John Kofi Odoom
Also at Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Researchfrom their recent papers
Publishing since 2001, latest 2026
A Molecular Virologist. Research interest include virus evolution and characterization through genomic sequencing. From ORCID
- Infectious Diseases
- Epidemiology
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Modeling and Simulation
- Agronomy and Crop Science
In their own words
- Virus characterization and evolution
- Publications
- 722001–2026
- Citations
- 2,836to those papers
- h-index
- 16i10-index 28
- Field-weighted impact
- 4.641.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 11%7 of 64 scored papers
- Open access
- 95%61 of the 64 whose access is recorded
7 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 3,737 citations, h-index 18 and i10-index 28 (3,349 citations and h-index 14 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
Positions
- Head of department, VirologyNoguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana2020–2022
Education
- Ph.D, VirologyLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine2003–2008
Publications
72 in all
- Outbreak of Cholera in Vea-Gunga, Bongo District of the Upper East Region, Ghana: Impact of Traditional Medicine and the National Health Insurance Scheme
2017Kei JournalJournal3 citations
- Serological and Molecular Evidence of Hepatitis E Infection among Patients with Suspected Viral Hepatitis Seen at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra
2016Journal of Scientific Research and ReportsJournalOpen accessSenior author