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Researcher · Kenya Medical Research Institute · Kenya

Simon Kariuki

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

ORCID 0000-0003-0554-1976 OpenAlex
World rank
#81,214
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#50
of 7,520
Works
197
Citations
8.5k
Citations per work
43.3
h-index
52
i10-index 123Top 2.1% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Simon Kariuki

What does Simon Kariuki research?

Simon Kariuki's work is mostly in Medicine (64%), Immunology and Microbiology (12%).

Health Sciences: 125 works · 63.6% of their workMedicine: 125 works · 63.6% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 85 works · 43.1% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 18 works · 9.2% of their workInfectious Diseases: 16 works · 8.1% of their workEpidemiology: 6 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 48 works · 24.2% of their workLife Sciences: 24 works · 12.2% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 24 works · 12.2% of their workParasitology: 17 works · 8.4% of their workImmunology: 7 works · 3.8% of their workTHEIR WORKSimon Kariuki197works
Life Sciences12%Health Sciences64%

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. Medicine12563.6%
  2. Everything else4824.2%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology2412.2%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health43% of their works
  2. 2Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health9% of their works
  3. 3Parasitology8% of their works
  4. 4Infectious Diseases8% of their works
  5. 5Immunology4% of their works
  6. 6Epidemiology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Simon Kariuki's research?

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

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology2293 topics
  2. Vaccine Development2192 topics
  3. Artemisinin Resistance1511 topic
  4. Plasmodium falciparum1511 topic
  5. Arboviral Diseases681 topic
  6. Zika Virus681 topic
  7. Helminth Infections632 topics
  8. Schistosomiasis451 topic
  9. Soil-Transmitted Helminths451 topic
  10. Child Mortality441 topic
  11. Maternal Mortality441 topic
  12. Ivermectin181 topic
  13. Lymphatic Filariasis181 topic
  14. Child Development111 topic
  15. Maternal and Child Undernutrition111 topic
  16. Counterfeit Drugs101 topic
  17. Sickle-cell Disease101 topic
  18. Substandard Medicines101 topic
  19. Thalassemia101 topic

Where does Simon Kariuki work?

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

How many publications and citations does Simon Kariuki have?

OpenAlex counts 197 works and 8,530 citations for Simon Kariuki, an h-index of 52, ranking #81,214 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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