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Mercy Akrofi Ansah · Peerford

University of Ghana / Scholars

MA

Mercy Akrofi Ansah

University of Ghana

Publishing since 2010, latest 2025

Mercy Akrofi Ansah had her Ph.d degree (Linguistics) from the University of Manchester, UK. She teaches and researches at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. Her area of interests include Grammar of less-studied languages; language use in multilingual contexts; Biographical studies. She has published extensively in local and international journals. She is a member of the following bodies: Linguistics Association of Ghana; West African Linguistics Society;… More on ORCID

Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language
General Health Professions
Anthropology
Clinical Psychology
Emergency Medicine

ORCID 0000-0003-3514-4306
Their record on OpenAlex

Publications: 132010–2025
Citations: 39to those papers
h-index: 3i10-index 1
Field-weighted impact: 0.421.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 8%1 of 13 scored papers
Open access: 62%8 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

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

SENIOR RESEARCHER/DR, INSTITUTE OF AFRICAN STUDIESUniversity of Ghana2000–2028

Education

SENIOR RESEARCHER/DR, INSTITUTE OF AFRICAN STUDIESUniversity of Ghanasince 2000
DR, LINGUISTICS AND ENGLISH LANGUAGEUniversity of Manchester2006–2009

Honours, memberships and service

RegularLinguistics Association of Ghanasince 2010

On their papers

Publications

13 in all

Newest Most cited Oldest Title

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The Quandary of Church Interpreters in Ghana: Conduit or Interventionist?
2025E-Journal of Humanities Arts and Social SciencesJournalOpen accessSenior author1 citation10.38159/ehass.2025667
Polar interrogatives in Lɛtɛ Discourse
2022Legon Journal of the HumanitiesJournal

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Language and Linguistics862%
Linguistics and Language862%
General Health Professions323%
Anthropology18%
Clinical Psychology18%
Emergency Medicine18%
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology18%
Gender Studies18%
Literature and Literary Theory18%
Political Science and International Relations18%

Health Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Linguistic Variation and Morphology7
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies6
Multilingual Education and Policy4
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation4
Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare3
Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography1
Australian Indigenous Culture and History1
Emergency and Acute Care Studies1
Gender Studies in Language1
Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis1
Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity1
Migration, Health and Trauma1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

0% of their papers have a co-author abroad

Most frequent partner countries

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Agogo Presbyterian Women's College of EducationGH1 paper
Presbyterian University, GhanaGH1 paper
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences GhanaGH1 paper

Where they publish

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)2
Ghana Journal of Linguistics2
Legon Journal of the Humanities2
Communication & Medicine1
E-Journal of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences1
Journal of African studies1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

4Quality education9

Most cited

Ghana language-in-education policy: The survival of two South Guan minority dialects
Per Linguam4
201518 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Language Choice in Multilingual Communities: The Case of Larteh, Ghana
Legon Journal of the Humanities4
20169 citationsOpen access · Diamond
Language barriers in healthcare delivery

University of Ghana

13 works

African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Ghana1 work

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Open access

First author

Corresponding

1 citation

10.4314/ljh.v32i2.2

Revitalizing minority languages using music: Three South-Guan languages of Ghana in focus

2022Research Journal in Advanced HumanitiesJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding1 citation10.58256/rjah.v3i1.815

Language barriers in healthcare delivery

2021Communication & MedicineJournalFirst author3 citations10.1558/cam.39671

A Grammatical Description of Leteh Nominal Morphology

2021Studies in African LinguisticsJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.32473/sal.v50i2.125661

Investigating language barriers in psychiatric care in Ghana

2020Journal of Communications In HealthcareJournalFirst authorCorresponding3 citations10.1080/17538068.2020.1813525

Reminiscing the Contribution of a Pioneer of The Development of The Twi Language: Clement Anderson Akrofi

2018Ghana Journal of LinguisticsJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding1 citation10.4314/gjl.v7i2.11

Language Choice in Multilingual Communities: The Case of Larteh, Ghana

2016Legon Journal of the HumanitiesJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding9 citations10.4314/ljh.v25i1.3

Ghana language-in-education policy: The survival of two South Guan minority dialects

2015Per LinguamJournalOpen accessFirst author18 citations10.5785/31-1-592

Information Packaging – Focus Marking and Focus Constructions in Leteh (Larteh)

2014DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)JournalFirst authorCorresponding1 citation10.53228/njas.v23i3.143

Complement Clause Formation In Leteh

2014Journal of African studiesJournalFirst authorCorresponding0 citations

Action nominalization in lɛtɛ

2012Ghana Journal of LinguisticsJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.4314/gjl.v1i1.47

Focused Constituent Interrogatives in Lɛtɛ (Larteh)

2010DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)JournalFirst authorCorresponding1 citation10.53228/njas.v19i2.205

Journal of Communications In Healthcare

1

Per Linguam1

How it can be read

62% free to read

Diamond 5 · 38%Free to read and to publish
Gold 2 · 15%In an open-access journal
Green 1 · 8%A copy in a repository
Closed 5 · 38%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

1 of 13 papers name a funder

Ghana Education Trust Fund1

Communication & Medicine4

20213 citations

Investigating language barriers in psychiatric care in Ghana

Journal of Communications In Healthcare4

20203 citations

The Quandary of Church Interpreters in Ghana: Conduit or Interventionist?

E-Journal of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences

20251 citationOpen access · Gold