Issah Sumaila

Ghana Health Service

Publishing since 2021, latest 2025

Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Clinical Psychology
Economics and Econometrics
Epidemiology

Publications: 62021–2025
Citations: 9to those papers
h-index: 2i10-index 0
Field-weighted impact: 0.171.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 0%0 of 6 scored papers
Open access: 100%6 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

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 Health467%

Career

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Publications

6 in all

Determinants of adverse birth outcomes among pregnant women in Kintampo municipal hospital, Ghana
2025Frontiers in Global Women s HealthJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.3389/fgwh.2025.1444566
The role of hormonal contraceptive use in mediating sociodemographic predictors of overweight/obesity among women of reproductive age in Ghana

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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health233%

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine117%

Clinical Psychology117%

Economics and Econometrics117%

General Health Professions117%

Nutrition and Dietetics117%

Health Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Global Maternal and Child Health3
Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors1
Cervical Cancer and HPV Research1
Child Nutrition and Water Access1
Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences1
Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology1
Healthcare Policy and Management1
Injury Epidemiology and Prevention1
Iron Metabolism and Disorders1
Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare1
Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions1
Migration, Health and Trauma1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

17% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

United Kingdom1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Kintampo Health Research CentreGH4 papers
University for Development StudiesGH2 papers
Catholic University College of GhanaGH2 papers
University of GhanaGH2 papers
Liverpool School of Tropical MedicineGB1 paper
University of LiverpoolGB1 paper
Nurses' Training College, HoGH1 paper
Ghana Institute of Management and Public AdministrationGH1 paper
Tamale Teaching HospitalGH1 paper
Ministry of HealthGH1 paper

Where they publish

Asian Journal of Medicine and Health1
European Journal of Health Sciences1
Frontiers in Global Women s Health1
PAMJ - One Health1
PLOS Global Public Health1
The Evidence1

How it can be read

100% free to read

Diamond 2 · 33%Free to read and to publish
Gold 3 · 50%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 1 · 17%Open in a subscription journal

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

2Zero hunger1
3Good health and well-being1

PLOS Global Public Health

Cervical Cancer Knowledge and Screening among Young Female Adults in the Kintampo Municipal Hospital, Bono East Ghana.

2021European Journal of Health SciencesJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding2 citations10.47672/ejhs.867