Jamal‐Deen Abdulai

University of Ghana

Publishing since 2009, latest 2026

Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Water Science and Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Environmental Engineering
Biomedical Engineering

Publications: 402009–2026
Citations: 996to those papers
h-index: 13i10-index 19
Field-weighted impact: 1.921.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 21%8 of 39 scored papers
Open access: 58%23 papers free to read

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

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

Senior Lecturer and Head of Department, Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of Ghana2013–2025

Education

PhD Computer Science, School of Computing SciencesUniversity of Glasgow2004–2009
BSc Computer Science, Department of Computer ScienceKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology1998–2002

On their papers

Publications

40 in all

Overcoming Cognitive and Contextual Challenges in Febrile Illness Diagnosis: Design Implications for Clinical Decision Support Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
2026PublicationOpen access0 citations10.1145/3772363.3798827
Implementation determinants of rapid diagnostic tests for fever management in sub-Saharan Africa: a mixed-studies systematic review
2026Nature Communications

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Citations received each year

Peerford

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

Computer Networks and Communications2460%
Electrical and Electronic Engineering1743%
Water Science and Technology923%
Artificial Intelligence615%
Environmental Engineering410%
Biomedical Engineering38%
Information Systems38%
Ocean Engineering38%
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition25%
Information Systems and Management25%

Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks13
Water Quality Monitoring Technologies9
Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks7
IoT and Edge/Fog Computing5
Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization3
Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies3
IoT Networks and Protocols3
IoT-based Smart Home Systems3
Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling3
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks3
Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks3
Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems3

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

40% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

United Kingdom5
Austria3
United States2
Senegal2
Kenya2
Australia2
Netherlands2
Gambia2

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Ghana Institute of Management and Public AdministrationGH11 papers
TU WienAT3 papers
Imperial College LondonGB3 papers
University of Energy and Natural ResourcesGH3 papers
University of Professional StudiesGH3 papers
Durham UniversityGB2 papers
Imperial College Healthcare NHS TrustGB2 papers
UNSW SydneyAU2 papers
Canterbury Christ Church UniversityGB2 papers
Karolinska InstitutetSE2 papers

Where they publish

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing6
ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications2
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing2
Journal of Computer Networks and Communications2
Lecture notes in computer science2
Nature Communications

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

7Affordable and clean energy12
9Industry, innovation and infrastructure3
15Life on land3
16Peace, justice and strong institutions3
6Clean water and sanitation2
8Decent work and economic growth2
11Sustainable cities and communities2
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Most cited

Water Quality Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
2017289 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Bronze
Prolonging the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks: A Review of Current Techniques
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
2018181 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid
Bank Fraud Detection Using Support Vector Machine

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Energy‐Efficient M2M Scheduling Over Cellular Networks: A Survey

2026IET Wireless Sensor SystemsJournalOpen access0 citations10.1049/wss2.70041

CBU-SMAC: an energy-efficient CLUSTER-BASED UNIFIED SMAC algorithm for wireless sensor networks

2024Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized ComputingJournalFirst author6 citations10.1007/s12652-023-04737-z

A Hybrid Heuristic Model for Duty Cycle Framework Optimization

2024International Journal of Distributed Sensor NetworksJournalOpen accessSenior author1 citation10.1155/2024/9972429

Mitigating Intermittent Connectivity Problems in Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication (V2VC): A Sparse Network Computational Model (SNCM)

2024ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and ApplicationsJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.4108/eetmca.5536

WSN Architectures for Environmental Monitoring Applications

2022Journal of SensorsJournalOpen access30 citations10.1155/2022/7823481

A modified distance-based energy-aware (mDBEA) routing protocol in wireless sensor networks (WSNs)

2022Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized ComputingJournalFirst author29 citations10.1007/s12652-021-03683-y

SMAC-Based WSN Protocol-Current State of the Art, Challenges, and Future Directions

2022Journal of Computer Networks and CommunicationsJournalOpen access12 citations10.1155/2022/6707413

A Systematic Review of Fingerprint Recognition System Development

2022International Journal of Software Science and Computational IntelligenceJournalSenior author10 citations10.4018/ijssci.300358

Evaluating the Impact of Cryptographic Algorithms on Network Performance

2022International Journal of Cloud Applications and ComputingJournalSenior author4 citations10.4018/ijcac.309937

Network Performance Metrics for Energy Efficient Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)

2021Wireless Communications and Mobile ComputingJournalOpen access10 citations10.1155/2021/9635958

Soil Medium Electromagnetic Scattering Model for the Study of Wireless Underground Sensor Networks

2021Wireless Communications and Mobile ComputingJournalOpen access13 citations10.1155/2021/8842508

Smart River Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks

2020Wireless Communications and Mobile ComputingJournalOpen access51 citations10.1155/2020/8897126

Reducing the Energy Budget in WSN Using Time Series Models

2020Wireless Communications and Mobile ComputingJournalOpen access21 citations10.1155/2020/8893064

Taxonomy of Cyber Threats to Application Security and Applicable Defenses

2020Advances in information security, privacy, and ethics book seriesBook chapter1 citation10.4018/978-1-7998-3149-5.ch002

Energy Efficiency Analysis of Scheduling in M2M Communication Over Rayleigh Fading Channels

2019International ITG Workshop on Smart AntennasPublication1 citation

Prolonging the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks: A Review of Current Techniques

2018Wireless Communications and Mobile ComputingJournalOpen access181 citations10.1155/2018/8035065

Implementation and Evaluation of WLAN 802.11ac for Residential Networks in NS-3

2018Journal of Computer Networks and CommunicationsJournalOpen accessSenior author20 citations10.1155/2018/3518352

Can an Enterprise System Persuade? The Role of Perceived Effectiveness and Social Influence

2018Lecture notes in computer sciencePublicationOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding11 citations10.1007/978-3-319-78978-1_4

The Effect of Congestion Control Model on Congested Traffic Flow in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)

2018ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and ApplicationsJournalOpen accessSenior author2 citations10.4108/eai.22-3-2018.154371

Water Quality Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks

2017ACM Transactions on Sensor NetworksJournalOpen accessSenior author289 citations10.1145/3005719

Resilient Framework for Distributed Computation Offloading: Overview, Challenges and Issues

2017International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and ApplicationsJournalOpen access2 citations10.14569/ijacsa.2017.081146

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks1

Advances in information security, privacy, and ethics book series1

How it can be read

58% free to read

Diamond 2 · 5%Free to read and to publish
Gold 11 · 28%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 8 · 20%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 1 · 3%Free to read, no open licence
Green 1 · 3%A copy in a repository
Closed 17 · 43%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

9 of 40 papers name a funder

University of Ghana4
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique2
Government of the United Kingdom2
National Institute for Health and Care Research2
Bundesministerium für Digitalisierung und Wirtschaftsstandort1
Department of Health and Social Care1
European Commission1
Google1

17Partnerships for the goals1

Smart River Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing6

202051 citationsOpen access · Hybrid