Faisal Elias

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Graduate Assistant, Pennsylvania State University, since 2023per ORCID

Publishing since 2016, latest 2026

Global and Planetary Change
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Ocean Engineering
Political Science and International Relations
Pollution
Safety Research

In their own words

Resource governance
Political ecology
Social network analysis

Publications: 32016–2026
Citations: 19to those papers
h-index: 3i10-index 1
Field-weighted impact: 2.421.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 33%1 of 3 scored papers
Open access: 67%2 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

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.

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Graduate Assistant, Department of GeographyPennsylvania State Universitysince 2023
Development and Policy ManagerGhana Wildlife Society2022–2023
Policy and Advocacy OfficerGhana Wildlife Society2018–2022
WASH ConsultantCAFORD Consult2016
Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography and Rural DevelopmentKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2011–2012

Education

Publications

3 in all

From charcoal to clean cooking: Understanding urban household energy choices and behaviors in southern Africa
2026Energy Research & Social ScienceJournalOpen access3 citations10.1016/j.erss.2026.104614
Accelerating forest landscape restoration monitoring in Africa: informing tangible actions from a practical perspective
2024

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Global and Planetary Change133%
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law133%
Ocean Engineering133%
Political Science and International Relations133%
Pollution133%
Safety Research133%
Waste Management and Disposal133%
Water Science and Technology133%

Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management1
Energy and Environment Impacts1
Environmental Conservation and Management1
Forest Management and Policy1
Municipal Solid Waste Management1
Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare1
Water Governance and Infrastructure1
Water resources management and optimization1
Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

67% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

Malawi2
United States2
Switzerland1
Ethiopia1
United Kingdom1
Kenya1
Mexico1
South Africa1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Pennsylvania State UniversityUS2 papers
Department of ForestryMW2 papers
Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural ResourcesMW2 papers
Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz Y TrigoMX1 paper
London School of Economics and Political ScienceGB1 paper
Michigan State UniversityUS1 paper
University of GenevaCH1 paper
IIE MSAZA1 paper
International Maize and Wheat Improvement CenterET1 paper
University of ZambiaZM1 paper

Where they publish

Energy Research & Social Science1
GeoJournal1
Restoration Ecology1

How it can be read

67% free to read

Hybrid 2 · 67%Open in a subscription journal

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

6Clean water and sanitation1

Most cited

The practice of Integrated Water Resources Management in South Africa: challenges of women in water user associations
GeoJournal6
201610 citations
Accelerating forest landscape restoration monitoring in Africa: informing tangible actions from a practical perspective
Restoration Ecology
20246 citationsOpen access · Hybrid
From charcoal to clean cooking: Understanding urban household energy choices and behaviors in southern Africa
Energy Research & Social Science