Sampson Opoku

Ministry of Health

Also at Ghana Health Servicefrom their recent papers

Publishing since 1994, latest 2026

General Health Professions
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Their record on OpenAlex

Publications: 181994–2026
Citations: 258to those papers
h-index: 7i10-index 4
Field-weighted impact: 2.041.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 11%2 of 18 scored papers
Open access: 78%14 papers free to read

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

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

18 in all

Determinants of The Willingness to Adopt Telehealth Technology Among Health Professionals in a Tertiary Hospital
2026Telehealth and Medicine TodayJournalOpen access0 citations10.30953/thmt.v10.621
Satisfaction with abortion services and its associated factors among women in Ga North Municipality, Accra, Ghana: a multi-level, cross-sectional study
2026

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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

General Health Professions844%
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health739%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health633%
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine317%
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis317%
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism211%
Health211%
Nutrition and Dietetics211%
Demography16%
Economics and Econometrics16%

Health Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Global Maternal and Child Health6
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health3
Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies3
Air Quality and Health Impacts2
Child Nutrition and Water Access2
Climate Change and Health Impacts2
Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins2
Mobile Health and mHealth Applications2
Reproductive Health and Contraception2
Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation2
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research1
Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

39% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1122334Home

Most frequent partner countries

United States4
China4
Sierra Leone1
Congo (DRC)1
United Kingdom1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Ghana Health ServiceGH12 papers
University of GhanaGH7 papers
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGH6 papers
Korle Bu Teaching HospitalGH5 papers
Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyCN4 papers
SUNY Upstate Medical UniversityUS2 papers
37 Military HospitalGH2 papers
Shenzhen Second People's HospitalCN1 paper
Shenzhen UniversityCN1 paper
Tianjin Huanhu HospitalCN1 paper

Where they publish

Discover Public Health2
International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics2
PubMed2
Telehealth and Medicine Today2
Asian Journal of Medicine and Health1
BMC Pediatrics1
BMJ Open

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being5
1No poverty3
2Zero hunger2
4Quality education1
5Gender equality1
16Peace, justice and strong institutions1

Most cited

Determinants of modern contraceptive use among married women of reproductive age: a cross-sectional study in rural Zambia
BMJ Open3
2020133 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Awareness, treatment, control, and determinants of dyslipidemia among adults in China
Scientific Reports3
202156 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold

Discover Public Health

Predictive time series modelling of under five mortality in Ghana

2025Discover Public HealthJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1186/s12982-025-01206-0

Awareness, treatment, control, and determinants of dyslipidemia among adults in China

2021Scientific ReportsJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding56 citations10.1038/s41598-021-89401-2

Maternal mortality and related factors in Ejisu District, Ghana.

1994PubMedJournalSenior author30 citations

Health Sciences Investigations Journal1

How it can be read

78% free to read

Diamond 7 · 39%Free to read and to publish
Gold 6 · 33%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 1 · 6%Open in a subscription journal
Closed 4 · 22%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

2 of 18 papers name a funder

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation1
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities1
Huazhong University of Science and Technology1
National Natural Science Foundation of China1

Maternal mortality and related factors in Ejisu District, Ghana.

PubMed3

199430 citations