Ayaga A. Bawah

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
90 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Ayaga A. Bawah is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, General Health Professions and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ayaga A. Bawah has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 27 papers in General Health Professions and 26 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Ayaga A. Bawah's work include Global Maternal and Child Health (70 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (26 papers) and Healthcare Systems and Reforms (24 papers). Ayaga A. Bawah is often cited by papers focused on Global Maternal and Child Health (70 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (26 papers) and Healthcare Systems and Reforms (24 papers). Ayaga A. Bawah collaborates with scholars based in Ghana, United States and United Kingdom. Ayaga A. Bawah's co-authors include James F. Phillips, John Koku Awoonor‐Williams, Abraham Oduro, Patricia Akweongo, Ruth Simmons, James Akazili, Edmund Wedam Kanmiki, Patrick O. Asuming, Paul Welaga and Fred Binka and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ayaga A. Bawah

82 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

NCD Countdown 2030: pathways to achieving Sustainable Dev... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150 200 250
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. NCD Countdown 2030: pathways to achieving Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4
    2020 260 citations James E. Bennett, Ayaga A. Bawah et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ayaga A. Bawah Ghana 23 1.2k 757 452 381 372 90 2.0k
Patricia Akweongo Ghana 27 950 0.8× 824 1.1× 372 0.8× 562 1.5× 191 0.5× 108 2.3k
Philip Setel United States 25 1.1k 0.9× 752 1.0× 336 0.7× 341 0.9× 272 0.7× 47 2.8k
Uta Lehmann South Africa 22 1.5k 1.3× 1.2k 1.6× 578 1.3× 405 1.1× 456 1.2× 59 2.8k
Slim Haddad Canada 31 1.3k 1.0× 1.1k 1.4× 700 1.5× 397 1.0× 363 1.0× 103 2.8k
Susanna Makela United States 9 1.7k 1.4× 631 0.8× 460 1.0× 283 0.7× 448 1.2× 13 2.3k
Susan F. Murray United Kingdom 25 1.1k 0.9× 841 1.1× 352 0.8× 341 0.9× 190 0.5× 53 2.2k
Julie Knoll Rajaratnam United States 14 1.6k 1.3× 1.0k 1.4× 403 0.9× 312 0.8× 716 1.9× 18 2.9k
Lynn P. Freedman United States 29 2.4k 2.0× 976 1.3× 595 1.3× 303 0.8× 309 0.8× 48 3.2k
Sanjay K. Mohanty India 29 986 0.8× 927 1.2× 803 1.8× 173 0.5× 403 1.1× 134 2.6k
Alayne M. Adams Bangladesh 24 721 0.6× 558 0.7× 428 0.9× 186 0.5× 401 1.1× 78 2.0k

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All Works

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Bawah, Ayaga A., et al.. (2024). Contraceptive use and method mix dynamics in Sub-saharan Africa: time trends and the influence of the HIV pandemic. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(1). 14–14.
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Ramsay, Michèle, Amelia C. Crampin, Ayaga A. Bawah, Evelyn Gitau, & Kobus Herbst. (2024). The Value Proposition of Coordinated Population Cohorts Across Africa. PubMed. 7(1). 277–294. 1 indexed citations
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Awoonor‐Williams, John Koku, et al.. (2022). Using Health Systems and Policy Research to Achieve Universal Health Coverage in Ghana. Global Health Science and Practice. 10(Supplement 1). e2100763–e2100763. 3 indexed citations
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Templeton, Michael R., Honor Bixby, George Owusu, et al.. (2022). Spatial heterogeneity in drinking water sources in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana. Population and Environment. 44(1-2). 46–76. 15 indexed citations
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Bixby, Honor, James E. Bennett, Ayaga A. Bawah, et al.. (2022). Quantifying within-city inequalities in child mortality across neighbourhoods in Accra, Ghana: a Bayesian spatial analysis. BMJ Open. 12(1). e054030–e054030. 10 indexed citations
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Henry, Elizabeth G., et al.. (2021). Dynamics of Emergency Contraceptive Use in Accra, Ghana. Studies in Family Planning. 52(2). 105–123. 7 indexed citations
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Henry, Elizabeth G., Kristy Hackett, Ayaga A. Bawah, et al.. (2020). The impact of a personalized, community-based counselling and referral programme on modern contraceptive use in urban Ghana: a retrospective evaluation. Health Policy and Planning. 35(10). 1290–1299. 9 indexed citations
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Biney, Adriana A. E., et al.. (2020). Community perceptions of universal health coverage in eight districts of the Northern and Volta regions of Ghana. Global Health Action. 13(1). 1705460–1705460. 15 indexed citations
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Kushitor, Sandra Boatemaa, et al.. (2019). A qualitative appraisal of stakeholders’ perspectives of a community-based primary health care program in rural Ghana. BMC Health Services Research. 19(1). 675–675. 24 indexed citations
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Jackson, Elizabeth B., James P. Phillips, Abraham Oduro, et al.. (2019). The Impact of Community-Based Primary Health Care Services on Parental Health Seeking Behavior and Child Survival in a Rural Impoverished Locality of Northern Ghana. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Boyer, Christopher, E. Jackson, Ayaga A. Bawah, et al.. (2015). Estimating indices of health system readiness: an example from rural northern Ghana. The Lancet Global Health. 3. S14–S14. 8 indexed citations
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Bawah, Ayaga A., Paul Welaga, Daniel Azongo, et al.. (2014). Road traffic fatalities - a neglected epidemic in rural northern Ghana: evidence from the Navrongo demographic surveillance system. Injury Epidemiology. 1(1). 22–22. 12 indexed citations
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Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Ayaga A. Bawah, Isaiah Agorinya, et al.. (2014). Socio-economic and demographic determinants of under-five mortality in rural northern Ghana. BMC International Health and Human Rights. 14(1). 24–24. 104 indexed citations
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Akazili, James, Paul Welaga, Ayaga A. Bawah, et al.. (2014). Is Ghana’s pro-poor health insurance scheme really for the poor? Evidence from Northern Ghana. BMC Health Services Research. 14(1). 637–637. 77 indexed citations
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Phillips, James F., Ayaga A. Bawah, & Fred Binka. (2006). Aceleración del impacto del programa de salud reproductiva e infantil mediante servicios comunitarios: experimento en Navrongo (Ghana). Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 84(12). 949–955. 3 indexed citations
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Bawah, Ayaga A. & Tukufu Zuberi. (2004). Socioeconomic Status and Child Mortality: An Illustration Using Housingand Household Characteristics from African Census Data. African Population Studies. 9–29. 9 indexed citations

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