Alex Wilson

Broad Instituteper ORCID

Publishing since 2002, latest 2026

Sociology and Political Science
Education
Demography
General Health Professions
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

In their own words

African Social
Political
Educational and Health Systems

Publications: 212002–2026
Citations: 1,383to those papers
h-index: 6i10-index 4
Field-weighted impact: 0.301.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 0%0 of 3 scored papers
Open access: 0%0 of the 3 whose access is recorded

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

Google Scholar shows 1,449 citations, h-index 7 and i10-index 5 (499 citations and h-index 6 since 2021), as of October 3, 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

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Broad Institute

Publications

21 in all

Critical Examination of Culture for Explaining Corporal Punishment: The Akan of Ghana in Perspective
2026Anthropology & Education QuarterlyJournalFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1111/aeq.70068
Occupational Gifting and Entrepreneurial Development among the Fantse of Ghana
2024Journal of Business and Enterprise Development (JOBED)

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Sociology and Political Science314%
Education210%
Demography15%
General Health Professions15%
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health15%

Health Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

African cultural and philosophical studies2
Child and Adolescent Health1
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis1
Diverse Research Studies Overview1
Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare1
Human Rights and Development1
Religion, Society, and Development1
Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

0% of their 3 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

Most frequent partner countries

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Ghana Education ServiceGH1 paper

Where they publish

African Identities4
International human rights and justice2
Perspectives on empowering education2
Africa: Economic, Political and Social Issues1
African Political and Economic Philosophy with Africapitalism1
Anthropology & Education Quarterly1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

16Peace, justice and strong institutions2
5Gender equality1

Most cited

Institutional ethnography as practice
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20061,316 citations
Community-based analysis of the US legal system’s intervention in domestic abuse cases involving indigenous women.”
Mending the Sacred Hoop. Duluth: Minnesota Program Development, Inc
200213 citations
Mothers’ wealth: Matrilineality and inheritance among the Fantse of Ghana
Ohio University
201112 citations

Akan Sociopolitical and Economic Thought as a Leadership Model for Africa

2024African Political and Economic Philosophy with AfricapitalismJournalFirst author2 citations

SONS AND PATRIFILIATION AMONG

2020Africa: Economic, Political and Social IssuesJournalFirst author0 citations

Sons and Patrifiliation among the Matrilineal Fantse of Ghana

2020In West Africa: Economic, Political and SocialBook chapterFirst author0 citations

Divergence of cultural policy and health policy: Anyway forward for healthcare delivery in Ghana?

2018The humanities and indigenous knowledge in healthBook chapterFirst author0 citations

Subordination and super-ordination: Medicalisation of pregnancy and childbirth in Ghana

2016International human rights and justiceBook chapterFirst author1 citation

Descent, filiation and the rights of the child among the Fantse of Ghana

2016International human rights and justice.Book chapterFirst author7 citations

Evolution of women’s power in education and politics in Ghana

2014Perspectives on empowering educationBook chapterFirst author0 citations

Mothers’ wealth: Matrilineality and inheritance among the Fantse of Ghana

2011Ohio UniversityThesisFirst author12 citations

Institutional ethnography as practice

2006Bloomsbury Publishing PLCReportSenior author1,316 citations

Community-based analysis of the US legal system’s intervention in domestic abuse cases involving indigenous women.”

2002Mending the Sacred Hoop. Duluth: Minnesota Program Development, IncJournal13 citations

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

In West Africa: Economic, Political and Social1

How it can be read

0% free to read, of the 3 recorded

Closed 3 · 14%Behind a paywall
Unknown 18 · 86%Not recorded by the source

Descent, filiation and the rights of the child among the Fantse of Ghana

International human rights and justice.

20167 citations