O.K. Ale

University of Lagos

Publishing since 2009, latest 2026

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Epidemiology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Nephrology
Nutrition and Dietetics

Publications: 232009–2026
Citations: 137to those papers
h-index: 7i10-index 5
Field-weighted impact: 1.011.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 4%1 of 23 scored papers
Open access: 65%15 papers free to read

2 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

23 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

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine1670%
Epidemiology522%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health417%
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine417%
Nephrology313%
Nutrition and Dietetics313%
Geriatrics and Gerontology29%
Health Information Management29%
Surgery29%
Cancer Research14%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences

Topics most written on

Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies9
Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias3
Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes3
ECG Monitoring and Analysis3
Sodium Intake and Health3
Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity2
Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors2
Dialysis and Renal Disease Management2
Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention2
Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes2
Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments2
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy and Associated Phenomena2

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

35% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1223455Home

Most frequent partner countries

United States6
United Kingdom3
Ghana1
Uganda1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Lagos University Teaching HospitalNG17 papers
Lagos State University Teaching HospitalNG3 papers
Children's NationalUS2 papers
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical CenterUS2 papers
National Human Genome Research InstituteUS2 papers
National Institutes of HealthUS2 papers
University of IbadanNG2 papers
Obafemi Awolowo UniversityNG2 papers
Indiana University IndianapolisUS1 paper
King's College HospitalGB1 paper

Where they publish

PubMed3
Cardiovascular journal of South Africa/Cardiovascular journal of Southern Africa2
Journal of Clinical Sciences2
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical Genetics1
Annals of Palliative Medicine1
BMC Public Health1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being13
1No poverty4
17Partnerships for the goals2
2Zero hunger1
11Sustainable cities and communities1

Most cited

Echocardiographic screening of 4107 Nigerian school children for rheumatic heart disease
Tropical Medicine & International Health
201924 citationsOpen access · Green
Awareness of hypertension guidelines and the diagnosis and evaluation of hypertension by primary care physicians in Nigeria
Cardiovascular journal of South Africa/Cardiovascular journal of Southern Africa17
201721 citationsOpen access · Green
Congenital heart disease in school children in Lagos, Nigeria: Prevalence and the diagnostic gap

Medication nonadherence in Nigerian heart failure patients

2021Journal of Clinical SciencesJournalOpen accessFirst author6 citations10.4103/jcls.jcls_1_21

Anticoagulation in Pregnant Women with Mechanical Heart Valve Prostheses

2021Nigerian Postgraduate Medical JournalJournalOpen access2 citations10.4103/npmj.npmj_344_20

Congenital heart disease in school children in Lagos, Nigeria: Prevalence and the diagnostic gap

2020American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical GeneticsJournal19 citations10.1002/ajmg.c.31779

Echocardiographic screening of 4107 Nigerian school children for rheumatic heart disease

2019Tropical Medicine & International HealthJournalOpen access24 citations10.1111/tmi.13235

Awareness of hypertension guidelines and the diagnosis and evaluation of hypertension by primary care physicians in Nigeria

2017Cardiovascular journal of South Africa/Cardiovascular journal of Southern AfricaJournalOpen accessFirst author21 citations10.5830/cvja-2016-048

Hypertension treatment by primary care physicians in Lagos

2017Nigerian Journal of CardiologyJournalFirst authorCorresponding2 citations10.4103/0189-7969.201903

QT Dispersion in Healthy Adult Nigerians.

2016PubMedJournalFirst author0 citations

The approach of general practitioners in Lagos to the detection and evaluation of hypertension

2015Clinical HypertensionJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding2 citations10.1186/s40885-015-0017-6

Impact of prehypertension on left ventricular mass and QT dispersion in adult black Nigerians : cardiovascular topic

2014Cardiovascular journal of South Africa/Cardiovascular journal of Southern AfricaJournalOpen accessFirst author10 citations10.5830/cvja-2014-010

Clinical Hypertension1

How it can be read

65% free to read

Diamond 4 · 17%Free to read and to publish
Gold 6 · 26%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 2 · 9%Open in a subscription journal
Green 3 · 13%A copy in a repository
Closed 8 · 35%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

4 of 23 papers name a funder

Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London, University of London1
National Institutes of Health1
North Carolina Central University1
Servier1
Utah Department of Health1

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical Genetics

Trends in acute emergency room hypertension related deaths: an autopsy study.

PubMed3

200917 citations

Impact of prehypertension on left ventricular mass and QT dispersion in adult black Nigerians : cardiovascular topic

Cardiovascular journal of South Africa/Cardiovascular journal of Southern Africa3

201410 citationsOpen access · Green