Desmond Omane Acheampong
- Head of Department, University of Cape Coast, since 2010per ORCID
Publishing since 2010, latest 2026
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Infectious Diseases
- Immunology
- Molecular Biology
- Parasitology
- Plant Science
In their own words
- Clinical Microbiology
- Clinical Immunology
- Immunotherapy
- Drug Discovery Studies (Natural Products
- Publications
- 1012010–2026
- Citations
- 1,294to those papers
- h-index
- 20i10-index 41
- Field-weighted impact
- 1.901.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 14%10 of 70 scored papers
- Open access
- 87%61 of the 70 whose access is recorded
8 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 1,616 citations, h-index 23 and i10-index 47 (1,301 citations and h-index 20 since 2021), as of October 14, 2026. It also counts theses, books and web pages, so it runs higher.
By year
Papers, and the citations to them
Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress
Positions
- Head of Department, Biomedical SciencesUniversity of Cape Coastsince 2010
Education
- PhD Microbiological and Biochemical Pharmacy, Molecular BiologyChina Pharmaceutical University2012–2015
- MSc. Clinical Microbiology, Clinical MicrobiologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2005–2009
- BSc. Biological Sciences, Department of Biomedical SciencesUniversity of Cape Coast1998–2002
Publications
101 in all
- Elevated IL‐12, TNF‐ α , and TNF‐ α /IL‐10 Ratios in Stored Plasmodium falciparum ‐Infected Whole Blood: Implications for Safe Haemotransfusion
2020Journal of Immunology ResearchJournalOpen accessSenior author8 citations10.1155/2020/9394585
- Effect of P. falciparum Kelch 13 and Pfmdr1 gene polymorphisms on parasite clearance characteristics following Artemether-Lumefantrine therapy