Ekua Essumanma Houphouet

Ghana Health Service

Also at AIDS Healthcare Foundation and AIDS Healthcare Foundationfrom their recent papers

Publishing since 2018, latest 2024

Infectious Diseases
Epidemiology
Language and Linguistics
Virology
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Emergency Medicine

Their record on OpenAlex

Publications: 72018–2024
Citations: 79to those papers
h-index: 4i10-index 2
Field-weighted impact: 0.711.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 0%0 of 7 scored papers
Open access: 71%5 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

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

Career

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Publications

7 in all

Outbreak Response to Circulating Vaccine‐Derived Poliovirus in Three Northern Regions of Ghana, 2019
2024BioMed Research InternationalJournalOpen access2 citations10.1155/2024/5515777
Incidence of Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza among HIV-Infected versus HIV-Uninfected Individuals in Two Districts of Ghana, 2014 to 2016
2021

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From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Infectious Diseases457%
Epidemiology229%
Language and Linguistics229%
Virology229%
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine114%
Emergency Medicine114%
Endocrinology114%
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology114%
General Health Professions114%
Health114%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

HIV Research and Treatment2
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies2
Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research1
Crime, Deviance, and Social Control1
Hepatitis B Virus Studies1
HIV-related health complications and treatments1
HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions1
Infection Control in Healthcare1
Influenza Virus Research Studies1
Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare1
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition1
Linguistics and Discourse Analysis1

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-written1111222Home

Most frequent partner countries

Australia2
United States2
Switzerland1
Nigeria1
Uganda1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of GhanaGH7 papers
Griffith UniversityAU2 papers
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical ResearchGH2 papers
Centers for Disease Control and PreventionUS1 paper
Columbia UniversityUS1 paper
Emory UniversityUS1 paper
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory DiseasesUS1 paper
World Health OrganizationCH1 paper
Ministry of HealthGH1 paper
Ghana College of Physicians and SurgeonsGH1 paper

Where they publish

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene1
BioMed Research International1
Communication & Medicine1
Ghana Medical Journal1
International Health1
International Journal of Language and Culture1
Pan African Medical Journal1

How it can be read

71% free to read

Diamond 1 · 14%Free to read and to publish
Gold 1 · 14%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 1 · 14%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 1 · 14%Free to read, no open licence
Green

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being3
4Quality education2
6Clean water and sanitation1
14Life below water1

Most cited

Hepatitis B vaccine uptake among healthcare workers in a referral hospital, Accra
Pan African Medical Journal3
201936 citationsOpen access · Gold
Protracted cholera outbreak in the Central Region, Ghana, 2016
Ghana Medical Journal14
202020 citationsOpen access · Diamond
Risk factors for loss to follow-up in human immunodeficiency virus care in the Greater Accra Regional Hospital in Ghana: a retrospective cohort study
International Health3
20199 citationsOpen access · Bronze
“Insanity is from home”
International Journal of Language and Culture4
20186 citations
Interactions in psychiatric care consultation in Akan speaking communities
Communication & Medicine4
20194 citations

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Protracted cholera outbreak in the Central Region, Ghana, 2016

2020Ghana Medical JournalJournalOpen access20 citations10.4314/gmj.v54i2s.8

“Insanity is from home”

2018International Journal of Language and CultureJournal6 citations10.1075/ijolc.16016.amf

A copy in a repository

Closed 2 · 29%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

2 of 7 papers name a funder

Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana1
University of Ghana1
World Health Organization1