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Named after the University of Sankore in Timbuktu — one of the world’s oldest centres of learning. Every figure here is computed from work-level records in our own graph, never copied from a source’s summary count.

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Picturing health: Buruli ulcer in Ghana

2022The LancetJournal

10.1016/s0140-6736(22)00157-x Full text6 citations

Authors

3 authors across 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Alexander KumarFirst author
Nicholas Preston
Richard Odame PhillipsSenior author
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (GH)
- Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (GH)
as printed: Richard Phillips

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Assignment is probabilistic — a work belongs to several fields in proportions.

Mycobacterium research and diagnosislevel 3 · 1.00
Infectious Diseases and Mycologylevel 3 · 0.98
Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiologylevel 3 · 0.96

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Several sources describing one work is the point — it means the record rests on more than one authority.

openalexseen September 5, 2026
2022 · The Lancet · 6 citations
https://openalex.org/W4210283702

Picturing health: Buruli ulcer in Ghana · Sankore