Yaw Agyekum Boaitey

Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital

Principal Biomedical Scientist, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, since 2006per ORCID

Publishing since 2012, latest 2026

Epidemiology
Microbiology
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Archeology
Clinical Biochemistry
Emergency Medical Services

Publications: 72012–2026
Citations: 105to those papers
h-index: 4i10-index 2
Field-weighted impact: 0.831.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 0%0 of 7 scored papers
Open access: 100%7 papers free to read

1 other work — a preprint, a dataset or the like — is 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

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Principal Biomedical Scientist, Clinical MicrobiologyKomfo Anokye Teaching Hospitalsince 2006

Education

PhD, School of Life SciencesUniversity of Westminster2019–2023
MPhil Clinical Microbiology, Clinical MicrobiologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2006–2009
BSc. Medical Laboratory Technology, Medical Laboratory TechnologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2000–2004

Honours, memberships and service

Publications

7 in all

P-1755. Developing Host-based Signatures of Gram-negative Infection to Guide Empiric Antibiotics for Sepsis
2026Open Forum Infectious DiseasesJournalOpen access0 citations10.1093/ofid/ofaf695.1926
Methylation-based forensic age estimation on different biogeographic backgrounds: A study on Central Europeans, East Asians and West Africans
2025

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Epidemiology457%
Microbiology229%
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology114%
Archeology114%
Clinical Biochemistry114%
Emergency Medical Services114%
Endocrinology114%
General Health Professions114%
Genetics114%
Infectious Diseases114%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Amoebic Infections and Treatments1
Antibiotic Use and Resistance1
Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing1
Bacterial Infections and Vaccines1
Central Venous Catheters and Hemodialysis1
Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus1
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation1
Forensic and Genetic Research1
Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies1
Neonatal and Maternal Infections1
Parasites and Host Interactions1
Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

43% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1111222Home

Most frequent partner countries

United States2
Switzerland2
United Kingdom1
China1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGH5 papers
Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical MedicineGH3 papers
University of ZurichCH2 papers
Henry M. Jackson FoundationUS1 paper
Ministry of JusticeCN1 paper
Naval Medical Research CommandUS1 paper
University Hospital ZurichCH1 paper
Fudan UniversityCN1 paper
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUS1 paper
University of West LondonGB1 paper

Where they publish

Open Forum Infectious Diseases2
Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials1
BMC Research Notes1
Forensic Science International Genetics1
Open Journal of Urology1
PLoS ONE1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being3
17Partnerships for the goals2

Most cited

Aetiological agents of cerebrospinal meningitis: a retrospective study from a teaching hospital in Ghana
Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials3
201251 citationsOpen access · Gold
Gastrointestinal and urinary tract pathogenic infections among HIV seropositive patients at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Ghana
BMC Research Notes17
201239 citationsOpen access · Gold
Prevalence of yaws and syphilis in the Ashanti region of Ghana and occurrence of H. ducreyi, herpes simplex virus 1 and herpes simplex virus 2 in skin lesions associated with treponematoses