Joseph Osafo
- Associate Professor, University of Ghana, since 2005per ORCID
Publishing since 2011, latest 2026
- Clinical Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Sociology and Political Science
- General Health Professions
- Health
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
In their own words
- suicide
- religion and mental health
- sexuality
- divorce
- HIV
- Publications
- 1122011–2026
- Citations
- 2,824to those papers
- h-index
- 30i10-index 70
- Field-weighted impact
- 3.661.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 45%42 of 93 scored papers
- Open access
- 56%52 of the 93 whose access is recorded
5 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 3,970 citations, h-index 37 and i10-index 71 (2,935 citations and h-index 33 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
Positions
- Associate Professor, Psychology (Head of Department)University of Ghanasince 2005
Education
- PhD, Social Work and Health ScienceNorwegian University of Science and Technology2008–2012
- Mphil, PsychologyUniversity of Ghana2001–2003
On their papers
Publications
112 in all
- Health care professionals’ perspectives on barriers to treatment seeking for formal health services among orphan children and adolescents with HIV/AIDS and mental distress in a rural district in central, Uganda
2020Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental HealthJournalOpen access11 citations10.1186/s13034-020-00332-8
- What Research Questions Should the Next Generation of Birth Cohort Studies Address? An International Delphi Study of Experts