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Researcher · Ministry of Public Health · Lebanon

Walid Ammar

Walid Ammar publishes mostly in General Health Professions, Epidemiology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, on topics such as Global Maternal and Child Health, Healthcare Systems and Reforms and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology.

ORCID 0000-0003-3985-8795 OpenAlex
World rank
#124,427
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Lebanon
#29
of 3,887
Works
154
Citations
117k
Citations per work
758.5
h-index
43
i10-index 80Top 2% in General Health Professions
Walid Ammar

What does Walid Ammar research?

Walid Ammar's work is mostly in Medicine (23%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (14%), Health Professions (11%).

Everything else: 79 works · 51.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 53 works · 34.2% of their workMedicine: 35 works · 22.9% of their workEpidemiology: 14 works · 9.3% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 14 works · 9.0% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 7 works · 4.6% of their workHealth Professions: 17 works · 11.3% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 17 works · 11.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 22 works · 14.4% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 22 works · 14.4% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 12 works · 8.1% of their workFinance: 10 works · 6.3% of their workTHEIR WORKWalid Ammar154works
Health Sciences34%Social Sciences14%

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 else7951.4%
    1. Medicine3522.9%
    2. Health Professions1711.3%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2214.4%
  1. 1General Health Professions11% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology9% of their works
  3. 3Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health9% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics8% of their works
  5. 5Finance6% of their works
  6. 6Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walid Ammar's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Child Mortality, Maternal Mortality, Health Financing, Universal Coverage, Life Expectancy, Corporate Political Activity, Non-Communicable Diseases and Ageing Population.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Child Mortality361 topic
  2. Maternal Mortality361 topic
  3. Health Financing271 topic
  4. Universal Coverage271 topic
  5. Life Expectancy222 topics
  6. Corporate Political Activity171 topic
  7. Non-Communicable Diseases171 topic
  8. Ageing Population141 topic
  9. Health Care Expenditure141 topic
  10. Cost-effectiveness Analysis121 topic
  11. Quality of Life121 topic
  12. Health Care Spending111 topic
  13. Insurance Markets111 topic
  14. Immigrant101 topic
  15. Refugee101 topic
  16. Mortality Forecasting81 topic
  17. Population Ageing81 topic

Where does Walid Ammar work?

Walid Ammar's main affiliation in the publication record is Ministry of Public Health, Lebanon.

How many publications and citations does Walid Ammar have?

OpenAlex counts 154 works and 116,807 citations for Walid Ammar, an h-index of 43, ranking #124,427 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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