Joana Salifu Yendork
- Senior Lecturer, University of Ghana, since 2015per ORCID
Publishing since 2014, latest 2026
- Clinical Psychology
- Sociology and Political Science
- Social Psychology
- General Health Professions
- Health
- Safety Research
In their own words
- Child and Adolescent mental health
- religion and mental health
- Children
- Adolescents
- Religion
- Mental Health
- Publications
- 782014–2026
- Citations
- 1,229to those papers
- h-index
- 19i10-index 32
- Field-weighted impact
- 3.471.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 26%16 of 62 scored papers
- Open access
- 31%19 of the 62 whose access is recorded
1 other work — a preprint, a dataset or the like — is listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 1,921 citations, h-index 22 and i10-index 42 (1,628 citations and h-index 20 since 2021), as of October 12, 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
- Senior Lecturer, Department of PsychologyUniversity of Ghanasince 2015
Education
- PhD Psychology, Department of PsychologyStellenbosch University2012–2014
- Non-Degree, Elliot Pearson Department of Child DevelopmentTufts University2010–2011
- MPhil Clinical Psychology, Department of PsychologyUniversity of Ghana2009–2011
- BA Psychology, Department of Psychology
Publications
78 in all
- “The Prophet Says…”: A Qualitative Analysis of the Mechanisms for Inducing Compliance among Congregants of Neo-Pentecostal Churches in Ghana
2020Pastoral PsychologyJournalFirst authorCorresponding3 citations10.1007/s11089-020-00908-3
- Maternal and Family Correlates of Intrinsic Religiosity Profiles Among Low-Income Urban African American Adolescents
2019