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
Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress
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
- Principal components analysis and age at harvest effect on quality of gari from four elite cassava varieties in Ghana
2009African Journal of BiotechnologyJournal33 citations
- Aflatoxin-Related Immune Dysfunction in Health and in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Disease
2008Clinical and Developmental ImmunologyJournalOpen access143 citations10.1155/2008/790309