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Ghana Communication Technology University

In research, Ghana Communication Technology University stands highest in Business, Management and Accounting (#1,174 of 2,581 worldwide), Social Sciences (#4,503 of 9,585 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#5,450 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Business, Management and Accounting (Business, Management and Accounting is 6.5× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#6,066
of 22,385 · #9,802 all time
Rank in Ghana
#15
of 45
Research works
651
▲ 71% vs 2018-21
Citations
4.2k
6.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.04×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
55%
world 40%
International
30%
world 18%
Ghana Communication Technology University

What is Ghana Communication Technology University known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Business, Management and AccountingField #1,174 of 2,581 10.5%68 -
Social SciencesDomain #4,503 of 9,585 11.7%195 #6505
Physical SciencesDomain #5,450 of 10,670 7.9%86 #7105

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Ghana Communication Technology University sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Ghana Communication Technology University work in?

In 2022-now, 60% of research at Ghana Communication Technology University is in Social Sciences, 29% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Business, Management and Accounting (21%), Social Sciences (19%), Computer Science (16%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 224 fractional works · 60.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 79 fractional works · 21.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 16 fractional works · 4.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 15 fractional works · 4.0% of its workAccounting: 14 fractional works · 3.7% of its workMarketing: 12 fractional works · 3.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 11 fractional works · 2.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 7 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBusiness and International Management: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 69 fractional works · 18.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 21 fractional works · 5.7% of its workEducation: 20 fractional works · 5.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDemography: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGender Studies: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety Research: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCommunication: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Administration: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 42 fractional works · 11.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 34 fractional works · 9.0% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workFinance: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychology: 15 fractional works · 3.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workApplied Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 14 fractional works · 3.8% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 8 fractional works · 2.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 110 fractional works · 29.3% of its workComputer Science: 59 fractional works · 15.7% of its workInformation Systems: 21 fractional works · 5.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 20 fractional works · 5.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Science Applications: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSoftware: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 26 fractional works · 7.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMedia Technology: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBuilding and Construction: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 12 fractional works · 3.1% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnergy: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workApplied Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 22 fractional works · 5.8% of its workMedicine: 13 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 7 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 19 fractional works · 5.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 13 fractional works · 3.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSoil Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKGhanaCommunication…374fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences29%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences60%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Business, Management and Accounting7921.0%
    2. Social Sciences6918.6%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4211.2%
    4. Psychology153.9%
    5. Decision Sciences143.8%
    6. Arts and Humanities61.5%
    1. Computer Science5915.7%
    2. Engineering267.0%
    3. Environmental Science123.1%
    4. Energy61.6%
    5. Mathematics41.2%
    6. Materials Science20.5%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    8. Chemistry00.0%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    10. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
    1. Medicine133.5%
    2. Health Professions71.9%
    3. Nursing10.4%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences133.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology41.1%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.2%
    5. Neuroscience00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Ghana Communication Technology University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Business, Management and Accounting takes 6.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Business, Management and AccountingField · 78.5 works6.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.71× its world share, 13 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.21× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.76× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 2.02× its world share, 59 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.78× its world share, 6 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.46× its world share, 26 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.63× its world share, 12 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.98× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.72× its world share, 7 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.18× its world share, 13 worksMedicineNursing: 0.81× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.51× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 6.51× its world share, 78 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.98× its world share, 14 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5.23× its world share, 42 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.28× its world share, 15 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.47× its world share, 70 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 6.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting6.51×78 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance5.23×42 works
  3. Decision Sciences3.98×14 works
  4. Computer Science2.02×59 works
  5. Energy1.78×6 works
  6. Social Sciences1.47×70 works
  7. Psychology1.28×15 works
  8. Mathematics0.98×4 works
  9. Nursing0.81×2 works
  10. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.76×1 works
  11. Health Professions0.72×7 works
  12. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.71×13 works
  13. Environmental Science0.63×12 works
  14. Arts and Humanities0.51×6 works
  15. Engineering0.46×26 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.21×4 works
  17. Medicine0.18×13 works
  18. Immunology and Microbiology0.16×1 works
  19. Materials Science0.13×2 works
  20. Veterinary0.11×0 works
  21. Neuroscience0.06×0 works
  22. Chemical Engineering0.06×0 works
  23. Physics and Astronomy0.06×0 works
  24. Chemistry0.03×0 works
  25. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Ghana Communication Technology University?

Ranked on the quality score, Kwame Simpe Ofori, Mohammed Musah and George Oppong Appiagyei Ampong lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Ghana Communication Technology University.

  1. 1 Kwame Simpe Ofori Ghana · #309,486 worldwide 1.2k citations · 66 works
  2. 2 Mohammed Musah Ghana · #331,239 worldwide 1.3k citations · 53 works
  3. 3 George Oppong Appiagyei Ampong Ghana · #342,997 worldwide 1.1k citations · 58 works
  4. 4 Justice Williams Asare Ghana · #403,986 worldwide 444 citations · 29 works
  5. 5 Theresa Obuobisa‐Darko Ghana · #598,878 worldwide 762 citations · 64 works
  6. 6 Richard Kofi Asravor Ghana · #627,249 worldwide 615 citations · 51 works
  7. 7 John Agyekum Addae Ghana · #868,950 worldwide 427 citations · 23 works
  8. 8 Otu Larbi-Siaw Ghana · #1,000,385 worldwide 407 citations · 21 works
  9. 9 Ebenezer Malcalm Ghana · #1,204,622 worldwide 220 citations · 62 works
  10. 10 Isaac Ankrah Ghana · #1,253,184 worldwide 381 citations · 25 works
All ranked researchers at Ghana Communication Technology University

What are the most cited papers from Ghana Communication Technology University?

The most cited paper from Ghana Communication Technology University is "Prevalence of postpartum depression and interventions utilized for its management" (Reindolf Anokye, Enoch Acheampong, Amy Budu-Ainooson et al., 2018), with 236 citations. Next come "Technological innovation, organizational innovation and international performance of SMEs: The moderating role of domestic institutional environment" (233) and "Mobile money as a driver of digital financial inclusion" (201).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Prevalence of postpartum depression and interventions utilized for its management Reindolf Anokye, Enoch Acheampong, Amy Budu-Ainooson et al. · Annals of General Psychiatry Open access 9 May 2018 236
2 Technological innovation, organizational innovation and international performance of SMEs: The moderating role of domestic institutional environment Francis Donbesuur, George Oppong Appiagyei Ampong, Diana Owusu-Yirenkyi et al. · Technological Forecasting and Social Change Open access 22 Aug 2020 233
3 Mobile money as a driver of digital financial inclusion Aijaz A. Shaikh, Richard Glavee-Geo, Heikki Karjaluoto et al. · Technological Forecasting and Social Change Open access 17 Nov 2022 201
4 Factors influencing consumer loyalty: evidence from the Ghanaian retail banking industry Osaretin Kayode Omoregie, John Agyekum Addae, Stanley Coffie et al. · International Journal of Bank Marketing 28 Feb 2019 176
5 Eco-innovation, sustainable business performance and market turbulence moderation in emerging economies Otu Larbi-Siaw, Hu Xuhua, Ebenezer Owusu et al. · Technology in Society 23 Jan 2022 163
All 57 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Ghana Communication Technology University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Economic Growth, Social Capital, Supply Chain Management, Consumer Behavior, Machine Learning, Corporate Governance, Leadership and ICT.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Machine Learning27▲ 2.1×43 topics
  2. Economic Growth22▲ 7.1×18 topics
  3. Social Capital20▲ 10×11 topics
  4. Sustainability18▲ 2.0×40 topics
  5. Supply Chain Management18▲ 5.4×16 topics
  6. Deep Learning18▲ 1.36×40 topics
  7. Consumer Behavior16▲ 6.7×9 topics
  8. Corporate Governance15▲ 5.4×15 topics
  9. Education14▲ 2.2×16 topics
  10. Artificial Intelligence13▲ 2.5×15 topics
  11. Economic Development13▲ 4.4×8 topics
  12. Leadership13▲ 7.1×10 topics
  13. Healthcare13▲ 2.9×9 topics
  14. ICT12▲ 24×3 topics
  15. Entrepreneurship12▲ 7.9×6 topics
  16. Governance11▲ 8.8×6 topics
  17. Risk Management11▲ 6.0×11 topics
  18. Digital Transformation11▲ 5.2×11 topics
  19. Organizational Performance10▲ 11×9 topics
  20. Environmental Management10▲ 6.9×6 topics
  21. Institutional Quality10▲ 26×2 topics
  22. Job Satisfaction10▲ 5.8×8 topics
  23. User Satisfaction9▲ 12×3 topics
  24. Inequality8▲ 9.8×3 topics
  25. Knowledge Economy8▲ 20×1 topic
  26. Structural Equation Modeling8▲ 11×2 topics
  27. financial access8▲ 55×1 topic
  28. Technology Acceptance Model8▲ 14×2 topics
  29. Urbanization8▲ 5.3×5 topics
  30. Firm Performance8▲ 12×3 topics
  31. Fiscal Policy8▲ 10×4 topics
  32. Information Systems8▲ 12×2 topics
  33. Online Shopping8▲ 11×1 topic
  34. Partial Least Squares8▲ 21×1 topic
  35. Poverty Reduction7▲ 15×4 topics
  36. Student Satisfaction7▲ 10×2 topics
  37. Work Engagement7▲ 20×3 topics
  38. Financial Development7▲ 12×3 topics
  39. Human Resource Management7▲ 12×4 topics
  40. Panel Data Analysis7▲ 12×2 topics

Which research topics does Ghana Communication Technology University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Economic Growth and Development, Technology Adoption and User Behaviour, Environmental Sustainability in Business and Energy, Environment, Economic Growth.

Economic Growth and Deve…8Economic Growth and Development: 8 fractional worksTechnology Adoption and …8Technology Adoption and User Behaviour: 8 fractional worksEnvironmental Sustainability in Business: 6 fractional worksEnergy, Environment, Economic Growth: 6 fractional worksJob Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior: 6 fractional worksMicrofinance and Financial Inclusion: 5 fractional worksEntrepreneurship Studies and Influences: 5 fractional worksCOVID-19 Pandemic Impacts5COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts: 5 fractional worksFinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance: 5 fractional worksFiscal Policy and Economic Growth: 4 fractional works
Information SystemsInformation Systems and ManagementMarketingEconomics and Econometrics3 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Economic Growth and Development Information Systems 8 works
  2. 2 Technology Adoption and User Behaviour Information Systems and Management 8 works
  3. 3 Environmental Sustainability in Business Marketing 6 works
  4. 4 Energy, Environment, Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 6 works
  5. 5 Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 6 works
  6. 6 Microfinance and Financial Inclusion Economics and Econometrics 5 works
  7. 7 Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences Management of Technology and Innovation 5 works
  8. 8 COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Economics and Econometrics 5 works
  9. 9 FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance Management Information Systems 5 works
  10. 10 Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 4 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available54.8%not open45.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors29.7%domestic only70.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Ghana Communication Technology University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 71% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Ghana Communication Technology University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0012% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Ghana Communication Technology University0.0018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ghana Communication Technology University over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%Ghana Communication Technology University10.8% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 15.0% in 2023.

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