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Researcher · African Palliative Care Association · Uganda

Wilson Acuda

Wilson Acuda publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Clinical Psychology and Epidemiology, on topics such as Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, Family Caregiving in Mental Illness and Mental Health Treatment and Access.

ORCID 0000-0001-9792-7168 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,837,271
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Uganda
#1,696
of 3,724
Works
20
Citations
708
Citations per work
35.4
h-index
8
i10-index 8Top 66% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Wilson Acuda

What does Wilson Acuda research?

Wilson Acuda's work is mostly in Medicine (48%), Psychology (25%), Health Professions (6%).

Health Sciences: 11 works · 53.8% of their workMedicine: 10 works · 48.0% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 5 works · 26.9% of their workEpidemiology: 2 works · 11.5% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 works · 9.6% of their workHealth Professions: 1 works · 5.8% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 1 works · 5.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 5 works · 25.0% of their workPsychology: 5 works · 25.0% of their workClinical Psychology: 3 works · 15.4% of their workSocial Psychology: 2 works · 9.6% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 21.2% of their workTHEIR WORKWilson Acuda20works
Health Sciences54%Social Sciences25%

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. Medicine1048.0%
    2. Health Professions15.8%
    1. Psychology525.0%
  3. Everything else421.2%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health27% of their works
  2. 2Clinical Psychology15% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology12% of their works
  4. 4Psychiatry and Mental health10% of their works
  5. 5Social Psychology10% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wilson Acuda's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Psychological Distress, End-of-Life, Palliative Care, Quality of Life, Substance Use Disorders, Caregiver Burden, Family Caregivers and Mental Disorders.

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. Psychological Distress102 topics
  2. End-of-Life71 topic
  3. Palliative Care71 topic
  4. Quality of Life72 topics
  5. Substance Use Disorders72 topics
  6. Caregiver Burden51 topic
  7. Family Caregivers51 topic
  8. Mental Disorders51 topic
  9. Stigma51 topic
  10. Alcohol Dependence41 topic
  11. Antipsychotic Drugs41 topic
  12. Motivational Interviewing41 topic
  13. Neurocognitive Deficits41 topic
  14. Chronic Pain Management31 topic
  15. Opioid Prescribing31 topic
  16. Cancer Pain21 topic
  17. Ethical Climate21 topic
  18. Moral Distress21 topic
  19. Pain Management21 topic

Where does Wilson Acuda work?

Wilson Acuda's main affiliation in the publication record is African Palliative Care Association, Uganda.

How many publications and citations does Wilson Acuda have?

OpenAlex counts 20 works and 708 citations for Wilson Acuda, an h-index of 8, ranking #2,837,271 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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