Yaw Agyeman Boafo

Also at Ghana Standards Authorityfrom their recent papers

Associate Professor, University of Ghana, since 2026per ORCID

Publishing since 2004, latest 2026

I draw on both conceptual and practical approaches to examine the implications of human-nature interactions. My research and teaching interests include climate change and sustainability assessment, focusing on adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity and ecosystem services, disaster risk reduction and resilience, and food and farming systems. I employ participatory methodologies to undertake solution-oriented research to generate outcomes, which challenge stakeholders’… More on ORCID

Sociology and Political Science
Global and Planetary Change
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Ecology
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

In their own words

Nature-based solutions
Science-Policy Interface
Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
Climate Change Assessment
Sustainability Assessment
Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience

Publications: 912004–2026
Citations: 2,919to those papers
h-index: 17i10-index 30
Field-weighted impact: 3.741.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 43%22 of 51 scored papers
Open access: 63%33 of the 52 whose access is recorded

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

Google Scholar shows 3,184 citations, h-index 19 and i10-index 34 (2,700 citations and h-index 18 since 2021), as of October 12, 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

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability StudiesUniversity of Ghanasince 2026
Research Fellow, Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability StudiesUniversity of Ghana2018–2021
DANIDA-CLIMCOCOA Postdoctoral Fellow, Geography and Resource DevelopmentUniversity of Ghana2017–2018
Project Researcher, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S). The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced StudyThe University of Tokyo2015–2017

Education

Publications

91 in all

Chapter 4. Plausible futures of nature, its contributions to people and their good quality of life
2019Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)ReportOpen access3 citations10.5281/zenodo.5519482
Natural habitat fragments obscured the distance effect on maintaining the diversity of insect pollinators and crop productivity in tropical agricultural landscapes

yboafo@gmail.comPublic on their ORCID record

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Citations received each year

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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

Sociology and Political Science2123%
Global and Planetary Change1719%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics1314%
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis89%
Ecology78%
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law78%
Building and Construction33%
Demography33%
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences33%
Plant Science33%

Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Climate change impacts on agriculture10
Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration8
Disaster Management and Resilience7
Climate Change and Health Impacts6
Flood Risk Assessment and Management6
Sustainability and Climate Change Governance5
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation5
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management4
Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact4
Agricultural Innovations and Practices3
Agricultural risk and resilience3
Agriculture and Rural Development Research3

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

65% of their 52 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

Japan16
United Kingdom9
United States8
Germany4
Burkina Faso4
Canada4
South Africa3
France2

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of SustainabilityJP14 papers
The University of TokyoJP12 papers
University for Development StudiesGH9 papers
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGH6 papers
United Nations UniversityJP5 papers
University of California San DiegoUS5 papers
University College LondonGB4 papers
University of SaskatchewanCA4 papers
Université Joseph Ki-ZerboBF4 papers
Anglia Ruskin UniversityGB3 papers

Where they publish

< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization …7
Science for sustainable societies6
Pachyderm4
Discover Cities2
Ecosystem Services2
Journal of Urban Affairs2

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

13Climate action12
2Zero hunger4
15Life on land4
1No poverty3
8Decent work and economic growth3
11Sustainable cities and communities2
10Reduced inequalities1
14

Most cited

Global assessment report of the intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services
IPBES
20191,567 citations
Exploring the impacts of urban expansion on green spaces availability and delivery of ecosystem services in the Accra metropolis
Environmental Challenges
2021194 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
The role of traditional ecological knowledge in ecosystem services management: the case of four rural communities in Northern Ghana
International journal of biodiversity science, ecosystem services & management

PhD, Sustainability Science, Institute for Advanced Study of SustainabilityUnited Nations University

Master of Philosophy, Institute of Environment and Sanitation StudiesUniversity of Ghana2009–2011

Honours, memberships and service

International Society for Development and Sustainabilitysince 2022

The role of sustainability science in addressing Africa’s sustainable development challenges and priorities: a bibliometric survey

2019Co-Designing Science in Africa: First steps in assessing the sustainability science approach on the groundJournalFirst author4 citations

Plausible futures of nature, its contributions to people and their good quality of life

2019Global assessment report of the intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem servicesJournalFirst author35 citations

Sustainability science: where and how?

2019Codesigning Science in Africa: First Steps in Assessing the Sustainability Science Approach on the GroundJournal2 citations

Review Comments on IPBES ECA Assessment Chapter 4

2018< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization …Report0 citations

Review Comments on Asia-Pacific Biodiversity Assessment Report Chapter 4

2018< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization …Report0 citations

From Page From Line To Page To Line

2017< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization …Report0 citations

Review of IPBES Pollinator Assessment Chapter 2: Author Responses to Reviewer Comments

2017< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization …Report0 citations

Pollination and Food Production: Review and Recommendations

2017< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization …Report0 citations

Contribution of legumes to smallholder agriculture and livelihood sustenance in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Malawi, Ghana and Guinea

2017JIRCAS International Symposium Proceedings: Legumes Improve Our Livelihood!JournalFirst author1 citation

Regional Report for Africa on Pollinators, Pollination, and Food Production

2016< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization …Report0 citations

Identifying and assessing pollination deficits in crops

2016Pollination services to agricultureBook chapter10 citations

The role of traditional ecological knowledge in ecosystem services management: the case of four rural communities in Northern Ghana

2016International journal of biodiversity science, ecosystem services & managementJournalFirst author186 citations10.1080/21513732.2015.1124454

Food Security and Gender Equality under Industrial Crop Expansion in Ethiopia and Ghana

2016環境システム研究論文発表会講演集= Proceedings of Annual Meeting of Environmental Systems Research/土木学会環境システム委員会編Journal0 citations

Crop‐raiding elephants and the moon

2006African Journal of EcologyJournal37 citations10.1111/j.1365-2028.2006.00689.x

Sustainability Science

The Routledge handbook of indigenous environmental knowledge2

How it can be read

63% free to read, of the 52 recorded

Diamond 11 · 12%Free to read and to publish
Gold 13 · 14%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 4 · 4%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 2 · 2%Free to read, no open licence
Green 3 · 3%A copy in a repository
Closed 19 · 21%Behind a paywall
Unknown 39 · 43%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

21 of 91 papers name a funder

Japan Science and Technology Agency6
Japan International Cooperation Agency3
Smart Family Foundation3
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service3
University of Ghana3
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche2
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo2
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science2