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Researcher · Save the Children · United Kingdom

Samy Ahmar

Samy Ahmar publishes mostly in Epidemiology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Nutrition and Dietetics, on topics such as Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections, Global Maternal and Child Health and Child Nutrition and Water Access.

ORCID 0000-0002-8245-1491 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,000,119
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#255,765
of 367,258
Works
22
Citations
139
Citations per work
6.3
h-index
7
i10-index 5Top 77% in Epidemiology
Samy Ahmar

What does Samy Ahmar research?

Samy Ahmar's work is mostly in Medicine (39%), Social Sciences (13%), Nursing (11%).

Health Sciences: 13 works · 57.4% of their workMedicine: 9 works · 38.9% of their workEpidemiology: 6 works · 25.9% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 works · 13.0% of their workNursing: 2 works · 11.1% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 works · 11.1% of their workHealth Professions: 2 works · 7.4% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 2 works · 7.4% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 29.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 13.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 13.0% of their workHealth: 2 works · 9.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 1 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKSamy Ahmar22works
Health Sciences57%Social Sciences13%

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. Medicine938.9%
    2. Nursing211.1%
    3. Health Professions27.4%
  2. Everything else729.6%
    1. Social Sciences313.0%
  1. 1Epidemiology26% of their works
  2. 2Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health13% of their works
  3. 3Nutrition and Dietetics11% of their works
  4. 4Health9% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions7% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Samy Ahmar's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine, Child Mortality, Maternal Mortality, Child Development, Maternal and Child Undernutrition and COVID-19 Vaccine.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology102 topics
  2. Community-Acquired Pneumonia81 topic
  3. Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine81 topic
  4. Child Mortality71 topic
  5. Maternal Mortality71 topic
  6. Child Development61 topic
  7. Maternal and Child Undernutrition61 topic
  8. COVID-19 Vaccine51 topic
  9. Vaccine Hesitancy51 topic
  10. Food Insecurity21 topic
  11. Health Outcomes21 topic
  12. Implementation Science21 topic
  13. Influenza21 topic
  14. Innate Memory21 topic
  15. Qualitative Research21 topic
  16. Trained Immunity21 topic
  17. Virus21 topic

Where does Samy Ahmar work?

Samy Ahmar's main affiliation in the publication record is Save the Children, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Samy Ahmar have?

OpenAlex counts 22 works and 139 citations for Samy Ahmar, an h-index of 7, ranking #4,000,119 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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