Kwabena Obeng Duedu

University of Health and Allied Sciences

Also at Birmingham City University and Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culturefrom their recent papers

Publishing since 2011, latest 2026

Infectious Diseases
Epidemiology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Molecular Medicine
Endocrinology
Parasitology

Publications: 702011–2026
Citations: 999to those papers
h-index: 14i10-index 22
Field-weighted impact: 1.771.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 13%9 of 69 scored papers
Open access: 96%67 papers free to read

13 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

70 in all

Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny
2026Nature MethodsJournalOpen access5 citations10.1038/s41592-025-02947-1
Cytokine and chemokine signatures of steady-state sickle cell disease in African children: a cross-sectional study
2026BMC ImmunologyJournal

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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

Infectious Diseases2333%
Epidemiology1420%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health1319%
Molecular Medicine1217%
Endocrinology811%
Parasitology811%
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology710%
Molecular Biology710%
Clinical Biochemistry69%
Physiology69%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences

Topics most written on

Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria12
Parasites and Host Interactions8
Antibiotic Use and Resistance7
Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing6
Malaria Research and Control6
HIV Research and Treatment5
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research5
Biofuel production and bioconversion4
COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies4
Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins4
Escherichia coli research studies4
HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment4

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

64% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written2345678Home

Most frequent partner countries

United Kingdom39
South Africa6
Nigeria6
United States5
Kenya4
Ethiopia4
Switzerland4
Italy4

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Birmingham City UniversityGB31 papers
University of GhanaGH29 papers
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGH15 papers
Ghana Health ServiceGH11 papers
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical ResearchGH10 papers
University of EdinburghGB7 papers
University of Cape CoastGH7 papers
Ho Technical UniversityGH6 papers
West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious PathogensGH6 papers
Teesside UniversityGB4 papers

Where they publish

BMC Research Notes5
BMC Infectious Diseases4
Heliyon4
BioMed Research International3
PLOS Global Public Health3
Frontiers in Bacteriology2
Ghana Medical Journal

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being36
2Zero hunger6
6Clean water and sanitation4
1No poverty2
10Reduced inequalities2
12Responsible consumption and production2
15Life on land1
17

Most cited

Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases in 6 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Findings From Wave 1 of the World Health Organization's Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE)
American Journal of Epidemiology1
2017204 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Bronze
A comparative survey of the prevalence of human parasites found in fresh vegetables sold in supermarkets and open-aired markets in Accra, Ghana
BMC Research Notes
2014146 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold

Environmental mediation of colistin resistance in the African context. A systematic scoping review

2024Journal of Global Antimicrobial ResistanceJournalOpen accessSenior author3 citations10.1016/j.jgar.2024.12.002

Physicochemical Properties of Water Samples in the Volta Region of Ghana: Implications for Public Health

2024Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences. C, Physiology and Molecular Biology/Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences. C, Physiology and Molecular BiologyJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.21608/eajbsc.2024.375165

Detection of PhoP-mediated Colistin Resistance in Gram-negative bacteria without mcr genes in Water in the Ho Municipality, Ghana

2024Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences. G, MicrobiologyJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.21608/eajbsg.2024.379065

Global inequity of COVID-19 diagnostics: challenges and opportunities

2022Journal of Epidemiology & Community HealthJournal9 citations10.1136/jech-2022-219333

Microbiology Resource Announcements2

How it can be read

96% free to read

Diamond 8 · 11%Free to read and to publish
Gold 43 · 61%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 8 · 11%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 2 · 3%Free to read, no open licence
Green 6 · 9%A copy in a repository
Closed 3 · 4%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

33 of 70 papers name a funder

University of Ghana11
University of Health and Allied Sciences8
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation5
Wellcome Trust5
African Academy of Sciences3
Darwin Trust of Edinburgh3
World Health Organization3
Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa2

Partnerships for the goals

201450 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold

Genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Ghana from 2020-2021

Nature Communications3

202247 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold

Microbial Carriage of Cockroaches at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Ghana

Environmental Health Insights3

201344 citationsOpen access · Gold