health and Malaria Research and Control.

ORCID 0000-0001-5126-1225 OpenAlex
World rank
#160,273
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#118
of 7,520
Works
140
Citations
22k
Citations per work
156.0
h-index
36
i10-index 63Top 6.9% in Epidemiology
Samuel Akech

What does Samuel Akech research?

Samuel Akech's work is mostly in Medicine (45%), Nursing (6%).

Health Sciences: 71 works · 50.8% of their workMedicine: 63 works · 45.2% of their workEpidemiology: 23 works · 16.2% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 15 works · 10.6% of their workEmergency Medicine: 9 works · 6.6% of their workInfectious Diseases: 8 works · 5.9% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 8 works · 5.9% of their workNursing: 8 works · 5.6% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 8 works · 5.6% of their workEverything else: 69 works · 49.2% of their workTHEIR WORKSamuel Akech140works
Health Sciences51%

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. Medicine6345.2%
    2. Nursing85.6%
  2. Everything else6949.2%
  1. 1Epidemiology16% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health11% of their works
  3. 3Emergency Medicine7% of their works
  4. 4Infectious Diseases6% of their works
  5. 5Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health6% of their works
  6. 6Nutrition and Dietetics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Samuel Akech's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Sepsis, Management, Septic Shock, Artemisinin Resistance, Child Mortality, Maternal Mortality and Plasmodium falciparum.

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. Epidemiology804 topics
  2. Sepsis432 topics
  3. Management311 topic
  4. Septic Shock311 topic
  5. Artemisinin Resistance191 topic
  6. Child Mortality191 topic
  7. Maternal Mortality191 topic
  8. Plasmodium falciparum191 topic
  9. Community-Acquired Pneumonia171 topic
  10. Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine171 topic
  11. Child Development161 topic
  12. Maternal and Child Undernutrition161 topic
  13. Emergency Department Crowding151 topic
  14. Patient Satisfaction151 topic
  15. Antibiotic Resistance131 topic
  16. Antimicrobial Stewardship131 topic
  17. Coagulopathy121 topic
  18. Trauma121 topic

Where does Samuel Akech work?

Samuel Akech's main affiliation in the publication record is Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Samuel Akech have?

OpenAlex counts 140 works and 21,845 citations for Samuel Akech, an h-index of 36, ranking #160,273 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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