Joe K. Mutungi

University of Ghana

Research Fellow, University of Ghana, since 2019per ORCID

Publishing since 2019, latest 2025

Infectious Diseases
Molecular Biology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Animal Science and Zoology
Epidemiology
Health

Publications: 72019–2025
Citations: 129to those papers
h-index: 5i10-index 5
Field-weighted impact: 2.071.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 29%2 of 7 scored papers
Open access: 86%6 papers free to read

4 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress

Citations received each year

Peerford

To all their work, old papers included. Google Scholar also counts citations from theses, books and web pages, so its line runs higher.

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Research Fellow, West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP)University of Ghanasince 2019
Post-Doctoral Research fellow, Directorate Of Research and DevelopmentMount Kenya University2018–2019
Postdoctoral fellow (Project Researcher), Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of Tokyo2015–2018
Postdoctoral fellow, Protozoology-MalariaNagasaki University2014–2015

Education

PhD in Medical Sciences in Infection Research

Publications

7 in all

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Subfields

Infectious Diseases571%
Molecular Biology343%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health229%
Animal Science and Zoology114%
Epidemiology114%
Health114%
Hematology114%
Immunology114%
Modeling and Simulation114%
Parasitology114%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research4
Malaria Research and Control2
Mosquito-borne diseases and control2
Animal Virus Infections Studies1
Aquaculture disease management and microbiota1
Autophagy in Disease and Therapy1
Blood groups and transfusion1
COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies1
COVID-19 epidemiological studies1
Gut microbiota and health1
Plant Virus Research Studies1
SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing1

Who they write with

Their most frequent co-authors, and the papers those co-authors share

Where their co-authors are

100% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

United Kingdom6
France2
United States1
Nigeria1
Japan1
India1
China1
Gambia1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious PathogensGH7 papers
The Francis Crick InstituteGB5 papers
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical ResearchGH5 papers
University of CambridgeGB2 papers
Santé Internationale de la mère et de l'enfantFR2 papers
University of Cape CoastGH2 papers
Cape Coast Teaching HospitalGH2 papers
Kyoto UniversityJP1 paper
Liverpool School of Tropical MedicineGB1 paper
Maharaja Sayajirao University of BarodaIN1 paper

Where they publish

BMC Medicine1
Cell Reports1
Cells1
Experimental Biology and Medicine1
Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy1
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology1
PLoS ONE1

How it can be read

86% free to read

Gold 4 · 57%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 2 · 29%Open in a subscription journal
Closed 1 · 14%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

6 of 7 papers name a funder

Francis Crick Institute4
Wellcome Trust3
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being5
2Zero hunger1

Master of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmaceutical sciencesNagasaki University2008–2010

BSc in Biomedical Sciences and Technology; First Class Honours, Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyEgerton University1999–2005

Honours, memberships and service

Postdoctoral, WACCBIP, Univ of GhanaSociety for Experimental Biology and Medicinesince 2020
Japanese Society of Tropical Medicinesince 2014
Japanese Society of Parasitologysince 2010

Genomic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 reveals local viral evolution in Ghana

2020Experimental Biology and MedicineJournalOpen access32 citations10.1177/1535370220975351

African Academy of Sciences1

Central Board of Irrgation and Power1