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Researcher · University for Development Studies · Ghana

Fortune Akabanda

Fortune Akabanda publishes mostly in Food Science, Nutrition and Dietetics and Plant Science, on topics such as Probiotics and Fermented Foods, Food composition and properties and Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology.

ORCID 0000-0002-3118-7619 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,097,305
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Ghana
#926
of 6,000
Works
42
Citations
1.5k
Citations per work
35.5
h-index
14
i10-index 17Top 32% in Food Science
Fortune Akabanda

What does Fortune Akabanda research?

Fortune Akabanda's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (48%), Nursing (23%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (12%).

Life Sciences: 25 works · 59.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 20 works · 47.5% of their workFood Science: 14 works · 33.3% of their workPlant Science: 5 works · 11.7% of their workForestry: 1 works · 2.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 works · 11.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 3 works · 7.5% of their workBiotechnology: 2 works · 4.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 10 works · 23.3% of their workNursing: 10 works · 23.3% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 10 works · 23.3% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 17.5% of their workTHEIR WORKFortune Akabanda42works
Life Sciences59%Health Sciences23%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2047.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology511.7%
    1. Nursing1023.3%
  3. Everything else717.5%
  1. 1Food Science33% of their works
  2. 2Nutrition and Dietetics23% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science12% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology8% of their works
  5. 5Biotechnology4% of their works
  6. 6Forestry2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Fortune Akabanda's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Prebiotics, Dietary Fiber, Health Benefits, Lactic Acid Bacteria, Probiotics, Glycemic Index, Starch and Fructans.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Prebiotics262 topics
  2. Dietary Fiber212 topics
  3. Health Benefits212 topics
  4. Lactic Acid Bacteria171 topic
  5. Probiotics171 topic
  6. Glycemic Index121 topic
  7. Starch121 topic
  8. Fructans91 topic
  9. Inulin91 topic
  10. Nanoemulsions61 topic
  11. Proteins61 topic
  12. Child Development51 topic
  13. Maternal and Child Undernutrition51 topic
  14. Banana41 topic
  15. Cassava41 topic
  16. Cyanogenic Glycosides41 topic
  17. Food Safety41 topic
  18. Genetics41 topic
  19. Hygiene Practices41 topic

Where does Fortune Akabanda work?

Fortune Akabanda's main affiliation in the publication record is University for Development Studies, Ghana.

How many publications and citations does Fortune Akabanda have?

OpenAlex counts 42 works and 1,491 citations for Fortune Akabanda, an h-index of 14, ranking #1,097,305 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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