Eric Opoku Mensah

University of Media, Arts and Communication

Publishing since 1960, latest 2025

Sociology and Political Science
Literature and Literary Theory
Communication
Information Systems
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Philosophy

In their own words

rhetoric
political communication
media and rhetoric

Publications: 331960–2025
Citations: 150to those papers
h-index: 7i10-index 3
Field-weighted impact: 1.261.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 15%3 of 20 scored papers
Open access: 80%16 of the 20 whose access is recorded

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

Google Scholar shows 216 citations, h-index 9 and i10-index 9 (163 citations and h-index 8 since 2021), as of October 3, 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

33 in all

“Tilapia Da Conceptual Blender”: A Cognitive Linguistics Approach to Ghanaian Political Cartoons
2025Journal of Communications Media And Society (JOCMAS)JournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.63772/jocmas.v10n1.3
Unveiling the social media landscape: exploring factors influencing usage patterns among tertiary education students in Ghana
2024

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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

Sociology and Political Science721%
Literature and Literary Theory515%
Communication412%
Information Systems412%
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology26%
Philosophy26%
Anthropology13%
Business and International Management13%
Demography13%
Development13%

Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Discourse Analysis in Language Studies4
Media Studies and Communication4
Economic Growth and Development3
Media Influence and Politics3
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition2
Rhetoric and Communication Studies2
Social Media and Politics2
South African History and Culture2
African history and culture studies1
African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues1
African studies and sociopolitical issues1
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

45% of their 20 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1122334Home

Most frequent partner countries

United States4
Botswana4
China1
Zambia1
Sweden1
South Africa1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of Cape CoastGH11 papers
UniMAC-GIJGH8 papers
University of BotswanaBW4 papers
African University College of CommunicationsGH2 papers
Beijing Municipal Education CommissionCN1 paper
Drake UniversityUS1 paper
Michigan Technological UniversityUS1 paper
Mid Sweden UniversitySE1 paper
University of Maryland, College ParkUS1 paper
University of New MexicoUS1 paper

Where they publish

African Yearbook of Rhetoric4
Journal of Communications Media And Society (JOCMAS)2
Lagos Notes and Records2
African Journal of Empirical Research1
African journal of rhetoric1
African Nebula1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

16Peace, justice and strong institutions4
4Quality education3
2Zero hunger2
17Partnerships for the goals2
5Gender equality1

Most cited

Examining the level of public awareness on the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa: An empirical evidence from Ghana
Environment Development and Sustainability2
202335 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Bronze
The rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah: analysis of his political speeches
University of Cape Town
201424 citations
Pan Africanism and civil religious performance: Kwame Nkrumah and the independence of Ghana

Education and Information Technologies

Information for Development: Unveiling the Views of Ghanaians on Community Information Centers as Mass Communication Tools

2024African Journal of Empirical ResearchJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding2 citations10.51867/ajernet.5.3.73

Radio and Sustainable Food Production in Ghana: Citi Fm’s Local Rice Campaign in Perspective

2023Environmental Technology and Science JournalJournalOpen accessFirst author1 citation10.4314/etsj.v13i2.9

Frequency and Adequacy of Media Information on the Sustainable Development Goals: A Ghanaian Case Study

2023EAST AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCESJournalOpen accessFirst author2 citations10.46606/eajess2023v04i04.0306

Political Communication in an Emerging Democracy: A Framing Analysis of President Akufo-Addo’s 2021 Inaugural Address

2023Journal of Communications Media And Society (JOCMAS)JournalOpen accessFirst author0 citations10.63772/jocmas.v9n1.3

Decolonization of indigenous language media practice in Ghana: Myth or reality?

2022Arụmarụka Journal of Conversational ThinkingJournalOpen accessFirst author0 citations10.4314/ajct.v2i1.5

Perception of public relations practice among selected Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in Ghana

2021Communicare: Journal of Communication StudiesJournalSenior author1 citation

In response to the “wind of change”: the statecraft of Kwame Nkrumah

2020African Yearbook of RhetoricJournalFirst author0 citations

Articulations of feminine voices in Ghana’s parliament: a study of the Hansard from 2010-2011

2018AFRREV LALIGENS An International Journal of Language Literature and Gender StudiesJournalOpen accessFirst author3 citations10.4314/laligens.v7i2.6

The global imperialism project: lessons from television, movies and radio

2018African Research ReviewJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding2 citations10.4314/afrrev.v12i4.1

Pan Africanism and civil religious performance: Kwame Nkrumah and the independence of Ghana

2016The Journal of Pan-African StudiesJournalFirst author11 citations

Global media and the end of the nation-state: myth or reality?

2014African NebulaJournalSenior author1 citation

The rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah: analysis of his political speeches

2014University of Cape TownThesisFirst author24 citations

In response to the "Wind of change" : the statecraft of Kwame Nkrumah

2013African Yearbook of RhetoricJournalFirst authorCorresponding0 citations

The Yutong Bus: Representations of a New Ghanaian Political Metaphor

2012Theory and Practice in Language StudiesJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding8 citations10.4304/tpls.2.1.118-125

Centre for Rhetoric Studies, University of Cape Town South Africa

2011Entangled in the Web of the Past: Evidence from Our Birth and Naming, Celebration of Anniversaries and Memories of the Past…………………………………………………………………………………………. 175 CHAPTER 12: The rhetoric of medical migration in Africa: mitigating the phenomenon within a complex matrix of citizens’ rightsJournalFirst author0 citations

The Constraint of a Rhetorical Invention: Kwame Nkrumah and the Organization of African Unity

1960Lagos Notes and RecordsJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding2 citations

African Research Review

AFRREV LALIGENS An International Journal of Language Literature and Gender Studies1

How it can be read

80% free to read, of the 20 recorded

Diamond 5 · 15%Free to read and to publish
Gold 4 · 12%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 4 · 12%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 2 · 6%Free to read, no open licence
Green 1 · 3%A copy in a repository
Closed 4 · 12%Behind a paywall
Unknown 13 · 39%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

3 of 33 papers name a funder

Australian Agency for International Development1
International Development Research Centre1
International Fund for Agricultural Development1
Strong1
United States Agency for International Development1
University of Botswana1
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign1
Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej1

The Journal of Pan-African Studies

Donor Aid and Private Investment: Their Interplay With Media Development

SAGE Open17

20209 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold