John Arko‐Mensah
- University of Ghanaper ORCID
- University of Ghanaper ORCID
Publishing since 2000, latest 2026
I am an Immunologist by training, and currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon. My research interests include pathogenesis of infectious diseases (tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS), autophagy as an innate immune mechanism for restriction of intracellular pathogens and vaccinology. In the past 6 years, i have been involved in the GEOHealth II project in West Africa to investigate the environmental impacts and health effects of electronic… More on ORCID
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
- Waste Management and Disposal
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Pollution
- Infectious Diseases
- Parasitology
In their own words
- Infectious Diseases (HIV/AIDS & Tuberculosis)
- Occupational Health
- Publications
- 722000–2026
- Citations
- 3,563to those papers
- h-index
- 25i10-index 38
- Field-weighted impact
- 1.521.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 23%12 of 53 scored papers
- Open access
- 83%44 of the 53 whose access is recorded
20 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 3,916 citations, h-index 26 and i10-index 41 (2,272 citations and h-index 24 since 2021), as of October 12, 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
Education
- PhD, Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren InstituteStockholms Universitet
- Senior Lecturer, Biological, Environmental & Occupational Health SciencesUniversity of Ghana
On their papers
Publications
72 in all
- Exposure to Particulate Matter and Respiratory Health among Electronic Waste Workers at Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana
2019Environmental EpidemiologyJournalOpen access1 citation10.1097/01.ee9.0000605708.96200.e5
- Analysis of heavy metals concentrations in Earthworms and Cattle Egret feathers and eggs collected around an informal electronic waste recycling and dumpsite