Augustina Angelina Sylverken

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Senior Lecturer, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, since 2016per ORCID
Senior Research Fellow, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research, since 2016per ORCID

Publishing since 2008, latest 2026

Infectious Diseases
Epidemiology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Animal Science and Zoology
Modeling and Simulation
Surgery

In their own words

Respiratory viruses
Zoonotic viruses
Coronaviruses
STEM
One health issues

Publications: 1362008–2026
Citations: 4,236to those papers
h-index: 32i10-index 63
Field-weighted impact: 2.981.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 23%27 of 116 scored papers
Open access: 97%114 of the 117 whose access is recorded

31 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.

Google Scholar shows 5,340 citations, h-index 35 and i10-index 75 (3,138 citations and h-index 29 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

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Senior Lecturer, Theoretical and Applied BiologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologysince 2016
Senior Research Fellow, One Health VirologyKumasi Centre for Collaborative Researchsince 2016
PostDoctoral Research Fellow, Department of VirologyRheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Life & Medical Sciences-Institut2011–2016
PostDoctoral Research Fellow, Department of VirologyKumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine2011–2016
Deputy Head of Laboratories

Publications

136 in all

Current meningitis outbreak in Ghana: Historical perspectives and the importance of diagnostics
2017Acta TropicaJournal16 citations10.1016/j.actatropica.2017.01.014
Pseudomonas oryzihabitans sepsis in a 1-year-old child with multiple skin rashes: a case report
2017Journal of Medical Case ReportsJournal

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Citations received each year

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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

Infectious Diseases6649%
Epidemiology3727%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health2216%
Animal Science and Zoology1310%
Modeling and Simulation86%
Surgery86%
Hepatology75%
Microbiology75%
Molecular Biology64%
Pollution64%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences

Topics most written on

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research26
Animal Virus Infections Studies13
COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies13
Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology13
Respiratory viral infections research12
SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing11
COVID-19 epidemiological studies8
Mycobacterium research and diagnosis7
Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research7
Mosquito-borne diseases and control6
Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment6
Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections6

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

67% of their 117 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

papers co-written456781112Home

Most frequent partner countries

Germany56
United Kingdom17
South Africa12
France11
Nigeria11
Uganda10
Kenya8
Gabon7

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical MedicineGH100 papers
Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinDE29 papers
University of BonnDE19 papers
Komfo Anokye Teaching HospitalGH17 papers
Ghana Health ServiceGH14 papers
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical MedicineDE13 papers
University of GhanaGH13 papers
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical ResearchGH10 papers
Institut de Recherche pour le DéveloppementFR8 papers
Friedrich-Loeffler-InstitutDE7 papers

Where they publish

PLoS ONE17
BMC Infectious Diseases7
Emerging infectious diseases6
Ghana Medical Journal4
Journal of Medical Case Reports4
Pan African Medical Journal4

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being54
17Partnerships for the goals7
11Sustainable cities and communities4
15Life on land4
1No poverty3
4Quality education3
5Gender equality3
2

Most cited

Human Betacoronavirus 2c EMC/2012–related Viruses in Bats, Ghana and Europe
Emerging infectious diseases17
2013389 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Diamond
Evidence for an Ancestral Association of Human Coronavirus 229E with Bats
Journal of Virology15
2015282 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Green

Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research

Junior Research FellowKumasi Centre for Collaborative Research2007

Education

PhD Clinical Microbiology, Clinical MicrobiologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2007–2011
Masters, Clinical MicrobiologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2004–2006
Bachelors, Theoretical and Applied BiologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology1999–2003

Highly Divergent Hepaciviruses from African Cattle

2015Journal of VirologyJournalOpen access88 citations10.1128/jvi.00393-15

CARRIAGE OF NASAL STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS AND RHINOVIRUSES AMONG HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS IN THREE RURAL AREAS OF GHANA

2015AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENEConference0 citations

Human–bat interactions in rural West Africa

2015Emerging Infectious DiseasesJournal87 citations

Widespread coronavirus infection in Ghanaian bats: seasonal, demographic and ecological factors influence infection risk

2015Epidemiology and ecology of virus and host: bats and coronaviruses in Ghana, West AfricaJournal2 citations

2015Epidemiology and ecology of virus and host: bats and coronaviruses in Ghana, West AfricaJournal0 citations

Human Betacoronavirus 2c EMC/2012–related Viruses in Bats, Ghana and Europe

2013Emerging infectious diseasesJournalOpen accessFirst author389 citations10.3201/eid1903.121503

Evidence for Novel Hepaciviruses in Rodents

2013PLoS PathogensJournalOpen accessCorresponding220 citations10.1371/journal.ppat.1003438

Human Parvovirus 4 in Nasal and Fecal Specimens from Children, Ghana

2012Emerging infectious diseasesJournalOpen access39 citations10.3201/eid1810.111373

Henipavirus RNA in African Bats

2009PLoS ONEJournalOpen accessCorresponding229 citations10.1371/journal.pone.0006367

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Archives of Virology3

How it can be read

97% free to read, of the 117 recorded

Diamond 10 · 7%Free to read and to publish
Gold 90 · 66%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 3 · 2%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 4 · 3%Free to read, no open licence
Green 7 · 5%A copy in a repository
Closed 3 · 2%Behind a paywall
Unknown 19 · 14%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

76 of 136 papers name a funder

European Commission22
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft21
European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership21
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology15
Medical Research Council14
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation10
African Academy of Sciences7
World Health Organization7

6Clean water and sanitation2

7Affordable and clean energy1

9Industry, innovation and infrastructure1

16Peace, justice and strong institutions1

A year of genomic surveillance reveals how the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic unfolded in Africa

Science3

2021240 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid