Emmanuel Kofi Gavu

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Senior Lecturer, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, since 2021per ORCID

Publishing since 2010, latest 2026

Emmanuel Kofi Gavu (Dr.-Ing.) Pollman (postdoctoral) Fellow in Real Estate and Urban Development at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design for the 2022-2023 academic year. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Land Economy, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Kumasi, Ghana. He completed his PhD in Spatial Planning at the TU Dortmund University in Germany. He holds an MSc in GIS for Urban Planning and Management from the University… More on ORCID

Economics and Econometrics
Urban Studies
Finance
Pollution
Building and Construction
Sociology and Political Science

In their own words

Real Estate
Land Management
Urban Planning
GIS
Housing Market
Affordable Housing
Social Housing
Rental Housing Market

Publications: 512010–2026
Citations: 271to those papers
h-index: 9i10-index 7
Field-weighted impact: 3.301.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 36%8 of 22 scored papers
Open access: 65%15 of the 23 whose access is recorded

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

Google Scholar shows 397 citations, h-index 11 and i10-index 11 (300 citations and h-index 10 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

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Senior Lecturer, Department of Land EconomyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologysince 2021
Pollman Fellow in Real Estate and Urban Development, Department of Urban Planning and DesignHarvard University Graduate School of Design2022–2023
Consultant, Urban DRM AFR 2World Bank Group2021–2022
Dozent (Lecturer), Fakultät RaumplanungTU Dortmund University2021
Dozent (Lecturer), Fakultät RaumplanungTU Dortmund University2020

Publications

51 in all

Network Based Indicators for Prioritizing the Location of a New Urban Transport Connection: Case Study Istanbul, Turkey
2010Unpublished Thesis, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation Enschede, The NetherlandsJournalFirst author25 citations

kgavich@yahoo.comPublic on their ORCID record

Download CV:PDFWord

Citations received each year

PeerfordGoogle Scholar

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

Economics and Econometrics1224%
Urban Studies1224%
Finance918%
Pollution48%
Building and Construction36%
Sociology and Political Science36%
Archeology24%
Global and Planetary Change24%
Strategy and Management24%
Conservation12%

Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Housing Market and Economics12
Urban and Rural Development Challenges11
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism8
Energy and Environment Impacts4
Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation2
Public-Private Partnership Projects2
Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy2
African Botany and Ecology Studies1
Architecture and Cultural Influences1
Architecture, Design, and Social History1
BIM and Construction Integration1
Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

70% of their 23 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1234569Home

Most frequent partner countries

United Kingdom9
Germany5
United States2
Canada1
China1
Saudi Arabia1
South Africa1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Kumasi Technical UniversityGH6 papers
University College LondonGB4 papers
Kwame Nkrumah UniversityZM4 papers
TU Dortmund UniversityDE3 papers
University of CambridgeGB3 papers
Oxford Brookes UniversityGB2 papers
London Metropolitan UniversityGB1 paper
Technical University of MunichDE1 paper
University of AlbertaCA1 paper
University of BonnDE1 paper

Where they publish

AfRES9
Housing Policy Debate3
Journal of African Real Estate Research3
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)3
International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis2
23 rdAnnual Conference1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

11Sustainable cities and communities5
1No poverty2
7Affordable and clean energy1
8Decent work and economic growth1
9Industry, innovation and infrastructure1
12Responsible consumption and production1
17Partnerships for the goals1

Most cited

Who is the rightful recipient of mining compensation for land use deprivation in Ghana?
Resources Policy
201464 citations
The difficult combination of renting and building a house in urban Ghana: analysing the perception of low and middle income earners in Accra
GeoJournal11
201737 citationsWorld top 10%
Network Based Indicators for Prioritizing the Location of a New Urban Transport Connection: Case Study Istanbul, Turkey
Unpublished Thesis, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation Enschede, The Netherlands

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter (Research Assistant), Fakultät RaumplanungTU Dortmund University2019

Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (Scientific Assistant), Fakultät RaumplanungTU Dortmund University2019

Lecturer, Department of Land EconomyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2014–2021

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Land EconomyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2011–2014

Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Land EconomyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2007–2008

Honours, memberships and service

Board MemberAfrican Real Estate Society (AfRES)since 2015
Professional Member, Valuation and Estate Surveying DivisionGhana Institution of Surveyors (GhIS)since 2013

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

2nd Conference on Infrastructure Development in Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

How it can be read

65% free to read, of the 23 recorded

Diamond 2 · 4%Free to read and to publish
Gold 5 · 10%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 5 · 10%Open in a subscription journal
Green 3 · 6%A copy in a repository
Closed 8 · 16%Behind a paywall
Unknown 28 · 55%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

4 of 51 papers name a funder

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office2
London Metropolitan University1
World Business Council for Sustainable Development1

Stakeholders’ perception of residential rental value determinants in Ghana

Journal of African Real Estate Research

201917 citations

Advance rent mobilisation strategies of graduate renters in Ghana: a submarket of the private rental housing market

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment11

202115 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid