Wilberforce S. Dzisah

Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration

Publishing since 2012, latest 2025

Communication
Sociology and Political Science
Gender Studies
Political Science and International Relations
Literature and Literary Theory
Safety Research

Publications: 142012–2025
Citations: 86to those papers
h-index: 4i10-index 2
Field-weighted impact: 1.771.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 14%2 of 14 scored papers
Open access: 64%9 papers free to read

1 other work — a preprint, a dataset or the like — is listed but not counted.

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

14 in all

Right to Information Passage in Ghana: Perspectives of Journalists and Information Officers
2025E-Journal of Humanities Arts and Social SciencesJournalOpen access0 citations10.38159/ehass.202561224
Social media, socialization and discursive politics
2024Journal of African Media StudiesJournal

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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

Communication1179%
Sociology and Political Science750%
Gender Studies214%
Political Science and International Relations214%
Literature and Literary Theory17%
Safety Research17%
Urban Studies17%
Waste Management and Disposal17%

Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Media Studies and Communication10
Social Media and Politics7
Media Influence and Politics4
E-Government and Public Services2
Gender, Feminism, and Media2
Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media2
African studies and sociopolitical issues1
Corruption and Economic Development1
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies1
Human Rights and Development1
Municipal Solid Waste Management1
Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare1

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

UniMAC-GIJGH4 papers
University of Media, Arts and CommunicationGH3 papers
Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development StudiesGH3 papers
University for Development StudiesGH2 papers
University of GhanaGH1 paper

Where they publish

Journal of Communications Media And Society (JOCMAS)3
Journal of Policy and Development Studies2
African Journalism Studies1
Cogent Social Sciences1
E-Journal of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences1
Ghana Journal of Development Studies1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

16Peace, justice and strong institutions3
10Reduced inequalities2
1No poverty1

Most cited

Social Media and Elections in Ghana: Enhancing Democratic Participation
African Journalism Studies10
201851 citationsWorld top 10%
Social Media and Participation in Ghana’s 2016 Elections
10
202013 citationsWorld top 10%
Community radio as a platform for development communication in Ghana

Media Business Ownership and Control in Ghana’s democracy

2024Journal of Policy and Development StudiesJournalOpen accessFirst author1 citation10.4314/jpds.v17i1.8

Community radio as a platform for development communication in Ghana

2023Cogent Social SciencesJournalOpen accessSenior author7 citations10.1080/23311886.2023.2269681

Public Policymaking in the Age of New Media

2023International series on public policyBook chapterFirst authorCorresponding1 citation10.1007/978-3-031-33005-6_13

Stakeholders and community radio: Promoting participatory governance in Ghana

2022Legon Journal of the HumanitiesJournalOpen accessSenior author6 citations10.4314/ljh.v32i2.6

Relevance of Communication Strategies and Funding Orphanages in Ghana

2019Ghana Journal of Development StudiesJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding4 citations10.4314/gjds.v16i3.5

Social Media and Elections in Ghana: Enhancing Democratic Participation

2018African Journalism StudiesJournalFirst authorCorresponding51 citations10.1080/23743670.2018.1452774

Media Representation and the Ghanaian Youth

2017Journal of Communications Media And Society (JOCMAS)JournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding1 citation10.63772/jocmas.v4n1.4

The Print Media Coverage of Ghana’s Legislature

2016Journal of Communications Media And Society (JOCMAS)JournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.63772/jocmas.v3n1.1

Theoretical Transformations: Tradition, Postmodernism and Participation

2012Journal of Communications Media And Society (JOCMAS)JournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.63772/jocmas.v2n1.1

International series on public policy1

Journal of African Media Studies1

How it can be read

64% free to read

Diamond 4 · 29%Free to read and to publish
Gold 2 · 14%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 3 · 21%Open in a subscription journal
Closed 5 · 36%Behind a paywall

Cogent Social Sciences

20237 citationsOpen access · Gold

Stakeholders and community radio: Promoting participatory governance in Ghana

Legon Journal of the Humanities1

20226 citationsOpen access · Diamond

Relevance of Communication Strategies and Funding Orphanages in Ghana

Ghana Journal of Development Studies

20194 citationsOpen access · Diamond