Bertrand Festus Nero

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Publishing since 2009, latest 2026

Global and Planetary Change
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Environmental Engineering
Plant Science
Forestry

In their own words

Urban ecology
climate change mitigation and adaptation
ecosystem restoration and rehabilitation

Publications: 292009–2026
Citations: 526to those papers
h-index: 12i10-index 12
Field-weighted impact: 10.421.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 37%7 of 19 scored papers
Open access: 68%13 of the 19 whose access is recorded

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

Google Scholar shows 636 citations, h-index 12 and i10-index 12 (522 citations and h-index 11 since 2021), as of October 10, 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

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Publications

29 in all

Effects of thinning on growth performance of teak (Tectona grandis) plantations in Tain II Forest Reserve, Ghana (vol 85, pg 174, 2023)
2026SOUTHERN FORESTS-A JOURNAL OF FOREST SCIENCEJournalFirst author0 citations
Woody and Herbaceous Species Diversity Respond Differently to Environmental Variables in Semiarid Areas in Ghana
2025Ecology and EvolutionJournalOpen access5 citations

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Citations received each year

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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

Global and Planetary Change1034%
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis724%
Nature and Landscape Conservation621%
Environmental Engineering517%
Plant Science517%
Forestry310%
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law27%
Pollution27%
Agronomy and Crop Science13%
Biomedical Engineering13%

Life Sciences
Physical Sciences

Topics most written on

Urban Green Space and Health7
Land Use and Ecosystem Services6
Forest ecology and management5
Urban Agriculture and Sustainability5
African Botany and Ecology Studies2
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management2
Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies2
Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications2
Urban Heat Island Mitigation2
Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems1
Bioenergy crop production and management1
Biofuel production and bioconversion1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

37% of their 19 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

Germany4
Togo2
United States1
Korea1
Côte d’Ivoire1
Namibia1
South Africa1
United Kingdom1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of BonnDE4 papers
The Forestry Commission of GhanaGH3 papers
Forestry Research Institute of GhanaGH3 papers
Forum for Agricultural Research in AfricaGH2 papers
University of LoméTG2 papers
Global Green Growth Institute (South Korea)KR1 paper
University of PotsdamDE1 paper
University of St AndrewsGB1 paper
Yale UniversityUS1 paper
University of NamibiaNA1 paper

Where they publish

Procedia Engineering2
Southern Forests a Journal of Forest Science2
Applied and Environmental Soil Science1
City and Environment Interactions1
Climate and Culture1
Doctoral Thesis at Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

15Life on land7
11Sustainable cities and communities3
13Climate action2
6Clean water and sanitation1

Most cited

Urban green space dynamics and socio-environmental inequity: Multi-resolution and spatiotemporal data analysis of Kumasi, Ghana
International Journal of Remote Sensing
2017112 citations
Urban Green Spaces Enhance Climate Change Mitigation in Cities of the Global South: The Case of Kumasi, Ghana
Procedia Engineering13
201781 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Diamond
Structure, Diversity, and Carbon Stocks of the Tree Community of Kumasi, Ghana

Teak ( Tectona grandis ) Plantations Growth Response to N‐P‐K Fertilizer and Thinning in Tain II Forest Reserve, Ghana

2025International Journal of Forestry ResearchJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1155/ijfr/2723959

Eucalyptus pellita Plantations May Alter Soil Physicochemical Properties in the Dry Semideciduous Forest Zone in Ghana

2025Applied and Environmental Soil ScienceJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1155/aess/9966126

Carbon storage and tree species diversity of urban parks in Kumasi, Ghana

2024City and Environment InteractionsJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding19 citations10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100156

Urban forests: a global perspective

2023FAO eBooksBookOpen access16 citations10.4060/cc8216en

Mine Wastewater Treatment Using Cassia fistula Plant Parts as Bio-coagulants

2023Water Conservation Science and EngineeringJournalFirst authorCorresponding6 citations10.1007/s41101-023-00178-z

Effects of thinning on growth performance of teak (Tectona grandis) plantations in Tain II Forest Reserve, Ghana

2023Southern Forests a Journal of Forest ScienceJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.2989/20702620.2023.2257657

Urban forests: A perspective from sub-Saharan Africa

2023Urban forestsJournal7 citations

Structure, Diversity, and Carbon Stocks of the Tree Community of Kumasi, Ghana

2018ForestsJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding59 citations10.3390/f9090519

Variations in soil characteristics among urban green spaces in Kumasi, Ghana

2018Environmental Earth SciencesJournalFirst authorCorresponding23 citations10.1007/s12665-018-7441-3

Urban green spaces enhance carbon sequestration and conserve biodiversity in cities of the Global South

2017Universitäts-und Landesbibliothek BonnThesisFirst author15 citations

Urban green space dynamics and distributional equity in Kumasi, Ghana

2016Eur. Sp. Agency,(Special Publ. ESA SP, vol. SP-740, noJournalFirst author6 citations

Urban green spaces enhance carbon sequestration and conserve biodiversity in the global south-case of Kumasi, Ghana

2016Doctoral Thesis at Faculty of Agriculture, University of BonnThesisFirst author6 citations

Carbon sequestration resulting from bottomland hardwood afforestation in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley

2010Southern Silvicultural Research ConferenceJournalFirst author0 citations

Ecology and Evolution

Environmental Earth Sciences1

How it can be read

68% free to read, of the 19 recorded

Diamond 3 · 10%Free to read and to publish
Gold 8 · 28%In an open-access journal
Green 2 · 7%A copy in a repository
Closed 6 · 21%Behind a paywall
Unknown 10 · 34%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

8 of 29 papers name a funder

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst5
Stiftung fiat panis5
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology4
British Ecological Society1
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung1
Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung1
Ecological Society of America1
Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance1

201859 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold

Tree Species Diversity and Socioeconomic Perspectives of the Urban (Food) Forest of Accra, Ghana

Sustainability

201846 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold