Odame Asiedu

Ghana Health Service

Publishing since 2013, latest 2025

Infectious Diseases
Parasitology
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Ecology
Insect Science

Their record on OpenAlex

Publications: 112013–2025
Citations: 425to those papers
h-index: 8i10-index 8
Field-weighted impact: 2.261.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 36%4 of 11 scored papers
Open access: 100%11 papers free to read

2 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

Publications

11 in all

Schistosomiasis in Ghana from baseline to now: the impact of fifteen years of interventions
2025Frontiers in Public HealthJournalOpen access4 citations10.3389/fpubh.2025.1554069
Confirmatory mapping for lymphatic filariasis in districts previously considered nonendemic in Ghana
2025International Journal of Infectious Diseases

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Infectious Diseases1091%
Parasitology655%
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis545%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health327%
Ecology218%
Insect Science218%
Archeology19%
Oncology19%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment10
Parasites and Host Interactions6
Insects and Parasite Interactions5
Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences2
Mosquito-borne diseases and control2
Parasite Biology and Host Interactions2
Dermatological diseases and infestations1
Lymphatic System and Diseases1
Paleopathology and ancient diseases1
Research on Leishmaniasis Studies1
Zoonotic diseases and public health1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

91% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

United States7
Netherlands3
United Kingdom3
France1
Uganda1
South Africa1
Norway1
Nigeria1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of GhanaGH8 papers
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical ResearchGH8 papers
Family Health International 360US3 papers
Gates FoundationUS3 papers
University of Health and Allied SciencesGH3 papers
The Task Force for Global HealthUS2 papers
Liverpool School of Tropical MedicineGB2 papers
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung DiseaseFR1 paper
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung DiseaseUS1 paper
Médecins Sans FrontièresBE1 paper

Where they publish

PLoS neglected tropical diseases4
Frontiers in Public Health1
Frontiers in Tropical Diseases1
International Health1
International Journal of Infectious Diseases1
Parasites & Vectors1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being6

Most cited

The Cost of Annual versus Biannual Community-Directed Treatment of Onchocerciasis with Ivermectin: Ghana as a Case Study
PLoS neglected tropical diseases
2013187 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Fifteen years of programme implementation for the elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis in Ghana: Impact of MDA on immunoparasitological indicators
PLoS neglected tropical diseases
201758 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Persistent ‘hotspots’ of lymphatic filariasis microfilaraemia despite 14 years of mass drug administration in Ghana

Onchocerciasis control in Ghana (1974–2016)

2021Parasites & VectorsJournalOpen access41 citations10.1186/s13071-020-04507-2

Persistent ‘hotspots’ of lymphatic filariasis microfilaraemia despite 14 years of mass drug administration in Ghana

2016Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and HygieneJournalOpen access48 citations10.1093/trstmh/trx007

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease1

How it can be read

100% free to read

Gold 10 · 91%In an open-access journal
Green 1 · 9%A copy in a repository

Who funds it

8 of 11 papers name a funder

United States Agency for International Development4
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation3
European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership2
European Commission2
American Leprosy Missions1
Economic and Social Research Council1
Government of the United Kingdom1
Imperial College London1

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene3

201648 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Green

Onchocerciasis control in Ghana (1974–2016)

Parasites & Vectors3

202141 citationsOpen access · Gold