Joseph Benjamin Archibald Afful
- PROF, University of Cape Coast, since 1999per ORCID
Publishing since 1988, latest 2026
- Literature and Literary Theory
- Language and Linguistics
- Education
- Linguistics and Language
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- General Health Professions
In their own words
- Genre Studies
- Socio-onomastics
- English for Academic and Publishing
- Interface between Postgraduate Pedagogy
- Publications
- 941988–2026
- Citations
- 991to those papers
- h-index
- 17i10-index 25
- Field-weighted impact
- 2.331.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 43%20 of 46 scored papers
- Open access
- 80%37 of the 46 whose access is recorded
4 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 1,197 citations, h-index 19 and i10-index 34 (666 citations and h-index 14 since 2021), as of October 3, 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
- PROF, ENGLISHUniversity of Cape Coastsince 1999
Education
- PROF, ENGLISHUniversity of Cape Coastsince 2012
On their papers
- University of Cape Coast43 works
- University of Education, Winneba1 work
- University of the Witwatersrand1 work
Every institution they have given on a paper.
Publications
94 in all
- National identity construction through grammatical cohesive devices in independence day speeches in Ghana: A corpus-based study
2026Linguistics InitiativeJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.53696/27753719.61401
- Sweetheart, Kay, Babe, and My Dear: A Sociopragmatic Study of Address Terms among Educated Ghanaian Couples
2026