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University of Energy and Natural Resources / Scholars

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David Anaafo

University of Energy and Natural Resources

Also at West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Usefrom their recent papers

Publishing since 2015, latest 2026

Urban Studies
Sociology and Political Science
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Soil Science
Economics and Econometrics
Global and Planetary Change

ORCID 0000-0001-7472-9687
Their record on OpenAlex

Publications: 292015–2026
Citations: 213to those papers
h-index: 11i10-index 11
Field-weighted impact: 2.531.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 32%9 of 28 scored papers
Open access: 59%17 papers free to read

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

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

Career

On their papers

University of Energy and Natural Resources27 works
Burkina Faso Ministry of the Environment, Green Economy, and Climate Change7 works
West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use5 works
Sustainability Institute3 works

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Publications

29 in all

Newest Most cited Oldest Title

Search their publications by title

Energy-Induced Land Acquisition and Emerging Labor Configurations Around Ghana’s Bui Dam
2026Society & Natural ResourcesJournalOpen access0 citations10.1080/08941920.2026.2677122
Gender, land rights and climate change adaptation in Ghana: Implications for land tenure, agriculture and rural development
2026Land Use Policy

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Urban Studies1034%
Sociology and Political Science828%
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences724%
Soil Science621%
Economics and Econometrics517%
Global and Planetary Change517%
Plant Science310%
Building and Construction27%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics27%
Modeling and Simulation27%

Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Urban and Rural Development Challenges10
Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development6
Land Rights and Reforms6
Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact3
Urban Planning and Governance3
Agricultural Innovations and Practices2
Climate change impacts on agriculture2
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management2
COVID-19 epidemiological studies2
COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts2
Land Use and Ecosystem Services2
Mining and Resource Management2

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

45% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1223344Home

Most frequent partner countries

Germany5
Burkina Faso4
South Africa3
Denmark1
Australia1
China1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land UseGH5 papers
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGH5 papers
University of BonnDE4 papers
Burkina Faso Ministry of the Environment, Green Economy, and Climate ChangeBF4 papers
Sustainability InstituteZA3 papers
Université Joseph Ki-ZerboBF3 papers
Nazi Boni UniversityBF3 papers
Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development StudiesGH3 papers
University for Development StudiesGH3 papers
University of Environment and Sustainable DevelopmentGH2 papers

Where they publish

Cogent Social Sciences2
Urban Forum2
African Geographical Review1
Anatolia1
Area Development and Policy1
Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines1
Cities

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

2Zero hunger4
1No poverty3
11Sustainable cities and communities3
13Climate action3
17Partnerships for the goals3
10Reduced inequalities2
15Life on land2
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Most cited

Do land reforms have adverse impacts on the livelihoods of poor land users? Evidence from the Nkoranza South Municipality, Ghana
Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines1
201720 citations
Assessing the practicality of the COVID-19 social distancing guidelines to the urban poor in the Ghanaian context
Social Sciences & Humanities Open1
202019 citationsOpen access · Gold
Place making decisions among informal street food vendors in Sunyani, Ghana

Journal

Open access

0 citations

10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.108207

Challenges Associated with formalising Artisanal Small-Scale Mining in Ghana

2025SAGE OpenJournalOpen access6 citations10.1177/21582440251341054

Managing Urban Waterbodies and Wetlands in Sunyani, Ghana

2025International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable DevelopmentJournalOpen access5 citations10.14246/irspsd.13.2_160

PEWS: A Pilot Early Warning System for Pest and Disease Management in Burkina Faso

2025Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial AnalysisJournal2 citations10.1007/s41651-025-00230-7

Assessment of land use and land cover changes and their impact on land surface temperature in Greater Accra, Ghana

2025Scientific AfricanJournalOpen accessSenior author2 citations10.1016/j.sciaf.2025.e02826

Temporary Structures, Permanent Challenges: ‘Containerisation’ and Urban Governance in the Sunyani Municipality, Ghana

2025Urban ForumJournalFirst authorCorresponding2 citations10.1007/s12132-025-09541-w

Navigating informality: interfacing land governance with the informal economy in Ghana’s secondary cities

2025Area Development and PolicyJournalOpen accessSenior author2 citations10.1080/23792949.2025.2582521

TOM2024: Datasets of tomato, onion, and maize images for developing pests and diseases AI-based classification models

2025Data in BriefPublicationOpen access14 citations10.1016/j.dib.2025.111357

Maize farmers’ perceptions of fall armyworm invasion in Burkina Faso: bridging awareness and action

2025International Journal of Tropical Insect ScienceJournal0 citations10.1007/s42690-025-01513-8

Navigating between local visions and goals of national policies for sustainable land management in Ghana

2025Development in PracticeJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1080/09614524.2025.2514539

A systematic review of gender in participatory and social learning research in agriculture and land management in Africa

2025Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsJournalOpen accessCorresponding5 citations10.3389/fsufs.2025.1628825

Place making decisions among informal street food vendors in Sunyani, Ghana

2024CitiesJournalFirst authorCorresponding15 citations10.1016/j.cities.2024.105328

Wastes in the wild: types, effects, and management of plastic waste at Mole National Park, Ghana

2024Cogent Social SciencesJournalOpen access1 citation10.1080/23311886.2024.2316046

Custom, modernity, and stability of land rights in Ghana: An empirico-legal review

2023Cogent Social SciencesJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding11 citations10.1080/23311886.2023.2209366

Public-private partnership in municipal solid waste management in the Sunyani municipality of Ghana

2023Journal of Property Planning and Environmental LawJournal9 citations10.1108/jppel-04-2023-0012

Discrimination in the rental housing market in the Sunyani Municipality, Ghana

2022Urban Planning and Transport ResearchJournalOpen access9 citations10.1080/21650020.2022.2072947

Mining and sustainable development in the Asutifi North District, Ghana

2022Resources PolicyJournalFirst authorCorresponding11 citations10.1016/j.resourpol.2022.103171

Impact of land use and climate change on forest reserves in Ghana

2022African Geographical ReviewJournal8 citations10.1080/19376812.2022.2070768

Experiential Knowledge of urbanites on climatic changes in the Sunyani municipality, Ghana

2022Journal of Urban AffairsJournalCorresponding13 citations10.1080/07352166.2022.2044836

Urban planning and public policy responses to the management of COVID-19 in Ghana

2021Cities & HealthJournalOpen accessFirst author15 citations10.1080/23748834.2021.1876392

Determinants of car rental choice in Ghana

2021AnatoliaJournal0 citations10.1080/13032917.2021.1985544

Assessing the practicality of the COVID-19 social distancing guidelines to the urban poor in the Ghanaian context

2020Social Sciences & Humanities OpenJournalOpen accessSenior author19 citations10.1016/j.ssaho.2020.100087

Spatial planning in the digital age: the role of emerging technologies in democratising participation in spatial planning in Ghana

2020International Planning StudiesJournalFirst authorCorresponding12 citations10.1080/13563475.2020.1752159

Rhetorically decentralised, practically recentralised: a review of the local governance system of Ghana

2019Commonwealth Journal of Local GovernanceJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding7 citations10.5130/cjlg.v0i21.6516

The Crumbling Backbone of the Savannah Woman: Adjusting to the Declining Shea and Locust Tree Densities in Northern Ghana

2019Journal of Culture, Society and DevelopmentJournalOpen access0 citations10.7176/jcsd/54-05

Between science and local knowledge: improving the communication of climate change to rural agriculturists in the Bolgatanga Municipality, Ghana

2018Local EnvironmentJournalFirst authorCorresponding12 citations10.1080/13549839.2018.1557126

Do land reforms have adverse impacts on the livelihoods of poor land users? Evidence from the Nkoranza South Municipality, Ghana

2017Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africainesJournalFirst authorCorresponding20 citations10.1080/00083968.2017.1303390

Land Governance and Decentralised Physical Planning in mid-Sized Cities in Ghana: a Case Study of the Nkoranza South Municipality

2015Urban ForumJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding13 citations10.1007/s12132-015-9267-3

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Cities & Health1

How it can be read

59% free to read

Diamond 2 · 7%Free to read and to publish
Gold 8 · 28%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 5 · 17%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 1 · 3%Free to read, no open licence
Green 1 · 3%A copy in a repository
Closed 12 · 41%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

3 of 29 papers name a funder

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung2
Agropolis Fondation1
Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers1
European Commission1
International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology1
Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China1

Decent work and economic growth

1

Cities2

202415 citationsWorld top 10%

Urban planning and public policy responses to the management of COVID-19 in Ghana

Cities & Health11

202115 citationsOpen access · Hybrid

TOM2024: Datasets of tomato, onion, and maize images for developing pests and diseases AI-based classification models

Data in Brief2

202514 citationsOpen access · Gold