Kwame Opoku-Bonsu

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Publishing since 2016, latest 2025

Kwame Opoku-Bonsu is an artist and educationist with the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Faculty of Art, College of Art and Built Environment, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. He sees himself as a cultural interlocutor with a special interest in memory and meaning construction and channels this interest in memory, myths, folklore, and popular culture gleaned from stories, songs, drama, film, and conversations into his art and… More on ORCID

Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Anthropology
Archeology
Urban Studies
Archeology
Building and Construction

In their own words

Emerging Methodologies in Studio Art Practice

Publications: 112016–2025
Citations: 18to those papers
h-index: 3i10-index 0
Field-weighted impact: 0.611.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 13%1 of 8 scored papers
Open access: 88%7 of the 8 whose access is recorded

Google Scholar shows 38 citations, h-index 4 and i10-index 2 (38 citations and h-index 4 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

Citations received each year

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

Publications

11 in all

Seeing The Sacred: Myth, Materiality, And Narratives Of Indigenous Asante Shrine Murals
2025Journal Sampurasun Interdisciplinary Studies for Cultural HeritageJournalOpen access0 citations10.23969/sampurasun.v11i2.24736
Reimagining Blackness through posthumanist sculpture: an analysis of the works of Ghanaian artist, Sulemana Armiyaw
2024

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Visual Arts and Performing Arts545%
Anthropology218%
Archeology218%
Urban Studies218%
Archeology19%
Building and Construction19%
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design19%
Conservation19%
General Social Sciences19%
Inorganic Chemistry19%

Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Architecture, Art, Education4
African history and culture studies2
Archaeological Research and Protection1
Archaeology and Rock Art Studies1
Architecture and Cultural Influences1
Architecture, Design, and Social History1
Art Education and Development1
Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation1
Cultural Industries and Urban Development1
Digital Media and Visual Art1
Pigment Synthesis and Properties1
Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

25% of their 8 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

United States1
China1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Shanghai UniversityCN1 paper
University of WashingtonUS1 paper
Mampong Technical College of EducationGH1 paper
Takoradi Technical UniversityGH1 paper
Ho Technical UniversityGH1 paper

Where they publish

Cogent Arts and Humanities1
E-Journal of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences1
International Journal of Art Culture Design and Technology1
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science1
International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research1
Journal of African Art Education1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

11Sustainable cities and communities3
4Quality education1
5Gender equality1

Most cited

Rethinking Materiality In Pre-Tertiary Studio Art Education In Ghana
Journal of Arts and Humanities4
20176 citationsOpen access · Diamond
Utilization of Cullets for the Production of Glass Tiles through Kiln Casting
Journal of Science and Technology
20164 citations
Traditional Wood Carving and Contemporary Wood Sculpture in Ghana
Journal of African Art Education

Cogent Arts and Humanities

Traditional Wood Carving and Contemporary Wood Sculpture in Ghana

2023Journal of African Art EducationJournal3 citations

Rethinking Materiality In Pre-Tertiary Studio Art Education In Ghana

2017Journal of Arts and HumanitiesJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding6 citations10.18533/journal.v6i12.1311

Feminism as a Model in Pottery: Contribution of Women to the Preservation of Pottery Heritage

2017International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied ResearchJournalOpen access2 citations

Utilization of cullets for the production of glass tiles through likn casting

2017Journal of Science and Technology (Ghana)JournalOpen access0 citations10.4314/just.v36i3.12

Concealment and Exposure: Contemporary Application of Masks in Lampshade

2016International Journal of Art Culture Design and TechnologyJournal1 citation10.4018/ijacdt.2016070102

Utilization of Cullets for the Production of Glass Tiles through Kiln Casting

2016Journal of Science and TechnologyJournal4 citations

Breast Cancer Advocacy, Autopathography and Artistic Nude Representation

2016International Journal of Humanities and Social ScienceJournalFirst author0 citations

Journal of Arts and Humanities1

Journal of Science and Technology1

How it can be read

88% free to read, of the 8 recorded

Diamond 4 · 36%Free to read and to publish
Gold 2 · 18%In an open-access journal
Green 1 · 9%A copy in a repository
Closed 1 · 9%Behind a paywall
Unknown 3 · 27%Not recorded by the source

Feminism as a Model in Pottery: Contribution of Women to the Preservation of Pottery Heritage

International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research5

20172 citationsOpen access · Green