Vivian Etsiapa Boamah

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Associate Professor, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, since 2010per ORCID

Publishing since 2011, latest 2026

Prof. Vivian Etsiapa Boamah is an Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutics (Pharmaceutical Microbiology Section) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). She is a registered Pharmacist and holds a Master of Education (Higher Education Pedagogy), and Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and PhD in Pharmaceutical Microbiology. She has close to 2 decades experience in teaching and collaborative research. Her research interests include… More on ORCID

Plant Science
Food Science
Molecular Biology
Molecular Medicine
Pollution
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

In their own words

Antimicrobial resistance
Molecular biology
Microbial quality assurance
Antimicrobial Resistance| Antimicrobial Stewardship | One Health Concept
Resistant gene transfer | Environmental Microbiology | IPC
GMP | Microbial QC & QA | Natural Products Research
NTDs | Secondary microbial infections | Wound research
Plasmids |Resistant gene transfer | Microbiomics | Biofilm

Publications: 512011–2026
Citations: 1,000to those papers
h-index: 17i10-index 25
Field-weighted impact: 3.261.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 26%10 of 38 scored papers
Open access: 87%33 of the 38 whose access is recorded

20 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.

Google Scholar shows 1,692 citations, h-index 20 and i10-index 30 (1,346 citations and h-index 17 since 2021), as of October 10, 2026. It also counts theses, books and web pages, so it runs higher.

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical MicrobiologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologysince 2010

Education

MEd (Higher Education Pedagogy)KNUST
PharmacistKNUST
PhD Pharmaceutical MicrobiologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
CREST ONLINE TRAINING COURSE FOR SUPERVISORS OF DOCTORAL CANDIDATES AT AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES, Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST)Stellenbosch University

Publications

51 in all

Antibacterial and free radical scavenging activity of duranta plumieri, linn
2011International Journal of Pharmaceutical Science ResearchJournalSenior author6 citations

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Plant Science1020%
Food Science816%
Molecular Biology816%
Molecular Medicine816%
Pollution612%
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology510%
Infectious Diseases510%
Forestry48%
Parasitology48%
Pharmacology48%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences

Topics most written on

Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria8
Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies7
Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts6
Antibiotic Use and Resistance5
African Botany and Ecology Studies4
Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity4
Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis4
Parasites and Host Interactions4
Aquaculture disease management and microbiota2
Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing2
Biological Research and Disease Studies2
Fecal contamination and water quality2

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

13% of their 38 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1111111Home

Most frequent partner countries

Australia1
China1
Denmark1
United Kingdom1
Turkey1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of Health and Allied SciencesGH9 papers
University of GhanaGH3 papers
University of Cape CoastGH3 papers
Kwame Nkrumah UniversityZM2 papers
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical ResearchGH2 papers
Dr. Hilla Limann Technical UniversityGH2 papers
Kumasi Technical UniversityGH2 papers
Chengdu Institute of BiologyCN1 paper
Chinese Academy of SciencesCN1 paper
Kirby InstituteAU1 paper

Where they publish

Journal of Chemistry3
BMC Microbiology2
Current Bioactive Compounds2
Environmental Health Insights2
Heliyon2
Scientifica2
South African Journal of Botany

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being9
14Life below water4
15Life on land4
2Zero hunger3
1No poverty2
6Clean water and sanitation2
11Sustainable cities and communities2
8

Most cited

Antibiotic Use in Poultry Production and Its Effects on Bacterial Resistance
IntechOpen eBooks
2019241 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid
Knowledge of preeclampsia and its associated factors among pregnant women: a possible link to reduce related adverse outcomes
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth3
2019100 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold

How it can be read

87% free to read, of the 38 recorded

Diamond 8 · 16%Free to read and to publish
Gold 20 · 39%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 5 · 10%Open in a subscription journal
Closed 5 · 10%Behind a paywall
Unknown 13 · 25%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

16 of 51 papers name a funder

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology8
Danish International Development Agency2
International Foundation for Science2
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana2
Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World2
International Foundation for Science1
Leverhulme Trust1
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization1