Nicholas A Darkwa

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Publishing since 2011, latest 2014

Biomedical Engineering
Building and Construction
Mechanics of Materials
Spectroscopy
Agronomy and Crop Science
Analytical Chemistry

Their record on OpenAlex

Publications: 82011–2014
Citations: 264to those papers
h-index: 5i10-index 5
Field-weighted impact: 1.011.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 13%1 of 8 scored papers
Open access: 38%3 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

Publications

8 in all

Evaluation of Fuel Properties of Six Tropical Hardwood Timber Species for Briquettes
2014Journal of Sustainable Bioenergy SystemsJournalOpen accessSenior author71 citations10.4236/jsbs.2014.41001
Relationship between Physico-Mechanical Properties, Compacting Pressure and Mixing Proportion of Briquettes Produced from Maize Cobs and Sawdust

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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

Biomedical Engineering8100%
Building and Construction450%
Mechanics of Materials338%
Spectroscopy225%
Agronomy and Crop Science113%
Analytical Chemistry113%
Computational Mechanics113%
Polymers and Plastics113%

Life Sciences
Physical Sciences

Topics most written on

Lignin and Wood Chemistry5
Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes5
Wood Treatment and Properties4
Forest Biomass Utilization and Management3
Adsorption, diffusion, and thermodynamic properties of materials2
Bioenergy crop production and management1
Granular flow and fluidized beds1
Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites1
Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

13% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

Iran1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Forestry Research Institute of GhanaGH4 papers
University of Education, WinnebaGH3 papers
Islamic Azad University South Tehran BranchIR1 paper
Islamic Azad University, TehranIR1 paper
K. N. Toosi University of TechnologyIR1 paper

Where they publish

International journal of energy and environmental engineering2
Journal of Emerging Trends in Engineering and Applied Sciences2
Journal of Sustainable Bioenergy Systems2
Chemical Product and Process Modeling1
International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering1

How it can be read

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

2Zero hunger2
15Life on land2
6Clean water and sanitation1
12Responsible consumption and production1

Most cited

Effect of species, particle size and compacting pressure on relaxed density and compressive strength of fuel briquettes
International journal of energy and environmental engineering12
2013110 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid
Evaluation of Fuel Properties of Six Tropical Hardwood Timber Species for Briquettes
Journal of Sustainable Bioenergy Systems15
201471 citationsOpen access · Diamond

Journal of Sustainable Bioenergy Systems

Effect of species, particle size and compacting pressure on relaxed density and compressive strength of fuel briquettes

2013International journal of energy and environmental engineeringJournalOpen accessSenior author110 citations10.1186/2251-6832-4-30

Modeling and Optimization of Polyphenol Extraction for Tannin-Formaldehyde Resin Synthesis

2011International Journal of Chemical Reactor EngineeringJournal4 citations10.2202/1542-6580.2765

Optimization of process parameters using response surface methodology for the extraction of formaldehyde-condensable phenolics from pine bark

2011Journal of Emerging Trends in Engineering and Applied SciencesJournalSenior author4 citations

Application of near infrared spectroscopy in chemometric modeling of tannin content and stiasny number of Pinus caribaea bark

2011Journal of Emerging Trends in Engineering and Applied SciencesJournalSenior author0 citations

Diamond 2 · 25%Free to read and to publish
Hybrid 1 · 13%Open in a subscription journal
Closed 5 · 63%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

2 of 8 papers name a funder

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2