Dilys S. MacCarthy
- Associate Professor, University of Ghana, since 2007per ORCID
Publishing since 2005, latest 2026
Dilys Sefakor MacCarthy (PhD) is an Associate Professor with Soil and Irrigation Research Centre, of the University of Ghana. She joined the University of Ghana as a Research Fellow in the year 2007. Prior to that she was a post-doctoral fellow at the United Nations University, Accra. She obtained her bachelor degree (with honours) in Natural Resources Management at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, in 1999. She was awarded a Masters degree… More on ORCID
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
- Soil Science
- Plant Science
- Agronomy and Crop Science
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- Global and Planetary Change
In their own words
- Plant Nutrition
- soil fertility
- crop modeling
- climate change impact on crop production
- Publications
- 782005–2026
- Citations
- 2,938to those papers
- h-index
- 23i10-index 37
- Field-weighted impact
- 5.631.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 55%29 of 53 scored papers
- Open access
- 77%41 of the 53 whose access is recorded
37 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 4,096 citations, h-index 27 and i10-index 46 (3,082 citations and h-index 24 since 2021), as of October 12, 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, College of Basic and Applied SciencesUniversity of Ghanasince 2007
Education
- PhD, Center for Development ResearchRheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn2003–2007
- MSc, Institute for Plant NutritionRheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn2001–2003
- BSc, Natural Resources InstituteKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology1995–1999
Publications
78 in all
- Evaluation of soil properties of the Sudan Savannah ecological zone of Ghana for crop production
2018Ghana Journal of Agricultural ScienceJournalFirst author4 citations
- Climate change impact on the yields of cereals in smallholder settings in West Africa: The case of Nioro, Senegal and Navrongo, Ghana
2018IICAReport1 citation