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Ghana AIDS Commission

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Research works
11
▲ 40% vs 2018-21
Citations
84
7.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
82%
world 40%
International
40%
world 18%
Ghana AIDS Commission

Not ranked overall: Ghana AIDS Commission is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Ghana AIDS Commission work in?

In all years, 66% of research at Ghana AIDS Commission is in Health Sciences, 30% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (48%), Social Sciences (21%), Health Professions (16%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 7 fractional works · 65.9% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 47.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 20.5% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 12.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 7.5% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 16.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 16.5% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 30.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 20.5% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 10.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 3.9% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 8.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 7.5% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workVirology: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workALL ITS WORKGhana AIDSCommission11fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences1%Health Sciences66%Social Sciences30%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine547.7%
    2. Health Professions216.5%
    3. Nursing01.8%
    1. Social Sciences220.5%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance18.5%
    3. Psychology01.0%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology02.9%
    1. Computer Science00.6%
    2. Mathematics00.6%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Who are the top researchers at Ghana AIDS Commission?

Ranked on the quality score, Kyeremeh Atuahene lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Ghana AIDS Commission.

  1. 1 Kyeremeh Atuahene Ghana · #2,568,335 worldwide 328 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at Ghana AIDS Commission

What are the most cited papers from Ghana AIDS Commission?

The most cited paper from Ghana AIDS Commission is "Stigma, discrimination, violence, and HIV testing among men who have sex with men in four major cities in Ghana" (Akua O. Gyamerah, Kelly Taylor, Kyeremeh Atuahene et al., 2020), with 85 citations. Next come "Critique and Lessons Learned from using Multiple Methods to Estimate Population Size of Men who have Sex with Men in Ghana" (61) and "A total facility approach to reducing HIV stigma in health facilities: implementation process and lessons learned" (56).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Stigma, discrimination, violence, and HIV testing among men who have sex with men in four major cities in Ghana Akua O. Gyamerah, Kelly Taylor, Kyeremeh Atuahene et al. · AIDS Care Open access 4 May 2020 85
2 Critique and Lessons Learned from using Multiple Methods to Estimate Population Size of Men who have Sex with Men in Ghana Ghana Men Study Group, Silas Quaye, Henry Fisher Raymond et al. · AIDS and Behavior Feb 2015 61
3 A total facility approach to reducing HIV stigma in health facilities: implementation process and lessons learned Laura C. Nyblade, R Mbuya-Brown, Mangi Job Ezekiel et al. · AIDS Open access Sep 2020 56
4 Results from a difference‐in‐differences evaluation of health facility HIV and key population stigma‐reduction interventions in Ghana Laura C. Nyblade, Nii Akwei Addo, Kyeremeh Atuahene et al. · Journal of the International AIDS Society Open access Apr 2020 46
5 Family planning for urban slums in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of interventions/service delivery models and their impact John Kuumuori Ganle, Leonard Baatiema, Paul Ayamah et al. · International Journal for Equity in Health Open access 19 Aug 2021 29
All 38 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Ghana AIDS Commission publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk, Sex work and related issues and Global Maternal and Child Health.

HIV/AIDS Research and In…1HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 1 fractional worksHIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk: 0 fractional worksSex work and related issues: 0 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Chil…0Global Maternal and Child Health: 0 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Impact and Resp…0HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses: 0 fractional worksTuberculosis Research and Epidemiology: 0 fractional worksAdolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: 0 fractional worksHepatitis B Virus Studies: 0 fractional worksFamily Caregiving in Mental Illness: 0 fractional worksHIV-related health complications and treatments: 0 fractional works
Infectious DiseasesEpidemiologySociology and Political SciencePediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health4 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 1 works
  2. 2 HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk Epidemiology 0 works
  3. 3 Sex work and related issues Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  4. 4 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 0 works
  5. 5 HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  6. 6 Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Infectious Diseases 0 works
  7. 7 Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health General Health Professions 0 works
  8. 8 Hepatitis B Virus Studies Epidemiology 0 works
  9. 9 Family Caregiving in Mental Illness Clinical Psychology 0 works
  10. 10 HIV-related health complications and treatments Emergency Medicine 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available81.9%not open18.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors40.1%domestic only59.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Ghana AIDS Commission's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 40% higher than in 2018-2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Ghana AIDS Commission as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000018% in 2024.

still counting0.000020%0.000040%0.000060%Ghana AIDS Commission0.000023% in 202520102020

Fractional works of Ghana AIDS Commission over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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