Kintampo Health Research Centre

Hospital · Kintampo · Ghana · founded 1994

Official siteGRID grid.415375.1ROR

Publications

756

1999–2026

Citations

24,212

To those publications

Scholars

421

187 carry an ORCID — 44% of them.

Research impact, 2016–2025

Field-weighted against the world’s papers

Publications: 4732016–2025
Citations: 10,122to papers published 2016–2025
Field-weighted impact: 2.941.00 is the world average · median 1.53
World top 10%: 33%158 of 472 papers, by citations in their field and year
Open access: 95%450 papers free to read

Diamond 54 · 11%Free to read and to publish
Gold 281 · 59%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 73 · 15%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 18 · 4%Free to read, no open licence
Green 24 · 5%A copy in a repository
Closed 23 · 5%

Output and citations by year

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

What it publishes in

By field, with field-weighted impact

Medicine34272%FWCI 3.22
Health Professions12226%FWCI 3.97
Immunology and Microbiology8318%FWCI 3.80
Environmental Science8217%FWCI 1.87
Social Sciences7115%

Who it works with

76% of papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

United States180
United Kingdom146
South Africa59
Kenya56
Australia47
Netherlands47
Germany42
Uganda40

Papers with at least one author in that country. 76% of all papers have a co-author abroad.

Institutions written with most

Ghana Health ServiceGH246 papers
University of GhanaGH111 papers
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGH88 papers
University of Health and Allied SciencesGH83 papers
London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineGB79 papers
Columbia UniversityUS60 papers
University for Development StudiesGH46 papers
College of Health and Well-Being, KintampoGH39 papers
Navrongo Health Research CentreGH39 papers
Kenya Medical Research InstituteKE37 papers
Harvard UniversityUS33 papers
Makerere UniversityUG32 papers

Research for the Sustainable Development Goals

322 papers address at least one goal

1No poverty408.5% of papers
2Zero hunger275.7% of papers
3Good health and well-being17637.2% of papers
4Quality education40.9% of papers

Who funds it

279 of 473 papers name a funder

National Institutes of Health50 papers
Wellcome Trust39 papers
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation38 papers
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences36 papers
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine30 papers
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute27 papers
Medical Research Council23 papers
National Institute for Health and Care Research22 papers
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases22 papers
World Health Organization22 papers

Most published scholars

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