Abayomi O. Somefun

University of Lagos

Also at Lagos University Teaching Hospitalfrom their recent papers

Publishing since 2001, latest 2024

Sensory Systems
Cognitive Neuroscience
Otorhinolaryngology
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Speech and Hearing
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

Their record on OpenAlex

Publications: 162001–2024
Citations: 233to those papers
h-index: 8i10-index 8
Field-weighted impact: 0.531.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 6%1 of 16 scored papers
Open access: 56%9 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

16 in all

Arytenoid adduction asymmetry among patients with laryngeal disorders
2024The Egyptian Journal of OtolaryngologyJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.1186/s43163-024-00591-8
Pattern of Indications for Tracheostomy in a Tertiary Hospital in South Western Nigeria
2023Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Sensory Systems531%
Cognitive Neuroscience425%
Otorhinolaryngology425%
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health425%
Speech and Hearing425%
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine319%
Surgery319%
Endocrine and Autonomic Systems213%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health213%
Health16%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics5
Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation4
Infant Development and Preterm Care3
Noise Effects and Management3
Head and Neck Cancer Studies2
Head and Neck Surgical Oncology2
Neonatal and fetal brain pathology2
Neuroscience of respiration and sleep2
Sinusitis and nasal conditions2
Biological Research and Disease Studies1
Cancer and biochemical research1
Dysphagia Assessment and Management1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

25% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1122334Home

Most frequent partner countries

United Kingdom4
South Africa1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Lagos University Teaching HospitalNG10 papers
Great Ormond Street HospitalGB4 papers
University College LondonGB4 papers
Babcock UniversityNG2 papers
University of Port HarcourtNG2 papers
University of PretoriaZA1 paper
Lagos State UniversityNG1 paper

Where they publish

Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal4
The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology2
Acta Paediatrica1
Annals of Tropical Paediatrics1
East African Medical Journal1
Head & Neck Oncology1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being6
17Partnerships for the goals3
1No poverty1
4Quality education1
11Sustainable cities and communities1

Most cited

Current evidence on the burden of head and neck cancers in Nigeria
Head & Neck Oncology3
200973 citationsOpen access · Hybrid
The Need for Standardization of Methods for Worldwide Infant Hearing Screening: A Systematic Review
The Laryngoscope17
200839 citationsOpen access · Bronze
Sensorineural hearing loss in infants with neonatal jaundice in Lagos: a community-based study

Adult onset otitis media with effusion in Lagos

2005Nigerian Postgraduate Medical JournalJournalOpen accessFirst author12 citations10.4103/1117-1936.175254

Malignant tumours of the nasopharynx at Jos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria

2003Nigerian Postgraduate Medical JournalJournalOpen accessSenior author8 citations10.4103/1117-1936.171759

Otorhinolaryngological manifestations of HIV/AIDS in Lagos

2001Nigerian Postgraduate Medical JournalJournalFirst author11 citations10.4103/1117-1936.170925

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health1

How it can be read

56% free to read

Diamond 3 · 19%Free to read and to publish
Gold 1 · 6%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 2 · 13%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 2 · 13%Free to read, no open licence
Green 1 · 6%A copy in a repository
Closed 7 · 44%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

1 of 16 papers name a funder

Oticon Fonden1

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics3

200929 citationsWorld top 10%