Iruka N Okeke

University of Ibadan

Publishing since 1995, latest 2026

Molecular Medicine
Endocrinology
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Food Science
Infectious Diseases
Molecular Biology

Publications: 1491995–2026
Citations: 8,022to those papers
h-index: 45i10-index 100
Field-weighted impact: 4.371.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 36%53 of 148 scored papers
Open access: 87%130 papers free to read

61 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

149 in all

Diarrhoeal pathogens in the stools of children living with HIV in Ibadan, Nigeria
2023Frontiers in Cellular and Infection MicrobiologyJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding11 citations10.3389/fcimb.2023.1108923
Unlocking the Potential of Genomic Data to Inform Typhoid Fever Control Policy: Supportive Resources for Genomic Data Generation, Analysis, and Visualization

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Citations received each year

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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

Molecular Medicine6141%
Endocrinology5134%
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology3624%
Food Science3624%
Infectious Diseases3322%
Molecular Biology2819%
Clinical Biochemistry2215%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health1812%
Epidemiology1711%
Pollution117%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences

Topics most written on

Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria61
Antibiotic Use and Resistance36
Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology30
Vibrio bacteria research studies28
Escherichia coli research studies25
Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing22
Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology19
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies11
Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts11
Bacteriophages and microbial interactions8
Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus7
Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology6

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

80% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written11141517182031Home

Most frequent partner countries

United Kingdom63
United States60
Ghana31
Australia23
Germany20
South Africa19
Denmark18
Vietnam18

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Obafemi Awolowo UniversityNG47 papers
University of OxfordGB36 papers
University of CambridgeGB29 papers
Haverford CollegeUS22 papers
London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineGB22 papers
University of GhanaGH21 papers
University College Hospital, IbadanNG18 papers
Oxford University Clinical Research UnitVN15 papers
Wellcome TrustGB15 papers
Monash UniversityAU15 papers

Where they publish

Clinical Infectious Diseases13
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine8
PLoS ONE8
PLOS Global Public Health6
The Lancet Microbe6
PubMed5
The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being36
17Partnerships for the goals19
1No poverty8
6Clean water and sanitation8
2Zero hunger5
15Life on land5
9Industry, innovation and infrastructure3
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Most cited

Antimicrobial resistance in developing countries. Part I: recent trends and current status
The Lancet Infectious Diseases17
2005866 citationsWorld top 10%
Socioeconomic and Behavioral Factors Leading to Acquired Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics in Developing Countries
Emerging infectious diseases
1999659 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Diamond
The scope of the antimicrobial resistance challenge

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Evaluation of fecal occult blood testing for rapid diagnosis of invasive diarrhea in young children

2023PLOS Global Public HealthJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding4 citations10.1371/journal.pgph.0001629

Genomic characterization of invasive typhoidal and non-typhoidal Salmonella in southwestern Nigeria

2022PLoS neglected tropical diseasesJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding47 citations10.1371/journal.pntd.0010716

Potentially pathogenic Escherichia coli from household water in peri-urban Ibadan, Nigeria

2022Journal of Water and HealthJournalOpen accessSenior author15 citations10.2166/wh.2022.117

Antibiofilm agents with therapeutic potential against enteroaggregative Escherichia coli

2022PLoS neglected tropical diseasesJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding4 citations10.1371/journal.pntd.0010809

Making microbial genomics work for clinical and public health microbiology

2022Microbial GenomicsJournalOpen accessSenior author2 citations10.1099/mgen.0.000900

Restoring non-COVID-19 clinical research and surveillance in Oyo state, Nigeria during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

2022Journal of Public Health in AfricaJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding1 citation10.4081/jphia.2022.1720

Bacteria autoaggregation: how and why bacteria stick together

2021Biochemical Society TransactionsJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding117 citations10.1042/bst20200718

The importance of molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases in low-resource settings

2021Nature Reviews MicrobiologyJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding65 citations10.1038/s41579-021-00598-5

Clones and Clusters of Antimicrobial-ResistantKlebsiellaFrom Southwestern Nigeria

2021Clinical Infectious DiseasesJournalOpen accessCorresponding49 citations10.1093/cid/ciab769

Overcoming Data Bottlenecks in Genomic Pathogen Surveillance

2021Clinical Infectious DiseasesJournalOpen access30 citations10.1093/cid/ciab785

Quinoline Antimalarials Increase the Antibacterial Activity of Ampicillin

2021Frontiers in MicrobiologyJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding29 citations10.3389/fmicb.2021.556550

Towards a fiercely urgent expansion of laboratory medicine in Africa

2021African Journal of Laboratory MedicineJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding7 citations10.4102/ajlm.v10i1.1785

Twenty steps to ingrain power asymmetry in global health biomedical research

2021PLoS BiologyJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding3 citations10.1371/journal.pbio.3001411

Could Water and Sanitation Shortfalls Exacerbate SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Risks?

2020American Journal of Tropical Medicine and HygieneJournalOpen accessSenior author28 citations10.4269/ajtmh.20-0462

African laboratory medicine in the time of COVID-19

2020African Journal of Laboratory MedicineJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding2 citations10.4102/ajlm.v9i1.1447

Bacteremia Among Febrile Patients Attending Selected Healthcare Facilities in Ibadan, Nigeria

2019Clinical Infectious DiseasesJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding37 citations10.1093/cid/ciz516

Extending the breadth of African laboratory medicine

2019African Journal of Laboratory MedicineJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.4102/ajlm.v8i1.1128

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene4

How it can be read

87% free to read

Diamond 14 · 9%Free to read and to publish
Gold 73 · 49%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 22 · 15%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 8 · 5%Free to read, no open licence
Green 13 · 9%A copy in a repository
Closed 19 · 13%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

118 of 149 papers name a funder

Medical Research Council58
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation55
Wellcome Trust37
European Commission35
National Institute for Health and Care Research33
Department for International Development28
European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership20
Department of Health and Social Care12

Sustainable cities and communities

2024468 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Green

The Lancet Nigeria Commission: investing in health and the future of the nation

The Lancet1

2022381 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid

Antimicrobial resistance in developing countries. Part II: strategies for containment

The Lancet Infectious Diseases17

2005295 citationsWorld top 10%