Simon Kwabena Dankyi

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Lecturer, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, since 2020per ORCID
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologyper ORCID

Publishing since 2019, latest 2026

I am a planner, political scientist, lecturer, and researcher with an interest in urban and land use planning, disability and development studies, policy, climate change, and human vulnerabilities, as well as interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. I have over 15 years of industry experience in NGO and consulting roles, both locally and internationally. From ORCID

Urban Studies
Sociology and Political Science
Business and International Management
Economics and Econometrics
Global and Planetary Change
Soil Science

In their own words

Urban Development
Climate Change and and Human Vulnerabilities

Publications: 112019–2026
Citations: 29to those papers
h-index: 4i10-index 1
Field-weighted impact: 1.131.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 11%1 of 9 scored papers
Open access: 11%1 of the 9 whose access is recorded

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

Google Scholar shows 35 citations, h-index 3 and i10-index 1 (35 citations and h-index 3 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

Citations received each year

PeerfordGoogle Scholar

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

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Lecturer, Department of PlanningKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologysince 2020
Department of PlanningKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Advisory ServicesErnst Young2008–2013
Leonard Cheshire International2007–2008
Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition2006–2007

Education

PhD Political Science

Publications

11 in all

Gendered motivations and behaviour in online sports betting: perspectives from university students in Kumasi, Ghana
2026SN Social SciencesJournalCorresponding0 citations10.1007/s43545-026-01348-1
Homeowners’ perceptions on flood risk and willingness to relocate from ecologically sensitive floodplains in Kumasi, Ghana
2025SN Social Sciences

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Subfields

Urban Studies545%
Sociology and Political Science327%
Business and International Management218%
Economics and Econometrics218%
Global and Planetary Change218%
Soil Science218%
Clinical Psychology19%
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences19%
Law19%
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law19%

Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Urban and Rural Development Challenges5
Innovation and Socioeconomic Development2
Agricultural Innovations and Practices1
Agricultural risk and resilience1
Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration1
Doping in Sports1
Energy and Environment Impacts1
Environmental Education and Sustainability1
Flood Risk Assessment and Management1
Gambling Behavior and Treatments1
Income, Poverty, and Inequality1
Land Rights and Reforms1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

0% of their 9 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

Most frequent partner countries

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Christian Service University CollegeGH1 paper
Kwame Nkrumah UniversityZM1 paper

Where they publish

African Geographical Review4
SN Social Sciences3
GeoJournal1
Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität zu Frankfurt am Main1
Scientific African1
Survey Review1

How it can be read

11% free to read, of the 9 recorded

Gold 1 · 9%In an open-access journal
Closed 8 · 73%Behind a paywall
Unknown 2 · 18%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

1 of 11 papers name a funder

International Science Council1
International Social Science Council1
Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

11Sustainable cities and communities2
1No poverty1
2Zero hunger1
4Quality education1
10Reduced inequalities1
13Climate action1

Most cited

Urban governance and the implementation of major infrastructure projects in Kumasi, Ghana
African Geographical Review
202410 citations
Homeowners’ perceptions on flood risk and willingness to relocate from ecologically sensitive floodplains in Kumasi, Ghana
SN Social Sciences13
20254 citations
Livelihood security in urban slums in Ghana: evidence from the Kumasi Metropolis
GeoJournal1
20234 citationsWorld top 10%
Urban governance and the implementation of major infrastructure projects in Kumasi, Ghana
African Geographical Review
20224 citations
The determinants of citizens’ perceptions of land security and property rights in Nigeria
SN Social Sciences
20243 citations

Goethe University Frankfurt

MSc Development Policy and Planning, Department of PlanningKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2003–2005

BSc Planning, Department of PlanningKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology1998–2002

Honours, memberships and service

MemberGhana Geospatial Society
Corporate MemberGhana Institute of Planners

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Urban governance and the implementation of major infrastructure projects in Kumasi, Ghana

2024African Geographical ReviewJournalSenior author10 citations

Trapped in the Savannah: Socio-environmental Living Conditions, Capabilities and Agency of Persons with Disabilities in Ghana

2019Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität zu Frankfurt am MainThesisFirst author0 citations