O. F Aina

University of Lagos

Publishing since 1996, latest 2025

Clinical Psychology
Epidemiology
Social Psychology
General Health Professions
Psychiatry and Mental health
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

Their record on OpenAlex

Publications: 321996–2025
Citations: 587to those papers
h-index: 13i10-index 18
Field-weighted impact: 0.531.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 0%0 of 32 scored papers
Open access: 69%22 papers free to read

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

32 in all

Effect of Educational Intervention on Knowledge and Perception of Mortuary Workers in Selected Health Facilities in South-West Nigeria (Mortuary)
2025African Journal of Health Nursing and MidwiferyJournalOpen accessFirst author0 citations10.52589/ajhnm-sn86rmx2
From margins to mainstream: policy interventions and cultural realities of the informal waste sector in Nigeria

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Clinical Psychology1238%
Epidemiology825%
Social Psychology825%
General Health Professions722%
Psychiatry and Mental health722%
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health516%
Cognitive Neuroscience39%
Philosophy39%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health39%
Developmental and Educational Psychology26%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Mental Health Treatment and Access7
Epilepsy research and treatment4
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health3
Infant Development and Preterm Care3
Mental Health and Psychiatry3
Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes3
Acute Ischemic Stroke Management2
Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies2
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development2
Children's Physical and Motor Development2
Family and Disability Support Research2
Family Caregiving in Mental Illness2

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

0% of their papers have a co-author abroad

Most frequent partner countries

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Federal Neuro Psychiatric HospitalNG9 papers
Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals ComplexNG2 papers
Lagos University Teaching HospitalNG2 papers
Obafemi Awolowo UniversityNG2 papers
Babcock UniversityNG2 papers
University College Hospital, IbadanNG1 paper
University of BeninNG1 paper
Federal Medical CentreNG1 paper
Federal Medical CentreNG1 paper
Lagos State University Teaching HospitalNG1 paper

Where they publish

African Journal of Psychiatry5
East African Medical Journal4
Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal3
PubMed3
African Journal of Health Nursing and Midwifery2
Annals of Health Research (The Journal of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria OOUTH Sagamu Nigeria)1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being9
17Partnerships for the goals5
1No poverty3
4Quality education2
5Gender equality2
2Zero hunger1
8Decent work and economic growth1

Most cited

Substance use among secondary school students in an urban setting in Nigeria: prevalence and associated factors
African Journal of Psychiatry3
2010194 citationsOpen access · Bronze
Risk factors of postpartum depression and EPDS scores in a group of Nigerian women
Tropical Doctor8
200650 citations
Risk factors of post-stroke depression among stroke survivors in Lagos, Nigeria

Journal of Social Sciences and Management Studies

The pattern of crisis calls to a suicide telephone helpline service in Nigeria

2020Annals of Health Research (The Journal of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria OOUTH Sagamu Nigeria)JournalOpen accessSenior author4 citations10.30442/ahr.0603-01-87

Substance Use and Sexual Behaviour among Female Students in Nigerian Universities

2014International Quarterly of Community Health EducationJournalCorresponding11 citations10.2190/iq.35.1.f

Prevalence of Post-Stroke Depression in a Nigerian Sample

2012Nigerian Journal of Medical RehabilitationJournalOpen access3 citations10.34058/njmr.v14i1.2.47

Self-esteem and Suicidal Risk among Subjects with Dermatological Disorders in a West African Teaching Hospital

2009Journal of the Islamic Medical Association of North AmericaJournalOpen access4 citations10.5915/41-2-4456

Long stay patients in a psychiatric hospital in Lagos, Nigeria

2008African Journal of PsychiatryJournalOpen access18 citations10.4314/ajpsy.v11i2.30265

Psychiatric morbidity in two urban communities in Nigeria

2008East African Medical JournalJournalOpen accessSenior author6 citations10.4314/eamj.v85i8.9654

Ogun Oru

2007Transcultural PsychiatryJournalFirst authorCorresponding22 citations10.1177/1363461507074968

An Assessment of Emotional Pain among Subjects with Chronic Dermatological Problems in Lagos, Nigeria

2007The International Journal of Psychiatry in MedicineJournalCorresponding16 citations10.2190/h275-837t-844p-030h

An overview of the socio-cultural and psychiatric aspects of women′s reproductive health in West Africa

2007Nigerian Postgraduate Medical JournalJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding11 citations10.4103/1117-1936.180342

Normative data on mental and motor development in Nigerian children

2005West African Journal of MedicineJournalOpen accessFirst author14 citations10.4314/wajm.v24i2.28187

Postpartum depression in a maternity hospital in Nigeria

2005East African Medical JournalJournalOpen access11 citations10.4314/eamj.v81i12.9245

Ten-year mortality review in a pioneer psychiatric hospital in West Africa

2004East African Medical JournalJournalOpen accessFirst author13 citations10.4314/eamj.v80i7.8723

Landau-Kleffner syndrome (acquired epileptic aphasia) in a Nigerian child

2002Nigerian Postgraduate Medical JournalJournalOpen accessFirst author2 citations10.4103/1117-1936.171021

The Validation of Developmental Screening Inventory (DSI) on Nigerian Children

2001Journal of Tropical PediatricsJournalFirst authorCorresponding19 citations10.1093/tropej/47.6.323

Anthropometrics assessments in Nigerian children

2001East African Medical JournalJournalOpen accessFirst author2 citations10.4314/eamj.v78i6.9025

Gynecologic Oncology1

International Quarterly of Community Health Education1

How it can be read

69% free to read

Diamond 6 · 19%Free to read and to publish
Gold 2 · 6%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 4 · 13%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 8 · 25%Free to read, no open licence
Green 2 · 6%A copy in a repository
Closed 10 · 31%Behind a paywall

African Journal of Psychiatry

200947 citationsOpen access · Bronze

Ogun Oru

Transcultural Psychiatry5

200722 citations