Graham Wright

University of Ghana

Also at University of South Africa and Rhodes Universityfrom their recent papers

Publishing since 2009, latest 2023

Health Information Management
General Health Professions
Information Systems
Molecular Biology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Biomedical Engineering

Publications: 332009–2023
Citations: 709to those papers
h-index: 10i10-index 10
Field-weighted impact: 2.681.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 24%8 of 33 scored papers
Open access: 76%25 papers free to read

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Visiting Professor, Information SystemsRhodes University2018–2025
Adjunct Professor, Health SciencesUniversity of Fort Hare East London Campus2014–2021
Full Research Professor, Chair of Health Science ResearchWalter Sisulu University Faculty of Health Sciences2009–2014
Professor, Health InformaticsUniversity of Winchester2000–2009
Director of Education, European Institute of Health and Medical SciencesUniversity of Surrey1996–2000

Publications

33 in all

Defining and Scoping Participatory Health Informatics: An eDelphi Study
2023Methods of Information in MedicineJournalOpen access9 citations10.1055/a-2035-3008
Developing Harmonized Benchmarks for the Master of Science in Health Informatics for the East African Region
2022Studies in health technology and informatics

profwright@gmail.comPublic on their ORCID record

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Citations received each year

Peerford

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Health Information Management1855%
General Health Professions1133%
Information Systems515%
Molecular Biology515%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health515%
Biomedical Engineering412%
Health Informatics39%
Infectious Diseases39%
Safety Research39%
Computer Science Applications26%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Electronic Health Records Systems16
Mobile Health and mHealth Applications7
ICT in Developing Communities5
Medical Coding and Health Information5
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education3
Biomedical and Engineering Education3
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies3
Ethics in Clinical Research3
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health2
Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research2
Healthcare Systems and Technology2
HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses2

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

30% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

South Africa33
United States5
Sweden3
Germany3
Australia2
Austria2
Argentina2
Canada2

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Walter Sisulu UniversityZA20 papers
Rhodes UniversityZA9 papers
University of Fort HareZA8 papers
Karolinska InstitutetSE3 papers
University of Eastern FinlandFI2 papers
Oregon Health & Science UniversityUS2 papers
The University of MelbourneAU2 papers
Medizinische Hochschule HannoverDE2 papers
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterUS2 papers
Instituto de Salud Carlos IIIES2 papers

Where they publish

Studies in health technology and informatics8
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine5
Yearbook of Medical Informatics3
European Journal for Biomedical Informatics2
Methods of Information in Medicine2
South African journal of information management2

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

17Partnerships for the goals10
3Good health and well-being8
4Quality education3
1No poverty2
9Industry, innovation and infrastructure1

Most cited

Effects of Electronic Health Record Implementation and Barriers to Adoption and Use: A Scoping Review and Qualitative Analysis of the Content
Life4
2020317 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics: Second Revision
International Journal of Medical Informatics17
2022100 citationsWorld top 10%

Organisational Change: Using Health Informatics Education as a Change Agent

2022Studies in health technology and informaticsBook chapterOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding1 citation10.3233/shti220942

The International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics: 2021 Update

2022Yearbook of Medical InformaticsJournalOpen accessSenior author1 citation10.1055/s-0042-1742501

200 Years Since the Birth of Nursing Informatics?

2020Studies in health technology and informaticsBook chapterOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.3233/shti200485

Some Thoughts about Health Informatics in Africa

2018European Journal for Biomedical InformaticsJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.24105/ejbi.2018.14.1.12

Electronic Health Records in the Cloud: Improving Primary Health Care Delivery in South Africa

2017Studies in health technology and informaticsBook chapterSenior author8 citations10.3233/978-1-61499-830-3-35

The Next Stage of Development of eLearning at UFH in South Africa.

2017International Association for Development of the Information SocietyJournalFirst author4 citations

Extracting clinically relevant information from pulse oximetry traces

2017Journal of Health InformaticsJournalOpen accessFirst author0 citations10.12856/jhia-2017-v4-i1-182

Intestinal helminth infections amongst HIV-infected adults in Mthatha General Hospital, South Africa

2015African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family MedicineJournalOpen accessSenior author38 citations10.4102/phcfm.v7i1.910

Diabetic patients’ perspectives on the challenges of glycaemic control

2015African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family MedicineJournalOpen access26 citations10.4102/phcfm.v7i1.767

Problemas y soluciones potenciales en la captura de datos de salud en clínicas rurales de Sudáfrica

2014Revista Cubana de Informática MédicaJournalOpen accessFirst author0 citations

Issues and potential solutions when capturing health data in rural clinics in South Africa

2014DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)JournalOpen accessFirst author0 citations

Biomedical Informatics: We Are What We Publish

2013Methods of Information in MedicineJournal17 citations10.3414/me13-01-0041

Health Data Ownership and Data Quality: Clinics in the Nyandeni District, Eastern Cape, South Africa

2012Engineering Management ResearchJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding4 citations10.5539/emr.v1n2p146

The Development of the IMIA Knowledge Base

2011South African journal of information managementJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding7 citations10.4102/sajim.v13i1.458

The development of the IMIA knowledge base : original research

2011South African journal of information managementJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding2 citations

EHR Implementation in South Africa: How do we get it right?

2010Studies in health technology and informaticsBook chapterOpen accessSenior author13 citations10.3233/978-1-60750-588-4-396

BMC Infectious Diseases1

How it can be read

76% free to read

Diamond 2 · 6%Free to read and to publish
Gold 9 · 27%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 8 · 24%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 1 · 3%Free to read, no open licence
Green 5 · 15%A copy in a repository
Closed 8 · 24%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

5 of 33 papers name a funder

Direktoratet for Utviklingssamarbeid1
Discovery Eye Foundation1
European Commission1
Forskningsrådet om Hälsa, Arbetsliv och Välfärd1
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences1
South African Medical Research Council1
United States Agency for International Development1
Universidad de Sevilla1

201453 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold

Intestinal helminth infections amongst HIV-infected adults in Mthatha General Hospital, South Africa

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine3

201538 citationsOpen access · Gold