Ruth Owusu

Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital

Publishing since 2008, latest 2024

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Epidemiology
Immunology
Microbiology
Emergency Medicine
General Health Professions

Publications: 132008–2024
Citations: 573to those papers
h-index: 10i10-index 10
Field-weighted impact: 4.361.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 54%7 of 13 scored papers
Open access: 77%10 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

13 in all

Risk factors for the development of Thunderstorm-associated asthma among indigenous Ghanaians: A matched case-control study
2024Public Health in PracticeJournalOpen access2 citations10.1016/j.puhip.2024.100522
Training Traditional Bonesetters in Basic Principles of Fracture Treatment
2023Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health1077%
Epidemiology646%
Immunology215%
Microbiology215%
Emergency Medicine18%
General Health Professions18%
Global and Planetary Change18%
Infectious Diseases18%
Molecular Biology18%
Nutrition and Dietetics18%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences

Topics most written on

Malaria Research and Control9
Mosquito-borne diseases and control3
Bacterial Infections and Vaccines2
Immune responses and vaccinations2
Trypanosoma species research and implications2
Virology and Viral Diseases2
Biological Research and Disease Studies1
Burn Injury Management and Outcomes1
Cervical Cancer and HPV Research1
Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues1
Child Nutrition and Water Access1
Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

69% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

United Kingdom8
Belgium3
United States2
Gabon2
Switzerland2
Tanzania1
Germany1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Kintampo Health Research CentreGH9 papers
London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineGB7 papers
Ghana Health ServiceGH6 papers
Dodowa Health Research CentreGH4 papers
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGH3 papers
Ministry of HealthGH3 papers
Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical MedicineGH2 papers
Navrongo Health Research CentreGH2 papers
Albert Schweitzer HospitalGA2 papers
Gates FoundationUS1 paper

Where they publish

PLoS ONE5
Asian Pacific Journal of Environment and Cancer1
BMC Public Health1
Clinical Biochemistry1
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery1
Journal of Tropical Medicine1
Public Health in Practice

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being10
2Zero hunger1
4Quality education1
13Climate action1

Most cited

Safety and efficacy of the RTS,S/AS01E candidate malaria vaccine given with expanded-programme-on-immunisation vaccines: 19 month follow-up of a randomised, open-label, phase 2 trial
The Lancet Infectious Diseases3
2011139 citationsWorld top 10%
Randomized Controlled Trial of RTS,S/AS02D and RTS,S/AS01E Malaria Candidate Vaccines Given According to Different Schedules in Ghanaian Children
PLoS ONE3
200990 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold