Anthony Apeke Adimado

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Publishing since 1980, latest 2025

Materials Chemistry
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Pollution
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

In their own words

Inorganic chemistry
Nano Materials
Environmental Chemical Analysis
Computational Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry

Publications: 811980–2025
Citations: 1,414to those papers
h-index: 21i10-index 36
Field-weighted impact: 1.551.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 8%4 of 53 scored papers
Open access: 42%22 of the 53 whose access is recorded

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

Google Scholar shows 1,827 citations, h-index 24 and i10-index 37 (1,087 citations and h-index 18 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

Career

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Publications

81 in all

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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.

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Materials Chemistry2025%
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis1519%
Pollution1114%
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment1114%
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials1012%
Electrical and Electronic Engineering810%
Oncology67%
Organic Chemistry56%
Water Science and Technology56%
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics45%

Health Sciences
Physical Sciences

Topics most written on

Mercury impact and mitigation studies13
Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques10
Heavy metals in environment9
2D Materials and Applications7
Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity7
Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties7
Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films6
Magnetism in coordination complexes6
Metal complexes synthesis and properties6
MXene and MAX Phase Materials5
Water Quality and Pollution Assessment5
Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry4

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

17% of their 53 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

Nigeria7
Japan3
United States2
Austria1
Pakistan1
France1
South Africa1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of IbadanNG6 papers
National Institute for Minamata DiseaseJP3 papers
University of Energy and Natural ResourcesGH3 papers
University of Health and Allied SciencesGH3 papers
Regional Maritime UniversityGH3 papers
University of MichiganUS2 papers
Université de MontpellierFR1 paper
Université Montpellier 11 paper
University of EducationPK1 paper
Université de Pau et des Pays de l'AdourFR1 paper

Where they publish

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology7
Journal of University of Science and Technology4
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment3
ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH3
Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry3
Next Materials3

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

14Life below water12
7Affordable and clean energy11
6Clean water and sanitation9
15Life on land2
9Industry, innovation and infrastructure1
11Sustainable cities and communities1

Most cited

Bioaccumulation of Heavy Metals in Some Tissues of Fish in Lake Geriyo, Adamawa State, Nigeria
Journal of Environmental and Public Health14
2018225 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid
Mercury in Human Blood, Urine, Hair, Nail, and Fish from the Ankobra and Tano River Basins in Southwestern Ghana
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology14
200292 citationsWorld top 10%

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Mercury Concentrations in Fish Species from the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana

2004Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and ToxicologyJournal12 citations10.1007/s00128-004-0532-8

Mercury concentrations in edible fish from the Atlantic Coast of Ghana

2004MATERIALS AND GEOENVIRONMENTJournalSenior author0 citations

Mercury Levels in Fish samples from Lake Bosumtwi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana

2004RMZ-Materials and GeoenvironmentJournal0 citations

Total Mercury Levels in Fish from Akosombo and Kpong Hydroelectric Reservoirs in Ghana

2004MATERIALS AND GEOENVIRONMENTJournalSenior author0 citations

Incidents of cyanide spillage in Ghana

2003Mineral Processing and Extractive MetallurgyJournalSenior author61 citations10.1179/037195503225002808

Mercury in Human Blood, Urine, Hair, Nail, and Fish from the Ankobra and Tano River Basins in Southwestern Ghana

2002Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and ToxicologyJournalFirst author92 citations10.1007/s001280259

Report submitted by Cyanide investigation committee

2002Ministry of Environment and ScienceJournal19 citations

Band gap energies of semiconducting sulphides and selenides

1998Materials Science and Engineering BJournal53 citations10.1016/s0921-5107(98)00193-7

Physicochemical and Antimicrobial Properties of some Cobalt(II) Complexes

1989Journal of University of Science and TechnologyJournalFirst author0 citations

Synthesis and Properties of Bis-(furoylacetonato) Metal(II) and their γ-Picoline Adducts.

1988Journal of University of Science and TechnologyJournalFirst author0 citations

Magnetic and Spectral Properties of some Trivalent Metal Complexes of 1-(3-Pyridyl)-1,3-Butanedione

1985Bulleting of Ghana Chemical SocietyJournalFirst author0 citations

Activity of some b-diketones

1984International Journal of Pharmaceutical SocietyJournal10 citations

MIXED IRON(III) β-DIKETONATES

1983Journal of Coordination ChemistryJournalFirst author2 citations10.1080/00958978308079757

Physicochemical studies of metal β-diketonates—VII

1981Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear ChemistryJournalSenior author7 citations10.1016/0022-1902(81)80010-3

Physicochemical studies of metal β-diketonates—VIII

1981Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear ChemistryJournalSenior author3 citations10.1016/0022-1902(81)80011-5

Physicochemical studies of metal β-diketonates—V

1980Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear ChemistryJournalSenior author16 citations10.1016/0022-1902(80)80279-x

Ligand field parameters of some tris(β-diketonato)chromium(III) chelates

1980Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry LettersJournalFirst author1 citation10.1016/0020-1650(80)80068-7

Applied and Environmental Soil Science2

How it can be read

42% free to read, of the 53 recorded

Diamond 3 · 4%Free to read and to publish
Gold 17 · 21%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 1 · 1%Open in a subscription journal
Green 1 · 1%A copy in a repository
Closed 31 · 38%Behind a paywall
Unknown 28 · 35%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

28 of 81 papers name a funder

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology13
National Council for Tertiary Education7
Center for High Performance Computing4
Department of Chemistry, University of York4
National Research Council Canada3
AngloGold Ashanti1
Tertiary Education Trust Fund1
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency1

201686 citationsOpen access · Diamond

Incidents of cyanide spillage in Ghana

Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy

200361 citations