Anita Ohenewa Yawson

Korle Bu Teaching Hospital

Publishing since 2014, latest 2025

General Health Professions
Infectious Diseases
Epidemiology
Health
Nutrition and Dietetics
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

Their record on OpenAlex

Publications: 132014–2025
Citations: 168to those papers
h-index: 7i10-index 6
Field-weighted impact: 0.811.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 8%1 of 13 scored papers
Open access: 92%12 papers free to read

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

13 in all

From aspiration to achievements: Exploring the motivational drives behind female graduate nursing students' pursuit of higher education in Ghana
2025Nurse Education TodayJournal1 citation10.1016/j.nedt.2025.106580
Improving critical care competencies of nurses through simulation: A study at upper east regional hospital, Ghana
2025International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

General Health Professions431%
Infectious Diseases323%
Epidemiology215%
Health215%
Nutrition and Dietetics215%
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health215%
Radiological and Ultrasound Technology215%
Sociology and Political Science215%
Biochemistry18%
Demography18%

Health Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health2
Child Nutrition and Water Access2
COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies2
Global Maternal and Child Health2
Health disparities and outcomes2
Aging and Gerontology Research1
Blood transfusion and management1
COVID-19 and healthcare impacts1
COVID-19 epidemiological studies1
Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research1
Dental Health and Care Utilization1
Disability Rights and Representation1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

15% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written2222222Home

Most frequent partner countries

United States2

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of GhanaGH12 papers
Ghana Health ServiceGH8 papers
University of Health and Allied SciencesGH2 papers
University of Ghana Medical CentreGH2 papers
Brown UniversityUS1 paper
LifespanUS1 paper
Miriam HospitalUS1 paper
United Nations Children's FundUS1 paper
University for Development StudiesGH1 paper
Ministry of HealthGH1 paper

Where they publish

Ghana Medical Journal2
PLoS ONE2
Postgraduate Medical Journal of Ghana2
BMC Nutrition1
BMJ Open Ophthalmology1
Dialogues in Health1
International Journal for Equity in Health

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

1No poverty3
3Good health and well-being2
2Zero hunger1
5Gender equality1

Most cited

Visual impairment and social isolation, depression and life satisfaction among older adults in Ghana: analysis of the WHO’s Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) Wave 2
BMJ Open Ophthalmology
202046 citationsOpen access · Gold
Effect of self-rated health status on functioning difficulties among older adults in Ghana: Coarsened exact matching method of analysis of the World Health Organization’s study on global AGEing and adult health, Wave 2
PLoS ONE1
201936 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Clinical features of COVID-19 in Ghana: symptomatology, illness severity and comorbid non-communicable diseases

Health of the corporate worker: health risk assessment among staff of a corporate organization in Ghana

2015Journal of Occupational Medicine and ToxicologyJournalOpen accessCorresponding15 citations10.1186/s12995-015-0072-7

International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences1

How it can be read

92% free to read

Diamond 4 · 31%Free to read and to publish
Gold 8 · 62%In an open-access journal
Closed 1 · 8%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

5 of 13 papers name a funder

National Institute on Aging2
University of Ghana2
World Health Organization2
Brown University1
Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering, Newcastle University1
Ministry of Health1
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases1
National Institutes of Health1

Ghana Medical Journal3

202023 citationsOpen access · Diamond

Health of the corporate worker: health risk assessment among staff of a corporate organization in Ghana

Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology

201515 citationsOpen access · Gold