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Researcher · Mbarara University of Science and Technology · Uganda

Yap Boum

Yap Boum publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology, on topics such as HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research and Malaria Research and Control.

ORCID 0000-0002-6823-8539 OpenAlex
World rank
#449,362
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Uganda
#176
of 3,724
Works
272
Citations
6.7k
Citations per work
24.8
h-index
40
i10-index 136Top 5% in Infectious Diseases
Yap Boum

What does Yap Boum research?

Yap Boum's work is mostly in Medicine (47%), Immunology and Microbiology (8%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (4%).

Health Sciences: 128 works · 47.2% of their workMedicine: 128 works · 47.2% of their workInfectious Diseases: 66 works · 24.1% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 34 works · 12.6% of their workEpidemiology: 21 works · 7.6% of their workSurgery: 8 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 111 works · 40.8% of their workLife Sciences: 33 works · 12.0% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 21 works · 7.6% of their workVirology: 21 works · 7.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 12 works · 4.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 12 works · 4.4% of their workTHEIR WORKYap Boum272works
Life Sciences12%Health Sciences47%

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. Medicine12847.2%
  2. Everything else11140.8%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology217.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology124.4%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases24% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health13% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology8% of their works
  4. 4Virology8% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology4% of their works
  6. 6Surgery3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Yap Boum's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Vaccine, Immune Response, Antiretroviral Therapy, Epidemiology, Viral Transmission, Drug Resistance, HIV Transmission and Preexposure Prophylaxis.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Vaccine1094 topics
  2. Immune Response813 topics
  3. Antiretroviral Therapy803 topics
  4. Epidemiology542 topics
  5. Viral Transmission512 topics
  6. Drug Resistance442 topics
  7. HIV Transmission341 topic
  8. Preexposure Prophylaxis341 topic
  9. Artemisinin Resistance291 topic
  10. Ebola Virus291 topic
  11. Outbreak291 topic
  12. Plasmodium falciparum291 topic
  13. Coronavirus281 topic
  14. SARS-CoV-2281 topic
  15. AIDS271 topic
  16. HIV271 topic
  17. Mycobacterium tuberculosis251 topic
  18. Tuberculosis251 topic
  19. Monkeypox Virus231 topic
  20. Smallpox Vaccination231 topic
  21. HIV Infection191 topic
  22. Integrase Inhibitors191 topic

Where does Yap Boum work?

Yap Boum's main affiliation in the publication record is Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda.

How many publications and citations does Yap Boum have?

OpenAlex counts 272 works and 6,741 citations for Yap Boum, an h-index of 40, ranking #449,362 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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