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Osman Sankoh publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Osman Sankoh sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 137 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Osman Sankoh D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Osman Sankoh sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 45 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Osman Sankoh is affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with 38 publications in this field. They have contributed extensively to subfields including Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, General Health Professions, Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Modeling and Simulation.

Their work addresses key topics such as Global Maternal and Child Health, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Global Health Care Issues, and Malaria Research and Control.

Osman Sankoh has published research papers in a variety of scientific journals, frequently appearing in venues such as The Lancet Global Health, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Lancet, Global Health Action, and World Journal of Surgery.

Some recent notable papers include:

  • The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission: bridging a gap in universal health coverage for the poorest billion (2020, The Lancet)
  • Community-based antibiotic access and use in six low-income and middle-income countries: a mixed-method approach (2021, The Lancet Global Health)
  • Short- and long-read metagenomics of urban and rural South African gut microbiomes reveal a transitional composition and undescribed taxa (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Public health-relevant consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review (2021, Malaria Journal)
  • SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in Sierra Leone, March 2021: a cross-sectional, nationally representative, age-stratified serosurvey (2021, BMJ Global Health)

Collaborations form a significant part of Sankoh's research activities. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Alex J. van Duinen
  • Håkon A. Bolkan
  • Martin P. Grobusch
  • Stephen Tollman
  • Karel C. Lindenbergh

This network indicates an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach across multiple research projects and health topics.

Best Publications

  • The global distribution and burden of dengue

    Samir Bhatt;Peter W. Gething;Oliver J. Brady;Jane P. Messina

  • Research capacity. Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa

    Charles Rotimi;Akin Abayomi;Alash'le Abimiku;Victoria May Adabayeri

  • The INDEPTH Network: filling vital gaps in global epidemiology

    Osman Sankoh;Peter Byass

  • The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission: bridging a gap in universal health coverage for the poorest billion

    Gene Bukhman;Ana O Mocumbi;Rifat Atun;Anne E Becker

  • Community-based antibiotic access and use in six low-income and middle-income countries: a mixed-method approach.

    Nga T T Do;Huong T L Vu;Chuc T K Nguyen;Sureeporn Punpuing

  • Strengthening standardised interpretation of verbal autopsy data: the new InterVA-4 tool

    Peter Byass;Daniel Chandramohan;Samuel J. Clark;Lucia D'Ambruoso

  • Ageing and adult health status in eight lower-income countries: the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration

    Paul Kowal;Kathleen Kahn;Nawi Ng;Nirmala Naidoo

  • Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics

    Philip W. Setel;Osman Sankoh;Chalapati Rao;Victoria A. Velkoff

  • Mental health in Africa.

    Osman Sankoh;Osman Sankoh;Stephen Sevalie;Mark Weston

  • H3Africa AWI-Gen Collaborative Centre: a resource to study the interplay between genomic and environmental risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases in four sub-Saharan African countries.

    M Ramsay;N Crowther;E Tambo;G Agongo

  • Health and demographic surveillance systems: a step towards full civil registration and vital statistics system in sub-Sahara Africa?

    Yazoume Ye;Marilyn Wamukoya;Alex Ezeh;Alex Ezeh;Jacques B O Emina

  • Setting international standards for verbal autopsy

    Frank Baiden;Ayaga Bawah;Sidu Biai;Fred Binka

  • Regional and Sex Differences in the Prevalence and Awareness of Hypertension: An H3Africa AWI-Gen Study Across 6 Sites in Sub-Saharan Africa

    F Xavier Gómez-Olivé;Stuart A Ali;Felix Made;Catherine Kyobutungi

  • Revising the WHO verbal autopsy instrument to facilitate routine cause-of-death monitoring

    Jordana Leitao;Daniel Chandramohan;Peter Byass;Robert Jakob

  • Reflections on the global burden of disease 2010 estimates.

    Peter Byass;Peter Byass;Maximilian de Courten;Wendy J. Graham;Lucie Laflamme

  • Research capacity building—obligations for global health partners

    David Beran;Peter Byass;Aiah Gbakima;Kathleen Kahn

  • Clustering of childhood mortality in rural Burkina Faso

    Osman A Sankoh;Yazoumé Yé;Rainer Sauerborn;Olaf Müller

  • Genomic and environmental risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases in Africa: methods used for Phase 1 of the AWI-Gen population cross-sectional study

    Ali Sa;Soo C;Agongo G;Alberts M

  • Local, national, and regional viral haemorrhagic fever pandemic potential in Africa: a multistage analysis

    David M Pigott;Aniruddha Deshpande;Ian Letourneau;Chloe Morozoff

  • Good collaborative practice: reforming capacity building governance of international health research partnerships

    Claire Leonie Ward;David Shaw;Dominique Sprumont;Osman Sankoh

  • Dengue expansion in Africa-not recognized or not happening?

    Thomas Jaenisch;Thomas Junghanss;Bridget Wills;Oliver J. Brady

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Byass
Peter Byass Umeå University
Stephen Tollman
Stephen Tollman University of the Witwatersrand
Kathleen Kahn
Kathleen Kahn University of the Witwatersrand
Catherine Kyobutungi
Catherine Kyobutungi Heidelberg University
Michèle Ramsay
Michèle Ramsay University of the Witwatersrand
Marcel Tanner
Marcel Tanner Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Alex Ezeh
Alex Ezeh Drexel University
Mark A. Collinson
Mark A. Collinson University of the Witwatersrand
Abbas Bhuiya
Abbas Bhuiya International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Heiman F. L. Wertheim
Heiman F. L. Wertheim Radboud University

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