Kwadwo Owusu Akuffo
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
- Senior Lecturer, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Science, since 2021per ORCID
Publishing since 2013, latest 2026
I am an optometrist and educator with a strong passion for vision research. From ORCID
- Epidemiology
- Ophthalmology
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Nutrition and Dietetics
In their own words
- macular pigment
- clinical trial
- age-related macular degeneration
- epidemiology
- nutrition
- lutein
- zeaxanthin
- meso-zeaxanthin
- public health
- visual function
- Publications
- 1152013–2026
- Citations
- 1,608to those papers
- h-index
- 23i10-index 34
- Field-weighted impact
- 1.351.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 16%10 of 63 scored papers
- Open access
- 86%54 of the 63 whose access is recorded
37 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 1,892 citations, h-index 24 and i10-index 40 (1,143 citations and h-index 19 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
Positions
- Senior Lecturer, Optometry and Visual ScienceKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Sciencesince 2021
- Head of Department, Optometry and Visual ScienceKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Science2022–2023
- Lecturer, Optometry and Visual ScienceKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Science2018–2021
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), ScienceWaterford Institute of Technology2012–2017
- Doctor of Optometry (OD), Optometry and Visual Science
Publications
115 in all
- Malaria vaccine-related adverse events among children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
2023BMJ OpenJournalOpen access8 citations10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076985
- Macular Pigment, Cognition, and Visual Function in Younger Healthy Adults in Ghana
2023Journal of Alzheimer s Disease