Daniel Yaw Fiaveh

Associate Professor, University of Cape Coast, since 2016per ORCID

Publishing since 2011, latest 2026

Daniel Yaw Fiaveh is a Ghanaian sociologist-turned-anthropologist and an associate professor in studies of men, gender, and sexuality at the University of Cape Coast, where I was also the coordinator for research at the Centre for Gender, Research, Advocacy, and Documentation (CEGRAD) from August 2022 to July 2024. My research examines masculinities, sexual cultures and intimate relationships and families, sociocultural sexual health, and gender debates in African societies,… More on ORCID

Sociology and Political Science
General Health Professions
Gender Studies
Clinical Psychology
Infectious Diseases
Safety Research

In their own words

men and masculinities
sex and sexuality
gender

Publications: 332011–2026
Citations: 461to those papers
h-index: 12i10-index 16
Field-weighted impact: 2.331.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 44%7 of 16 scored papers
Open access: 44%7 of the 16 whose access is recorded

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

Google Scholar shows 657 citations, h-index 15 and i10-index 18 (425 citations and h-index 12 since 2021), as of October 5, 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

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and AnthropologyUniversity of Cape Coastsince 2016

Education

PhD in Sociology, SociologyUniversity of Ghana2011–2013

Honours, memberships and service

EditorGhana Journal of Sociology and Anthropologysince 2020
Member, Gender Equality PanelThe Union for African Population Studies (UAPS)2025–2027

On their papers

Publications

33 in all

Social Media Reactions to Sex Toy Criminalization in Ghana: Cross-Sectional Sentiment and Text Network Analysis
2026JMIR InfodemiologyJournalOpen access0 citations10.2196/91422
LGBTQI+ Regulation and Implications for Transgender Rights in Africa: A Feminist Queer Inquiry
2026Journal of African Population Studies

dfiaveh@ucc.edu.ghPublic on their ORCID record

fiaveh@yahoo.comPublic on their ORCID record

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Citations received each year

PeerfordGoogle Scholar

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

Sociology and Political Science1442%
General Health Professions515%
Gender Studies412%
Clinical Psychology26%
Infectious Diseases26%
Safety Research26%
Social Psychology26%
Artificial Intelligence13%
Economics and Econometrics13%
General Social Sciences13%

Health Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues9
Sex work and related issues6
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health5
Gender Roles and Identity Studies4
Marriage and Sexual Relationships4
HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions2
LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy2
Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare2
Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology2
Authorship Attribution and Profiling1
Child Nutrition and Water Access1
Computational and Text Analysis Methods1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

44% of their 16 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1122334Home

Most frequent partner countries

United States4
Canada2
Kenya1
Switzerland1
Nigeria1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of GhanaGH4 papers
University of PittsburghUS3 papers
Graduate Institute of International and Development StudiesCH1 paper
McGill UniversityCA1 paper
Queen's UniversityCA1 paper
University of RochesterUS1 paper
University of Rochester MedicineUS1 paper
University of KigaliRW1 paper
Korle Bu Teaching HospitalGH1 paper
University of CalabarNG1 paper

Where they publish

Sexualities3
Sociolinguistic Studies2
University of Ghana2
Anthropology News1
CODESRIA1
Culture Health & Sexuality1
Gender and sexuality in Ghanaian societies

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

5Gender equality11
1No poverty1
4Quality education1
10Reduced inequalities1

Most cited

Factors prompting pupils academic performance in privately owned Junior High Schools in Accra, Ghana
International journal of sociology and anthropology
201181 citations
Constructions of masculinity and femininity and sexual risk negotiation practices among women in urban Ghana
Culture Health & Sexuality5
201449 citationsWorld top 10%
Daddy, Today We Have a Match!’Women’s Agentic Strategies in Initiating Sexual Intercourse in an Urban Ghanaian Community

University of Cape Coast

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Scoping review of discourses on masturbation in Africa: an afrofeminist analysis

2024Journal of Gender StudiesJournalFirst authorCorresponding4 citations10.1080/09589236.2023.2300420

Gender and sexuality in African discourses

2023Sociolinguistic StudiesJournalFirst author10 citations10.1558/sols.24323

LGBQ+ in Ghana

2023Sociolinguistic StudiesJournalFirst authorCorresponding4 citations10.1558/sols.24050

Gendered scripts and young adult’ sexual practices on a first date in urban Ghana

2021Gender and sexuality in Ghanaian societiesBook chapterFirst author9 citations

Masculinity, Male Sexual Virility, and Use of Aphrodisiacs in Ghana

2019The Journal of Men s StudiesJournalFirst authorCorresponding24 citations10.1177/1060826519887510

Femininity, sexual positions and choice

2019SexualitiesJournalFirst author23 citations

Activist anthropologist sentenced to 18 months in prison

2019Anthropology NewsJournalSenior author6 citations10.1111/an.1237

Cultural Sensitivities: A Case Study of Sexual Pleasure in Ghana

2018SAGE Research Methods CasesBook chapterFirst author9 citations

Femininity, Sexual Positions and Choice

2017SexualitiesJournalFirst authorCorresponding11 citations10.1177/1363460716677281

Daddy, Today We Have a Match!’Women’s Agentic Strategies in Initiating Sexual Intercourse in an Urban Ghanaian Community

2017Research on Gender and Sexualities in Africa; Benneth, J., Tamale, S., EdsBook chapterFirst author41 citations

Hegemonic Penile Discourses and Continuities in Penile Conceptualizations

2016Proceedings of the African Futures ConferencePublicationOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding2 citations10.1002/j.2573-508x.2016.tb00053.x

Women’s Experiences of Sexual Pleasure in Ghana

2015Sexuality & CultureJournalFirst authorCorresponding24 citations10.1007/s12119-015-9290-5

Aphrodisiacs and phallic competence: Implications for dominant masculinity

2015University of GhanaReportFirst author0 citations

Aphrodisiacs, Phallic Competence, and Dominant Masculinity

2015CODESRIAReportFirst author0 citations

Sexual pleasure and the construction of masculinities: Understanding sexuality in Ghana

2013PhD Dissertation. Department of Sociology, University of Ghana, LegonThesisFirst author4 citations

Vulnerability to Food Insecurity and Negative Coping Strategies of HIV-Affected Households in Ghana

2012The 24th congress of the Nutrition Society of South Africa and the 5th African Nutrition Epidemiology Conference University of Free StateJournal0 citations

Condom myths and misconceptions: the male perspective

2012Global Journal of Medical ResearchJournalFirst author33 citations

Factors prompting pupils academic performance in privately owned Junior High Schools in Accra, Ghana

2011International journal of sociology and anthropologyJournal81 citations

Religion as a tool in strengthening the democratic process in Ghana

2011Journal of African Studies and DevelopmentJournal19 citations