Mavis Osei
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
- Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer/Lecturer, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, since 2009per ORCID
Publishing since 2012, latest 2026
Dr. Mavis Osei is a Ghanaian-born artist (BA), art therapist (MA, Clinical Art Therapy), and art educator (PhD, Art Education), and a Fulbright alumna with over 15 years of experience as an educator and art therapist. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Innovations at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). She has taught a variety of courses, including Educational Psychology, Art Therapy, Aesthetics, and Guidance and… More on ORCID
- Clinical Psychology
- Education
- Conservation
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts
- Economics and Econometrics
In their own words
- Art therapy
- Art Education
- Educational Psychology
- Aesthetics
- Painting
- Publications
- 372012–2026
- Citations
- 376to those papers
- h-index
- 9i10-index 9
- Field-weighted impact
- 3.181.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 35%7 of 20 scored papers
- Open access
- 85%17 of the 20 whose access is recorded
2 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 474 citations, h-index 10 and i10-index 10 (429 citations and h-index 9 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
Positions
- Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer/Lecturer, Department of Educational Innovations in Science and TechnologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologysince 2009
Education
- MA Clinical Art Therapy, Department of Art EducationLong Island University - CW Post Campus2015–2017
- Doctor of Philosophy in Art Education, Department of Educational Innovations in Science and TechnologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2005–2008
- Bachelor of Art (Art), Department of PaintingKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology1999–2003
Publications
37 in all
- Art Therapy in Africa: Voices of Art Therapists in Africa
2026The Wiley Handbook of Art TherapyJournalFirst author1 citation10.1002/9781394215027.ch93
- Dietary diversity and opportunistic infections among adults living with human immunodeficiency virus on antiretroviral therapy in Kumasi metropolis; a facility-based cross-sectional study
2025