Richard Larbi

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Publishing since 2014, latest 2026

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Biomedical Engineering
Infectious Diseases
Epidemiology
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Emergency Medicine

Publications: 142014–2026
Citations: 210to those papers
h-index: 4i10-index 4
Field-weighted impact: 2.571.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 21%3 of 14 scored papers
Open access: 100%14 papers free to read

5 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

14 in all

Knowledge, attitudes and practices of antibiotic use among students in a Ghanaian tertiary institution
2026Discover Public HealthJournalOpen access2 citations10.1186/s12982-026-01350-1
A narrative review of lessons from Ghana’s COVID-19 response to inform future pandemic preparedness
2026Discover Public Health

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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

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health643%
Biomedical Engineering536%
Infectious Diseases536%
Epidemiology429%
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition214%
Emergency Medicine214%
Modeling and Simulation214%
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology17%
Endocrinology17%
Food Science17%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences

Topics most written on

Malaria Research and Control5
Biosensors and Analytical Detection4
Respiratory viral infections research3
COVID-19 epidemiological studies2
Digital Imaging for Blood Diseases2
Hematological disorders and diagnostics2
Antibiotic Use and Resistance1
Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment1
COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies1
Delphi Technique in Research1
Fecal contamination and water quality1
Galectins and Cancer Biology1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

50% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1223344Home

Most frequent partner countries

Germany5
Uganda2
United States1
Korea1
Vietnam1
Nigeria1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical MedicineGH8 papers
Ghana Health ServiceGH7 papers
Kwame Nkrumah UniversityZM5 papers
West End HospitalGH4 papers
German Center for Infection ResearchDE2 papers
Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinDE2 papers
University of BonnDE2 papers
African Field Epidemiology NetworkUG2 papers
Centers for Disease Control and PreventionUS1 paper
Helmholtz Centre for Infection ResearchDE1 paper

Where they publish

Figshare4
BMC Infectious Diseases2
Discover Public Health2
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health1
Journal of Epidemiological Research1
Malaria Journal1
Microbiology Spectrum

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being8
1No poverty1
6Clean water and sanitation1
12Responsible consumption and production1

Most cited

Human Coronaviruses Associated with Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Three Rural Areas of Ghana
PLoS ONE
201492 citationsOpen access · Gold
High prevalence of common respiratory viruses and no evidence of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in Hajj pilgrims returning to Ghana, 2013
Tropical Medicine & International Health3
201569 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Bronze
Drinking Water from Dug Wells in Rural Ghana — Salmonella Contamination, Environmental Factors, and Genotypes

Drinking Water from Dug Wells in Rural Ghana — Salmonella Contamination, Environmental Factors, and Genotypes

2015International Journal of Environmental Research and Public HealthJournalOpen access33 citations10.3390/ijerph120403535

How it can be read

100% free to read

Diamond 3 · 21%Free to read and to publish
Gold 6 · 43%In an open-access journal
Bronze 1 · 7%Free to read, no open licence
Green 4 · 29%A copy in a repository

Who funds it

6 of 14 papers name a funder

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft2
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst2
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention1
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen1
UBS Optimus Foundation1

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health6

201533 citationsOpen access · Gold

Prevalence of common respiratory viruses in children: insights from post-pandemic surveillance

BMC Infectious Diseases3

202511 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold

Knowledge, attitudes and practices of antibiotic use among students in a Ghanaian tertiary institution

Discover Public Health1

20262 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Diamond