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Iruka N. Okeke

Iruka N. Okeke

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
50
Citations
11295
World Ranking
4409
National Ranking
2

Iruka N. Okeke publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Iruka N. Okeke sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 209 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Iruka N. Okeke D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Iruka N. Okeke sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Best Publications

  • Antimicrobial resistance in developing countries. Part I: recent trends and current status

    Iruka N Okeke;Ramanan Laxminarayan;Zulfiqar A Bhutta;Adriano G Duse

  • Non-prescription antimicrobial use worldwide: a systematic review

    Daniel J Morgan;Iruka N Okeke;Ramanan Laxminarayan;Ramanan Laxminarayan;Ramanan Laxminarayan;Eli N Perencevich

  • Socioeconomic and behavioral factors leading to acquired bacterial resistance to antibiotics in developing countries.

    Iruka N. Okeke;Adebayo Lamikanra;Robert Edelman

  • Antimicrobial resistance in developing countries. Part II: strategies for containment

    Iruka N Okeke;Keith P Klugman;Zulfiqar A Bhutta;Adriano G Duse

  • The scope of the antimicrobial resistance challenge

    Unknown

  • Growing problem of Multidrug-Resistant enteric pathogens in Africa

    Unknown

  • Antimicrobial resistance in developing countries

    Aníbal De J. Sosa;Denis K. Byarugaba;Carlos F. Amabile-Cuevas;Po Ren Hsueh

  • Characterization of Escherichia coli Strains from Cases of Childhood Diarrhea in Provincial Southwestern Nigeria

    Iruka N. Okeke;Iruka N. Okeke;Adebayo Lamikanra;Hartmut Steinrück;James B. Kaper

  • A bottom-up view of antimicrobial resistance transmission in developing countries

    Unknown

  • Heterogeneous Virulence of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from Children in Southwest Nigeria

    Iruka N. Okeke;Adebayo Lamikanra;John Czeczulin;Filip Dubovsky

  • Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli in sub-Saharan Africa: status, uncertainties and necessities.

    Unknown

  • espC Pathogenicity Island of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Encodes an Enterotoxin

    Jay L. Mellies;Fernando Navarro-Garcia;Iruka Okeke;Julie Frederickson

  • Antibacterial activity of aqueous extracts of selected chewing sticks.

    Unknown

  • Rapid Genomic Characterization and Global Surveillance of Klebsiella Using Pathogenwatch.

    Silvia Argimón;Sophia David;Anthony Underwood;Monica Abrudan

  • Antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli from Nigerian students, 1986 1998.

    Unknown

  • Antibiotic resistance of faecal Escherichia coli from healthy volunteers from eight developing countries

    S. Nys;I. N. Okeke;S. Kariuki;G. J. Dinant

  • Dissemination of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria across Geographic Borders

    Iruka N. Okeke;Robert Edelman

  • Who is telling the story? A systematic review of authorship for infectious disease research conducted in Africa, 1980–2016

    Rose Mbaye;Redeat Gebeyehu;Stefanie Hossmann;Nicole Mbarga

  • Cholera outbreaks in Nigeria are associated with multidrug resistant atypical El Tor and non-O1/non-O139 Vibrio cholerae.

    Unknown

  • The incidence and prevalence of hospital-acquired (carbapenem-resistant) Acinetobacter baumannii in Europe, Eastern Mediterranean and Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Aanensen
David M. Aanensen University of Oxford
James B. Kaper
James B. Kaper University of Maryland, Baltimore
John Wain
John Wain University of East Anglia
Direk Limmathurotsakul
Direk Limmathurotsakul Mahidol University
Stephen Baker
Stephen Baker Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Jan Jacobs
Jan Jacobs KU Leuven
Ramanan Laxminarayan
Ramanan Laxminarayan Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy
Anders Dalsgaard
Anders Dalsgaard University of Copenhagen
Samuel Kariuki
Samuel Kariuki Kenya Medical Research Institute
Sharon J. Peacock
Sharon J. Peacock University of Cambridge

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