Deborah Darko

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

Research Scientist, Water Research Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, since 2011per ORCID

Publishing since 2013, latest 2023

Deborah Darko is a Senior Research Scientist at the CSIR–Water Research Institute, Ghana. She has over 10 years of research experience in the field of applied hydrology, specifically water resource assessments and simulations, water resources planning and management, including integrated modelling of the impacts of climate and environmental change on water resource/systems for sustainable water resources management. Her research interest lies in exploring holistic… More on ORCID

Global and Planetary Change
Water Science and Technology
Atmospheric Science
Ocean Engineering
Pollution
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Publications: 102013–2023
Citations: 196to those papers
h-index: 9i10-index 9
Field-weighted impact: 1.781.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 20%2 of 10 scored papers
Open access: 30%3 papers free to read

4 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are 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

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Research ScientistWater Research Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Researchsince 2011
Research AssistantSUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry2009–2010
Graduate AssistantSUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry2008–2009
Teaching & Research AssistantKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2007–2008

Education

PhD- Civil Engineering (Water Resources Engineering)Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2014–2018

Publications

10 in all

A multicriteria decision framework for governance of PPP projects towards sustainable development
2023Socio-Economic Planning SciencesJournalOpen accessFirst author29 citations10.1016/j.seps.2023.101580
Governing the nexus: Water-energy-food nexus governance strategies in Ghana and Uganda
2023Environmental Development

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Citations received each year

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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

Global and Planetary Change550%
Water Science and Technology440%
Atmospheric Science330%
Ocean Engineering220%
Pollution220%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics110%
Environmental Chemistry110%
Environmental Engineering110%
Geochemistry and Petrology110%
Management Science and Operations Research110%

Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Climate variability and models4
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations3
Energy and Environment Impacts2
Hydrology and Drought Analysis2
Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies2
Water resources management and optimization2
Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies2
Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics1
Climate change impacts on agriculture1
Construction Project Management and Performance1
Flood Risk Assessment and Management1
Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

70% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

South Africa3
Denmark2
United States2
United Kingdom2
Kenya1
China1
Nigeria1
Norway1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGH5 papers
Aarhus UniversityDK2 papers
Council for Scientific and Industrial ResearchZA2 papers
Chengdu UniversityCN1 paper
Newcastle UniversityGB1 paper
Princeton UniversityUS1 paper
Scripps Institution of OceanographyUS1 paper
Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityCN1 paper
Texas A&M UniversityUS1 paper
University of BergenNO1 paper

Where they publish

Elsevier eBooks1
Energy Sustainable Development/Energy for sustainable development1
Environmental Development1
Environmental Processes1
Journal of Great Lakes Research1
Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

6Clean water and sanitation3
13Climate action2
7Affordable and clean energy1
14Life below water1
17Partnerships for the goals1

Most cited

Variability and changes in hydrological drought in the Volta Basin, West Africa
Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies6
202233 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
A multicriteria decision framework for governance of PPP projects towards sustainable development
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences17
202329 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid

MSc - Environmental Resources EngineeringSUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

BSc (Hons.), Civil EngineeringKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2003–2007

Honours, memberships and service

Ghana Institution of Engineers

Implications of large hydro dams for decarbonising Ghana's energy consistent with Paris climate objectives

2022Energy Sustainable Development/Energy for sustainable developmentJournalOpen access29 citations10.1016/j.esd.2022.10.011

Variability and changes in hydrological drought in the Volta Basin, West Africa

2022Journal of Hydrology Regional StudiesJournalOpen access33 citations10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101143

Modeling the impacts of climate change on the thermal and oxygen dynamics of Lake Volta

2018Journal of Great Lakes ResearchJournalFirst authorCorresponding23 citations10.1016/j.jglr.2018.11.010

Recent climate trends for the Volta Basin in West Africa

2018WeatherJournalFirst authorCorresponding11 citations10.1002/wea.3303

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Theoretical and Applied Climatology1

How it can be read

30% free to read

Gold 1 · 10%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 2 · 20%Open in a subscription journal
Closed 7 · 70%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

7 of 10 papers name a funder

Danida Fellowship Centre2
Danish International Development Agency2
Economic and Social Research Council1
Global Challenges Research Fund1
Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of Tasmania1
National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences1
Natural Environment Research Council1
Sight Research UK1

Implications of large hydro dams for decarbonising Ghana's energy consistent with Paris climate objectives

Energy Sustainable Development/Energy for sustainable development7

202229 citationsOpen access · Hybrid