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Researcher · University of KwaZulu-Natal · South Africa

Thirumala Govender

Thirumala Govender publishes mostly in Pharmaceutical Science, Molecular Biology and Organic Chemistry, on topics such as Advanced Drug Delivery Systems, Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities and Antimicrobial agents and applications.

ORCID 0000-0002-4968-4779 OpenAlex
World rank
#301,447
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#1,118
of 29,826
Works
193
Citations
8k
Citations per work
41.4
h-index
47
i10-index 138Top 2.7% in Pharmaceutical Science
Thirumala Govender

What does Thirumala Govender research?

Thirumala Govender's work is mostly in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (20%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (15%), Chemistry (9%).

Everything else: 80 works · 41.7% of their workLife Sciences: 77 works · 39.9% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 38 works · 19.6% of their workPharmaceutical Science: 38 works · 19.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 29 works · 15.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 29 works · 15.2% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 10 works · 5.1% of their workMicrobiology: 10 works · 5.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 36 works · 18.4% of their workChemistry: 17 works · 9.0% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 17 works · 9.0% of their workMaterials Science: 11 works · 5.5% of their workBiomaterials: 11 works · 5.5% of their workEngineering: 8 works · 3.9% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 8 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKThirumalaGovender193works
Life Sciences40%Physical Sciences18%

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 else8041.7%
    1. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics3819.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2915.2%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology105.1%
    1. Chemistry179.0%
    2. Materials Science115.5%
    3. Engineering83.9%
  1. 1Pharmaceutical Science20% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology15% of their works
  3. 3Organic Chemistry9% of their works
  4. 4Biomaterials6% of their works
  5. 5Microbiology5% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thirumala Govender's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Drug Delivery, Nanoparticles, Chitosan, Mucosal, Polymeric Materials, Antimicrobial Peptides, Host Defense and Antimicrobial Polymers.

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. Drug Delivery922 topics
  2. Nanoparticles922 topics
  3. Chitosan651 topic
  4. Mucosal651 topic
  5. Polymeric Materials492 topics
  6. Antimicrobial Peptides281 topic
  7. Host Defense281 topic
  8. Antimicrobial Polymers271 topic
  9. Cancer Therapy271 topic
  10. Nanocarriers271 topic
  11. Quaternary Ammonium Compounds271 topic
  12. Lipid Rafts251 topic
  13. Membrane Lipids251 topic
  14. RNA Interference251 topic
  15. siRNA Delivery251 topic
  16. Microneedles241 topic
  17. Solid Lipid Nanoparticles241 topic
  18. Cyclodextrins221 topic
  19. Solid Dispersions221 topic

Where does Thirumala Govender work?

Thirumala Govender's main affiliation in the publication record is University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Thirumala Govender have?

OpenAlex counts 193 works and 7,992 citations for Thirumala Govender, an h-index of 47, ranking #301,447 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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