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Researcher · Human Sciences Research Council · South Africa

Tawanda Makusha

Tawanda Makusha publishes mostly in General Health Professions, Infectious Diseases and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare.

ORCID 0000-0003-2120-8989 OpenAlex
World rank
#522,480
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#1,955
of 29,826
Works
54
Citations
933
Citations per work
17.3
h-index
17
i10-index 20Top 18% in General Health Professions
Tawanda Makusha

What does Tawanda Makusha research?

Tawanda Makusha's work is mostly in Social Sciences (23%), Health Professions (22%), Medicine (18%).

Health Sciences: 21 works · 39.7% of their workHealth Professions: 12 works · 21.9% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 12 works · 21.9% of their workMedicine: 10 works · 17.8% of their workInfectious Diseases: 10 works · 17.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 17 works · 32.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 13 works · 23.2% of their workGender Studies: 4 works · 8.2% of their workSafety Research: 4 works · 8.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 4 works · 6.8% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 works · 8.9% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 5 works · 8.9% of their workEverything else: 15 works · 28.2% of their workTHEIR WORKTawanda Makusha54works
Health Sciences40%Social Sciences32%

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. Health Professions1221.9%
    2. Medicine1017.8%
    1. Social Sciences1323.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance58.9%
  3. Everything else1528.2%
  1. 1General Health Professions22% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases18% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics9% of their works
  4. 4Safety Research8% of their works
  5. 5Gender Studies8% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Tawanda Makusha's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Antiretroviral Therapy, Adolescent Health, Sexual Behavior, HIV Transmission, Preexposure Prophylaxis, Conditional Cash Transfers, School Subsidies and Economic Growth.

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 Therapy272 topics
  2. Adolescent Health261 topic
  3. Sexual Behavior261 topic
  4. HIV Transmission221 topic
  5. Preexposure Prophylaxis221 topic
  6. Conditional Cash Transfers121 topic
  7. School Subsidies121 topic
  8. Economic Growth101 topic
  9. HIV/AIDS101 topic
  10. HIV82 topics
  11. Gender Identity71 topic
  12. Masculinity71 topic
  13. Divorce61 topic
  14. Fertility61 topic
  15. AIDS51 topic
  16. Vaccine51 topic
  17. drug use31 topic
  18. harm reduction31 topic

Where does Tawanda Makusha work?

Tawanda Makusha's main affiliation in the publication record is Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Tawanda Makusha have?

OpenAlex counts 54 works and 933 citations for Tawanda Makusha, an h-index of 17, ranking #522,480 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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