F. Owusu-Ansah

Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana

Biometrician, Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana, since 2005per ORCID

Publishing since 2007, latest 2026

Horticulture
Plant Science
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Molecular Biology
Chemical Health and Safety

Publications: 312007–2026
Citations: 332to those papers
h-index: 10i10-index 11
Field-weighted impact: 2.081.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 26%8 of 31 scored papers
Open access: 68%21 papers free to read

1 other work — a preprint, a dataset or the like — is 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

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Biometrician, Social science and statistics UnitCocoa Research Institute of Ghanasince 2005
Teacher, Department of MathematicsAnglican senior High School2001–2004
Teacher, Department of MathematicsNsaba Presby Senior High School2000–2001

Education

PhD, Department of Mathematics and StatisticsUniversity of Reading2011–2015
MSc, Department of MathematicsKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Publications

31 in all

Effect of Potential Allelochemicals From Shade Trees on Cocoa Seedlings' Performance
2026Weed ResearchJournal0 citations10.1111/wre.70054
Introduction of Food‐Based Cover Crops Reduces Weed Control Frequency, Improves Land Productivity, and Increases Income of Robusta Coffee Farms
2026Advances in AgricultureJournalOpen access

Download CV:PDFWord

Citations received each year

Peerford

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

Horticulture2271%
Plant Science1342%
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences516%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics413%
Molecular Biology413%
Chemical Health and Safety26%
Complementary and alternative medicine26%
Ecology26%
Food Science26%
Pharmacology26%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences

Topics most written on

Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy22
Agricultural Innovations and Practices5
Plant Virus Research Studies5
Agriculture and Rural Development Research3
Plant tissue culture and regeneration3
Chemical Safety and Risk Management2
Coffee research and impacts2
Food Chemistry and Fat Analysis2
Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications2
Occupational Health and Safety Research2
Oil Palm Production and Sustainability2
Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens2

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

16% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1122223Home

Most frequent partner countries

United Kingdom3
United States1
Benin1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGH5 papers
University of ReadingGB3 papers
Prairie View A&M UniversityUS1 paper
The University of Texas at ArlingtonUS1 paper
University of KansasUS1 paper
University of South Florida St. PetersburgUS1 paper
Busoga UniversityUG1 paper
Ghana Education ServiceGH1 paper
Ministry of Food and AgricultureGH1 paper
Université d'Abomey-CalaviBJ1 paper

Where they publish

Creative Education3
Experimental Agriculture3
Journal of Agricultural Science3
Australian Journal of Crop Science2
PLoS ONE2
Advances in Agriculture1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

15Life on land7
2Zero hunger5
1No poverty1
4Quality education1
9Industry, innovation and infrastructure1
12Responsible consumption and production1

Most cited

Adoption of Some Cocoa Production Technologies by Cocoa Farmers in Ghana
Sustainable Agriculture Research
201285 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid
Analysis of economic efficiency in cocoa production in Ghana
African Journal of Food Agriculture Nutrition and Development12
201143 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Knowledge and perception of Ghanaian cocoa farmers on mirid control and their willingness to use forecasting systems

BSc, Department of MathematicsKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology1996–2000

Farmers’ adoption of preventive and treatment measures of cocoa swollen shoot virus disease in Ghana

2021Journal of Agriculture and Food ResearchJournalOpen accessSenior author12 citations10.1016/j.jafr.2021.100112

PLANNING CLONAL SELECTION PROGRAMMES FOR PERENNIAL CROPS

2018Experimental AgricultureJournalFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1017/s0014479717000618

OPTIMAL PLANNING OF COCOA CLONAL SELECTION PROGRAMMES

2013Experimental AgricultureJournalFirst authorCorresponding3 citations10.1017/s0014479713000239

Insight into the Standard of Living of Ghanaian Cocoa Farmers

2013Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)JournalOpen access0 citations10.5281/zenodo.3375077

Adoption of Some Cocoa Production Technologies by Cocoa Farmers in Ghana

2012Sustainable Agriculture ResearchJournalOpen access85 citations10.5539/sar.v1n1p103

Analysis of economic efficiency in cocoa production in Ghana

2011African Journal of Food Agriculture Nutrition and DevelopmentJournalOpen accessSenior author43 citations10.4314/ajfand.v11i1.65877

African Journal of Food Agriculture Nutrition and Development

Agrosystems Geosciences & Environment1

How it can be read

68% free to read

Diamond 9 · 29%Free to read and to publish
Gold 7 · 23%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 2 · 6%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 2 · 6%Free to read, no open licence
Green 1 · 3%A copy in a repository
Closed 10 · 32%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

10 of 31 papers name a funder

Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana9
Basque Center for Applied Mathematics1
National Science Foundation1
Office of Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research1

International Journal of Tropical Insect Science

201626 citationsWorld top 10%