Sylvia Deganus

Ghana Health Service

Publishing since 2000, latest 2026

Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
General Health Professions
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
Epidemiology

Their record on OpenAlex

Publications: 92000–2026
Citations: 385to those papers
h-index: 7i10-index 7
Field-weighted impact: 5.311.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 67%6 of 9 scored papers
Open access: 67%6 papers free to read

1 other work — a preprint, a dataset or the like — is 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

Career

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Publications

9 in all

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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

Subfields

Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health778%
Obstetrics and Gynecology444%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health333%
General Health Professions222%
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine111%
Epidemiology111%
Infectious Diseases111%
Microbiology111%
Nutrition and Dietetics111%
Speech and Hearing111%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences

Topics most written on

Global Maternal and Child Health5
Maternal and fetal healthcare4
COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction3
Cervical Cancer and HPV Research1
Child Nutrition and Water Access1
Ectopic Pregnancy Diagnosis and Management1
Global Health and Surgery1
Health Policy Implementation Science1
Infant Development and Preterm Care1
Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare1
Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions1
Neonatal skin health care1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

89% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

United Kingdom4
United States3
Burkina Faso2
Congo2
Switzerland2
Burundi1
Kenya1
Sweden1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University College LondonGB2 papers
World Health Organization Regional Office for AfricaCG2 papers
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical CenterUS1 paper
JhpiegoUS1 paper
Johns Hopkins MedicineUS1 paper
Johns Hopkins UniversityUS1 paper
London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineGB1 paper
Program for Appropriate Technology in HealthUS1 paper
Swiss Tropical and Public Health InstituteCH1 paper
Umeå UniversitySE1 paper

Where they publish

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics2
African Journal of Reproductive Health1
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology1
Annals of Tropical Paediatrics1
BMJ Global Health1
BMJ Open1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being4
1No poverty1

Most cited

Cervical cancer prevention: safety, acceptability, and feasibility of a single-visit approach in Accra, Ghana
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology3
2007136 citationsWorld top 10%
Revealing the burden of maternal mortality: a probabilistic model for determining pregnancy-related causes of death from verbal autopsies
Population Health Metrics3
2007100 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold

Implementation Science Communications

Population Health Metrics1

How it can be read

67% free to read

Diamond 1 · 11%Free to read and to publish
Gold 4 · 44%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 1 · 11%Open in a subscription journal
Closed 3 · 33%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

5 of 9 papers name a funder

Department for International Development2
United States Agency for International Development2
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation1
European Commission1
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office1
Government of the United Kingdom1
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill1
Wake Forest University1

201664 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid

Newborn care: the effect of a traditional illness,asram, in Ghana

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics3

201028 citations