Richard Opoku
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
- Faculty member / Dr, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, since 2012per ORCID
Publishing since 2011, latest 2026
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
- Pollution
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Building and Construction
- Energy Engineering and Power Technology
In their own words
- Renewable Energy
- Energy Efficiency
- Fluid Machinery
- Cooling Technologies
- Machine Learning
- Publications
- 842011–2026
- Citations
- 1,431to those papers
- h-index
- 23i10-index 41
- Field-weighted impact
- 2.331.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 25%18 of 71 scored papers
- Open access
- 75%53 of the 71 whose access is recorded
21 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 2,167 citations, h-index 28 and i10-index 54 (2,055 citations and h-index 27 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
- Faculty member / Dr, Department of Mechanical EngineeringKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologysince 2012
Education
- PhD, Mechanical EngineeringNorth Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University2008–2012
- BSc, Mechanical EngineeringKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2003–2007
On their papers
Publications
84 in all
- Hybrid-electric propulsion retrofits in regional aviation – A review
2026Next SustainabilityJournalOpen access4 citations10.1016/j.nxsust.2026.100250
- Phase change materials for cold energy storage: Insights from three decades of research trends, advancements, and future directions
2026Energy Exploration & Exploitation