John E. Williams

Dodowa Health Research Centre

Also at Ghana Health Servicefrom their recent papers

Publishing since 1982, latest 2026

Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
General Health Professions
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Nutrition and Dietetics
Epidemiology

Publications: 941982–2026
Citations: 4,041to those papers
h-index: 36i10-index 68
Field-weighted impact: 5.561.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 62%58 of 94 scored papers
Open access: 85%80 papers free to read

12 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

Publications

94 in all

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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

Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health6872%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health3537%
General Health Professions3032%
Obstetrics and Gynecology1920%
Nutrition and Dietetics1213%
Epidemiology1011%
Infectious Diseases910%
Parasitology89%
Health66%
Psychiatry and Mental health66%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Global Maternal and Child Health64
Malaria Research and Control17
Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions15
Child Nutrition and Water Access12
Global Health and Surgery12
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health9
Parasites and Host Interactions8
Breastfeeding Practices and Influences7
Maternal and fetal healthcare7
Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare7
Mobile Health and mHealth Applications6
Mosquito-borne diseases and control6

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

98% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written567891618Home

Most frequent partner countries

United States45
United Kingdom36
Tanzania18
Germany17
Burkina Faso16
Switzerland12
South Africa9
Mali8

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Navrongo Health Research CentreGH58 papers
Ghana Health ServiceGH40 papers
University of MichiganUS26 papers
University of GhanaGH25 papers
London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineGB21 papers
Michigan MedicineUS15 papers
Heidelberg UniversityDE15 papers
Muhimbili University of Health and Allied SciencesTZ14 papers
University of Health and Allied SciencesGH12 papers
Liverpool School of Tropical MedicineGB9 papers

Where they publish

PLoS ONE12
Global Health Action8
BMC Health Services Research6
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth6
Tropical Medicine & International Health6
Clinical Infectious Diseases5
Malaria Journal

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being40
1No poverty13
5Gender equality7
4Quality education2
17Partnerships for the goals2
2Zero hunger1
9Industry, innovation and infrastructure1
10

Most cited

Community-based antibiotic access and use in six low-income and middle-income countries: a mixed-method approach
The Lancet Global Health1
2021298 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Absence of Putative Artemisinin Resistance Mutations Among Plasmodium falciparum in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Molecular Epidemiologic Study
The Journal of Infectious Diseases3
2014297 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Bronze

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Quality of antenatal and childbirth care in northern G hana

2014BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & GynaecologyJournalOpen access25 citations10.1111/1471-0528.12905

Profile of the Navrongo Health and Demographic Surveillance System

2012International Journal of EpidemiologyJournal207 citations10.1093/ije/dys111

Stillbirths and early neonatal mortality in rural Northern Ghana

2011Tropical Medicine & International HealthJournalOpen access83 citations10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02931.x

Maternal Mortality Decline in the Kassena-Nankana District of Northern Ghana

2007Maternal and Child Health JournalJournalOpen access51 citations10.1007/s10995-007-0289-x

A zymodeme study of Entamoeba histolytica in a group of South African schoolchildren

1982Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and HygieneJournal36 citations10.1016/0035-9203(82)90200-0

How it can be read

85% free to read

Diamond 4 · 4%Free to read and to publish
Gold 54 · 57%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 7 · 7%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 10 · 11%Free to read, no open licence
Green 5 · 5%A copy in a repository
Closed 14 · 15%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

64 of 94 papers name a funder

European Commission14
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation13
National Institutes of Health11
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development9
Medical Research Council7
United States Agency for International Development7
Department for International Development6
University of Michigan6

Reduced inequalities

Profile of the Navrongo Health and Demographic Surveillance System

International Journal of Epidemiology3

2012207 citationsWorld top 10%

Social Contact Structures and Time Use Patterns in the Manicaland Province of Zimbabwe

PLoS ONE3

2017162 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold