Kwaku Oppong Asante
- Professor of Psychology, University of Ghana, since 2016per ORCID
Publishing since 2010, latest 2026
Professor Kwaku Oppong Asante, PhD, is Professor of Applied Health Psychology and an experienced researcher in the Department of Psychology, University of Ghana. Prior to relocating to Ghana, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Discipline of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His vision is to become a leading global researcher and an academic whose works influence policy and improve child and adolescent mental health. His research interests focus… More on ORCID
- Clinical Psychology
- General Health Professions
- Sociology and Political Science
- Social Psychology
- Epidemiology
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
In their own words
- Adolescent mental health
- Substance use
- Suicide
- Young Adults
- Suicidal behaviour
- Publications
- 1482010–2026
- Citations
- 5,214to those papers
- h-index
- 39i10-index 94
- Field-weighted impact
- 4.011.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 46%56 of 121 scored papers
- Open access
- 53%64 of the 121 whose access is recorded
3 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 7,540 citations, h-index 47 and i10-index 99 (5,698 citations and h-index 41 since 2021), as of October 12, 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
- Professor of Psychology, Department of PsychologyUniversity of Ghanasince 2016
Education
- PhD, Department of PsychologyUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal2012–2014
Publications
148 in all
- Illness perception, diabetes knowledge and self-care practices among type-2 diabetes patients: a cross-sectional study
2017BMC Research NotesJournalOpen access141 citations10.1186/s13104-017-2707-5
- Psychological health and religious coping of Ghanaian women with infertility
2017BioPsychoSocial Medicine