G. K. Owusu

University of Ghana

Senior Lecturer, University of Ghana, since 2011per ORCID

Publishing since 1968, latest 2026

Plant Science
Horticulture
Global and Planetary Change
Urban Studies
Economics and Econometrics
Insect Science

Publications: 231968–2026
Citations: 397to those papers
h-index: 13i10-index 13
Field-weighted impact: 3.291.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 35%8 of 23 scored papers
Open access: 39%9 papers free to read

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

Senior Lecturer, Geography and Resources DevelopmentUniversity of Ghanasince 2011

Education

PhD, Geography and Resources DevelopmentUniversity of Ghanasince 2011

On their papers

Publications

23 in all

The World Bank and Ghana’s resilient development agenda
2026Area Development and PolicyJournalSenior author1 citation10.1080/23792949.2026.2667156
Capturing urban activities and environment across time scales: Object detection and time-series analysis of 6.8 million images in Accra, Ghana
2026CitiesJournal

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Plant Science1252%
Horticulture1148%
Global and Planetary Change313%
Urban Studies313%
Economics and Econometrics29%
Insect Science29%
Modeling and Simulation29%
Sociology and Political Science29%
Civil and Structural Engineering14%
Development14%

Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy11
Plant Virus Research Studies11
Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens4
Urban and Rural Development Challenges3
Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies2
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics2
Automated Road and Building Extraction1
Child Nutrition and Water Access1
COVID-19 epidemiological studies1
Housing Market and Economics1
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism1
Human Rights and Development1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

39% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

United Kingdom5
China2
Nigeria2
Peru1
United States1
Australia1
Canada1
Tanzania1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Cocoa Research Institute of GhanaGH12 papers
Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and GeographyCN2 papers
Chinese Academy of SciencesCN2 papers
Imperial College LondonGB2 papers
Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Central AsiaCN2 papers
State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology2 papers
University of Chinese Academy of SciencesCN2 papers
University of Port HarcourtNG2 papers
Ghana Atomic Energy CommissionGH2 papers
International Potato CenterPE1 paper

Where they publish

Crop Protection4
Annals of Applied Biology2
Journal of Phytopathology2
Agricultural Water Management1
Area Development and Policy1
CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research)1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

14Life below water3
15Life on land3
3Good health and well-being2
11Sustainable cities and communities2
2Zero hunger1
13Climate action1

Most cited

The control of cocoa swollen shoot disease in Ghana: an evaluation of eradication procedures
Crop Protection
198673 citationsWorld top 10%
Ghanaian cocoa varieties and swollen shoot virus
Crop Protection
198849 citationsWorld top 10%
Studies of the seed‐transmission of tobacco ringspot virus
Annals of Applied Biology3

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Incidence of sweet potato viruses in the coastal Savannah agro-ecological zone of Ghana

2015CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research)Journal2 citations10.4454/jpp.v97i1.030

Spread of African cassava mosaic virus from cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) to physic nut (Jatropha curcas L.) in Ghana

2012DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)JournalOpen accessSenior author14 citations

Spread of cocoa swollen shoot virus to cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) plantings in Ghana

2002Tropical AgricultureJournalOpen accessSenior author4 citations

Cocoa necrosis virus in Ghana.

1971JournalFirst authorCorresponding9 citations

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)1

How it can be read

39% free to read

Gold 1 · 4%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 4 · 17%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 2 · 9%Free to read, no open licence
Green 2 · 9%A copy in a repository
Closed 14 · 61%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

9 of 23 papers name a funder

Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana2
Wellcome Trust2
Carnegie Corporation of New York1
Chinese Academy of Sciences1
CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies1
Economic and Social Research Council1
European Research Council1
Health Effects Institute1