West Africa / Ghana LUG
Lancaster University Ghana University · Accra · Ghana · founded 1964
Official site GRID grid.472314.7 ROR
Citations
1,061
To those publications
Scholars
157
87 carry an ORCID — 55% of them.
Research impact, 2016–2025 Field-weighted against the world’s papers
Publications 124 Publications 2016–2025
Citations 659 Citations to papers published 2016–2025
Field-weighted impact 2.31 Field-weighted impact 1.00 is the world average · median 0.50
World top 10% 28% World top 10% 33 of 120 papers, by citations in their field and year
Open access 58% Open access 72 papers free to read
Diamond 21 · 17% Free to read and to publish Gold 11 · 9% In an open-access journal Hybrid 23 · 19% Open in a subscription journal Bronze 7 · 6% Free to read, no open licence Green 10 · 8% A copy in a repository Closed 52 · 42% Output and citations by year Publications, left axis Citations to that year’s papers, right axis 2026 still in progress
What it publishes in By field, with field-weighted impact
Social Sciences 4536% FWCI 3.87
Business, Management and Accounting 2520% FWCI 3.03
Computer Science 2319% FWCI 2.23
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1210% FWCI 3.95
Medicine 1210%
Who it works with 54% of papers have a co-author abroad
Countries this institution’s papers are co-written with papers co-written 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 HomeMost frequent partner countries
United Kingdom 49 United States 12 Canada 6 South Africa 6 Germany 5 Sweden 5 France 5 Italy 5 Papers with at least one author in that country. 54% of all papers have a co-author abroad.
Institutions written with most
Lancaster University GB 27 papers University of Ghana GH 18 papers Central University GH 6 papers University of Birmingham GB 5 papers University of Cambridge GB 5 papers University of Manchester GB 4 papers University of Edinburgh GB 4 papers University of Glasgow GB 4 papers University of Professional Studies GH 4 papers University of Huddersfield GB 3 papers Sapienza University of Rome IT 3 papers University of Vienna AT 3 papers Research for the Sustainable Development Goals 64 papers address at least one goal
1 No poverty 2 1.6% of papers
2 Zero hunger 0 No papers yet
3 Good health and well-being 2 1.6% of papers
4 Quality education 11 8.9% of papers
Who funds it 25 of 124 papers name a funder
Economic and Social Research Council 4 papers Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 3 papers European Commission 3 papers Agence Nationale de la Recherche 2 papers Agencia Estatal de Investigación 2 papers Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung 2 papers CERN 2 papers European Regional Development Fund 2 papers European Research Council 2 papers Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare 2 papers Compare this institution Put Lancaster University Ghana beside its peers, year by year, on the same terms.
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