Desmond Klu

3.5k total citations
26 papers, 139 citations indexed

About

Desmond Klu is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Desmond Klu has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 139 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 10 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 9 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Desmond Klu's work include Global Maternal and Child Health (14 papers), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (8 papers) and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (5 papers). Desmond Klu is often cited by papers focused on Global Maternal and Child Health (14 papers), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (8 papers) and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (5 papers). Desmond Klu collaborates with scholars based in Ghana, United States and Denmark. Desmond Klu's co-authors include Evelyn Acquah, Phidelia Theresa Doegah, Evelyn Ansah, Margaret Gyapong, Mustapha Immurana, Robert Kaba Alhassan, Maxwell Ayindenaba Dalaba, Alfred Kwesi Manyeh, Matilda Aberese-Ako and Anthony Ofosu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, BMC Public Health and BMJ Open.

In The Last Decade

Desmond Klu

20 papers receiving 137 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Desmond Klu Ghana	7	50	48	47	43	33	26	139
Phidelia Theresa Doegah Ghana	9	54 1.1×	62 1.3×	45 1.0×	39 0.9×	37 1.1×	19	161
Roma Solomon United States	10	104 2.1×	29 0.6×	57 1.2×	47 1.1×	41 1.2×	15	212
Nellie Myburgh South Africa	8	60 1.2×	16 0.3×	40 0.9×	21 0.5×	32 1.0×	19	144
Mohamed Jalloh Sierra Leone	6	21 0.4×	21 0.4×	55 1.2×	45 1.0×	33 1.0×	18	160
Yadanar Aung Thailand	6	81 1.6×	14 0.3×	56 1.2×	60 1.4×	47 1.4×	11	183
Eve Nakabembe Uganda	5	24 0.5×	41 0.9×	23 0.5×	81 1.9×	30 0.9×	10	164
Harriet Affran Bonful Ghana	8	21 0.4×	74 1.5×	29 0.6×	63 1.5×	29 0.9×	23	205
Jérôme Pfaffmann Zambruni United States	5	39 0.8×	13 0.3×	50 1.1×	73 1.7×	49 1.5×	5	163
Fatma Soud United States	9	73 1.5×	12 0.3×	55 1.2×	59 1.4×	26 0.8×	12	168
Francis Kateh United States	7	37 0.7×	24 0.5×	116 2.5×	59 1.4×	19 0.6×	11	182

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20 of 20 papers shown

Klu, Desmond, et al.. (2025). Acute respiratory infections and its associated risk factors among children aged 6–59 months in Ghana: a multinomial regression analysis of the 2022 demographic and health survey. Frontiers in Public Health. 13. 1518427–1518427.

Bosoka, Samuel Adolf, et al.. (2025). Stillbirth rates, trend and distribution in the Volta region, Ghana: findings from institutional data analysis, 2018–2022. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 25(1). 513–513.

Klu, Desmond, et al.. (2024). Multilevel predictors of anaemia among pregnant women in Ghana: New evidence from the 2019 Ghana Malaria Indicator Survey. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(9). e0003673–e0003673. 3 indexed citations

Gyapong, Margaret, et al.. (2024). Predictors of sexual and reproductive health knowledge and utilization of services among adolescents in Ghana’s Adaklu district. Ghana Medical Journal. 58(1). 60–72. 2 indexed citations

Klu, Desmond, et al.. (2024). Age at first sex and other determinants of multiple sexual partnerships among sexually active adolescent girls in Ghana: a regression analysis of the 2022 Ghana demographic and health survey. Tropical Medicine and Health. 52(1). 75–75. 1 indexed citations

Klu, Desmond, et al.. (2024). Determinants of men’s perspectives on women contraceptive use in Ghana: an analysis of the 2022 Ghana demographic and health survey. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(1). 35–35.

Yeboah, Isaac, et al.. (2024). Individual and community-level factors associated with repeat induced abortion among women in Ghana: a multivariable complex sample logistic regression analysis of 2017 Ghana maternal health survey. BMC Public Health. 24(1). 1420–1420. 2 indexed citations

Klu, Desmond, et al.. (2024). Health services delivery factors affecting HIV retesting among pregnant women at 34 weeks gestation in Saboba District, Northern region, Ghana. International Journal of STD & AIDS. 36(3). 212–222.

Manyeh, Alfred Kwesi, Anthony Ofosu, Evelyn Acquah, et al.. (2024). Assessing five-year trend and socio-demographic determinants of caesarean section delivery in Ghana. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 24(1). 882–882.

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Klu, Desmond, Margaret Gyapong, Evelyn Acquah, et al.. (2023). Adolescent perception of sexual and reproductive health rights and access to reproductive health information and services in Adaklu district of the Volta Region, Ghana. BMC Health Services Research. 23(1). 1456–1456. 8 indexed citations

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Klu, Desmond, D. Yaw Atiglo, & Aaron Kobina Christian. (2023). Multinomial logistic regression analysis of the determinants of anaemia severity among children aged 6–59 months in Ghana: new evidence from the 2019 Malaria Indicator Survey. BMC Pediatrics. 23(1). 91–91. 3 indexed citations

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Klu, Desmond, Matilda Aberese-Ako, Alfred Kwesi Manyeh, et al.. (2022). Mixed effect analysis of factors influencing the use of insecticides treated bed nets among pregnant women in Ghana: evidence from the 2019 Malaria Indicator Survey. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 22(1). 258–258. 13 indexed citations

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Klu, Desmond, Evelyn Acquah, Phidelia Theresa Doegah, et al.. (2022). Determinants of communication on sexual issues between adolescents and their parents in the Adaklu district of the Volta region, Ghana: a multinomial logistic regression analysis. Reproductive Health. 19(1). 101–101. 12 indexed citations

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Klu, Desmond, et al.. (2022). Sex of household head and other household determinants of childhood anaemia among households in Ghana: regression analysis of the 2019 Malaria Indicator Survey. Journal of Health Population and Nutrition. 41(1). 46–46. 5 indexed citations

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Klu, Desmond, et al.. (2022). Utilization of abortion services from an unsafe provider and associated factors among women with history of induced abortion in Ghana. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 22(1). 705–705. 1 indexed citations

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Aberese-Ako, Matilda, Phidelia Theresa Doegah, Evelyn Acquah, et al.. (2022). Motivators and demotivators to accessing malaria in pregnancy interventions in sub-Saharan Africa: a meta-ethnographic review. Malaria Journal. 21(1). 170–170. 12 indexed citations

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Immurana, Mustapha, Micheal Kofi Boachie, Desmond Klu, et al.. (2022). Determinants of willingness to accept child vaccination against malaria in Ghana. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management. 37(3). 1439–1453. 10 indexed citations

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Dalaba, Maxwell Ayindenaba, Paul Welaga, Philip Ayizem Dalinjong, et al.. (2021). Health-seeking behaviour and cost of fever treatment to households in a malaria-endemic setting of northern Ghana: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 11(9). e052224–e052224. 4 indexed citations

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Alhassan, Robert Kaba, Matilda Aberese-Ako, Phidelia Theresa Doegah, et al.. (2021). COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among the adult population in Ghana: evidence from a pre-vaccination rollout survey. Tropical Medicine and Health. 49(1). 96–96. 39 indexed citations

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Alhassan, Robert Kaba, Jerry John Nutor, Aaron Asibi Abuosi, et al.. (2021). Urban health nexus with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) preparedness and response in Africa: Rapid scoping review of the early evidence. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9. 2109066360–2109066360. 16 indexed citations

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