Joseph Tuffour

University of Ghana

Also at Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Researchfrom their recent papers

Publishing since 2015, latest 2026

Epidemiology
Infectious Diseases
Surgery
Small Animals
Complementary and Manual Therapy

Their record on OpenAlex

Publications: 72015–2026
Citations: 52to those papers
h-index: 3i10-index 2
Field-weighted impact: 0.531.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 0%0 of 7 scored papers
Open access: 86%6 papers free to read

3 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

Career

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Publications

7 in all

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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

Subfields

Epidemiology7100%
Infectious Diseases457%
Surgery457%
Small Animals229%
Complementary and Manual Therapy114%

Health Sciences

Topics most written on

Mycobacterium research and diagnosis7
Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis4
Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology4
Infectious Diseases and Mycology2
Fungal Infections and Studies1
Therapeutic Uses of Natural Elements1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

71% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1122334Home

Most frequent partner countries

United Kingdom4
Ethiopia3
Vietnam1
Switzerland1
Zambia1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical ResearchGH7 papers
London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineGB4 papers
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGH4 papers
Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical MedicineGH3 papers
Armauer Hansen Research InstituteET3 papers
Korle Bu Teaching HospitalGH2 papers
Kwame Nkrumah UniversityZM2 papers
Ghana Health ServiceGH2 papers
Hospital for Tropical DiseasesVN1 paper
Swiss Tropical and Public Health InstituteCH1 paper

Where they publish

NIHR Open Research2
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene1
Clinical Medical Reviews and Case Reports1
Journal of Leukocyte Biology1
PLoS neglected tropical diseases1
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being3
14Life below water1

Most cited

Challenges Associated with Management of Buruli Ulcer/Human Immunodeficiency Virus Coinfection in a Treatment Center in Ghana: A Case Series Study
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene3
201523 citationsOpen access · Green
Challenges associated with the treatment of Buruli ulcer
Journal of Leukocyte Biology14
201816 citations
Additional files for BuruliRifDACC

2023NIHR Open ResearchJournalOpen access3 citations10.3310/nihropenres.13332.2

Additional files for BuruliRifDACC

2022Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)JournalOpen access6 citations10.5281/zenodo.7263509

Challenges associated with the treatment of Buruli ulcer

2018Journal of Leukocyte BiologyJournal16 citations10.1002/jlb.mr0318-128

How it can be read

86% free to read

Diamond 3 · 43%Free to read and to publish
Gold 1 · 14%In an open-access journal
Green 2 · 29%A copy in a repository
Closed 1 · 14%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

4 of 7 papers name a funder

National Institute for Health and Care Research3
Addis Ababa University1
Harvard University1
Medical Research Council1
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana1
World Health Organization1

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

20226 citationsOpen access · Green