Richard Kodzo Avuglah

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Associate Professor, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, since 2025per ORCID

Publishing since 2011, latest 2026

Finance
Statistics and Probability
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Global and Planetary Change
Strategy and Management
Aerospace Engineering

In their own words

Statistical Modelling
Financial Modelling
Design and Analysis of Experiments
AR
MA
ARMA and ARIMA models
power curve model
Stochastic Differential Equation Modeling
Grid stability
Optimal and Efficient designs

Publications: 212011–2026
Citations: 150to those papers
h-index: 6i10-index 4
Field-weighted impact: 1.411.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 14%2 of 14 scored papers
Open access: 86%12 of the 14 whose access is recorded

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

Google Scholar shows 204 citations, h-index 7 and i10-index 4 (151 citations and h-index 5 since 2021), as of October 10, 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

Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial ScienceKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologysince 2025
Senior Lecturer, Department of Statistics and Actuarial ScienceKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2015–2025
Research AssistantFraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics2007–2011
Lecturer, Department of MathematicsKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2006–2015
Mathematics Teacher

Publications

21 in all

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Citations received each year

PeerfordGoogle Scholar

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

Finance314%
Statistics and Probability314%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics210%
Global and Planetary Change210%
Strategy and Management210%
Aerospace Engineering15%
Animal Science and Zoology15%
Business and International Management15%
Computer Networks and Communications15%
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition15%

Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling3
Agriculture and Rural Development Research2
Hydrology and Drought Analysis2
Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications2
Advanced Statistical Methods and Models1
Coffee research and impacts1
COVID-19 epidemiological studies1
Distributed Sensor Networks and Detection Algorithms1
Economic Growth and Development1
Energy and Environment Impacts1
Energy Load and Power Forecasting1
FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

7% of their 14 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1111111Home

Most frequent partner countries

United States1
United Arab Emirates1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Kumasi Technical UniversityGH4 papers
Ghana Communication Technology UniversityGH2 papers
Ministry of Food and AgricultureGH2 papers
Council for Scientific and Industrial ResearchGH2 papers
Heriot-Watt University DubaiAE1 paper
Howard UniversityUS1 paper
Dominion University CollegeGH1 paper
University of Cape CoastGH1 paper
Cape Coast Technical UniversityGH1 paper
Forestry Research Institute of GhanaGH1 paper

Where they publish

International Journal of Statistics and Applications2
Journal of Probability and Statistics2
Scientific African2
Academia green energy.1
Advances in IT standards and standardization research (AISSR) book series/Advances in IT standards and standardization research series1
Energies1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

1No poverty2
2Zero hunger1
3Good health and well-being1

Most cited

Application of ARIMA models to road traffic accident cases in Ghana
International journal of statistics and applications
201456 citations
Modeling annual Coffee production in Ghana using ARIMA time series Model
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics2
201220 citationsOpen access · Green
A Mixture of Clayton, Gumbel, and Frank Copulas: A Complete Dependence Model
Journal of Probability and Statistics

Blessed Training Centre, South Wimbledon

Mathematics TeacherSt. John’s Grammar Senior High School, Achimota1999–2001

TeacherSt. Lawrence Preparatory/Junior High School, North Kaneshie1993–1995

National Service PersonNational Council on Women and Development (NCWD)1992–1993

Education

PhD Applied Mathematical Statistics, Department of MathematicsRheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau2007–2011
MSc Financial Mathematics, Department of MathematicsRheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau2001–2003
BSc Mathematics, Department of MathematicsUniversity of Cape Coast1995–1999
GCE O' and A' LevelBishop Herman College1985–1992
Common Entrance ExaminationsHarrow International Preparatory School, Abeka1979–1985

Honours, memberships and service

International Biometric Society
Ghana Statistical Association

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Academia green energy.

Predicting malaria outbreaks in children under five: insights from Ghana

2025Journal of Health Informatics in AfricaJournal1 citation

Quantum Leap and Uptake for Technological Advances in Africa in the Era of the COVID-19 Crisis

2024Advances in IT standards and standardization research (AISSR) book series/Advances in IT standards and standardization research seriesBook chapter6 citations10.4018/978-1-6684-9962-7.ch013

Simulation Study of Estimators of the Gamma Rate Parameter Using MLE as a Baseline Estimator

2024Journal of the Indian Society for Probability and StatisticsJournalSenior author0 citations10.1007/s41096-024-00182-z

Determinants of Length of Stay of Snakebite Victims in a Hospital. Statistical Modeling Approach

2023European Journal of Theoretical and Applied SciencesJournalOpen access0 citations10.59324/ejtas.2023.1(5).124

A Mixture of Clayton, Gumbel, and Frank Copulas: A Complete Dependence Model

2022Journal of Probability and StatisticsJournalOpen access14 citations10.1155/2022/1422394

Hybrid Clayton-Frank Convolution-Based Bivariate Archimedean Copula

2018Journal of Probability and StatisticsJournalOpen access2 citations10.1155/2018/5902839

On a Hybrid Clayton-Gumbel and Gumbel-Frank Bivariate Copulas with Application to Stock Indices

2018Journal of Advances in Mathematics and Computer ScienceJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.9734/jamcs/2019/45668

Recognition of face images under varying head-poses using fft-pca/svd algorithm

2018Far East Journal of Mathematical Sciences (FJMS)JournalFirst author2 citations

On two random variables and archimedean copulas

2017International Journal of Statistics and ApplicationsJournal7 citations

Time Series Behavior of the Volume of Wood Products Export in Ghana

2014International Journal of Statistics and ProbabilityJournalOpen access3 citations10.5539/ijsp.v3n4p12

Application of ARIMA models to road traffic accident cases in Ghana

2014International journal of statistics and applicationsJournalFirst author56 citations

Modeling road traffic fatality cases in Ghana

2014Mathematical Theory and ModellingJournal7 citations

Modeling annual Coffee production in Ghana using ARIMA time series Model

2012RePEc: Research Papers in EconomicsJournalOpen accessSenior author20 citations10.18533/ijbsr.v2i7.129

Some Steps towards Experimental Design for Neural Network Regression

2011Universitätsbibliothek KaiserslauternThesisFirst author1 citation

European Journal of Theoretical and Applied Sciences1

Far East Journal of Mathematical Sciences (FJMS)1

How it can be read

86% free to read, of the 14 recorded

Diamond 4 · 19%Free to read and to publish
Gold 6 · 29%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 1 · 5%Open in a subscription journal
Green 1 · 5%A copy in a repository
Closed 2 · 10%Behind a paywall
Unknown 7 · 33%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

1 of 21 papers name a funder

Udenrigsministeriet1

Status, challenges and prospects of food processing equipment fabricators in Ghana

Scientific African

202111 citationsOpen access · Gold

On two random variables and archimedean copulas

International Journal of Statistics and Applications

20177 citations