Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe

Director, University of Ghana, since 2004per ORCID

Publishing since 2003, latest 2026

Sociology and Political Science
Global and Planetary Change
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
General Health Professions
Soil Science
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

In their own words

population
climate change
environment
fertility

Publications: 1352003–2026
Citations: 3,480to those papers
h-index: 32i10-index 67
Field-weighted impact: 5.381.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 55%46 of 84 scored papers
Open access: 62%52 of the 84 whose access is recorded

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

Google Scholar shows 5,203 citations, h-index 40 and i10-index 75 (3,558 citations and h-index 33 since 2021), as of October 12, 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

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Director, Regional Institute for Population StudiesUniversity of Ghanasince 2004

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Publications

135 in all

Sustainable Deltas in the Anthropocene
2019Book chapterOpen accessSenior author17 citations10.1007/978-3-030-23517-8_11
Comparative analysis of the socio-economic characteristics of Delta and Non-Delta spaces of Ghana: An input-output approach
2019African Review of Economics and FinanceJournal

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Sociology and Political Science4030%
Global and Planetary Change1914%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics1511%
General Health Professions1410%
Soil Science118%
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis75%
Nutrition and Dietetics75%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health75%
Urban Studies75%
Economics and Econometrics64%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration24
Climate change impacts on agriculture14
Flood Risk Assessment and Management12
Disaster Management and Resilience11
Migration and Labor Dynamics11
Agricultural risk and resilience10
Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations7
Urban and Rural Development Challenges7
Child Nutrition and Water Access6
Climate Change and Health Impacts6
Global Maternal and Child Health6
Agricultural Innovations and Practices5

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

56% of their 84 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

United Kingdom28
United States17
Bangladesh7
Belgium6
Netherlands6
Sweden6
Germany4
India4

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of ExeterGB13 papers
University of LiègeBE6 papers
University of DhakaBD6 papers
University for Development StudiesGH6 papers
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGH6 papers
Lund UniversitySE5 papers
University of AmsterdamNL5 papers
University of YorkGB5 papers
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUS5 papers
Jadavpur UniversityIN4 papers

Where they publish

2017 International Population Conference4
PLoS ONE4
Environmental Research Letters3
Population and Environment3
Population Studies: Key Issues and Contemporary Trends in Ghana3
Regional Environmental Change3

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

13Climate action20
11Sustainable cities and communities9
1No poverty7
2Zero hunger7
14Life below water4
3Good health and well-being3
5Gender equality2
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Most cited

Adaptation opportunities and maladaptive outcomes in climate vulnerability hotspots of northern Ghana
Climate Risk Management13
2017223 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Floods in the Sahel: an analysis of anomalies, memory, and anticipatory learning
Climatic Change13
2010206 citationsWorld top 10%

SELECTING CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS: A CASE STUDY OF AN URBAN COASTAL COMMUNITY IN ACCRA, GHANA

2019Climate Change in Ghana: The Human DimensionJournalSenior author0 citations

Experience and Future Perceived Risk of Floods and Diarrheal Disease in Urban Poor Communities in Accra, Ghana

2018International Journal of Environmental Research and Public HealthJournalOpen accessSenior author51 citations10.3390/ijerph15122830

Food access and subjective welfare in a developing country

2018Journal of Behavioral and Experimental EconomicsJournalOpen accessSenior author7 citations10.1016/j.socec.2018.01.002

Biophysical and socioeconomic state of the Volta Delta region of Ghana from the perspectives of gender and spatial relations

2018Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation; Working Paper; DECCMA: Southampton, UKJournalSenior author4 citations

Perceived vulnerability to flooding among urban poor dwellers in Accra.

2018Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies & ManagementJournal2 citations

Migration patterns in major deltas of the world: Evidence from census data

20172017 International Population ConferenceJournalSenior author0 citations

Women in Agriculture, Migration and Dietary Diversity in Four Agro-Ecological Zones in Ghana

2017Internal Union for the Scientific Study of Populations (IUSSP) Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 2017Conference0 citations

Place attachment: a critical link between vulnerability to environmental change and (im) mobility in the Volta Delta of Ghana

2017A paper produced for the 2017 International Population ConferenceJournalSenior author4 citations

UAPS Members Meeting Organized by: Union for African Population Studies (UAPS)

20172017 International Population ConferenceConferenceFirst author0 citations

Will the use of ICT in censuses increase value on research?

20172017 International Population ConferenceJournalFirst author0 citations

Do Deltas Remain Attractive? Testing the Migration to Coast Hypothesis

2017Climate Change Vulnerability and MigrationJournalSenior author2 citations

Urban Household Characteristics and Dietary Diversity

2016Food and Nutrition BulletinJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding85 citations10.1177/0379572116631882

Exploring the link between fisher folks' experiential knowledge and climate variability in an urban coastal community In Accra

2016Indilinga African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge SystemsJournalSenior author0 citations

2015International Development Research Centre Centre de recherches pour le …Report0 citations

Coastal vulnerability and migration in Ghana

2015University of GhanaReportSenior author0 citations

WIDER Working Paper 2015/030 Does food insecurity impact subjective evaluation of well-being? Evidence from a developing country

2015< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization: United …ReportSenior author0 citations

Climate Change and Cerebrospinal Meningitis in the Ghanaian Meningitis Belt

2014International Journal of Environmental Research and Public HealthJournalOpen accessFirst author46 citations10.3390/ijerph110706923

Population, Water, Sanitation And Health7

2014Population Studies: Key Issues and Contemporary Trends in GhanaJournal3 citations

Socio-Demographic and Economic Correlates of Household Source of Drinking Water in Ghana, 1993–

2014Population Studies: Key Issues and Contemporary Trends in GhanaJournalFirst author0 citations

Development practice and the production of the Ghanaian urban system

2014Population Studies: Key Issues and Contemporary Trends in GhanaJournalFirst author1 citation

African Population Studies2

How it can be read

62% free to read, of the 84 recorded

Diamond 2 · 1%Free to read and to publish
Gold 34 · 25%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 9 · 7%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 4 · 3%Free to read, no open licence
Green 3 · 2%A copy in a repository
Closed 32 · 24%Behind a paywall
Unknown 51 · 38%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

43 of 135 papers name a funder

International Development Research Centre18
Economic and Social Research Council9
University of Ghana8
Department for International Development6
European Commission6
British Academy4
University of Southampton3
Department for International Development, UK Government2

Reduced inequalities

2015194 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold

Climate change/variability and food systems: evidence from the Afram Plains, Ghana

Regional Environmental Change213

2011132 citationsWorld top 10%