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Ghana Health Service

In research, Ghana Health Service stands highest in Health Sciences (#4,422 of 11,982 worldwide), Medicine (#4,603 of 10,443 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#7,652 of 10,521 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Infectious Diseases — Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health is 15.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#9,774
of 28,054 · #14,595 all time
Rank in Ghana
#16
of 50
Research works
1.1k
▲ 62% vs 2013–17
Citations
22k
19.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
22.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
84%
world 28%

What is Ghana Health Service known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #4,422 of 11,982 22.1%275 #5152
MedicineField #4,603 of 10,443 21.2%216 #5772
Social SciencesDomain #7,652 of 10,521 25.5%74 #11059

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Ghana Health Service sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Health Sciences#5,152 #4,422
  2. Medicine#5,772 #4,603
  3. Social Sciences#11,059 #7,652
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Ghana Health Service specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health takes 15.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthSubfield · 47.5 works15×
  2. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 32.2 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.31× its world share, 6 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.44× its world share, 10 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.83× its world share, 16 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.77× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.14× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.08× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.65× its world share, 13 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.08× its world share, 5 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.84× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 3.89× its world share, 42 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.70× its world share, 216 worksMedicineNursing: 7.20× its world share, 15 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.27× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.67× its world share, 9 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.56× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.74× its world share, 15 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.14× its world share, 14 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.62× its world share, 33 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 7.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Ghana Health Service?

Ranked on the composite score, John O. Gyapong and John Koku Awoonor‐Williams lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Ghana Health Service.

  1. 1 John O. Gyapong Ghana · #309,451 worldwide 102 citations · 22 works
  2. 2 John Koku Awoonor‐Williams Ghana · #803,066 worldwide 21 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Ghana Health Service

Which keywords describe research at Ghana Health Service?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Maternal Mortality, Health Inequalities, Community Health Workers, Socio-economic Factors, Child Mortality, Health Systems and Vaccine.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology66▲ 4.0×86 topics
  2. Maternal Mortality45▲ 49×4 topics
  3. Health Inequalities39▲ 79×4 topics
  4. Community Health Workers38▲ 109×2 topics
  5. Socio-economic Factors38▲ 81×2 topics
  6. Child Mortality37▲ 128×1 topic
  7. Health Systems37▲ 128×1 topic
  8. Public Health24▲ 4.0×42 topics
  9. COVID-1922▲ 3.8×19 topics
  10. Vaccine21▲ 13×11 topics
  11. Risk Factors21▲ 4.5×25 topics
  12. Immune Response18▲ 7.8×15 topics
  13. Global Burden18▲ 8.1×12 topics
  14. Child Development17▲ 9.8×5 topics
  15. Vaccine Development16▲ 15×9 topics
  16. Antiretroviral Therapy15▲ 22×6 topics
  17. Global Burden of Disease14▲ 14×4 topics
  18. Cardiovascular Disease14▲ 3.1×27 topics
  19. Pathogenesis14▲ 6.5×15 topics
  20. Pandemic14▲ 3.0×10 topics
  21. Infectious Diseases13▲ 9.5×7 topics
  22. Maternal and Child Undernutrition13▲ 38×1 topic
  23. Water Sanitation Hygiene13▲ 38×1 topic
  24. Mortality Rates12▲ 31×2 topics
  25. Risk Perception12▲ 11×5 topics
  26. Insecticide Resistance10▲ 30×4 topics
  27. Global Access9▲ 26×2 topics
  28. HIV Transmission9▲ 29×2 topics
  29. COVID-19 Vaccine9▲ 29×1 topic
  30. Health Behavior9▲ 21×2 topics
  31. Vaccine Hesitancy9▲ 32×1 topic
  32. Drug Resistance9▲ 7.4×7 topics
  33. Genome Sequence9▲ 25×2 topics
  34. Artemisinin Resistance8▲ 65×1 topic
  35. Plasmodium falciparum8▲ 65×1 topic
  36. Viral Load8▲ 26×2 topics
  37. HIV Prevention8▲ 33×2 topics
  38. Social Determinants of Health8▲ 8.6×4 topics
  39. Preexposure Prophylaxis8▲ 39×1 topic
  40. Stigma and Discrimination8▲ 39×1 topic

Which research topics does Ghana Health Service publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Global Maternal and Child Health, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy and Malaria Research and Control.

Global Maternal and Chil…37Global Maternal and Child Health: 37 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Wate…13Child Nutrition and Water Access: 13 fractional worksVaccine Coverage and Hes…9Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy: 9 fractional worksMalaria Research and Control: 8 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 8 fractional worksAdolescent Sexual and Re…8Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: 8 fractional worksViral Infections and Outbreaks Research: 6 fractional worksMosquito-borne diseases and control: 5 fractional worksCOVID-19 epidemiological studies: 5 fractional worksHealthcare Systems and Reforms: 5 fractional works
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthNutrition and DieteticsHealthPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health4 others

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

  1. 1 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 37 works
  2. 2 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 13 works
  3. 3 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Health 9 works
  4. 4 Malaria Research and Control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 8 works
  5. 5 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 8 works
  6. 6 Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health General Health Professions 8 works
  7. 7 Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research Infectious Diseases 6 works
  8. 8 Mosquito-borne diseases and control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 5 works
  9. 9 COVID-19 epidemiological studies Modeling and Simulation 5 works
  10. 10 Healthcare Systems and Reforms Finance 5 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 available84.0%not open16.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors48.0%domestic only52.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Ghana Health Service's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 62% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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.

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