Clement Osei Akoto
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
- Senior Lecturer, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Science, since 2017per ORCID
Publishing since 2005, latest 2026
Prof. Clement Osei Akoto is a distinguished Ghanaian scientist with extensive academic and industrial expertise in medicinal chemistry and drug discovery. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, graduating with First Class Honours. He pursued his postgraduate studies in North America, earning an MSc in Chemistry from the University of Alberta, Canada, and subsequently a Ph.D. in… More on ORCID
- Plant Science
- Food Science
- Molecular Biology
- Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
- Biochemistry
- Biochemistry
In their own words
- Bioorganic Synthesis and Natural Products
- Total Synthesis and Bio-organic Chemistry
- Publications
- 252005–2026
- Citations
- 404to those papers
- h-index
- 12i10-index 12
- Field-weighted impact
- 1.091.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 13%2 of 16 scored papers
- Open access
- 94%15 of the 16 whose access is recorded
2 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 522 citations, h-index 12 and i10-index 12 (380 citations and h-index 11 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, ChemistryKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Sciencesince 2017
- Senior Research Scientist, Medicinal ChemistryBlue-O Medicals Inc. (Canada)2016
- Senior Research Scientist, Medicinal ChemistryCanAm Bioresearch (Canada)2013–2015
- Research Scientist, Medicinal ChemistryChemRoutes Corporation2010–2013
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, ChemistryUniversity of Montreal2009–2010
Education
Publications
25 in all
- Isolation, purification and characterization of betulinic acid derivative from the root bark of Afzelia africana and its antiplasmodial and antimicrobial activities
2026International Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyJournalOpen access0 citations10.62347/inva5312
- Anti-salmonella activity of aqueous and methanol extracts of Xylopia aethiopica and xylopic acid