Kwaku Poku Asante

Kintampo Health Research Centre

Also at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Ghana Health Servicefrom their recent papers

Publishing since 1997, latest 2026

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Pollution
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
General Health Professions
Infectious Diseases

Publications: 2851997–2026
Citations: 9,461to those papers
h-index: 54i10-index 182
Field-weighted impact: 3.211.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 35%99 of 284 scored papers
Open access: 95%271 papers free to read

73 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

Publications

285 in all

Adolescents’ Willingness and Intentions to Use Contraceptives in Rural Ghana
2015Open Journal of Social SciencesJournalOpen access8 citations10.4236/jss.2015.311029
Determination of the Vitamin A Status and Body Pool Size of Ghanaian Infants Given Fortified Home Based Complementary Foods
2015European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health12644%
Pollution6121%
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis5018%
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health5018%
General Health Professions4716%
Infectious Diseases3512%
Parasitology3412%
Epidemiology2910%
Health228%
Nutrition and Dietetics217%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Malaria Research and Control91
Energy and Environment Impacts53
Global Maternal and Child Health45
Air Quality and Health Impacts38
Mosquito-borne diseases and control38
Parasites and Host Interactions34
Immune responses and vaccinations19
Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy19
Child Nutrition and Water Access18
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health17
Antibiotic Use and Resistance16
Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting16

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

81% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written12141920243140Home

Most frequent partner countries

United States129
United Kingdom91
Kenya40
Germany31
Netherlands31
Tanzania25
South Africa24
Switzerland22

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Ghana Health ServiceGH165 papers
University of GhanaGH66 papers
London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineGB57 papers
University of Health and Allied SciencesGH55 papers
Columbia UniversityUS54 papers
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGH42 papers
Kenya Medical Research InstituteKE29 papers
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUS28 papers
Lamont-Doherty Earth ObservatoryUS27 papers
Harvard UniversityUS26 papers

Where they publish

Malaria Journal31
PLoS ONE17
BMC Public Health8
The Lancet Global Health6
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology5
Environment International5
Global Heart

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being135
1No poverty24
2Zero hunger16
17Partnerships for the goals10
5Gender equality7
11Sustainable cities and communities7
10Reduced inequalities5
16

Most cited

Respiratory risks from household air pollution in low and middle income countries
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine1
2014975 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Green
Immunogenicity of the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine and implications for duration of vaccine efficacy: secondary analysis of data from a phase 3 randomised controlled trial
The Lancet Infectious Diseases3
2015372 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Use of contraceptives among adolescents in Kintampo, Ghana: a cross-sectional study

2014Open Access Journal of ContraceptionJournalOpen accessCorresponding78 citations10.2147/oajc.s56485

Biochemical and Hematologic Parameters for Children in the Middle Belt of Ghana

2014American Journal of Tropical Medicine and HygieneJournalOpen access26 citations10.4269/ajtmh.13-0098

P-374

2012EpidemiologyJournal0 citations10.1097/01.ede.0000417374.95152.16

Malaria epidemiology in the Ahafo area of Ghana

2011Malaria JournalJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding54 citations10.1186/1475-2875-10-211

Drawing blood from young children: lessons learned from a trial in Ghana

2009Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and HygieneJournal29 citations10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.11.030

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health5

How it can be read

95% free to read

Diamond 27 · 9%Free to read and to publish
Gold 180 · 63%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 30 · 11%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 16 · 6%Free to read, no open licence
Green 18 · 6%A copy in a repository
Closed 14 · 5%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

196 of 285 papers name a funder

National Institutes of Health48
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences37
Wellcome Trust33
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute26
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases22
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation19
Fogarty International Center19
Medical Research Council19

Peace, justice and strong institutions

9Industry, innovation and infrastructure2

7Affordable and clean energy1

8Decent work and economic growth1

Community-based antibiotic access and use in six low-income and middle-income countries: a mixed-method approach

The Lancet Global Health1

2021298 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold

The experience of caregivers of people living with serious mental disorders: a study from rural Ghana

Global Health Action10

2015166 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold