Charles Marfo
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Also at Hubei University of Automotive Technologyfrom their recent papers
- Provost/Professor, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, since 2006per ORCID
Publishing since 1997, latest 2026
Charles Ofosu Marfo is a professor at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi. He is currently the PROVOST of Humanities and Social Sciences (CoHSS). He chairs a good number of bodies, including Royal Image Broadcasting Ltd. (which includes Royal TV) and the House of Faith Credit Union (HoFCU). He is also a past president of the Linguistics Association of Ghana (LAG) and the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG). Prof. Charles Marfo… More on ORCID
- Language and Linguistics
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Linguistics and Language
- Social Psychology
- General Health Professions
- Sociology and Political Science
In their own words
- Language
- Linguistics
- Communication Studies
- African Studies
- Marfo
- Kumasi
- Ghana
- Languages
- Publications
- 561997–2026
- Citations
- 480to those papers
- h-index
- 13i10-index 15
- Field-weighted impact
- 0.581.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 9%2 of 23 scored papers
- Open access
- 87%20 of the 23 whose access is recorded
3 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 458 citations, h-index 13 and i10-index 14 (253 citations and h-index 9 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
- Provost/Professor, Language and Communication SciencesKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologysince 2006
Education
- PhD, LinguisticsUniversity of Hong Kong2001–2005
- MPhil, LinguisticsUiT Norges arktiske universitet1998–2001
- BA (Hons), LinguisticsUniversity of Ghana1993–1997
Honours, memberships and service
- National President, National
Publications
56 in all
- The Linguistic, Cultural and Ethnic Repertoire of Tsim Sha Tsui's Chungking Mansions: A Study in Urban Anthropological Linguistics
2004Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Annual Research ForumJournal0 citations
- Information processing in Akan question-word fronting and focus constructions
2004Proceedings of the LFG04 Conference, University of CanterburyJournalFirst author4 citations