Catherine Ekua Mensah

University of Cape Coastper ORCID

Publishing since 2016, latest 2026

Catherine Ekua Mensah is Assistant lecturer at the Department of Ghanaian Languages and Linguistics, University of Cape Coast-Ghana. Her research areas of interest are in Akan language and culture, Discourse analysis, ethnography of communication, ethnopragmatics, health linguistics, morphology, pragmatics, semantics, sociolinguistics, and translation studies. She is an emerging scholar in these fields. Currently, Catherine is a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics… More on ORCID

Developmental and Educational Psychology
Emergency Medical Services
Linguistics and Language
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Safety Research

In their own words

language and health
ethnography of communication
sociolinguistics
Akan linguistics (morpho-semantics)
pragmatics socio-onom

Publications: 72016–2026
Citations: 21to those papers
h-index: 3i10-index 0
Field-weighted impact: 0.001.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 50%1 of 2 scored papers
Open access: 50%1 of the 2 whose access is recorded

Google Scholar shows 21 citations, h-index 3 and i10-index 0 (20 citations and h-index 3 since 2021), as of October 3, 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

Citations received each year

Google Scholar

To all their work, old papers included. Google Scholar also counts citations from theses, books and web pages, so its line runs higher.

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Ghanaian Languages and LinguisticsUniversity of Cape Coast

Education

PhD Linguistics, Department of LinguisticsUniversity of Ghana2019–2024
M.Phil Ghanaian Language (Akan), Ghanaian Languages and LinguisticsUniversity of Cape Coast2013–2015

Publications

7 in all

Enhancing Clinical Competence through Akan Proficiency: Perspectives of Medical Students in Ghana
2026Language MattersJournal0 citations10.1080/10228195.2026.2724314
Representation of Disability in Akan Discourse
2025Ghana Journal of LinguisticsJournalOpen access

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Developmental and Educational Psychology114%
Emergency Medical Services114%
Linguistics and Language114%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health114%
Safety Research114%

Health Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Disability Rights and Representation1
Global Health Workforce Issues1
Hearing Impairment and Communication1
Innovations in Medical Education1
Medical Education and Admissions1
Multilingual Education and Policy1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

50% of their 2 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1111111Home

Most frequent partner countries

Hong Kong SAR1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

City University of Hong KongHK1 paper

Where they publish

Ghana Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literature1
Ghana Journal of Linguistics1
International Journal of Scientific Research and Management (IJSRM)1
Journal of Linguistics and Foreign Languages1
Language Matters1
Sociolinguistics: Past, Present and Future Perspectives1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

4Quality education1
10Reduced inequalities1

Most cited

The role of multi-modal posters in curbing COVID-19 in Ghana
Journal of Linguistics and Foreign Languages
20228 citations
A morpho-semantic analysis of Mfantse neologisms in some radio stations in the Central Region
University of Cape Coast
20168 citations
A Linguistic Analysis of Posuban as a Material Culture: The Case of Amamoma, Apewosika and Kwaprow
International Journal of Scientific Research and Management (IJSRM)
20183 citations