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Researcher · Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde · Belgium

Tom Smekens

Tom Smekens publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, General Health Professions and Epidemiology, on topics such as HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk.

ORCID 0000-0002-3599-1719 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,379,712
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#39,317
of 67,186
Works
43
Citations
350
Citations per work
8.1
h-index
12
i10-index 15Top 53% in Infectious Diseases
Tom Smekens

What does Tom Smekens research?

Tom Smekens's work is mostly in Medicine (47%), Health Professions (14%), Immunology and Microbiology (4%).

Health Sciences: 27 works · 61.8% of their workMedicine: 20 works · 47.4% of their workInfectious Diseases: 9 works · 21.2% of their workEpidemiology: 5 works · 12.7% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 works · 9.3% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 works · 4.2% of their workHealth Professions: 6 works · 14.4% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 6 works · 14.4% of their workEverything else: 15 works · 34.0% of their workLife Sciences: 2 works · 4.2% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 works · 4.2% of their workParasitology: 2 works · 4.2% of their workTHEIR WORKTom Smekens43works
Life Sciences4%Health Sciences62%

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. Medicine2047.4%
    2. Health Professions614.4%
  2. Everything else1534.0%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology24.2%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases21% of their works
  2. 2General Health Professions14% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology13% of their works
  4. 4Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health9% of their works
  5. 5Parasitology4% of their works
  6. 6Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Tom Smekens's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: HIV Transmission, Antiretroviral Therapy, Preexposure Prophylaxis, Epidemiology, Adolescent Health, drug use, HIV and Sexual Behavior.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. HIV Transmission192 topics
  2. Antiretroviral Therapy151 topic
  3. Preexposure Prophylaxis151 topic
  4. Epidemiology142 topics
  5. Adolescent Health91 topic
  6. HIV91 topic
  7. Sexual Behavior91 topic
  8. drug use91 topic
  9. Child Mortality51 topic
  10. Helminth Infections51 topic
  11. Leishmaniasis51 topic
  12. Maternal Mortality51 topic
  13. Schistosomiasis51 topic
  14. Treatment51 topic
  15. Sex Work41 topic
  16. Sexually Transmitted Infections41 topic
  17. Trafficking41 topic
  18. Vaginal Microbiome41 topic

Where does Tom Smekens work?

Tom Smekens's main affiliation in the publication record is Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Tom Smekens have?

OpenAlex counts 43 works and 350 citations for Tom Smekens, an h-index of 12, ranking #4,379,712 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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