Evangeline Obodai

University of Ghana

Also at Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Researchfrom their recent papers

Publishing since 2012, latest 2026

Infectious Diseases
Epidemiology
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Modeling and Simulation
Genetics

Publications: 432012–2026
Citations: 2,511to those papers
h-index: 13i10-index 20
Field-weighted impact: 6.461.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 12%5 of 43 scored papers
Open access: 95%41 papers free to read

7 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

Career

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Publications

43 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

Infectious Diseases3070%
Epidemiology1637%
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine1433%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health614%
Modeling and Simulation49%
Genetics37%
Molecular Biology37%
Pathology and Forensic Medicine37%
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine37%
Agronomy and Crop Science25%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences

Topics most written on

Viral Infections and Immunology Research14
Respiratory viral infections research13
Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology12
SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing8
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research7
COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies6
Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research5
COVID-19 epidemiological studies4
Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections4
Mosquito-borne diseases and control3
Virology and Viral Diseases3
Whipple's Disease and Interleukins3

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

51% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written2345678Home

Most frequent partner countries

United States10
Switzerland6
United Kingdom6
Netherlands4
France4
Russia2
Kenya2
Japan2

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical ResearchGH41 papers
Ghana Health ServiceGH11 papers
Korle Bu Teaching HospitalGH7 papers
World Health OrganizationCH6 papers
University of Ghana Medical CentreGH6 papers
West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious PathogensGH6 papers
Ministry of HealthGH5 papers
University Medical Center UtrechtNL4 papers
Utrecht UniversityNL3 papers
Centers for Disease Control and PreventionUS3 papers

Where they publish

Ghana Medical Journal4
BioMed Research International3
Pan African Medical Journal3
BMC Infectious Diseases2
Frontiers in Public Health2
PLoS ONE2
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being23
6Clean water and sanitation6
17Partnerships for the goals3
1No poverty1

Most cited

Global, regional, and national disease burden estimates of acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in children younger than 5 years in 2019: a systematic analysis
The Lancet
20222,033 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid
Global Respiratory Syncytial Virus–Related Infant Community Deaths
Clinical Infectious Diseases
202161 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid
Evaluation of AFP surveillance indicators in polio-free Ghana, 2009–2013

Frontiers in Public Health

Polio eradication in Ghana: past, present, and future

2025Frontiers in Tropical DiseasesJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding0 citations10.3389/fitd.2025.1577945

First Molecular Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Sewage and Wastewater in Ghana

2024BioMed Research InternationalJournalOpen accessCorresponding5 citations10.1155/2024/9975781

Outbreak Response to Circulating Vaccine‐Derived Poliovirus in Three Northern Regions of Ghana, 2019

2024BioMed Research InternationalJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding2 citations10.1155/2024/5515777

Marburg Virus Disease in Ghana

2023New England Journal of MedicineJournal15 citations10.1056/nejmc2300867

Delayed SARS-COV-2 clearance in infected persons in Ghana

2023Ghana Medical JournalJournalOpen access0 citations10.4314/gmj.v57i2.3

Environmental Surveillance of Poliovirus in Four Districts within Two Regions of Ghana

2022Journal of Biomedical Research & Environmental SciencesJournalOpen access3 citations10.37871/jbres1514

Global Respiratory Syncytial Virus–Related Infant Community Deaths

2021Clinical Infectious DiseasesJournalOpen access61 citations10.1093/cid/ciab528

Genomic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 reveals local viral evolution in Ghana

2020Experimental Biology and MedicineJournalOpen access32 citations10.1177/1535370220975351

Human Enteroviruses implicated in acute flaccid paralysis in Ghana.

2012DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)JournalOpen access0 citations10.11604/pamj.2012.12.74.1602

Advances in Research1

How it can be read

95% free to read

Diamond 9 · 21%Free to read and to publish
Gold 22 · 51%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 6 · 14%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 2 · 5%Free to read, no open licence
Green 2 · 5%A copy in a repository
Closed 2 · 5%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

27 of 43 papers name a funder

Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana12
University of Ghana12
World Health Organization8
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention3
Francis Crick Institute3
Wellcome Trust3
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation2
Department of Health and Social Care2

201451 citationsOpen access · Gold

Genomic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 reveals local viral evolution in Ghana

Experimental Biology and Medicine3

202032 citationsOpen access · Hybrid