Sheila Agyeiwaa Owusu

Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital

Also at Tamale Teaching Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, MRC Unit the Gambia, AMPATH, University for Development Studies and Medical Research Councilfrom their recent papers

Publishing since 2019, latest 2026

Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Infectious Diseases
Epidemiology
General Health Professions
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Publications: 382019–2026
Citations: 246to those papers
h-index: 7i10-index 6
Field-weighted impact: 2.221.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 18%7 of 38 scored papers
Open access: 92%35 papers free to read

8 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

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

Career

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Publications

38 in all

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Subfields

Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine1232%
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health1129%
Infectious Diseases1026%
Epidemiology924%
General Health Professions924%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health616%
Speech and Hearing513%
Surgery513%
Immunology411%
Nutrition and Dietetics411%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences

Topics most written on

Global Maternal and Child Health7
Global Health and Surgery6
Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare5
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health4
Child Nutrition and Water Access4
HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions4
Infant Development and Preterm Care4
Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology4
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research3
Immune responses and vaccinations3
Neonatal Respiratory Health Research3
Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections3

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

74% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

United States21
United Kingdom15
Germany7
Gambia5
Nigeria4
Kenya3
Australia3
South Africa3

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University for Development StudiesGH28 papers
Tamale Teaching HospitalGH20 papers
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGH15 papers
London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineGB12 papers
Harvard UniversityUS10 papers
Brigham and Women's HospitalUS10 papers
Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinDE7 papers
Boston Children's HospitalUS5 papers
MRC Unit the GambiaGM5 papers
University of MichiganUS4 papers

Where they publish

African Journal of Current Medical Research5
BMJ Open3
BMJ Paediatrics Open2
Pan African Medical Journal2
PLoS ONE2
Vaccine2
African Journal of AIDS Research1
BMC Global and Public Health1

How it can be read

92% free to read

Diamond 11 · 29%Free to read and to publish
Gold 15 · 39%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 7 · 18%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 1 · 3%Free to read, no open licence
Green

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being18
2Zero hunger5
4Quality education1
5Gender equality1
10Reduced inequalities1
13Climate action1
17Partnerships for the goals1

Most cited

Burden of Neonatal Surgical Conditions in Northern Ghana
World Journal of Surgery3
201948 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid
Timing and causes of neonatal mortality in Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana: A retrospective study
PLoS ONE3
202143 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Paediatric to adult healthcare transition in resource-limited settings: a narrative review
BMJ Paediatrics Open
202129 citationsOpen access · Diamond
Factors Associated with Treatment Outcome of Preterm Babies at Discharge from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana
International Journal of Pediatrics3
202026 citationsOpen access · Gold
Post‐tuberculosis respiratory impairment in Gambian children and adolescents: A cross‐sectional analysis
Pediatric Pulmonology2
202419 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid

Understanding adolescent health care services in Ghana: a scoping review

2024Pan African Medical JournalJournalOpen accessFirst author3 citations10.11604/pamj.2024.48.179.40814

Post-operative ileo-ileal intussusception one week after hemicolectomy for ileo-colic intussusception

2022Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case ReportsJournalOpen accessSenior author2 citations10.1016/j.epsc.2022.102506

An eleven-year review of pediatric echocardiogram reports in Kumasi, Ghana

2022African Journal of Current Medical ResearchJournalOpen access0 citations10.31191/afrijcmr.v5i1.88

Burden of Neonatal Surgical Conditions in Northern Ghana

2019World Journal of SurgeryJournalOpen access48 citations10.1007/s00268-019-05210-9

A copy in a repository

Closed 3 · 8%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

15 of 38 papers name a funder

Medical Research Council5
European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership4
Fogarty International Center4
National Institutes of Health4
European Commission2
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute2
Wellcome Trust2
Australian Government1