Vera Serwaa Opoku

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Also at Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicinefrom their recent papers

Research student/scientist, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, since 2014per ORCID

Publishing since 2013, latest 2026

Infectious Diseases
Parasitology
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Insect Science
Molecular Biology
Ecology

Publications: 182013–2026
Citations: 256to those papers
h-index: 6i10-index 5
Field-weighted impact: 1.561.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 17%3 of 18 scored papers
Open access: 100%18 papers free to read

4 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

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Research student/scientistKumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicinesince 2014
Research assistantNational TB Control Programme2013–2014
Research assistant, EpidemiologyUniversity of Ghana Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research2011–2012

Education

PhD. Clinical Microbiology, Clinical MicrobiologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2016–2023
MPhil. Clinical Microbiology, Clinical Microbiology

Publications

18 in all

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Infectious Diseases1689%
Parasitology1267%
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis422%
Insect Science317%
Molecular Biology317%
Ecology211%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics211%
Oncology211%
Pathology and Forensic Medicine211%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health211%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences

Topics most written on

Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment15
Parasites and Host Interactions11
Insects and Parasite Interactions4
Biological Research and Disease Studies2
Forensic Entomology and Diptera Studies2
Lymphatic System and Diseases2
Parasite Biology and Host Interactions2
Vector-Borne Animal Diseases2
Breast Lesions and Carcinomas1
Dermatological diseases and infestations1
Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research1
Historical Medical Research and Treatments1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

78% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written12345612Home

Most frequent partner countries

Germany12
Cameroon4
Tanzania2
Benin2
United States1
Australia1
Egypt1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical MedicineGH16 papers
University Hospital BonnDE10 papers
German Center for Infection ResearchDE10 papers
University of BonnDE9 papers
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenDE5 papers
University of BueaCM4 papers
University for Development StudiesGH4 papers
Institut für Medizinische Biometrie, Informatik und EpidemiologieDE3 papers
LMU KlinikumDE3 papers
University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial DevelopmentGH3 papers

Where they publish

Parasites & Vectors3
Pathogens3
PLoS neglected tropical diseases3
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene2
BMC Infectious Diseases2
Frontiers in Immunology1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being13
15Life on land2

Most cited

Increased pfmdr1 gene copy number and the decline in pfcrt and pfmdr1 resistance alleles in Ghanaian Plasmodium falciparum isolates after the change of anti-malarial drug treatment policy
Malaria Journal3
201390 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
The Efficacy of Doxycycline Treatment on Mansonella perstans Infection: An Open-Label, Randomized Trial in Ghana
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene3
201949 citationsWorld top 10%