W.O. Ellis
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
- Professor, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, since 1993per ORCID
Publishing since 1991, latest 2026
Prof. William Otoo Ellis is a Professor of Food Science at the Department of Food Science and Technology and a former Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (NKUNST). He served as the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the same University between 2007 and 2010. Professor Ellis is a Food Scientist; Researcher and a Consultant, rendered consultancy services to many small and medium scale food processing companies in Ghana. He has and continue to serve on… More on ORCID
- Plant Science
- Food Science
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Cancer Research
- Forestry
- Pharmacology
In their own words
- Applied Microbiology and Quality Assurance
- Food Toxicology
- Mycotoxin and Epidemiology
- Food Product Development and Packaging
- Publications
- 1701991–2026
- Citations
- 4,698to those papers
- h-index
- 36i10-index 87
- Field-weighted impact
- 2.081.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 20%16 of 81 scored papers
- Open access
- 56%45 of the 81 whose access is recorded
29 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 7,358 citations, h-index 45 and i10-index 112 (2,784 citations and h-index 28 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
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Positions
- Professor, Food Science and TechnologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologysince 1993
Education
- PhD Food Science, Department of Food Science and Agricultural ChemistryMcGill University1989–1993
- BSc (Hons) Biochemistry, Department of BiochemistryKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology1982–1987
On their papers
Publications
170 in all
- Emulsifying ability of exudate gums obtained from three plant species in Ghana
2017International Journal of Technology and Management ResearchJournal0 citations
- Processing methods and microbial assessment of pito (an African indigenous beer), at selected production sites in Ghana
2016Journal of the Institute of BrewingJournalOpen accessSenior author22 citations