Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Research Fellow, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, since 2022per ORCID

Publishing since 2016, latest 2026

Urban Studies
Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Anthropology
Cultural Studies
Gender Studies
Literature and Literary Theory

In their own words

African Studies
African fashion
Creative Industry
Gender Studies

Publications: 152016–2026
Citations: 62to those papers
h-index: 5i10-index 2
Field-weighted impact: 2.681.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 40%2 of 5 scored papers
Open access: 40%2 of the 5 whose access is recorded

3 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.

Google Scholar shows 74 citations, h-index 5 and i10-index 4 (71 citations and h-index 5 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

Citations received each year

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Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Research Fellow, Centre for Cultural and African StudiesKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologysince 2022
Post-doctoral, SociologyUniversity of Ghana2019–2022

Education

PhD in Sociology, SociologyUniversity of Basel2016–2020

On their papers

Publications

15 in all

Media, Culture and Decolonisation: Re-Righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana
2026The Journal of Development StudiesJournalFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1080/00220388.2026.2677342
Creative labour in Ghana: Sectoral, relational and spatial variations in the precarious lives of creative artists
2026Cultural and Creative Industries in Ghana

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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

Urban Studies427%
Visual Arts and Performing Arts320%
Anthropology17%
Cultural Studies17%
Gender Studies17%
Literature and Literary Theory17%
Museology17%
Sociology and Political Science17%

Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Cultural Industries and Urban Development4
African history and culture studies1
Art Education and Development1
Art, Politics, and Modernism1
Artistic and Creative Research1
Caribbean history, culture, and politics1
Crafts, Textile, and Design1
Media, Gender, and Advertising1
Migration and Labor Dynamics1
Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy1
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

60% of their 5 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1122223Home

Most frequent partner countries

United Kingdom3
Denmark1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Loughborough UniversityGB3 papers
Kwame Nkrumah UniversityZM3 papers
University of GhanaGH3 papers
Copenhagen Business SchoolDK1 paper
University of AberdeenGB1 paper

Where they publish

African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review1
Cultural and Creative Industries in Ghana1
Cultural Trends1
Dismantling Gender Barriers in STEM1
Fashion Practice1
Fashion Theory1
Geoforum

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

10Reduced inequalities2
8Decent work and economic growth1

Most cited

Promoting gender equality in the cocoa-chocolate value chain: Opportunities and challenges in Ghana
Global Development Institute Working Paper Series
201626 citations
Career geographies in the Ghanaian fashion industry: from brain drain to brain gain and brain circulation
Globalisation
202510 citations
Customized prèt-a-Porter: West Africa’s answer to the quest for sustainable fashion
Fashion Practice
20248 citations
‘This place becomes a place’: Artists and placemaking on the margins

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Positionality of Female Visual Artists in the Ghana

2025Revista Brasileira de Sociologia - RBSJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.20336/rbs.1006

The Mama in the Garage: The Positionality of Female Artistes in the Creative Industry in West Africa.

2023XX ISA World Congress of Sociology (June 25-July 1, 2023)JournalFirst author0 citations

Rebranding Africa, Reclothing Africa: The Role of Emerging Designers in the Production of Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Lagos

2022Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät der Universität BaselThesisFirst author1 citation

Looking Good is Good Business”: The Social Milieu of Fashion in Lagos, Nigeria.”

2020Global Journal of Human-Social ScienceJournalFirst author4 citations

Promoting gender equality in the cocoa-chocolate value chain: Opportunities and challenges in Ghana

2016Global Development Institute Working Paper SeriesReportSenior author26 citations

Global Development Institute Working Paper Series1

How it can be read

40% free to read, of the 5 recorded

Diamond 1 · 7%Free to read and to publish
Hybrid 1 · 7%Open in a subscription journal
Closed 3 · 20%Behind a paywall
Unknown 10 · 67%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

3 of 15 papers name a funder

Udenrigsministeriet2
Danish International Development Agency1

20245 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid