Florian Carl

University of Cape Coast

Professor of Ethnomusicology, Folkwang Universität der Künste, since 2025per ORCID

Publishing since 2017, latest 2021

Music
Anthropology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Cultural Studies
Developmental and Educational Psychology

Publications: 52017–2021
Citations: 10to those papers
h-index: 1i10-index 0
Field-weighted impact: 0.161.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 0%0 of 5 scored papers
Open access: 40%2 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

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.

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Professor of Ethnomusicology, Fachbereich 2Folkwang Universität der Künstesince 2025
Vertretungsprofessor für Musikethnologie, Musikwissenschaftliches InstitutUniversität zu Köln2023–2025
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Department of Music and DanceUniversity of Cape Coast2009–2023

Publications

5 in all

System Design and Usability Evaluation of Ghana Music Documentation System Using the System Usability Scale
2021Lecture notes in computer sciencePublication1 citation10.1007/978-3-030-90235-3_22
Gospel Music in Africa
2021Oxford University Press eBooksBook chapterFirst authorCorresponding

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From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Music360%
Anthropology240%
Cognitive Neuroscience240%
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition120%
Cultural Studies120%
Developmental and Educational Psychology120%
Human-Computer Interaction120%
Literature and Literary Theory120%
Religious studies120%
Signal Processing120%

Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Anthropological Studies and Insights2
Diverse Music Education Insights2
Neuroscience and Music Perception2
Caribbean history, culture, and politics1
Diverse Musicological Studies1
Flow Experience in Various Fields1
Innovative Human-Technology Interaction1
Music and Audio Processing1
Music History and Culture1
Music Technology and Sound Studies1
Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies1
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

20% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1111111Home

Most frequent partner countries

Malaysia1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Universiti Teknologi PetronasMY1 paper

Where they publish

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)1
Ghana Studies1
Lecture notes in computer science1
Legon Journal of the Humanities1
Oxford University Press eBooks1

How it can be read

40% free to read

Diamond 1 · 20%Free to read and to publish
Green 1 · 20%A copy in a repository
Closed 3 · 60%Behind a paywall

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

8Decent work and economic growth1
9Industry, innovation and infrastructure1

Most cited

Music and Wellbeing in Everyday Life: An Exploratory Study of Music Experience in Ghana
Legon Journal of the Humanities
20179 citationsOpen access · Diamond
System Design and Usability Evaluation of Ghana Music Documentation System Using the System Usability Scale
Lecture notes in computer science9
20211 citation
Gospel Music in Africa
Oxford University Press eBooks8
20210 citations
“Worshipping in My Head”
Ghana Studies
20170 citations
Music and Wellbeing in Everyday Life: An Exploratory Study of Muscic Experience in Ghana
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
20170 citationsOpen access · Green

Music and Wellbeing in Everyday Life: An Exploratory Study of Music Experience in Ghana

2017Legon Journal of the HumanitiesJournalOpen accessFirst author9 citations10.4314/ljh.v27i2.3

“Worshipping in My Head”

2017Ghana StudiesJournalFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.3368/gs.20.1.45

Music and Wellbeing in Everyday Life: An Exploratory Study of Muscic Experience in Ghana

2017DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)JournalOpen accessFirst author0 citations10.4314/ljhv27i2.3