Martin Odei Ajei

Publishing since 2001, latest 2026

Education
Political Science and International Relations
Sociology and Political Science
Cognitive Neuroscience
Safety Research
Anthropology

In their own words

political philosophy
ethics
African Philosophy

Publications: 372001–2026
Citations: 412to those papers
h-index: 9i10-index 8
Field-weighted impact: 3.501.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 29%4 of 14 scored papers
Open access: 43%6 of the 14 whose access is recorded

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

Google Scholar shows 446 citations, h-index 10 and i10-index 12 (260 citations and h-index 9 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

Publications

37 in all

Conceptual Decolonization in African Universities: An Imperative for Shaping African Futures
2026African Futures in the MakingJournalFirst author0 citations
Development and Human Rights in Africa: A Theoretical Proposal
2023Routledge Handbook of African Political PhilosophyBook chapterFirst author0 citations10.4324/9781003143529-23

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Citations received each year

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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

Education1232%
Political Science and International Relations616%
Sociology and Political Science616%
Cognitive Neuroscience38%
Safety Research25%
Anthropology13%
Economics and Econometrics13%
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology13%
Infectious Diseases13%
Philosophy13%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

African cultural and philosophical studies12
Political Philosophy and Ethics5
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment3
Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations2
African history and culture analysis1
African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues1
Anthropological Studies and Insights1
COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts1
Education and Critical Thinking Development1
Ethics and Social Impacts of AI1
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation1
Foucault, Power, and Ethics1

Who they write with

Their most frequent co-authors, and the papers those co-authors share

Where their co-authors are

36% of their 14 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1122223Home

Most frequent partner countries

Germany3
United States3
South Africa2
United Kingdom1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of BonnDE2 papers
University of WashingtonUS2 papers
University of JohannesburgZA2 papers
Goethe University FrankfurtDE1 paper
London School of Economics and Political ScienceGB1 paper
Loyola Marymount UniversityUS1 paper

Where they publish

Legon Journal of the Humanities3
Phronimon3
Estudos Kantianos [EK]2
Kant and colonialism: Historical and critical perspectives2
Philosophy & Technology2
Routledge Handbook of African Political Philosophy2

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

10Reduced inequalities4
16Peace, justice and strong institutions2
4Quality education1
5Gender equality1
14Life below water1

Most cited

Africa's development: the imperatives of indigenous knowledge and values
PQDT-Global
200783 citations
The Moral Standing of Social Robots: Untapped Insights from Africa
Philosophy & Technology10
202273 citationsWorld top 10%
Human rights in a moderate communitarian political framework
South African Journal of Philosophy16

A Theoretical Proposal

2023Routledge Handbook of African Political PhilosophyJournalFirst author0 citations

Two Steps Forward: An African Relational Account of Moral Standing

2022Philosophy & TechnologyJournalOpen accessSenior author9 citations10.1007/s13347-022-00533-3

Being Gay and African: A Contradiction in Being?

2022Philosophical PapersJournalFirst authorCorresponding4 citations10.1080/05568641.2022.2035248

Kantian ethics and African philosophy

2022Estudos Kantianos [EK]JournalOpen accessFirst author0 citations10.36311/2318-0501.2021.v9n2.p117

Kantian ethics and african philosophy: receptivity and disputations

2021Estudos Kantianos [EK]JournalFirst author1 citation

Ontology and human rights

2019South African Journal of PhilosophyJournalFirst authorCorresponding7 citations10.1080/02580136.2019.1565065

Educating Africans: Perspectives of Ghanaian Philosophers

2019PhronimonJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding4 citations10.25159/2413-3086/5277

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

2019The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political TheoryJournalFirst author5 citations

Personhood, autonomy and informed consent

2019Bioethics in Africa: Theories and praxisJournalFirst author8 citations

Trans-modernism and a Legon tradition of African philosophy

2018Legon Journal of the HumanitiesJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding8 citations10.4314/ljh.v29i2.1

Consciencism as an Expression of Ubuntu

2017Disentangling Consciencism: Essays on Kwame Nkrumah’s Philosophy; Ajei, MO, EdJournalSenior author3 citations

Kwasi Wiredu’s consensual democracy: Prospects for practice in Africa

2016European Journal of Political TheoryJournalFirst authorCorresponding32 citations10.1177/1474885116666451

Disentangling Consciencism: Essays on Kwame Nkrumah's Philosophy

2016Bloomsbury Publishing PLCReport11 citations

Justice and the Retrieval of the African Self

2016Disentangling Consciencism: Essays on Kwame Nkrumah's PhilosophyJournalFirst author2 citations

Human rights in a moderate communitarian political framework

2015South African Journal of PhilosophyJournalFirst authorCorresponding34 citations10.1080/02580136.2015.1119920

Colonial Mentality: Kant's Hospitality Right Then

2014Kant and colonialism: Historical and critical perspectivesJournalFirst author25 citations

Hospitality Right Then and Now

2014Kant and Colonialism: Historical and Critical PerspectivesJournalFirst author0 citations

The Paranormal-An Inquiry Into Some Features of an African Metaphysics and Epistemology

2014Missionsakademie an der Universität HamburgReportFirst author20 citations

NKRUMAH AND HOUNTONDJI ON ETHNO-PHILOSOPHY A CRITICAL APPRAISAL.

2013Studies in Intercultural Philosophy/Studien zur interkulturellen Philosophie/Etudes de philosophie interculturelleJournalFirst author7 citations

Sports: Nkrumah's Approach to African Unity

2012Journal on African PhilosophyJournalFirst author1 citation

Problems with Wiredu’s empiricalism

2012Legon Journal of the HumanitiesJournalFirst author8 citations

Africa’s Renaissance and the Failures of NEPAD Africa’s Renaissance and the Challenge of Culture: The Failures of NEPAD

2011Identity Meets Nationality: Voices from the HumanitiesJournalFirst author2 citations

The Paranormal: African Metaphysics Questions Science

2009Legon Journal of HumanitiesJournalFirst author5 citations

The ‘Paranormal’: African Philosophy Questions Science

2009Legon Journal of the HUMANITIESJournalFirst author2 citations

Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Good Governance in Ghana: The Traditional Akan Socio Political Example

2001< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization …ReportFirst author32 citations

South African Journal of Philosophy

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How it can be read

43% free to read, of the 14 recorded

Diamond 5 · 14%Free to read and to publish
Green 1 · 3%A copy in a repository
Closed 8 · 22%Behind a paywall
Unknown 23 · 62%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

2 of 37 papers name a funder

Leverhulme Trust1
University of Ghana1

201534 citationsWorld top 10%

Kwasi Wiredu’s consensual democracy: Prospects for practice in Africa

European Journal of Political Theory10

201632 citations

Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Good Governance in Ghana: The Traditional Akan Socio Political Example

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200132 citations