Cynthia Amaning Danquah

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Also at University of Health and Allied Sciencesfrom their recent papers

Publishing since 2009, latest 2026

PROFILE OF PROFESSOR CYNTHIA AMANING DANQUAH BPharm, MPhil (Kumasi), PhD (London), MPSGH, MRSC Professor Cynthia Amaning Danquah, is an Associate Professor in Pharmacology and current head of the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. She obtained her PhD in Natural Product Drug Discovery from the School of Pharmacy, University… More on ORCID

Organic Chemistry
Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Plant Science
Food Science
Pharmacology

In their own words

Antimicrobial Resistance
Natural product drug discovery
Inflammopharmacology
Infectious diseases

Publications: 822009–2026
Citations: 856to those papers
h-index: 16i10-index 36
Field-weighted impact: 1.751.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 24%14 of 58 scored papers
Open access: 93%54 of the 58 whose access is recorded

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

Google Scholar shows 888 citations, h-index 17 and i10-index 36 (711 citations and h-index 16 since 2021), as of October 10, 2026. It also counts theses, books and web pages, so it runs higher.

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

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

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Head of Pharmacology, Department of PharmacologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Health Sciences: Kumasi, Ashanti, GH2023–2025
Associate Professor in Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical SciencesKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Health Sciences: Kumasi, Ashanti, GH2021–2025
Senior Lecturer, Department of PharmacologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Health Sciences: Kumasi, Ashanti, GH2014–2021
lecturer, Department of PharmacologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Health Sciences2009–2014

Education

Publications

82 in all

Natural Products as Antibiofilm
2022Focus on bacterial biofilmsJournalFirst author16 citations
Self-Medication and Antimicrobial Resistance: A Survey of Students Studying Healthcare Programmes at a Tertiary Institution in Ghana
2021Frontiers in Public HealthJournalOpen access46 citations10.3389/fpubh.2021.706290

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Organic Chemistry1822%
Molecular Biology1417%
Pharmacology1417%
Plant Science1113%
Food Science1012%
Pharmacology1012%
Complementary and alternative medicine67%
Infectious Diseases67%
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology45%
Computational Theory and Mathematics45%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences

Topics most written on

Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity10
Chemical synthesis and alkaloids9
Alkaloids: synthesis and pharmacology8
Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing5
Phytochemistry and Bioactivity Studies5
Synthesis and biological activity5
Andrographolide Research and Applications4
Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria4
Antibiotic Use and Resistance4
Computational Drug Discovery Methods4
Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies4
Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis4

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

31% of their 58 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1234567Home

Most frequent partner countries

South Africa7
United Kingdom7
United States3
Sierra Leone3
Switzerland2
Nigeria2
Namibia1
Togo1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of Health and Allied SciencesGH17 papers
Central UniversityGH11 papers
University of Cape CoastGH7 papers
University of PretoriaZA6 papers
Dr. Hilla Limann Technical UniversityGH5 papers
University of GhanaGH5 papers
Institute of Structural and Molecular BiologyGB3 papers
Birkbeck, University of LondonGB3 papers
Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical MedicineGH3 papers
Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic HospitalZA3 papers

Where they publish

Scientific African7
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY4
Antibiotics3
IntechOpen eBooks3
Scientific Reports3
Frontiers in Pharmacology2
Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being22
2Zero hunger5
4Quality education2
14Life below water2
15Life on land2
1No poverty1
6Clean water and sanitation1

Most cited

Antimicrobial Compounds from Microorganisms
Antibiotics3
202292 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
HT‐SPOTi: a rapid drug susceptibility test (DST) to evaluate antibiotic resistance profiles and novel chemicals for anti‐infective drug discovery
Current protocols in microbiology
201657 citations
The anthelmintic activity of vernonia amygdalina (asteraceae) and alstonia Boonei de wild (apocynaceae)

How it can be read

93% free to read, of the 58 recorded

Diamond 12 · 15%Free to read and to publish
Gold 32 · 39%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 9 · 11%Open in a subscription journal
Green 1 · 1%A copy in a repository
Closed 4 · 5%Behind a paywall
Unknown 24 · 29%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

25 of 82 papers name a funder

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology22
University of Health and Allied Sciences7
Novartis Pharma2
AstraZeneca1
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas1
Department of Science and Innovation, South Africa1
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India1
Michigan Technological University1