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Researcher · University of Nairobi · Kenya

Simon Kihu

Simon Kihu publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Virology and Viral Diseases, Viral Infections and Vectors and Vector-Borne Animal Diseases.

ORCID 0000-0002-7471-6648 OpenAlex
World rank
#5,280,399
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#4,990
of 7,520
Works
22
Citations
283
Citations per work
12.9
h-index
6
i10-index 5Top 88% in Infectious Diseases
Simon Kihu

What does Simon Kihu research?

Simon Kihu's work is mostly in Medicine (52%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (20%), Immunology and Microbiology (3%).

Health Sciences: 12 works · 52.5% of their workMedicine: 12 works · 52.5% of their workInfectious Diseases: 6 works · 25.4% of their workEpidemiology: 4 works · 18.6% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 works · 8.5% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 23.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 works · 20.4% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 works · 11.9% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 2 works · 8.5% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 works · 3.4% of their workImmunology: 1 works · 3.4% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 23.7% of their workTHEIR WORKSimon Kihu22works
Life Sciences24%Health Sciences52%

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. Medicine1252.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences420.4%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology13.4%
  3. Everything else523.7%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases25% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology19% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics12% of their works
  4. 4Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health8% of their works
  5. 5Agronomy and Crop Science8% of their works
  6. 6Immunology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Simon Kihu's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Viral Pathogenesis, Immune Response, Vaccine, Genetic Characterization, Nipah Virus and Paramyxovirus.

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.

All 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology283 topics
  2. Pathogenesis213 topics
  3. Viral Pathogenesis162 topics
  4. Immune Response152 topics
  5. Vaccine152 topics
  6. Genetic Characterization122 topics
  7. Nipah Virus111 topic
  8. Paramyxovirus111 topic
  9. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers101 topic
  10. Zoonotic Infections101 topic
  11. Bluetongue Virus71 topic
  12. Culicoides Biting Midges71 topic
  13. African Swine Fever51 topic
  14. Foot-and-Mouth Disease51 topic
  15. Ebola Virus41 topic
  16. One Health41 topic
  17. Outbreak41 topic
  18. Zoonotic Diseases41 topic
  19. Epitope Prediction21 topic
  20. Innate Memory21 topic
  21. Peptide-MHC Binding21 topic
  22. Trained Immunity21 topic

Where does Simon Kihu work?

Simon Kihu's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Nairobi, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Simon Kihu have?

OpenAlex counts 22 works and 283 citations for Simon Kihu, an h-index of 6, ranking #5,280,399 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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