Kofi Issah

Ghana Health Service

Publishing since 2011, latest 2026

Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Epidemiology
Microbiology
Infectious Diseases
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health

Publications: 162011–2026
Citations: 232to those papers
h-index: 8i10-index 7
Field-weighted impact: 1.531.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 25%4 of 16 scored papers
Open access: 88%14 papers free to read

1 other work — a preprint, a dataset or the like — is 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

16 in all

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Citations received each year

Peerford

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

Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health744%
Epidemiology638%
Microbiology531%
Infectious Diseases319%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health319%
Health213%
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology16%
Economics and Econometrics16%
Emergency Medical Services16%
Endocrinology16%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Global Maternal and Child Health7
Bacterial Infections and Vaccines5
Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections4
Respiratory viral infections research3
Maternal and fetal healthcare2
Reproductive Health and Contraception2
Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy2
Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research2
Antibiotic Use and Resistance1
Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research1
Blood donation and transfusion practices1
Child Nutrition and Water Access1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

25% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

United States3
Switzerland2
Belgium1
France1
United Kingdom1
Jordan1
Netherlands1
Uganda1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of GhanaGH7 papers
Clinton Health Access InitiativeUS1 paper
Concept FoundationCH1 paper
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent SocietiesCH1 paper
Médecins Sans FrontièresBE1 paper
Médecins Sans FrontièresFR1 paper
Médecins Sans FrontièresJO1 paper
Médecins Sans FrontièresNL1 paper
Médecins Sans Frontières‎GB1 paper
Population CouncilUS1 paper

Where they publish

Ghana Medical Journal2
International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics2
PLOS Global Public Health2
BMC Public Health1
BMC Research Notes1
European Scientific Journal ESJ1
Frontiers in Reproductive Health

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being13
1No poverty1

Most cited

Factors influencing uptake of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy using sulphadoxine pyrimethamine in Sunyani Municipality, Ghana
Pan African Medical Journal3
201756 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Meningitis Outbreak Caused by Vaccine-Preventable Bacterial Pathogens — Northern Ghana, 2016
MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report3
201737 citationsOpen access · Bronze

2025Reproductive HealthJournalOpen access1 citation10.1186/s12978-025-01979-2

Large cholera outbreak in Brong Ahafo Region, Ghana

2017BMC Research NotesJournalOpen access26 citations10.1186/s13104-017-2728-0

Hospital work shifts and days of occurrence of maternal deaths in 6 hospitals in the Upper West Region of Ghana

2012International Journal of Gynecology & ObstetricsJournalFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1016/j.ijgo.2012.08.007

Maternal and neonatal survival and mortality in the Upper West Region of Ghana

2011International Journal of Gynecology & ObstetricsJournalFirst authorCorresponding32 citations10.1016/j.ijgo.2011.01.007

Infectious Diseases of Poverty1

How it can be read

88% free to read

Diamond 4 · 25%Free to read and to publish
Gold 8 · 50%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 1 · 6%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 1 · 6%Free to read, no open licence
Closed 2 · 13%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

5 of 16 papers name a funder

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation2
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention2
Johnson and Johnson Foundation1
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases1
University of Ghana1
World Bank Group1
World Health Organization1

201132 citationsWorld top 10%

Large cholera outbreak in Brong Ahafo Region, Ghana

BMC Research Notes3

201726 citationsOpen access · Gold