Edmund I. Yamba
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
- Lecturer and Research Scientist, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, since 2018per ORCID
Publishing since 2014, latest 2025
I am a Lecturer and Research Scientist in the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi Ghana. I have core expertise in physics, geophysics, and meteorology and climate science. At KNUST, my research is in the area of Biometeorology and Bioclimatology. I have huge research interest in climate change and human health with focus on (1) infectious diseases (especially vector borne) and (2) health… More on ORCID
- Global and Planetary Change
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Atmospheric Science
- Infectious Diseases
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
- Environmental Engineering
In their own words
- Climate change
- infectious diseases
- Biometeorology
- Publications
- 312014–2025
- Citations
- 713to those papers
- h-index
- 11i10-index 11
- Field-weighted impact
- 4.021.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 25%7 of 28 scored papers
- Open access
- 86%24 of the 28 whose access is recorded
23 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 1,006 citations, h-index 11 and i10-index 12 (906 citations and h-index 11 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
- Lecturer and Research Scientist, Department of Meteorology and Climate ScienceKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologysince 2018
- Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry teacher, Department of ScienceEvangelical Presbyterian Senior High School2010–2012
- Graduate teaching and research Assistant, Department of PhysicsKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2009–2010
- Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of PhysicsKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2007–2008
Education
Publications
31 in all
- Tropical deforestation is associated with considerable heat-related mortality
2025Nature Climate ChangeJournalOpen access18 citations10.1038/s41558-025-02411-0
- Streamflow forecasting using machine learning for flood management and mitigation in the White Volta basin of Ghana
2025Environmental Challenges