Emmanuel Kojo Sakyi

University of Ghana

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of California, Irvine, since 2024per ORCID
PhD Student, University of California, Irvine, since 2024per ORCID

Publishing since 2004, latest 2025

Sociology and Political Science
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Finance
General Health Professions
Public Administration
Economics and Econometrics

Publications: 152004–2025
Citations: 193to those papers
h-index: 8i10-index 7
Field-weighted impact: 1.351.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 20%3 of 15 scored papers
Open access: 40%6 papers free to read

7 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

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Sue & Bill Gross School of NursingUniversity of California, Irvinesince 2024
PhD Student, Sue & Bill Gross School of NursingUniversity of California, Irvinesince 2024
Deputy Charge Nurse, Oxford Critical CareOxford University Hospitals NHS Trust2024
Staff Nurse, Oxford Critical CareOxford University Hospitals NHS Trust2021–2024
Registered General Nurse, University HospitalKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2020–2021

Publications

15 in all

Adverse Effects of Human Activities on Forest Reserves in Ghana: Lessons of Experience from the Yenku Forest Reserve in the Central Region
2025American Journal of Environment and ClimateJournalOpen accessFirst author0 citations10.54536/ajec.v4i1.3727
Systematic Review of Free Senior High School Policy in Ghana
2025

sakyie75@gmail.comPublic on their ORCID record

esakyi@uci.eduPublic on their ORCID record

esakyi@hs.uci.eduPublic on their ORCID record

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Sociology and Political Science640%
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health533%
Finance427%
General Health Professions427%
Public Administration427%
Economics and Econometrics213%
Political Science and International Relations213%
Accounting17%
Anthropology17%
Development17%

Health Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Global Maternal and Child Health5
Healthcare Systems and Reforms4
Public Policy and Administration Research3
Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance1
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management1
Corruption and Economic Development1
Global and Cross-Cultural Management1
Global Economic and Social Development1
Global Educational Policies and Reforms1
Global Health Care Issues1
Global Health Workforce Issues1
Healthcare Policy and Management1

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

papers co-written1122334Home

Most frequent partner countries

United States4
United Kingdom2
Nigeria1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Utah State UniversityUS3 papers
Ghana Institute of Management and Public AdministrationGH2 papers
Ghana Health ServiceGH2 papers
Kent State UniversityUS1 paper
University of Colorado DenverUS1 paper
University of HuddersfieldGB1 paper
University of Illinois at SpringfieldUS1 paper
University of StirlingGB1 paper
Ghana Communication Technology UniversityGH1 paper
Imo State UniversityNG1 paper

Where they publish

Leadership in health services2
African Journal of Management Research1
American Journal of Environment and Climate1
Clinical Governance An International Journal1
Cogent Business & Management1
Global Journal of Management and Business Research1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

10Reduced inequalities2
16Peace, justice and strong institutions2
1No poverty1
4Quality education1
17Partnerships for the goals1

Most cited

Rethinking Persistent Poverty in Northern Ghana: The Primacy of Policy and Politics over Geography
Politics &amp Policy1
201843 citationsWorld top 10%
Managerial problems of hospitals under Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme
Clinical Governance An International Journal
201237 citationsWorld top 10%
Barriers to implementing health sector administrative decentralisation in Ghana
Journal of Health Organization and Management

Education

PhD in Nursing Science, Sue and Bill Gross School of NursingUniversity of California, Irvinesince 2024
Post Graduate certificate in Adult Critical CareUniversity of Northampton2024
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, NursingKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2019

Honours, memberships and service

Royal College of Nursing2021–2024

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

African Journal of Management Research

Effects of synthetic agricultural chemicals on health: Views of smallholder farmers in the Ho West district

2021Journal of Agriculture and Food SciencesJournalOpen accessSenior author1 citation10.4314/jafs.v18i2.5

Ghana Airport Company Limited’s Decoupling Experience: Achievements, Challenges and Policy Lessons

2013Global Journal of Management and Business ResearchJournalOpen accessFirst author0 citations

Managerial problems of hospitals under Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme

2012Clinical Governance An International JournalJournalFirst author37 citations10.1108/14777271211251291

Barriers to implementing health sector administrative decentralisation in Ghana

2011Journal of Health Organization and ManagementJournalFirst author30 citations10.1108/14777261111155038

Implementing decentralised management in Ghana

2008Leadership in health servicesJournalFirst authorCorresponding9 citations10.1108/17511870810910100

Promoting social development through national reconciliation: the case of Ghana

2004Journal of Social Development in AfricaJournalFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.4314/jsda.v19i1.23880

Health Services Insights

International Journal of Migration Health and Social Care1

How it can be read

40% free to read

Diamond 3 · 20%Free to read and to publish
Gold 2 · 13%In an open-access journal
Green 1 · 7%A copy in a repository
Closed 9 · 60%Behind a paywall

Drivers of return migration of Ghanaian health professionals: perspectives from doctors and nurses in urban Ghana

International Journal of Migration Health and Social Care10

201424 citations