Cephas N. Omenyo

Publishing since 1966, latest 2018

Obstetrics and Gynecology
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Political Science and International Relations
Sociology and Political Science
Anthropology
Complementary and alternative medicine

In their own words

Mission
Pentecostalism
African Christianity
Church History

Their record on OpenAlex

Publications: 441966–2018
Citations: 1,316to those papers
h-index: 18i10-index 20
Field-weighted impact: 2.531.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 44%4 of 9 scored papers
Open access: 44%4 of the 9 whose access is recorded

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

Google Scholar shows 1,548 citations, h-index 18 and i10-index 22 (764 citations and h-index 14 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

Career

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Publications

44 in all

Initiation of traditional birth attendants and their traditional and spiritual practices during pregnancy and childbirth in Ghana
2018BMC Pregnancy and ChildbirthJournalOpen accessSenior author64 citations10.1186/s12884-018-1691-7
Traditional herbalists’ methods of treating mental disorders in Ghana
2018

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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

Obstetrics and Gynecology37%
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health25%
Political Science and International Relations25%
Sociology and Political Science25%
Anthropology12%
Complementary and alternative medicine12%
Economics and Econometrics12%
Education12%
Epidemiology12%
General Health Professions12%

Health Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions3
Global Maternal and Child Health2
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health1
Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy1
African cultural and philosophical studies1
African history and culture analysis1
Breastfeeding Practices and Influences1
Christian Theology and Mission1
Colonialism, slavery, and trade1
Community Health and Development1
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies1
Cultural Competency in Health Care1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

11% of their 9 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1111111Home

Most frequent partner countries

United States1
South Africa1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Miriam HospitalUS1 paper
Stellenbosch UniversityZA1 paper
University for Development StudiesGH1 paper

Where they publish

Pneuma4
Exchange3
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth2
Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context2
Studies in World Christianity2
Swedish Missiological Themes2
Also see Ogbu Kalu,“Who Is Afraid of the Holy Ghost

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

1No poverty1
5Gender equality1
17Partnerships for the goals1

Most cited

Pentecost outside Pentecostalism: A study of the development of charismatic renewal in the mainline churches in Ghana
Mission
2002331 citations
Religious beliefs and practices in pregnancy and labour: an inductive qualitative study among post-partum women in Ghana
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
2016121 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Claiming Religious Space: The Case of the Neo-Prophetism in Ghana
Ghana Bulletin of Theology
2006

Transcultural Psychiatry

Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone

2017Christianity in Sub-Saharan AfricaJournalFirst author3 citations

‘All Things to All People’: A Festschrift in Honour of John Samuel Pobee

2014Trajectories of Religion in Africa: Essays in Honour of John S. PobeeJournalFirst author0 citations

African Pentecostalism

2014The Cambridge Companion to PentecostalismJournalFirst author65 citations

Authentically African, Authentically Anglican

2014Trajectories of Religion in AfricaBook chapterFirst author0 citations

The Bible says! Neo-prophetic hermeneutics in Africa

2013Studies in World ChristianityJournalFirst author80 citations10.3366/swc.2013.0038

Trans-national protestant missions: The Ghanaian story

2013Swedish Missiological ThemesReportFirst author2 citations

I have Seen the Light: The Changing Trends in Conversion in Ghanaian Christianity

2012Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz-VerlagReportFirst author0 citations

Agenda for a Discussion of African Initiatives in Christianity: The West African/Ghanaian Case

2011Missiology An International ReviewJournalFirst authorCorresponding7 citations10.1177/009182961103900306

Renewal, Christian Mission, and Encounter with the Other: Pentecostal-Type Movements Meeting Islam in Ghana and Nigeria

2011Global renewal, religious pluralism, and the Great CommissionJournalFirst author4 citations

New wine in an old wine bottle?: Charismatic healing in the mainline churches in Ghana

2011Global pentecostal and charismatic healingJournalFirst author41 citations

Pentecostal-Type Renewal

2009Global Pentecostalism: Encounters with Other Religious TraditionsJournalFirst author0 citations

Pentecostal-type renewal and disharmony in Ghanaian Christianity

2009Global pentecostalismJournalFirst author5 citations

Global Pentecostalism: Encounters with other Religious Traditions

2008In: Pentecostal-Type Renewal and Disharmony in Ghanaian ChristianityReportFirst author0 citations

Theological Education in World Christianity

2008In: African Pentecostalism and Theological EducationReportFirst author0 citations

How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind

2008Ghana Journal of Religion and TheologyJournalFirst author0 citations

The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity

2008In: Protestantism in Africa: Western AfricaReportFirst author2 citations

How Africa shaped the Christian mind: rediscovering the African seedbed of Western Christianity

2008The Ghana Bulletin of TheologyJournalFirst author1 citation

The spirit-filled goes to school: Theological education in African Pentecostalism

2008Ogbomoso Journal of TheologyJournalFirst author15 citations

WILLIAM SEYMOUR AND AFRICAN PENTECOSTAL HISTORIOGRAPHY: THE CASE OF GHANA.

2006Asian Journal of Pentecostal StudiesJournalFirst author31 citations

Claiming Religious Space: The Case of the Neo-Prophetism in Ghana

2006Ghana Bulletin of TheologyJournalFirst author99 citations

A study of the Development of Charismatic Renewal in the mainline churches in Ghana

2006Zoetermeer, the Netherlands: Boekencentrum Publishing HouseJournalFirst author54 citations

Mission as intercultural theology: the African Ghanaian paradigm

2003Towards an intercultural theologyJournalFirst author1 citation

Charismatization of the mainline churches in Ghana

2003Charismatic Renewal in Africa: A Challenge for African ChristianityJournalFirst author18 citations

Charismatic churches in Ghana and contextualization

2002Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in ContextJournalFirst author52 citations

Korean missionary enterprise in West Africa 1979-1999: a preliminary survey

2000Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in ContextJournalFirst author3 citations

The Charismatic renewal movement in Ghana

1994PneumaJournalFirst author28 citations

Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies1

How it can be read

44% free to read, of the 9 recorded

Gold 4 · 9%In an open-access journal
Closed 5 · 11%Behind a paywall
Unknown 35 · 80%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

5 of 44 papers name a funder

University of Ghana3
Center for AIDS Research, University of Washington1
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases1
National Research Foundation1

The Bible says! Neo-prophetic hermeneutics in Africa

Studies in World Christianity

201380 citations