Yakubu Balma Issaka

University for Development Studies

Publishing since 2016, latest 2025

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Business and International Management
General Health Professions
Global and Planetary Change
Nutrition and Dietetics
Building and Construction

Publications: 92016–2025
Citations: 106to those papers
h-index: 7i10-index 4
Field-weighted impact: 4.541.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 56%5 of 9 scored papers
Open access: 78%7 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

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Publications

9 in all

Adoption of Sustainable Intensification Practices among Smallholder Rice Farmers in Northern Ghana: A Case Study of the Savelugu Municipality
2025Ghana Journal of Science Technology and DevelopmentJournalOpen accessFirst author1 citation10.47881/461.967x
Psycho-social factors influencing the adoption of sustainable intensification practices by smallholder rice farmers in Northern Ghana

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences556%
Business and International Management333%
General Health Professions222%
Global and Planetary Change222%
Nutrition and Dietetics222%
Building and Construction111%
Political Science and International Relations111%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health111%
Sociology and Political Science111%
Soil Science111%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Agricultural Innovations and Practices3
Innovation and Socioeconomic Development3
Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development2
Child Nutrition and Water Access2
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management2
Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations2
Agricultural Economics and Policy1
Agricultural risk and resilience1
Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact1
Mining and Resource Management1
Nutritional Studies and Diet1
Water Governance and Infrastructure1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

33% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

Canada1
Paraguay1
Kenya1
Netherlands1
Indonesia1
United Kingdom1
Italy1
Burkina Faso1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Center for International Forestry ResearchID1 paper
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsIT1 paper
Norwich Research ParkGB1 paper
Universidad de Desarrollo SustentablePY1 paper
University of AmsterdamNL1 paper
University of British ColumbiaCA1 paper
University of East AngliaGB1 paper
University of Energy and Natural ResourcesGH1 paper
World Agroforestry CentreKE1 paper
International Institute for Water and Environmental EngineeringBF1 paper

Where they publish

Ghana Journal of Science Technology and Development2
Agriculture1
BMC Public Health1
Cogent Food & Agriculture1
Global Environmental Change1
International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

2Zero hunger2
1No poverty1
13Climate action1

Most cited

Higher vegetable intake and vegetable variety is associated with a better self-reported health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) in a cross-sectional survey of rural northern Ghanaian women in fertile age
BMC Public Health2
201831 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
A Comparative Analysis of Productivity among Organic and Non-Organic farms in the West Mamprusi District of Ghana
Agriculture2
201623 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold

Cogent Food & Agriculture

Determinants of Vegetable Consumption among Rural Households in Northern Ghana

2024Ghana Journal of Science Technology and DevelopmentJournalOpen accessFirst author0 citations10.47881/425.967x

Rice planting technologies and farm performance under different production systems in Ghana

2021International Journal of Productivity and Performance ManagementJournalSenior author12 citations10.1108/ijppm-03-2021-0166

FACTORS INFLUENCING TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION BY TRADITIONAL AFRICAN VEGETABLE FARMERS IN NORTHERN GHANA

2021UDS International Journal of DevelopmentJournalOpen accessFirst author7 citations10.47740/563.udsijd6i

Non-timber Forest Products, Climate Change Resilience, and Poverty Alleviation in Northern Ghana

2017Science for sustainable societiesBook chapterFirst authorCorresponding8 citations10.1007/978-981-10-4796-1_10

Science for sustainable societies

UDS International Journal of Development1

How it can be read

78% free to read

Diamond 2 · 22%Free to read and to publish
Gold 2 · 22%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 2 · 22%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 1 · 11%Free to read, no open licence
Closed 2 · 22%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

3 of 9 papers name a funder

European Commission2
Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit1
National Science Council1
United States Agency for International Development1
World Bank Group1

From conflict to collaboration through inclusive landscape governance: Evidence from a contested landscape in Ghana

Global Environmental Change

202416 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid

Rice planting technologies and farm performance under different production systems in Ghana

International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management

202112 citationsWorld top 10%