Johnny Kofi Awoonor

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

ASSISTANT RESEARCH SCIENTIST (ARS), CSIR-SOIL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, since 2010per ORCID

Publishing since 2021, latest 2026

Soil Science
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Environmental Chemistry
Biomaterials
Ecology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

In their own words

Agroecosystems
Sustainable Land Management
Land-Use Systems Science
Carbon & Nitrogen Dynamics
Land Evaluation (Soil Suitability Analysis)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Soil Quality Indicators (SQI)
Land Degradation & Restoration

Publications: 82021–2026
Citations: 94to those papers
h-index: 7i10-index 6
Field-weighted impact: 2.921.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 50%4 of 8 scored papers
Open access: 75%6 papers free to read

1 other work — a preprint, a dataset or the like — is listed but not counted.

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress

Citations received each year

Peerford

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

Soil Science563%

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

ASSISTANT RESEARCH SCIENTIST (ARS), SOIL GENESIS, SURVEY & CLASSIFICATIONCSIR-SOIL RESEARCH INSTITUTEsince 2010

Education

MPhil. Soil Health & Environmental Resource Management (SHEM), Soil ResourcesCSIR-College of Science & Technology (CCST)2017–2020
Land Degradation & Restoration (Sustainable Land Management (Option), Land Degradation & RestorationUnited Nations University2012
BA, Geography & Rural Resource DevelopmentUniversity of Ghana2004–2008

Publications

8 in all

Landscape controls physicochemical properties and nutrient dynamics of a biotite-granite catena in the rainforest zone of Ghana
2026CATENAJournalFirst authorCorresponding1 citation10.1016/j.catena.2026.110108
Impact of Land use on soil quality: Insights from the forest-savannah transition zone of Ghana
2024Heliyon

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Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law450%

Environmental Chemistry225%

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics113%

Environmental Engineering113%

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences113%

Geochemistry and Petrology113%

Life Sciences
Physical Sciences

Topics most written on

Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics5
Soil and Land Suitability Analysis4
Soil erosion and sediment transport3
Agricultural Innovations and Practices1
Agriculture and Rural Development Research1
Clay minerals and soil interactions1
Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis1
Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agriculture1
Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils1
Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology1
Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics1
Soil Geostatistics and Mapping1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

25% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written2222222Home

Most frequent partner countries

Hungary2

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Magyar Agrár- és Élettudományi EgyetemHU2 papers
University for Development StudiesGH2 papers
Ghana Communication Technology UniversityGH1 paper
University of GhanaGH1 paper

Where they publish

Agricultural Sciences1
CATENA1
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems1
Geoderma Regional1
Heliyon1
Journal of Environmental Protection1
Open Journal of Soil Science1
PLoS ONE1

How it can be read

75% free to read

Diamond 3 · 38%Free to read and to publish
Gold 3 · 38%In an open-access journal
Closed 2 · 25%Behind a paywall

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

15Life on land5
1No poverty1
2Zero hunger1

Soil suitability assessment for sustainable intensification of maize production in the humid Savannah of Ghana

2023Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding12 citations10.3389/fsufs.2023.1094290

Land-Use Change on Soil C and N Stocks in the Humid Savannah Agro-Ecological Zone of Ghana

2022Journal of Environmental ProtectionJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding15 citations10.4236/jep.2022.131003