Serwaa Akoto Bawua

Lecturer, University of Ghana School of Public Health, since 2021per ORCID

Publishing since 2018, latest 2026

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH – SERWAA AKOTO BAWUA Name: SERWAA AKOTO BAWUA Telephone: 0553696864 Email: sabawua@ug.edu.gh/ asabawua@gmail.com Position Title: Lecturer, School of Public Health, University of Ghana A. EDUCATION INSTITUTION/ LOCATION DEGREE MONTH/YEAR FIELD OF STUDY Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana Bsc (Hons) 08/2010 Environmental Science Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology,… More on ORCID

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Infectious Diseases
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Emergency Medicine
Nutrition and Dietetics

Publications: 242018–2026
Citations: 188to those papers
h-index: 8i10-index 4
Field-weighted impact: 1.461.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 17%4 of 24 scored papers
Open access: 88%21 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

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What they work on

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Lecturer, Biological Environmental and Occupational HealthUniversity of Ghana School of Public Healthsince 2021

Education

PhD Candidate, School of Public HealthUniversity of Ghanasince 2015
Masters in Science in Environmental Resource Management, Materials EngineeringKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2012–2014
Bachelor in Environmental Science, Biological and Environmental SciencesKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2006–2010

Honours, memberships and service

Publications

24 in all

Metals exposures and telomere length as a marker of DNA damage among electronic waste workers and a reference group
2026Environmental Science and Pollution ResearchJournal1 citation10.1007/s11356-026-37582-6
Household cost of treating pregnancy-related complications in an urban setting: a study at the Korle Bu teaching hospital, Ghana
2026BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

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From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis729%
Infectious Diseases625%
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health417%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health417%
Emergency Medicine313%
Nutrition and Dietetics313%
Parasitology313%
Pollution313%
Building and Construction28%
Food Science28%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences

Topics most written on

Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity6
Global Maternal and Child Health4
Amoebic Infections and Treatments3
Heavy metals in environment3
Parasites and Host Interactions3
Child Nutrition and Water Access2
Global Health and Epidemiology2
Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management2
HIV-related health complications and treatments2
HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions2
Mining and Resource Management2
Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics2

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

46% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

Canada3
United States2
Japan2
Germany2
Norway2
United Kingdom2
Uganda1
South Africa1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical ResearchGH4 papers
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGH4 papers
Ghana Health ServiceGH4 papers
McGill UniversityCA3 papers
University of Health and Allied SciencesGH3 papers
West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious PathogensGH2 papers
Tamale Teaching HospitalGH2 papers
Gates VenturesUS1 paper
Nagasaki UniversityJP1 paper
Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNO1 paper

Where they publish

PLoS ONE3
Frontiers in Public Health2
Journal of Sustainable Mining2
BMC Infectious Diseases1
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth1
Chemistry Africa1
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM)1
Environmental Science and Pollution Research1

How it can be read

88% free to read

Diamond 4 · 17%Free to read and to publish
Gold 12 · 50%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 3 · 13%Open in a subscription journal
Green 2 · 8%A copy in a repository
Closed 3 · 13%Behind a paywall

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being5
15Life on land2
2Zero hunger1
8Decent work and economic growth1
10Reduced inequalities1
12Responsible consumption and production1

Member, African Chaper• Member - International Society for Environmental Epidemiology , African Chaptersince 2021

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

The Politics of Green Space Governance

2025International Journal of Applied Geospatial ResearchJournalOpen access4 citations10.4018/ijagr.379720

Assessment of occupational stress among certified registered anesthetists in the Greater Accra region

2024Frontiers in Public HealthJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding2 citations10.3389/fpubh.2024.1335948

Derivation of sex and age-specific reference intervals for clinical chemistry analytes in healthy Ghanaian adults

2022Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM)JournalOpen accessFirst author20 citations10.1515/cclm-2022-0293

Who funds it

9 of 24 papers name a funder

Fogarty International Center3
International Development Research Centre3
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene2
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation1
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst1
Direktoratet for Utviklingssamarbeid1
Leibniz-Gemeinschaft1
National Institutes of Health1