Joseph Ghartey Ampiah
- Lecturer/Professor, University of Cape Coast, since 2008per ORCID
Publishing since 2000, latest 2025
Professor of Science Education at the University of Cape Coast, where he has taught courses in science education, qualitative research and ethnographic research in science education since 1996. He has been a professional teacher since 1987. His research interests are in science education, teaching and learning of science at primary, junior high and senior high school levels, science classroom environments, in-service education and training. Prof Joseph Ghartey Ampiah has… More on ORCID
- Education
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Safety Research
- Social Psychology
- Computer Networks and Communications
In their own words
- Teaching and Learning
- Science Education
- In-service Education and Training
- Basic education
- secondary education
- assessment
- education policy
- Publications
- 562000–2025
- Citations
- 1,210to those papers
- h-index
- 20i10-index 31
- Field-weighted impact
- 3.591.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 43%6 of 14 scored papers
- Open access
- 71%10 of the 14 whose access is recorded
7 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 1,847 citations, h-index 22 and i10-index 39 (768 citations and h-index 15 since 2021), as of October 14, 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/Professor, Science EducationUniversity of Cape Coastsince 2008
- Vice-Chancellor, Office of Vice-ChancellorUniversity of Cape Coast2016–2020
- Provost and Professor of Science Education, College of Education StudiesUniversity of Cape Coast2014–2016
- Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor/Professor, Office of the Vice-ChancellorUniversity of Cape Coast2012
- Dean/Professor of Science Education, Faculty of Education
Publications
56 in all
- Understandings of education in an African village: The impact of ICTs
2003Education series research reportJournalSenior author17 citations
- Exploring junior secondary school boys and girls' attitude towards science: time for policy change
2002Journal of Educational ManagementJournalFirst author0 citations