Rowland N. Otchwemah

Tamale Teaching Hospital

Also at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and University for Development Studiesfrom their recent papers

Publishing since 2002, latest 2011

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Parasitology
Pharmacology
Genetics
Epidemiology
Hematology

Their record on OpenAlex

Publications: 252002–2011
Citations: 1,800to those papers
h-index: 20i10-index 24
Field-weighted impact: 4.691.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 48%12 of 25 scored papers
Open access: 60%15 papers free to read

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

25 in all

Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Infants as a Means of Malaria Control: a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial in Northern Ghana
2011Antimicrobial Agents and ChemotherapyJournalOpen access5 citations10.1128/aac.06044-11
Acute childhood diarrhoea in northern Ghana: epidemiological, clinical and microbiological characteristics
2007

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health2392%
Parasitology832%
Pharmacology416%
Genetics312%
Epidemiology28%
Hematology28%
Nutrition and Dietetics28%
Oncology28%
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine14%
Cell Biology14%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences

Topics most written on

Malaria Research and Control23
Mosquito-borne diseases and control11
Parasites and Host Interactions7
Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Protection3
Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders3
Child Nutrition and Water Access2
Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms2
Iron Metabolism and Disorders2
Research on Leishmaniasis Studies2
Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research1
Hemoglobin structure and function1
Immune Response and Inflammation1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

100% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written14811151822Home

Most frequent partner countries

Germany25
Netherlands9
Switzerland2
Italy2
United States1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinDE25 papers
University for Development StudiesGH25 papers
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical MedicineDE15 papers
Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinDE13 papers
Amsterdam UMC Location University of AmsterdamNL9 papers
Ministry of HealthGH6 papers
Radboud University Medical CenterNL3 papers
Robert Koch InstituteDE3 papers
Radboud University NijmegenNL3 papers
Klinik Bad BergzabernDE2 papers

Where they publish

Tropical Medicine & International Health8
Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology3
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy2
Malaria Journal2
The Journal of Infectious Diseases2
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene2

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being22
2Zero hunger3

Most cited

Toll-like receptor (TLR) polymorphisms in African children: Common TLR-4 variants predispose to severe malaria
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences3
2005323 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Green
Malaria, Anemia, and Malnutrition in African Children—Defining Intervention Priorities
The Journal of Infectious Diseases2
2006206 citationsWorld top 10%

BMC Infectious Diseases

Short communication: High prevalence of the cytochrome P450 2C8*2 mutation in Northern Ghana

2005Tropical Medicine & International HealthJournalOpen accessCorresponding46 citations10.1111/j.1365-3156.2005.01525.x

MANIFESTATION AND OUTCOME OF SEVERE MALARIA IN CHILDREN IN NORTHERN GHANA

2004American Journal of Tropical Medicine and HygieneJournal206 citations10.4269/ajtmh.2004.71.167

Hemoglobin C and Resistance to Severe Malaria in Ghanaian Children

2004The Journal of Infectious DiseasesJournalOpen access88 citations10.1086/422847

iNOS promoter variants and severe malaria in Ghanaian children

2004Tropical Medicine & International HealthJournalCorresponding41 citations10.1111/j.1365-3156.2004.01312.x

Plasmodium falciparum multiplicity correlates with anaemia in symptomatic malaria

2003Tropical Medicine & International HealthJournalOpen accessCorresponding19 citations10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.01117.x

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

How it can be read

60% free to read

Gold 3 · 12%In an open-access journal
Bronze 10 · 40%Free to read, no open licence
Green 2 · 8%A copy in a repository
Closed 10 · 40%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

7 of 25 papers name a funder

World Health Organization3
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst2
Bayer Vital1
Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences1
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology1
Robert Koch Institut1

MANIFESTATION AND OUTCOME OF SEVERE MALARIA IN CHILDREN IN NORTHERN GHANA

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene2

2004206 citationsWorld top 10%

α+-thalassemia protects African children from severe malaria

Blood3

2004149 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Bronze

Acute childhood diarrhoea in northern Ghana: epidemiological, clinical and microbiological characteristics

BMC Infectious Diseases3

2007117 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold