Did Ghana Do Enough? A Scientometric Analysis of COVID-19 Research Output from Ghana within the African Context
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Search Strategy for Most Productive Countries in Africa
2.2. Search Strategy for COVID-19 Data on Ghana
2.3. Search Strategy for Various Subject Areas Related to Ghana COVID-19 Research
2.4. Strategy for Obtaining Data on Citations
3. Results
3.1. Africa’s Most Productive Countries and Where Ghana Lies with Regards to COVID-19 Research Output
3.2. Ghana’s COVID-19 Research Output from 2019–2022: Published Document Types
3.3. International Collaborations in Ghana’s COVID-19 Publication Output from 2019–2022
3.4. Ghana’s Publication Output by Subject Area
3.5. Most Productive Ghanaian Institutions in COVID-19 Research from 2019–2022
3.6. Characteristics of the Most Productive Ghanaian Researchers on COVID-19 Research
3.7. Journals Publishing the Highest Number of Ghana’s COVID-19 Documents from 2019–2022
3.8. Characteristics of Highly-Cited Papers from 2019 to 2022
3.9. Top Funding Sources for Ghana’s COVID-19 Research Output from 2019–2022
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Rank | Countries | Number of Joint Publications (%) |
---|---|---|
1st | United States | 296 (26.6%) |
2nd | United Kingdom | 279 (25.1%) |
3rd | South Africa | 194 (17.5%) |
4th | Nigeria | 174 (15.7%) |
5th | Germany | 117 (10.5%) |
6th | Australia | 113 (10.2%) |
7th | India | 110 (9.9%) |
8th | Canada | 106 (9.5%) |
9th | Kenya | 92 (8.3%) |
10th | China | 89 (8.0%) |
11th | Switzerland | 73 (6.6%) |
12th | Brazil | 70 (6.3%) |
13th | Pakistan | 58 (5.2%) |
14th | Cameroon | 53 (4.8%) |
14th | Italy | 53 (4.8%) |
14th | Malaysia | 53 (4.8%) |
Rank | Author | Sex | Affiliation | No. of Pub. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1st | Amuasi, J. H. | Male | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana | 20 |
2nd | Hagan, J. E. | Male | University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana | 19 |
2nd | Owusu, M. | Male | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana | 19 |
3rd | Sam-Agudu, N. A. | Female | University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana | 18 |
4 th | Ahinkorah, B. O. | Male | University of Technology, Sidney, Australia | 15 |
5 th | Adam, A. M. | Male | University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana | 13 |
5 th | Ameyaw, E. K. | Male | Lingnan University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, | 13 |
5 th | Ayanore, M. A. | Male | University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana | 13 |
5 th | Seidu, A. A. | Male | University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana | 13 |
6 th | Asafo-Adjei, E. | Male | University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana | 11 |
6th | Phillips, R. O. | Male | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana | 11 |
6th | Vanderpuye, V. | Female | Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana | 11 |
7th | Abu, E. K. | Male | University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana | 10 |
7th | Adu-Sarkodie, Y. | Male | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana | 10 |
7th | El-Duah, P. | Male | Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin | 10 |
7th | Kenu, E. | Male | University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana | 10 |
7th | Owusu Junior, P. | Male | University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana | 10 |
7th | Quansah, Frank | Male | University of Education, Winneba, Ghana | 10 |
7th | Marcarious M. T. | Male | Tehran University of Medical Science/University of Ghana | 10 |
7th | Yeboah R. | Male | Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana | 10 |
7th | Yeboah-Manu, D. | Female | University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana | 10 |
Rank | Journal | No. of Publications | Journal Characteristics |
---|---|---|---|
1st | Plos One | 41 | Open access |
2nd | Ghana Medical Journal | 36 | Open access |
2nd | Pan African Medical Journal | 36 | Open access |
3rd | Frontiers In Public Health | 18 | Open access |
4th | International Journal of Environmental Research And Public Health | 17 | Open access |
5th | BMJ Global Health | 14 | Open access |
5th | Lancet | 14 | Hybrid |
6th | Scientific African | 11 | Open access |
7th | Heliyon | 10 | Open access |
7th | International Journal Of Infectious Diseases | 10 | Open access |
7th | Lancet Global Health | 10 | Open access |
8th | BMC Public Health | 9 | Open access |
9th | BMJ Open | 8 | Open access |
9th | Complexity | 8 | Open access |
9th | Nature Medicine | 8 | Hybrid |
Rank | Authors | Document Title | Journal Title/Subject Area of Journal | Citation | Publication Type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st | Villar et al., 2021 [28] | Maternal and Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality among Pregnant Women with and without COVID-19 Infection: The INTERCOVID Multinational Cohort Study | JAMA Pediatrics/Medicine | 421 | Research article |
2nd | Lamontagne et al., 2020 [29] | A living WHO guideline on drugs for COVID-19 | The BMJ/Medicine | 416 | Research article |
3rd | Ayittey et al., 2020 [30] | Economic impacts of Wuhan 2019-nCoV on China and the world | Journal of Medical Virology/Medicine; Immunology and Microbiology | 236 | Note |
4th | Chakaya et al., 2021 [31] | Global Tuberculosis Report 2020—Reflections on the Global TB burden, treatment and prevention efforts | International Journal of Infectious Diseases/Medicine | 216 | Research article |
5th | Kontis et al., 2020 [32] | Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialized countries | Nature Medicine/Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 189 | Research article |
6th | Tabah et al., 2020 [33] | Personal protective equipment and intensive care unit healthcare worker safety in the COVID-19 era (PPE-SAFE): An international survey | Journal of Critical Care/Medicine | 137 | Research article |
7th | Zhou et al., 2021 [34] | Global epidemiology, health burden and effective interventions for elevated blood pressure and hypertension | Nature Reviews Cardiology/Medicine | 135 | Review |
8th | Kretchy et al., 2021 [35] | Medication management and adherence during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives and experiences from low-and middle-income countries | Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy/Health Professions; Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics | 113 | Research article |
9th | Haider et al., 2020 [36] | Lockdown measures in response to COVID-19 in nine sub-Saharan African countries | BMJ Global Health/ Medicine | 109 | Review |
10th | Paulson et al., 2021 [37] | Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 | The Lancet/Medicine | 94 | Research article |
10th | Asamoah et al., 2020 [38] | Global stability and cost-effectiveness analysis of COVID-19 considering the impact of the environment: using data from Ghana | Chaos, Solitons and Fractals/Mathematics; Physics and Astronomy | 94 | Research article |
10th | Sanchez-Felipe et al., 2021 [39] | A single-dose live-attenuated YF17D-vectored SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate | Nature/Multidisciplinary | 94 | Research article |
11th | Abena et al., 2020 [40] | Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19 in Africa: Caution for inappropriate off-label use in healthcare settings | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene/Medicine; Immunology and Microbiology | 90 | Review |
12th | Petersen et al., 2022 [41] | Emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern Omicron (B.1.1.529)—highlights Africa’s research capabilities, but exposes major knowledge gaps, inequities of vaccine distribution, inadequacies in global COVID-19 response and control efforts | International Journal of Infectious Diseases/Medicine | 86 | Editorial |
13th | Dzisi et al., 2020 [42] | Adherence to social distancing and wearing of masks within public transportation during the COVID 19 pandemic | Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives/Social Sciences; Decision Sciences; Environmental Science | 84 | Research article |
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Yalley, A.K.; Ahiatrogah, S.; Yalley, A.B.; Yankson, I.K.; Nii-Trebi, N.I.; Yalley, A.A. Did Ghana Do Enough? A Scientometric Analysis of COVID-19 Research Output from Ghana within the African Context. Diseases 2023, 11, 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/diseases11020056
Yalley AK, Ahiatrogah S, Yalley AB, Yankson IK, Nii-Trebi NI, Yalley AA. Did Ghana Do Enough? A Scientometric Analysis of COVID-19 Research Output from Ghana within the African Context. Diseases. 2023; 11(2):56. https://doi.org/10.3390/diseases11020056
Chicago/Turabian StyleYalley, Akua K., Selasie Ahiatrogah, Akuba B. Yalley, Isaac K. Yankson, Nicholas I. Nii-Trebi, and Abena Asefuaba Yalley. 2023. "Did Ghana Do Enough? A Scientometric Analysis of COVID-19 Research Output from Ghana within the African Context" Diseases 11, no. 2: 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/diseases11020056