Gifty Boateng

Korle Bu Teaching Hospital

Also at Bayhealth Foundation and Ghana Health Servicefrom their recent papers

Publishing since 2015, latest 2026

Infectious Diseases
Epidemiology
Clinical Biochemistry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Endocrinology
Physiology

Publications: 292015–2026
Citations: 207to those papers
h-index: 9i10-index 8
Field-weighted impact: 1.391.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 17%5 of 29 scored papers
Open access: 97%28 papers free to read

7 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

Career

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Publications

29 in all

IFN‐ γ Levels and Indeterminate Rate: Comparative Analysis of Three Commercial Interferon‐Gamma Release Assays for Diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection
2026Advances in Public HealthJournalOpen access0 citations10.1155/adph/4671690
Data quality assessment of tuberculosis request forms at Upper East Regional Hospital, Ghana, 2025
2026

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Infectious Diseases1138%
Epidemiology1034%
Clinical Biochemistry724%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health724%
Endocrinology621%
Physiology517%
Molecular Biology414%
Molecular Medicine414%
Immunology310%
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology27%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences

Topics most written on

Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing7
Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research6
Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control5
Vibrio bacteria research studies5
Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria4
Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research3
Mosquito-borne diseases and control3
Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections3
Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology3
Zoonotic diseases and public health3
Antibiotic Use and Resistance2
COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing2

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

66% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

Uganda8
Nigeria7
United States5
Switzerland4
South Africa3
United Kingdom3
Denmark2
India2

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Ghana Health ServiceGH25 papers
University of GhanaGH19 papers
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical ResearchGH8 papers
African Field Epidemiology NetworkUG7 papers
African Field Epidemiology NetworkNG7 papers
University of Health and Allied SciencesGH6 papers
World Health OrganizationCH4 papers
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGH3 papers
Technical University of DenmarkDK2 papers
JhpiegoUS2 papers

Where they publish

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health8
Microbial Genomics2
Pan African Medical Journal2
PLOS Global Public Health2
PLoS ONE2
Advances in Public Health1
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being7
1No poverty2
6Clean water and sanitation2
17Partnerships for the goals2
2Zero hunger1
9Industry, innovation and infrastructure1
11Sustainable cities and communities1

Most cited

Investigating the virulence genes and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of Vibrio cholerae O1 in environmental and clinical isolates in Accra, Ghana
BMC Infectious Diseases11
201944 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Using drones to transport suspected COVID-19 samples; experiences from the second largest testing centre in Ghana, West Africa
PLoS ONE3
202227 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health

Establishment of laboratory inventory management system at Sunyani Public Health Laboratory, 2025

2026Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public HealthJournalOpen access0 citations10.37432/jieph-confpro7-0065

Assessment of bio-risk management, Sekondi Public Health Laboratory, Ghana, 2025

2026Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public HealthJournalOpen access0 citations10.37432/jieph-confpro7-0074

Laboratory capacity assessment in three districts of the Savannah Region, Ghana, 2025

2026Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public HealthJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.37432/jieph-confpro7-0080

Marburg Virus Disease in Ghana

2023New England Journal of MedicineJournal15 citations10.1056/nejmc2300867

Detection of Dengue Virus in Samples from Suspected Yellow Fever Cases in Ghana

2018Microbiology Research Journal InternationalJournalOpen access6 citations10.9734/mrji/2018/41090

BMC Infectious Diseases1

How it can be read

97% free to read

Diamond 12 · 41%Free to read and to publish
Gold 15 · 52%In an open-access journal
Bronze 1 · 3%Free to read, no open licence
Closed 1 · 3%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

14 of 29 papers name a funder

World Health Organization5
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention3
University of Ghana2
Association of Public Health Laboratories1
Department of Health and Social Care1
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft1
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit1
Health Promotion Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare1

Detection of vaccine-derived poliovirus circulation by environmental surveillance in the absence of clinical cases

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics6

202123 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Bronze

Marburg Virus Disease in Ghana

New England Journal of Medicine

202315 citations