Josephine Dzahene-Quarshie

University of Ghana

Also at Open University of Tanzaniafrom their recent papers

Publishing since 2010, latest 2026

Linguistics and Language
Anthropology
Language and Linguistics
Literature and Literary Theory
Artificial Intelligence
Communication

Publications: 82010–2026
Citations: 87to those papers
h-index: 3i10-index 2
Field-weighted impact: 0.471.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 13%1 of 8 scored papers
Open access: 63%5 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

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Publications

8 in all

A linguistic landscape of advertising billboards in Ghana and Tanzania: Indigenous language visibility, status, and communicative functions
2026Legon Journal of the HumanitiesJournalOpen access0 citations10.4314/ljh.v37i1.1
Code-Mixing in Tanzanian Telecommunication Advertisements: A Matrix Language Frame Analysis of Kiswahili, Kiswahili cha Mtaani, and English
2026

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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

Linguistics and Language675%
Anthropology225%
Language and Linguistics225%
Literature and Literary Theory225%
Artificial Intelligence113%
Communication113%
Gender Studies113%
Human-Computer Interaction113%
Political Science and International Relations113%
Sociology and Political Science113%

Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Multilingual Education and Policy6
African history and culture studies2
Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity2
African history and culture analysis1
Digital Communication and Language1
Gender Studies in Language1
Global Maritime and Colonial Histories1
Lexicography and Language Studies1
Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition1
Linguistic Variation and Morphology1
Marriage and Sexual Relationships1
Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

38% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1111222Home

Most frequent partner countries

Tanzania2
Hong Kong SAR1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of Hong KongHK1 paper
Open University of TanzaniaTZ1 paper
University of Dar es SalaamTZ1 paper

Where they publish

Ghana Journal of Linguistics2
Legon Journal of the Humanities2
CONTEMPORARY JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY STUDIES1
Journal of Pragmatics1
Sociolinguistic Studies1

How it can be read

63% free to read

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

4Quality education5
5Gender equality1
11Sustainable cities and communities1

Most cited

A Kente of Many Colours: Multilingualism as a Complex Ecology of Language Shift in Ghana
Sociolinguistic Studies
201064 citations
Viewing gender through the eyes of proverbs: Reflections of gender ideology in the Akan and Swahili societies
Journal of Pragmatics5
202117 citationsWorld top 10%
TwiSwahili Or KiswaTwili: A Study of Parallel Proverbs in Akan (Twi) And Kiswahili
Ghana Journal of Linguistics4

CONTEMPORARY JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY STUDIES

Language Blending in Tanzanian Adverts: Codeswitching between Swahili, English, and Kiswahili cha Mtaani

2023Legon Journal of the HumanitiesJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding1 citation10.4314/ljh.v34i1.5s

TwiSwahili Or KiswaTwili: A Study of Parallel Proverbs in Akan (Twi) And Kiswahili

2017Ghana Journal of LinguisticsJournalOpen accessSenior author3 citations10.4314/gjl.v6i2.6

English loans in Swahili newspaper football language

2012Ghana Journal of LinguisticsJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.4314/gjl.v1i1.49

ENGLISH IN CONTACT WITH SWAHILI: ENRICHMENT OR THREAT?

2010JournalFirst authorCorresponding2 citations

Diamond 3 · 38%Free to read and to publish
Hybrid 1 · 13%Open in a subscription journal
Green 1 · 13%A copy in a repository
Closed 3 · 38%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

1 of 8 papers name a funder

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation1
University of Ghana1

20173 citationsOpen access · Diamond

ENGLISH IN CONTACT WITH SWAHILI: ENRICHMENT OR THREAT?

20102 citations

Language Blending in Tanzanian Adverts: Codeswitching between Swahili, English, and Kiswahili cha Mtaani

Legon Journal of the Humanities4

20231 citationOpen access · Diamond