Divine Kwaku Ahadzie
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
- Professor and Head of Department, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, since 1993per ORCID
Publishing since 1995, latest 2026
Professor Divine Kwaku Ahadzie is a former Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Built Environment and currently Head of the Centre for Settlements Studies in the same faculty at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. He is a full professor of construction and human settlements development. He is the first African professor winner of the Real Impact Award. In 2021, the AD Scientific rankings named Professor Ahadzie amongst the top 40… More on ORCID
- Building and Construction
- Management Science and Operations Research
- Social Psychology
- Global and Planetary Change
- Urban Studies
- Sociology and Political Science
In their own words
- Construction and Human Settlements Development
- Project management
- Housing
- flood risk management
- skills development
- Publications
- 961995–2026
- Citations
- 2,435to those papers
- h-index
- 22i10-index 41
- Field-weighted impact
- 1.971.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 20%9 of 45 scored papers
- Open access
- 52%24 of the 46 whose access is recorded
13 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 3,089 citations, h-index 24 and i10-index 47 (1,648 citations and h-index 21 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
- Professor and Head of Department, Centre for Settlements StudiesKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologysince 1993
Education
- PhD, School of Enginerring and Built EnvironmentUniversity of Wolverhampton2004–2007
- MSc - Construction Project Management, Department of Building EngineeringUniversity of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)1992–1993
- BSc, Building Technology, Department of Building TechnologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology1986–1990
On their papers
Publications
101 in all
- Challenges associated with project teams in managing variations on construction projects
20176th International Conference on Infrastructure Development (ICIDA) in AfricaConference13 citations
- Flood risk perception, coping and management in two vulnerable communities in Kumasi, Ghana
2016International Journal of Safety and Security EngineeringJournalOpen accessFirst author21 citations