Rockson Niminga-Beka

Publishing since 2019, latest 2021

Rockson holds a director rank in urban planning in Ghana's Public Service and a member of the Ghana Institute of Planning. Currently a PhD candidate in Architecture, Building, and Planning at the University of Melbourne, he investigates how formal and informal urban practices intersect to shape cities. His research combines hybrid governance, land law, urban morphology, GIS-based spatial analysis, and planning practice to understand and inform the production of lived urban… More on ORCID

Urban Studies
Economics and Econometrics
Political Science and International Relations

Publications: 22019–2021
Citations: 71to those papers
h-index: 2i10-index 1
Field-weighted impact: 17.101.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 100%2 of 2 scored papers
Open access: 100%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

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What they work on

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Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Sessional TutorThe University of Melbourne2025
Regional DirectorLand Use and Spatial Planning Department2023–2024
Regional DirectorLand Use and Spatial Planning Authority2021–2023
Head of Department, Physical PlanningWa Muncipal Assembly2015–2021
Head of Department, Town and Country PlanningSissala East District Assembly2015–2021

Education

Publications

2 in all

Spatial Justice and Inner-City Development in Secondary Cities of Ghana: Implications for New Urban Agenda in the Global South
2021Urban ForumJournalOpen access9 citations10.1007/s12132-021-09415-x
City profile: Wa, Ghana
2019CitiesJournalOpen access

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Subfields

Urban Studies2100%
Economics and Econometrics150%
Political Science and International Relations150%

Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Urban and Rural Development Challenges2
Urban Planning and Governance2
Housing Market and Economics1
Local Economic Development and Planning1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

50% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

Australia1
Canada1
Netherlands1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Griffith UniversityAU1 paper
University of TwenteNL1 paper
University of WaterlooCA1 paper
University for Development StudiesGH1 paper
Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development StudiesGH1 paper

Where they publish

Cities1
Urban Forum1

How it can be read

100% free to read

Hybrid 1 · 50%Open in a subscription journal
Green 1 · 50%A copy in a repository

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

11Sustainable cities and communities2

Most cited

City profile: Wa, Ghana
Cities11
201962 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Green
Spatial Justice and Inner-City Development in Secondary Cities of Ghana: Implications for New Urban Agenda in the Global South
Urban Forum11
20219 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid

, Architecture, Building and Planning

The University of Melbourne

MPhil. Geographic Information Systems, Department of Geomatic EngineeringKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2021–2023

BSc. Human Settlement Planning, Department of PlanningKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2005–2009

Honours, memberships and service

Corporate, Public SectorGhana Institute of Planningsince 2015