Alhassan Atta-Quayson

Lecturer, University of Education Winneba, since 2013per ORCID

Publishing since 2008, latest 2026

Sociology and Political Science
Building and Construction
Accounting
Automotive Engineering
Civil and Structural Engineering
Education

In their own words

Economics

Publications: 142008–2026
Citations: 87to those papers
h-index: 5i10-index 1
Field-weighted impact: 0.861.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 14%1 of 7 scored papers
Open access: 43%3 of the 7 whose access is recorded

4 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.

Google Scholar shows 116 citations, h-index 6 and i10-index 3 (80 citations and h-index 6 since 2021), as of October 10, 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

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Lecturer, Economics EducationUniversity of Education Winnebasince 2013
Program Officer, Mining and DevelopmentThird World Network - Africa2011–2013
Research Officer, Ghana Strategy Support ProgramInternational Food Policy Research Institute2010–2011

Education

PhD Candidate, School of EconomicsUniversity of Johannesburg2018–2021
Post Graduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, School of Graduate Studies

Publications

14 in all

Effects of electricity access on learning outcomes in Ghana: the role of digital technology
2026International Journal of Social EconomicsJournal0 citations10.1108/ijse-01-2025-0066
“Who knows you” for internship position? Unravelling the association between social capital and students’ internship placement difficulties
2025Higher Education Skills and Work-based Learning

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Citations received each year

PeerfordGoogle Scholar

To all their work, old papers included. Google Scholar also counts citations from theses, books and web pages, so its line runs higher.

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Sociology and Political Science321%
Building and Construction214%
Accounting17%
Automotive Engineering17%
Civil and Structural Engineering17%
Education17%
Electrical and Electronic Engineering17%
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology17%
Finance17%
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance17%

Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Mining and Resource Management2
Advanced Battery Technologies Research1
Economic Theory and Policy1
Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure1
Energy and Environment Impacts1
Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies1
Environmental Education and Sustainability1
Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis1
Higher Education Research Studies1
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism1
Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact1
Psychological and Educational Research Studies1

Who they write with

Their most frequent co-authors, and the papers those co-authors share

Where their co-authors are

29% of their 7 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

papers co-written4444444Home

Most frequent partner countries

South Africa4

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of JohannesburgZA4 papers
University of Energy and Natural ResourcesGH1 paper
University of Environment and Sustainable DevelopmentGH1 paper
University of Professional StudiesGH1 paper
African Center for Economic TransformationGH1 paper
Africa Centre for Energy PolicyGH1 paper

Where they publish

Advances in African economic, social and political development1
Africa Today1
African Center for Economic Transformation1
Asian Journal of Economics Business and Accounting1
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies An Interdisciplinary Journal1
Higher Education Skills and Work-based Learning1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

8Decent work and economic growth2
1No poverty1
9Industry, innovation and infrastructure1
14Life below water1

Most cited

Local Content and Value Addition in Ghana's Mineral, Oil, and Gas Sectors: Is Ghana Getting It Right?.
African Center for Economic Transformation
201553 citations
Mining-induced violent resistance: the case of salt mining near Keta lagoon
Review of African Political Economy14
20208 citations
New Extractivism in Ghana’s Salt Sector
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies An Interdisciplinary Journal
20236 citations

Master of Philosophy in Economics, EconomicsUniversity of Ghana School of Graduate Studies2007–2009

Bachelor of Arts in Economics (with Philosophy), EconomicsUniversity of Ghana2002–2006

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Willingness to Change to Electric Cars: Is the Ghanaian Consumer Ready?

2024Advances in African economic, social and political developmentBook chapter3 citations10.1007/978-3-031-52677-0_21

Assessing the potential of salt as' development minerals' in Ghana

2024PQDT-GlobalThesisFirst author0 citations

New Extractivism in Ghana’s Salt Sector

2023Cosmopolitan Civil Societies An Interdisciplinary JournalJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding6 citations10.5130/ccs.v15.i1.8437

The impact of institutions on the salt sector in Ghana

2023Africa TodayJournalFirst author6 citations

Thinking about Financialization and Industrialization in Ghana: Is there Evidence of Long-run Equilibrium?

2022Asian Journal of Economics Business and AccountingJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.9734/ajeba/2022/v22i2130697

Local procurement in the mining sector: Is Ghana swimming with the tide?

2022Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and MetallurgyJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding4 citations10.17159/2411-9717/1586/2022

Mining-induced violent resistance: the case of salt mining near Keta lagoon

2020Review of African Political EconomyJournalFirst authorCorresponding8 citations10.1080/03056244.2020.1853518

Where is the Money?: Taxation and the State of Africa Mining Vision Implementation

2016Tax Justice Network-Africa (TJN-A)ReportFirst author0 citations