Benedict Arko
University of Education, Winneba
Also at University of Educationfrom their recent papers
- Lecturer, University of Education, Winneba, since 2020per ORCID
Publishing since 2013, latest 2025
Benedict Arko is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Geography Education, University of Education, Winneba in Ghana. He is a development geographer with special interest in the study of the spatial dimension of development in its discourses and materializations from critical perspectives. These includes issues of regional and local economic development, decentralization, and regional and urban planning. He also has a varied background in development practice with… More on ORCID
- Education
- Global and Planetary Change
- Archeology
- Automotive Engineering
- Business and International Management
- Cultural Studies
In their own words
- Development Geography
- Publications
- 122013–2025
- Citations
- 173to those papers
- h-index
- 4i10-index 3
- Field-weighted impact
- 1.441.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 17%1 of 6 scored papers
- Open access
- 50%3 of the 6 whose access is recorded
7 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 184 citations, h-index 4 and i10-index 4 (127 citations and h-index 4 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
- Lecturer, Geography EducationUniversity of Education, Winnebasince 2020
- ADMINISTATIVE OFFICER, ADMINISTRATIONCEWEFIA2014–2015
Education
- PhD DEVELOPMENT GEOGRAPHY, GEOGRAPHYUniversität Bayreuth2015–2019
- MSc DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT, PLANNINGKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2010–2012
- Certificate in Impact Evaluation MethodsTrinity College Dublin2024
Publications
12 in all
- Student Entrepreneurship in a Passive Space: Insights from a Ghanaian University
2025Entrepreneurship Education and PedagogyJournalFirst authorCorresponding2 citations10.1177/25151274251329039
- Restoration of abandoned artisanal mining sites: Effects of biophilia and ecoguilt
2025Journal for Nature Conservation