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Researcher · Kenya Medical Research Institute · Kenya

Simon K Kariuki

Simon K Kariuki publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Immunology and Parasitology, on topics such as Malaria Research and Control, Parasites and Host Interactions and Mosquito-borne diseases and control.

ORCID 0000-0001-9241-5550 OpenAlex
World rank
#336,565
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#281
of 7,520
Works
39
Citations
1.8k
Citations per work
46.4
h-index
18
i10-index 23Top 23% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Simon K Kariuki

What does Simon K Kariuki research?

Simon K Kariuki's work is mostly in Medicine (50%), Immunology and Microbiology (22%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%).

Health Sciences: 20 works · 50.0% of their workMedicine: 20 works · 50.0% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 15 works · 38.5% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 works · 6.7% of their workInfectious Diseases: 2 works · 4.8% of their workLife Sciences: 10 works · 26.9% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 9 works · 22.1% of their workImmunology: 5 works · 12.5% of their workParasitology: 4 works · 9.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 works · 4.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 2 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 23.1% of their workTHEIR WORKSimon K Kariuki39works
Life Sciences27%Health Sciences50%

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. Medicine2050.0%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology922.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology24.8%
  3. Everything else923.1%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health38% of their works
  2. 2Immunology12% of their works
  3. 3Parasitology10% of their works
  4. 4Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health7% of their works
  5. 5Infectious Diseases5% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Simon K Kariuki's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Vaccine Development, Artemisinin Resistance, Plasmodium falciparum, Arboviral Diseases, Helminth Infections, Schistosomiasis and Zika Virus.

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. Epidemiology382 topics
  2. Vaccine Development382 topics
  3. Artemisinin Resistance281 topic
  4. Plasmodium falciparum281 topic
  5. Arboviral Diseases101 topic
  6. Helminth Infections101 topic
  7. Schistosomiasis101 topic
  8. Zika Virus101 topic
  9. Innate Memory81 topic
  10. Trained Immunity81 topic
  11. Child Mortality51 topic
  12. Maternal Mortality51 topic
  13. Epitope Prediction41 topic
  14. Peptide-MHC Binding41 topic
  15. AIDS31 topic
  16. Complement31 topic
  17. HIV31 topic
  18. Immune31 topic

Where does Simon K Kariuki work?

Simon K Kariuki's main affiliation in the publication record is Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Simon K Kariuki have?

OpenAlex counts 39 works and 1,809 citations for Simon K Kariuki, an h-index of 18, ranking #336,565 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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