John Appiah‐Poku

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Publishing since 1998, latest 2026

Social Psychology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Clinical Psychology
General Health Professions
Psychiatry and Mental health
Complementary and alternative medicine

In their own words

Bioethics

Their record on OpenAlex

Publications: 351998–2026
Citations: 1,234to those papers
h-index: 20i10-index 23
Field-weighted impact: 3.201.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 48%13 of 27 scored papers
Open access: 57%16 of the 28 whose access is recorded

1 other work — a preprint, a dataset or the like — is listed but not counted.

Google Scholar shows 1,716 citations, h-index 22 and i10-index 24 (997 citations and h-index 18 since 2021), as of October 10, 2026. It also counts theses, books and web pages, so it runs higher.

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

35 in all

Assessment of scabies diagnosis and the impact of MDA for onchocerciasis on the burden of scabies in an endemic community in Ghana
2026BMC Infectious DiseasesJournalOpen access0 citations10.1186/s12879-026-13682-z
Helicobacter pylori and Impaired Early Childhood Development—Evidence From a Birth Cohort Study From Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
2025

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Social Psychology1543%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health1131%
Clinical Psychology823%
General Health Professions720%
Psychiatry and Mental health411%
Complementary and alternative medicine39%
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health39%
Philosophy26%
Physiology26%
Plant Science26%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Mental Health Treatment and Access14
Ethics in Clinical Research5
Family Caregiving in Mental Illness5
Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum5
Schizophrenia research and treatment4
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies3
Ethics in medical practice3
Biomedical Ethics and Regulation2
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development2
Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies2
Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout2
Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices2

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

75% of their 28 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

United States16
South Africa11
Nigeria11
Kenya10
Liberia7
United Kingdom7
Côte d’Ivoire6
Germany6

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of IbadanNG11 papers
Johns Hopkins UniversityUS9 papers
Stellenbosch UniversityZA9 papers
University of NairobiKE8 papers
University of LiberiaLR7 papers
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical MedicineDE6 papers
University Medical Center Hamburg-EppendorfDE6 papers
National Institute of Mental HealthUS6 papers
Université Félix Houphouët-BoignyCI6 papers
Komfo Anokye Teaching HospitalGH6 papers

Where they publish

Academic Psychiatry4
Developing World Bioethics4
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology3
PLoS Medicine2
PLoS ONE2
American Journal of Epidemiology1
Biochemistry Research International

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

17Partnerships for the goals7
3Good health and well-being5
1No poverty3
16Peace, justice and strong institutions1

Most cited

Effect of collaborative care between traditional and faith healers and primary health-care workers on psychosis outcomes in Nigeria and Ghana (COSIMPO): a cluster randomised controlled trial
The Lancet
2020149 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Green
The Structure and Function of Research Ethics Committees in Africa: A Case Study
PLoS Medicine17
2007144 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold

How it can be read

57% free to read, of the 28 recorded

Diamond 1 · 3%Free to read and to publish
Gold 9 · 26%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 1 · 3%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 1 · 3%Free to read, no open licence
Green 4 · 11%A copy in a repository
Closed 12 · 34%Behind a paywall
Unknown 7 · 20%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

19 of 35 papers name a funder

National Institute of Mental Health10
National Institutes of Health5
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft4
Fogarty International Center4
World Health Organization4
Johns Hopkins University2
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology1
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services1