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Researcher · University of the South Pacific · Fiji

Uma Palaniappan

Uma Palaniappan publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nutrition and Dietetics and General Health Professions, on topics such as Child Nutrition and Water Access, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet and Nutritional Studies and Diet.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,137,063
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Fiji
#163
of 368
Works
15
Citations
471
Citations per work
31.4
h-index
7
i10-index 6Top 73% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Uma Palaniappan

What does Uma Palaniappan research?

Uma Palaniappan's work is mostly in Medicine (36%), Health Professions (14%), Nursing (14%).

Health Sciences: 10 works · 64.0% of their workMedicine: 5 works · 36.2% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 works · 25.0% of their workBiochemistry: 1 works · 5.6% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 works · 5.6% of their workHealth Professions: 2 works · 13.9% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 2 works · 13.9% of their workNursing: 2 works · 13.9% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 works · 13.9% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 30.4% of their workLife Sciences: 1 works · 5.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 works · 5.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 1 works · 5.6% of their workTHEIR WORKUma Palaniappan15works
Life Sciences6%Health Sciences64%

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. Medicine536.2%
    2. Health Professions213.9%
    3. Nursing213.9%
  2. Everything else530.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology15.6%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health25% of their works
  2. 2Nutrition and Dietetics14% of their works
  3. 3General Health Professions14% of their works
  4. 4Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health6% of their works
  5. 5Biochemistry6% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Uma Palaniappan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cancer Prevention, Inflammation, Child Development, Maternal and Child Undernutrition, Cardiovascular Disease, Mediterranean Diet, Obesity and Overweight.

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. Cancer Prevention62 topics
  2. Inflammation62 topics
  3. Child Development51 topic
  4. Maternal and Child Undernutrition51 topic
  5. Cardiovascular Disease41 topic
  6. Mediterranean Diet41 topic
  7. Obesity41 topic
  8. Overweight41 topic
  9. Antioxidants21 topic
  10. Food Insecurity21 topic
  11. Health Outcomes21 topic
  12. Oxidative Stress21 topic
  13. Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia11 topic
  14. Dental Anxiety11 topic
  15. Local Anesthetics11 topic
  16. Molecular Signaling11 topic
  17. Retinoic Acid11 topic
  18. Tooth Development11 topic

Where does Uma Palaniappan work?

Uma Palaniappan's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the South Pacific, Fiji.

How many publications and citations does Uma Palaniappan have?

OpenAlex counts 15 works and 471 citations for Uma Palaniappan, an h-index of 7, ranking #3,137,063 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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