Gladys Nyarko Ansah

University of Ghana

Associate Professor, University of Ghana, since 2021per ORCID

Publishing since 2014, latest 2026

Language and Linguistics
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Linguistics and Language
Literature and Literary Theory
Sociology and Political Science
Communication

Publications: 192014–2026
Citations: 232to those papers
h-index: 5i10-index 4
Field-weighted impact: 3.541.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 26%5 of 19 scored papers
Open access: 47%9 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

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Associate Professor, EnglishUniversity of Ghanasince 2021

Education

PhD Applied Linguistics, English Language and LinguisticsLancaster University2008–2011
Mres Cognitive Linguistics, Language and CommunicationUniversity of Brighton2007–2008
MPhil, LinguisticsUniversity of Ghana2000–2002
BA, English/LinguisticsUniversity of Ghana

Publications

19 in all

Women and Collective Resistance against Illegal Small-Scale Gold Mining, Galamsey, in Ghana
2026African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities ResearchJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.52589/ajsshr-dgyae3pf
Language-in-Education Policies in Ghana: Identifying the gaps
2025Language Policy in Africa

glasd514@yahoo.co.ukPublic on their ORCID record

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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

Language and Linguistics1368%
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology737%
Linguistics and Language632%
Literature and Literary Theory632%
Sociology and Political Science421%
Communication316%
Anthropology15%
Building and Construction15%
Demography15%
Developmental and Educational Psychology15%

Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies8
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition7
Multilingual Education and Policy6
EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning4
Second Language Learning and Teaching4
Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism3
African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues2
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies2
Marriage and Sexual Relationships2
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health1
Categorization, perception, and language1
Diaspora, migration, transnational identity1

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

Ghana Institute of LanguagesGH1 paper
University of Media, Arts and CommunicationGH1 paper
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGH1 paper

Where they publish

Legon Journal of the Humanities3
Cultural linguistics2
African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research1
Cognitive Linguistic Studies1
Cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts1
Current Issues in Language Planning1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

4Quality education6
10Reduced inequalities4
5Gender equality3
3Good health and well-being1

Most cited

Re-examining the fluctuations in language in-education policies in post-independence Ghana
Multilingual Education4
201475 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid
Cultural Conceptualisations of democracy and Political Discourse Practices in Ghana
Cultural linguistics
201749 citationsWorld top 10%
Culture in Embodied Cognition: Metaphorical/Metonymic Conceptualizations ofFEARin Akan and English

Cognitive Linguistics and expressing/interpreting proverbs in a second language

2024Cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contextsBook chapterFirst authorCorresponding1 citation10.1075/clscc.16.06ans

Cultural conceptualisations and spatial cognition in Ghanaian English

2024World EnglishesJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding1 citation10.1111/weng.12675

Discourses and Counter-Discourses on Female Sexual Behavior in Ghana

2024Springer handbooks in languages and linguistics.Book chapterFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1007/978-981-99-3800-1_31

A linguistic landscape of the central business district of Accra

2020Legon Journal of the HumanitiesJournalOpen access6 citations10.4314/ljh.v31i1.1

Exploring Ethos in Contemporary Ghana

2020HumanitiesJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding3 citations10.3390/h9030062

DumsorandDumsor-Based Neologisms

2020Ghana StudiesJournalSenior author0 citations10.3368/gs.23.1.28

The choice of English as a home language in urban Ghana

2019Current Issues in Language PlanningJournalSenior author36 citations10.1080/14664208.2019.1582947

Acculturation and integration: Language dynamics in the rural north-urban south mobility situation in Ghana

2018Legon Journal of the HumanitiesJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.4314/ljh.v29i1.3

Cultural Conceptualisations of democracy and Political Discourse Practices in Ghana

2017Cultural linguisticsBook chapterFirst authorCorresponding49 citations10.1007/978-981-10-4056-6_17

Re-examining the fluctuations in language in-education policies in post-independence Ghana

2014Multilingual EducationJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding75 citations10.1186/s13616-014-0012-3

Cognitive models of anger in Akan

2014Cognitive Linguistic StudiesJournalFirst authorCorresponding3 citations10.1075/cogls.1.1.06ans

Ghana Journal of Linguistics1

How it can be read

47% free to read

Diamond 5 · 26%Free to read and to publish
Gold 1 · 5%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 2 · 11%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 1 · 5%Free to read, no open licence
Closed 10 · 53%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

1 of 19 papers name a funder

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation1
University of Ghana1

Metaphor and Symbol10

The choice of English as a home language in urban Ghana

Current Issues in Language Planning4

201936 citationsWorld top 10%

A linguistic landscape of the central business district of Accra

Legon Journal of the Humanities4

20206 citationsOpen access · Diamond