Dzifa Ahadzi

Tamale Teaching Hospital

Publishing since 2022, latest 2026

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Surgery
Emergency Medicine
Epidemiology
Finance

Publications: 202022–2026
Citations: 57to those papers
h-index: 3i10-index 1
Field-weighted impact: 1.001.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 20%4 of 20 scored papers
Open access: 80%16 papers free to read

4 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

Peerford

To all their work, old papers included. Google Scholar also counts citations from theses, books and web pages, so its line runs higher.

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine1470%

Career

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Publications

20 in all

Premature “asymptomatic” peripheral artery disease and correlates among HIV-positive adults in Ghana: findings from the SCRIPT study
2026BMC Cardiovascular DisordersJournalOpen access0 citations10.1186/s12872-026-05623-0
Contextual and landscape analysis of team-based care practices for hypertension management in Ghana, West Africa
2026

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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management420%

Emergency Medicine210%

General Health Professions210%

Molecular Biology210%

Nutrition and Dietetics210%

Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health210%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology4
Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies3
Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors3
Heart Failure Treatment and Management3
Acute Myocardial Infarction Research2
Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments2
Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias2
Cardiac Health and Mental Health2
Healthcare Systems and Reforms2
Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes1
Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics1
Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

55% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

United States8
Nigeria3
Senegal2
Kenya2
Netherlands2
Switzerland2
United Kingdom2
Uganda1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Korle Bu Teaching HospitalGH6 papers
University of GhanaGH6 papers
Johns Hopkins UniversityUS4 papers
University for Development StudiesGH3 papers
Amsterdam University Medical CentersNL2 papers
Johns Hopkins MedicineUS2 papers
University of AmsterdamNL2 papers
Emory UniversityUS2 papers
Yale UniversityUS2 papers
University of Cape CoastGH2 papers

Where they publish

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders3
Cureus3
Ghana Medical Journal3
Global Heart2
Africa Review1
BMC Health Services Research1
Cardiovascular journal of South Africa/Cardiovascular journal of Southern Africa1
Case Reports International1

How it can be read

80% free to read

Diamond 8 · 40%Free to read and to publish
Gold 7 · 35%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 1 · 5%Open in a subscription journal
Closed 4 · 20%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

7 of 20 papers name a funder

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being6
2Zero hunger1
17Partnerships for the goals1

Most cited

Advancing the Cardiovascular Workforce in Africa to Tackle the Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease: The Time is Now
Global Heart
202322 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Cardiovascular Care in Africa – Cost Crisis and the Urgent Need for Contextual Health Service Solutions
Global Heart
20238 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Promotion of Cardiovascular Health in Africa
JACC Advances
20247 citationsOpen access · Gold
Heart Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa: Current and Future Systems of Care
Journal of Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology
20253 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid
Outcome of life-threatening arrhythmias among patients presenting in an emergency setting at a tertiary hospital in Accra-Ghana
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
20223 citationsOpen access · Gold

BMC Health Services Research

Heart Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa: Current and Future Systems of Care

2025Journal of Asian Pacific Society of CardiologyJournalOpen access3 citations10.15420/japsc.2024.37

CVD in Sub-Saharan Africa

2025Journal of the American College of CardiologyJournal2 citations10.1016/j.jacc.2025.09.011

Incessant ventricular tachycardia complicating heart failure in pregnancy

2025Ghana Medical JournalJournalOpen accessFirst author0 citations10.4314/gmj.v59i1.5

The New Scramble for Africa

2024Africa ReviewJournalSenior author1 citation10.1163/09744061-bja10112

Delayed diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis in a West African octogenarian

2024Cardiovascular journal of South Africa/Cardiovascular journal of Southern AfricaJournalFirst author2 citations10.5830/cvja-2024-001

Undiagnosed hypertension and proteinuria in an outpatient population in Northern Ghana

2024International Journal of Research in Medical SciencesJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20240200

Purple urine bag syndrome: An unusual presentation of urinary tract infection

2023Case Reports InternationalJournalOpen accessSenior author1 citation10.5348/100115z06ay2023cs

Electrical storm in a middle-aged man

2023Ghana Medical JournalJournalOpen accessFirst author0 citations10.4314/gmj.v57i2.11

Fogarty International Center

National Institutes of Health2

World Health Organization2

Alliance for a Healthier World, Johns Hopkins University1

Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University1