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Researcher · University for Development Studies · Ghana

Mahama Saaka

Mahama Saaka publishes mostly in Nutrition and Dietetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Epidemiology, on topics such as Child Nutrition and Water Access, Global Maternal and Child Health and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare.

ORCID 0000-0003-0295-0328 OpenAlex
World rank
#590,597
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Ghana
#450
of 6,000
Works
77
Citations
2.9k
Citations per work
37.4
h-index
26
i10-index 40Top 14% in Nutrition and Dietetics
Mahama Saaka

What does Mahama Saaka research?

Mahama Saaka's work is mostly in Medicine (32%), Nursing (29%), Social Sciences (9%).

Health Sciences: 53 works · 68.8% of their workMedicine: 25 works · 32.3% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 12 works · 15.2% of their workEpidemiology: 7 works · 9.5% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 6 works · 7.6% of their workNursing: 23 works · 29.4% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 23 works · 29.4% of their workHealth Professions: 5 works · 7.1% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 5 works · 7.1% of their workEverything else: 17 works · 22.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 9.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 9.0% of their workSafety Research: 7 works · 9.0% of their workTHEIR WORKMahama Saaka77works
Health Sciences69%Social Sciences9%

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. Medicine2532.3%
    2. Nursing2329.4%
    3. Health Professions57.1%
  2. Everything else1722.2%
    1. Social Sciences79.0%
  1. 1Nutrition and Dietetics29% of their works
  2. 2Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health15% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology10% of their works
  4. 4Safety Research9% of their works
  5. 5Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health8% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mahama Saaka's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Child Development, Maternal and Child Undernutrition, Water Sanitation Hygiene, Chronic Disease, Child Mortality, Maternal Mortality, Conditional Cash Transfers and School Subsidies.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Child Development662 topics
  2. Maternal and Child Undernutrition541 topic
  3. Water Sanitation Hygiene541 topic
  4. Chronic Disease212 topics
  5. Child Mortality201 topic
  6. Maternal Mortality201 topic
  7. Conditional Cash Transfers191 topic
  8. School Subsidies191 topic
  9. Food Insecurity131 topic
  10. Health Outcomes131 topic
  11. Breastfeeding121 topic
  12. Infant Health121 topic
  13. Early-Life Conditions81 topic
  14. Fetal Programming81 topic
  15. Autism Spectrum Disorders71 topic
  16. Feeding Problems71 topic
  17. Hepcidin71 topic
  18. Iron Regulation71 topic

Where does Mahama Saaka work?

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

How many publications and citations does Mahama Saaka have?

OpenAlex counts 77 works and 2,880 citations for Mahama Saaka, an h-index of 26, ranking #590,597 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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