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Researcher · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology · Ghana

Owusu Amponsah

Owusu Amponsah publishes mostly in Urban Studies, Global and Planetary Change and Plant Science, on topics such as Urban and Rural Development Challenges, Urban Agriculture and Sustainability and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

ORCID 0000-0002-8131-1913 OpenAlex
World rank
#82,213
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Ghana
#33
of 6,000
Works
127
Citations
2.4k
Citations per work
19.0
h-index
26
i10-index 53Top 1.6% in Urban Studies
Owusu Amponsah

What does Owusu Amponsah research?

Owusu Amponsah's work is mostly in Social Sciences (35%), Environmental Science (10%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (8%).

Everything else: 53 works · 42.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 51 works · 39.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 44 works · 34.9% of their workUrban Studies: 30 works · 23.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 9 works · 7.1% of their workTransportation: 5 works · 4.3% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 works · 4.9% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 works · 4.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 13 works · 10.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 13 works · 10.5% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 13 works · 10.5% of their workLife Sciences: 10 works · 7.7% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 10 works · 7.7% of their workPlant Science: 10 works · 7.7% of their workTHEIR WORKOwusu Amponsah127works
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences10%Social Sciences40%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else5342.0%
    1. Social Sciences4434.9%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance64.9%
    1. Environmental Science1310.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences107.7%
  1. 1Urban Studies24% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change10% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science8% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science7% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics5% of their works
  6. 6Transportation4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Owusu Amponsah's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Urbanization, Land Tenure, Biodiversity Conservation, Slum Upgrading, Urban Poverty, Ecosystem Services, Sustainability and Land Use Change.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Urbanization812 topics
  2. Land Tenure682 topics
  3. Biodiversity Conservation634 topics
  4. Slum Upgrading611 topic
  5. Urban Poverty611 topic
  6. Ecosystem Services573 topics
  7. Sustainability452 topics
  8. Land Use Change262 topics
  9. Community Gardens251 topic
  10. Urban Agriculture251 topic
  11. Physical Activity242 topics
  12. Global Impact201 topic
  13. Spatial Dynamics201 topic
  14. Neoliberalism131 topic
  15. Urbanism131 topic
  16. Active Travel121 topic
  17. Built Environment121 topic
  18. Public Health121 topic
  19. Urban Green Space121 topic
  20. Agricultural Investment71 topic
  21. Property Rights71 topic
  22. Environmental Services61 topic
  23. Tropical Deforestation61 topic

Where does Owusu Amponsah work?

Owusu Amponsah's main affiliation in the publication record is Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.

How many publications and citations does Owusu Amponsah have?

OpenAlex counts 127 works and 2,410 citations for Owusu Amponsah, an h-index of 26, ranking #82,213 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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