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Researcher · Stellenbosch University · South Africa

Soraya Seedat

Soraya Seedat publishes mostly in Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, on topics such as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, Child Abuse and Trauma and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development.

ORCID 0000-0002-5118-786X OpenAlex
World rank
#61,440
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#148
of 29,826
Works
995
Citations
120k
Citations per work
120.8
h-index
108
i10-index 503Top 0.2% in Clinical Psychology
Soraya Seedat

What does Soraya Seedat research?

Soraya Seedat's work is mostly in Psychology (37%), Medicine (12%), Health Professions (5%).

Everything else: 461 works · 46.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 369 works · 37.1% of their workPsychology: 369 works · 37.1% of their workClinical Psychology: 318 works · 32.0% of their workSocial Psychology: 51 works · 5.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 165 works · 16.6% of their workMedicine: 118 works · 11.9% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 49 works · 4.9% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 37 works · 3.7% of their workEpidemiology: 33 works · 3.3% of their workHealth Professions: 47 works · 4.7% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 47 works · 4.7% of their workTHEIR WORKSoraya Seedat995works
Health Sciences17%Social Sciences37%

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. Everything else46146.3%
    1. Psychology36937.1%
    1. Medicine11811.9%
    2. Health Professions474.7%
  1. 1Clinical Psychology32% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology5% of their works
  3. 3Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health5% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions5% of their works
  5. 5Psychiatry and Mental health4% of their works
  6. 6Epidemiology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Soraya Seedat's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Mental Health, Resilience, Epidemiology, Trauma, Depression, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychological Treatment and Adverse Experiences.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Mental Health6105 topics
  2. Resilience3622 topics
  3. Epidemiology3373 topics
  4. Trauma2732 topics
  5. Depression1972 topics
  6. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder1941 topic
  7. Psychological Treatment1941 topic
  8. Adverse Experiences1681 topic
  9. Childhood Trauma1681 topic
  10. Emotion Regulation1051 topic
  11. Psychopathology1051 topic
  12. Mental Disorders921 topic
  13. Stigma921 topic
  14. Immigrant791 topic
  15. Refugee791 topic
  16. Adversity641 topic
  17. Antiretroviral Therapy641 topic
  18. HIV Transmission641 topic
  19. Psychological Resilience641 topic
  20. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome511 topic
  21. Prenatal Alcohol Exposure511 topic

Where does Soraya Seedat work?

Soraya Seedat's main affiliation in the publication record is Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Soraya Seedat have?

OpenAlex counts 995 works and 120,218 citations for Soraya Seedat, an h-index of 108, ranking #61,440 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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