Samuel Osei Mireku

Presbyterian University, Ghana

Publishing since 2014, latest 2025

Epidemiology
Infectious Diseases
Small Animals
Surgery
Archeology
Genetics

Their record on OpenAlex

Publications: 72014–2025
Citations: 222to those papers
h-index: 4i10-index 3
Field-weighted impact: 2.901.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 29%2 of 7 scored papers
Open access: 100%7 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

7 in all

Micronutrient-deficient diets and possible environmental enteric dysfunction in Buruli ulcer endemic communities in Ghana: Lower dietary diversity and reduced serum zinc and vitamin C implicate micronutrient status a possible susceptibility factor
2025PLoS neglected tropical diseasesJournalOpen access2 citations10.1371/journal.pntd.0012871
Pharmacokinetics of extended-release clarithromycin in patients with Mycobacterium ulcerans infection

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Epidemiology457%
Infectious Diseases457%
Small Animals229%
Surgery229%
Archeology114%
Genetics114%
Organic Chemistry114%
Parasitology114%
Pharmacology114%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health114%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Mycobacterium research and diagnosis4
Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology3
Infectious Diseases and Mycology2
Cultural Competency in Health Care1
Dermatological diseases and infestations1
Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis1
Healthcare and Venom Research1
Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis1
Malaria Research and Control1
Mosquito-borne diseases and control1
Paleopathology and ancient diseases1
Parasites and Host Interactions1

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 Kingdom5
Netherlands5
Switzerland2
Germany2
United States1
France1
Australia1
Benin1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGH6 papers
University Medical Center GroningenNL5 papers
University of GroningenNL4 papers
Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical MedicineGH4 papers
Liverpool School of Tropical MedicineGB3 papers
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical MedicineDE2 papers
World Health OrganizationCH2 papers
Ghana Health ServiceGH2 papers
Komfo Anokye Teaching HospitalGH2 papers
German Center for Infection ResearchDE1 paper

Where they publish

PLoS neglected tropical diseases2
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene1
Open Forum Infectious Diseases1
Scientific Reports1
The Lancet1
Tropical Medicine & International Health1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being4
1No poverty2
2Zero hunger1

Most cited

Rifampicin and clarithromycin (extended release) versus rifampicin and streptomycin for limited Buruli ulcer lesions: a randomised, open-label, non-inferiority phase 3 trial
The Lancet3
2020114 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid
‘The medicine is not for sale’: Practices of traditional healers in snakebite envenoming in Ghana
PLoS neglected tropical diseases1
202151 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold