Ọbádélé Kambon

University of Ghana

Associate Professor, University of Ghana, since 2014per ORCID

Publishing since 2015, latest 2026

Language and Linguistics
Literature and Literary Theory
Anthropology
Linguistics and Language
Political Science and International Relations
Sociology and Political Science

Publications: 222015–2026
Citations: 33to those papers
h-index: 3i10-index 0
Field-weighted impact: 0.991.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 14%3 of 22 scored papers
Open access: 64%14 papers free to read

2 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

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Associate Professor, Institute of African StudiesUniversity of Ghanasince 2014

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Publications

22 in all

Restoring mꜢꜤt ‘truth, justice, order, harmony’ Through Speech
2026International Journal of Indigenous Language Media and DiscourseJournalOpen access0 citations10.36386/ijilmd.v2i1.794
Mothering and Re-positioning Africa: Enduring Relevance of Haile Gerima’s Teza (2008)
2026UtafitiJournal

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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

Language and Linguistics732%
Literature and Literary Theory732%
Anthropology627%
Linguistics and Language523%
Political Science and International Relations523%
Sociology and Political Science523%
Archeology29%
Communication29%
Education29%
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology29%

Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies5
Multilingual Education and Policy5
African history and culture analysis4
African history and culture studies3
Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies3
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation3
African cultural and philosophical studies2
Anthropological Studies and Insights2
Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies2
Global Maritime and Colonial Histories2
Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis2
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition2

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

0% of their papers have a co-author abroad

Most frequent partner countries

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of Media, Arts and CommunicationGH4 papers
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences GhanaGH2 papers

Where they publish

Ghana Journal of Linguistics4
Legon Journal of the Humanities3
Contemporary Journal of African Studies2
African and Asian Studies1
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)1
Identity Culture and Politics1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

4Quality education8
10Reduced inequalities7
11Sustainable cities and communities1
16Peace, justice and strong institutions1

Most cited

Akan Ananse Stories, Yoruba Ijapa Tales, and the Dikenga Theory: Worldview and Structure
Contemporary Journal of African Studies4
20178 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid
Akan noun–verb nominal compounds: The exocentric synthetic view
Language Sciences
20175 citationsWorld top 10%
What Afrikan Names May (or May Not) Tell Us About the State of Pan-Afrikanism

Mꜣꜥt ‘Maat’, Death and the Afterlife

2023Journal of Religion in AfricaJournalSenior author0 citations10.1163/15700666-12340265

Cardinal numerals in Akan

2023Ghana Journal of LinguisticsJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.4314/gjl.v12i1.3

A Cross-Linguistic Study of Body Part Expressions in Classical and Contemporary Afrikan Languages:

2021Ghana Journal of LinguisticsJournalOpen accessFirst author0 citations

What Afrikan Names May (or May Not) Tell Us About the State of Pan-Afrikanism

2019Journal of Black StudiesJournalFirst authorCorresponding4 citations10.1177/0021934719867923

Akan Ananse Stories, Yoruba Ijapa Tales, and the Dikenga Theory: Worldview and Structure

2017Contemporary Journal of African StudiesJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding8 citations10.4314/contjas.v4i2.1

TwiSwahili Or KiswaTwili: A Study of Parallel Proverbs in Akan (Twi) And Kiswahili

2017Ghana Journal of LinguisticsJournalOpen accessFirst author3 citations10.4314/gjl.v6i2.6

Non-African Linguists Be Like, “This Is a New Way to Quote!”

2017Ghana Journal of LinguisticsJournalOpen accessFirst author0 citations10.4314/gjl.v6i2.5

Theory of endogenous and exogenous motivation in L2 migration

2015Per LinguamJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding2 citations10.5785/31-2-594

International Journal of Indigenous Language Media and Discourse

Journal of African American Studies1

How it can be read

64% free to read

Diamond 7 · 32%Free to read and to publish
Gold 1 · 5%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 3 · 14%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 1 · 5%Free to read, no open licence
Green 2 · 9%A copy in a repository
Closed 8 · 36%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

1 of 22 papers name a funder

University of Cambridge1
University of Ghana1

Journal of Black Studies10

TwiSwahili Or KiswaTwili: A Study of Parallel Proverbs in Akan (Twi) And Kiswahili

Ghana Journal of Linguistics4

20173 citationsOpen access · Diamond