Philip Oshun

University of Lagos

Publishing since 2010, latest 2025

Epidemiology
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Infectious Diseases
Molecular Medicine
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine

Their record on OpenAlex

Publications: 272010–2025
Citations: 342to those papers
h-index: 10i10-index 11
Field-weighted impact: 1.031.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 11%3 of 27 scored papers
Open access: 96%26 papers free to read

6 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

27 in all

Development and assessment of the outpatient module of the Global-PPS: a standardized approach for measuring outpatient antimicrobial prescribing
2025JAC-Antimicrobial ResistanceJournalOpen access1 citation10.1093/jacamr/dlaf115
Whole-genome sequencing reveals Enterobacter hormaechei as a key bloodstream pathogen in six tertiary care hospitals in southwestern Nigeria

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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

Epidemiology1141%
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology1037%
Infectious Diseases726%
Molecular Medicine726%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health726%
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine311%
Endocrinology311%
Hepatology311%
Molecular Biology311%
Dermatology27%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences

Topics most written on

Antibiotic Use and Resistance10
Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria7
Neonatal and Maternal Infections5
Urinary Tract Infections Management4
Nosocomial Infections in ICU3
Acne and Rosacea Treatments and Effects2
Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy2
Biological Research and Disease Studies2
Hepatitis C virus research2
Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments2
HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk2
HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions2

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

30% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1122334Home

Most frequent partner countries

United Kingdom4
Belgium2
Denmark1
United States1
Sweden1
South Africa1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Lagos University Teaching HospitalNG18 papers
University of IbadanNG4 papers
University of OxfordGB2 papers
University of AntwerpBE2 papers
Obafemi Awolowo UniversityNG2 papers
Nigeria Centre for Disease ControlNG2 papers
Federal Teaching Hospital AbakalikiNG2 papers
University College Hospital, IbadanNG2 papers
University of Port Harcourt Teaching HospitalNG2 papers
Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals ComplexNG2 papers

Where they publish

African Journal of Clinical and Experimental Microbiology7
Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal4
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews3
JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance2
Journal of Clinical Sciences2
BMC Pediatrics1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being11
17Partnerships for the goals5
1No poverty2
2Zero hunger1
4Quality education1
14Life below water1

Most cited

Antimicrobials for treating symptomatic non-typhoidal Salmonella infection
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews3
2012111 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Bronze
Phenotypic determination of carbapenemase producing enterobacteriaceae isolates from clinical specimens at a tertiary hospital in Lagos, Nigeria
Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal
201544 citationsOpen access · Gold
High Genetic Diversity of Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates Recovered in Nigerian Hospitals in 2016 to 2020

The CLIMIDSON Manual for Antimicrobial Stewardship Programmes in Nigerian Health Care Facilities

2023African Journal of Clinical and Experimental MicrobiologyJournalOpen access1 citation10.4314/ajcem.v24i4.3

Antimicrobial Stewardship Implementation in Nigerian Hospitals: Gaps and Challenges

2021African Journal of Clinical and Experimental MicrobiologyJournalOpen access24 citations10.4314/ajcem.v22i1.8

Prevalence of Hepatitis C virus and HIV among adults presenting for health screening in Lagos

2019African Journal of Clinical and Experimental MicrobiologyJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding10 citations10.4314/ajcem.v20i2.8

Management of herpes zoster ophthalmicus in people with HIV infection

2018Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.1002/14651858.cd008770.pub2

Invasive candidiasis in a neonatal intensive care unit in Lagos, Nigeria

2017Nigerian Postgraduate Medical JournalJournalOpen access15 citations10.4103/npmj.npmj_104_17

Gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the anal wall in a Nigerian

2015Pan African Medical JournalJournalOpen accessSenior author5 citations10.11604/pamj.2015.22.161.8071

Antimicrobials for treating symptomatic non-typhoidal Salmonella infection

2012Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsJournalOpen access111 citations10.1002/14651858.cd001167.pub2

Management of herpes zoster ophthalmicus in people with HIV infection

2010Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsJournalSenior author1 citation10.1002/14651858.cd008770

Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance1

How it can be read

96% free to read

Diamond 10 · 37%Free to read and to publish
Gold 12 · 44%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 1 · 4%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 2 · 7%Free to read, no open licence
Green 1 · 4%A copy in a repository
Closed 1 · 4%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

5 of 27 papers name a funder

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation2
National Institute for Health and Care Research2
bioMérieux1
Department of Health and Social Care1
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health1
Københavns Universitet1
National Human Genome Research Institute1
National Institutes of Health1

202330 citationsOpen access · Gold

Antimicrobial Stewardship Implementation in Nigerian Hospitals: Gaps and Challenges

African Journal of Clinical and Experimental Microbiology17

202124 citationsOpen access · Diamond

Antimicrobial susceptibility and neonatal sepsis in a tertiary care facility in Nigeria: a changing trend?

JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance

202220 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold