Edem Adotey
- Senior Research Fellow, University of Ghana, since 2021per ORCID
Publishing since 2013, latest 2026
Dr. Edem Adotey is a historian and a Senior Research Fellow in the History and Politics Section of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. His primary research interests are in chieftaincy and borderlands, particularly the Ghana-Togo border. His works include the relationship between chieftaincy and the state, cross-border chiefly relations, cross-border voting, and nationalism in contemporary Ghana. From ORCID
- Sociology and Political Science
- Anthropology
- Archeology
- History
- Linguistics and Language
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
In their own words
- borderlands
- chieftaincy
- citizenship
- nationalism
- pan-Africanism
- Publications
- 192013–2026
- Citations
- 95to those papers
- h-index
- 6i10-index 4
- Field-weighted impact
- 2.981.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 30%3 of 10 scored papers
- Open access
- 40%4 of the 10 whose access is recorded
1 other work — a preprint, a dataset or the like — is listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 139 citations, h-index 7 and i10-index 6 (132 citations and h-index 7 since 2021), as of October 12, 2026. It also counts theses, books and web pages, so it runs higher.
By year
Papers, and the citations to them
Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress
Positions
- Senior Research Fellow, Institute of African StudiesUniversity of Ghanasince 2021
- Research Fellow, Institute of African StudiesUniversity of Ghana2015–2021
Education
- PhD African Studies, Institute of African StudiesUniversity of Ghana2011–2013
Publications
19 in all
- Border Festivals in Africa
2026Routledge Handbook of African BorderlandsBook chapterFirst author0 citations10.4324/9781003519775-31
- Anatomy of a Border: Contradictory Discourses on Othering and Mobilities on the Ghana–Togo Border?
2025Africa SpectrumJournalOpen access