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Researcher · Lighthouse Trust · Malawi

Tapiwa Kumwenda

Tapiwa Kumwenda publishes mostly in Surgery, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, on topics such as Amoebic Infections and Treatments, Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis and Ultrasound in Clinical Applications.

ORCID 0009-0001-7196-3256 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,482,922
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Malawi
#555
of 736
Works
20
Citations
202
Citations per work
10.1
h-index
7
i10-index 5Top 69% in Surgery
Tapiwa Kumwenda

What does Tapiwa Kumwenda research?

Tapiwa Kumwenda's work is mostly in Medicine (54%), Health Professions (7%).

Health Sciences: 12 works · 60.4% of their workMedicine: 11 works · 53.5% of their workSurgery: 4 works · 19.0% of their workInfectious Diseases: 3 works · 13.8% of their workEpidemiology: 2 works · 10.3% of their workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 works · 5.2% of their workEmergency Medicine: 1 works · 5.2% of their workHealth Professions: 1 works · 6.9% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 1 works · 6.9% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 39.6% of their workTHEIR WORKTapiwa Kumwenda20works
Health Sciences60%

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. Medicine1153.5%
    2. Health Professions16.9%
  2. Everything else839.6%
  1. 1Surgery19% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases14% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology10% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions7% of their works
  5. 5Emergency Medicine5% of their works
  6. 6Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Tapiwa Kumwenda's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Antiretroviral Therapy, HIV Infection, Abdominal Tuberculosis, Diagnostic Challenges, Entamoeba histolytica, pyogenic liver abscess, Lung Ultrasound and Point-of-Care Ultrasonography.

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. Antiretroviral Therapy73 topics
  2. HIV Infection52 topics
  3. Abdominal Tuberculosis41 topic
  4. Diagnostic Challenges41 topic
  5. Entamoeba histolytica41 topic
  6. pyogenic liver abscess41 topic
  7. Lung Ultrasound31 topic
  8. Point-of-Care Ultrasonography31 topic
  9. Spinal Epidural Abscess31 topic
  10. Tuberculous Meningitis31 topic
  11. Adolescent Health21 topic
  12. Cardiovascular Disease21 topic
  13. Epstein-Barr Virus21 topic
  14. HIV Transmission21 topic
  15. Inflammation21 topic
  16. Kaposi's Sarcoma21 topic
  17. Preexposure Prophylaxis21 topic
  18. Sexual Behavior21 topic

Where does Tapiwa Kumwenda work?

Tapiwa Kumwenda's main affiliation in the publication record is Lighthouse Trust, Malawi.

How many publications and citations does Tapiwa Kumwenda have?

OpenAlex counts 20 works and 202 citations for Tapiwa Kumwenda, an h-index of 7, ranking #4,482,922 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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