Harry Barton Essel
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
- Associate Professor, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, since 2024per ORCID
- Senior Lecturer, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, since 2019per ORCID
Publishing since 2010, latest 2026
Harry Barton Essel (PhD) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Educational Innovations in Science and Technology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He also services the Department of Publishing Studies and, Integrated Rural Art and Industry. He was born at Koforidua in the Eastern Region. He had his basic and Junior High School education at Seven Day Adventist Demonstration school (SDA) at Koforidua. He proceeded to Pope John Secondary School - now… More on ORCID
- Education
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Sociology and Political Science
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts
- Artificial Intelligence
In their own words
- Learning Analytics
- Educational Data Science and Engineering
- Computational Thinking
- Emerging
- Educational Technologist
- Publications
- 902010–2026
- Citations
- 1,663to those papers
- h-index
- 21i10-index 32
- Field-weighted impact
- 4.851.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 42%22 of 53 scored papers
- Open access
- 85%45 of the 53 whose access is recorded
39 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 2,735 citations, h-index 24 and i10-index 41 (2,357 citations and h-index 17 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
Positions
- Associate Professor, Educational Innovations in Science and TechnologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologysince 2024
- Senior Lecturer, Educational Innovations in Science and TechnologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologysince 2019
- Lecturer, Educational Innovations in Science and TechnologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2012–2019
Education
- Ph.D. Art Education, Educational Innovations in Science and TechnologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2006–2010
Publications
90 in all
- Undergraduate students’ perceptions of generative artificial intelligence as a predictor of learning autonomy in Ghana
2026Discover Artificial IntelligenceJournalOpen accessFirst author5 citations10.1007/s44163-025-00725-8
- Generative AI Competence and Student Engagement in Higher Education
2026Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education