Adofo Koranteng

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Research Officer, Kwame Nkrumah Univetsity of Science and Technology, since 2000per ORCID

Publishing since 1981, latest 2025

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Epidemiology
Emergency Medicine
Health
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

In their own words

Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion
Public health

Publications: 2,0041981–2025
Citations: 266,044to those papers
h-index: 188i10-index 1,218
Field-weighted impact: 75.031.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 38%8 of 21 scored papers
Open access: 81%17 of the 21 whose access is recorded

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

Google Scholar shows 337,586 citations, h-index 201 and i10-index 1,292 (173,581 citations and h-index 150 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

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Research Officer, SurgeryKwame Nkrumah Univetsity of Science and Technologysince 2000

Education

PhDKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Publications

2,004 in all

How can a new formulation reduce stigma linked to opiate agonist treatment?: Place, time and things in the experience of extended-release buprenorphine depot
2022DRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEWConference0 citations
Long-term use and application of systematic tailored assessment for responding to suicidality (STARS) protocol following original training
2022International journal of environmental research and public healthJournal3 citations

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health90%
Epidemiology60%
Emergency Medicine50%
Health40%
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health30%
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality30%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics20%
Emergency Medical Services20%
General Health Professions20%
Infectious Diseases20%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Injury Epidemiology and Prevention5
Cervical Cancer and HPV Research4
Trauma and Emergency Care Studies4
Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy4
Global Maternal and Child Health3
Traffic and Road Safety3
Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes2
Disaster Response and Management2
Global Health and Surgery2
Occupational Health and Safety Research2
Vector-Borne Animal Diseases2
Abdominal Trauma and Injuries1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

81% of their 21 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

papers co-written3456789Home

Most frequent partner countries

United States16
United Kingdom6
Australia5
Japan4
Sri Lanka4
Spain4
Colombia4
Netherlands4

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of WashingtonUS9 papers
Komfo Anokye Teaching HospitalGH9 papers
Harvard UniversityUS6 papers
Baylor UniversityUS5 papers
Ghana Health ServiceGH5 papers
University of Cape CoastGH5 papers
Institute for Health Metrics and EvaluationUS4 papers
University of PeradeniyaLK4 papers
Karolinska InstitutetSE3 papers
Erasmus MCNL3 papers

Where they publish

Drug and Alcohol Review169
Drug and alcohol dependence107
Addiction69
International Journal of Drug Policy51
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre50
The Lancet40

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being9
1No poverty2
9Industry, innovation and infrastructure2
5Gender equality1
8Decent work and economic growth1
14Life below water1
17Partnerships for the goals1

Most cited

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and …
The lancet
201818,797 citations
A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the …
The lancet
201216,753 citations
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the …
The Lancet
201714,984 citations

How it can be read

81% free to read, of the 21 recorded

Diamond 4 · 0%Free to read and to publish
Gold 7 · 0%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 2 · 0%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 1 · 0%Free to read, no open licence
Green 3 · 0%A copy in a repository
Closed 4 · 0%Behind a paywall
Unknown 1,983 · 99%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

10 of 2,004 papers name a funder

Fogarty International Center6
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation3
Medical Research Council3
National Institutes of Health3
University of Washington3
Babol University of Medical Sciences2
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention2
Curtin University of Technology2