Ransford Opoku Darko

Senior Lecturer · Department of Agric. Engineering

Associate Professor, Dept. of Agri-Food Systems and Technology, School of Agriculture, UCC

In their own words

Agriculture
Soil and water engineering
Water saving irrigation
Climate change
Agric Education

Publications: 682013–2026
Citations: 945to those papers
h-index: 19i10-index 33
Field-weighted impact: 1.671.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 12%6 of 50 scored papers
Open access: 74%37 of the 50 whose access is recorded

In 2016–2025: 57 publications, 807 citations to them, h-index 18.

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

Subfields

Soil Science1928%
Plant Science1319%
Water Science and Technology913%
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment69%
Waste Management and Disposal69%
Ocean Engineering57%
Pollution57%
Civil and Structural Engineering46%
Environmental Engineering46%
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences46%

Life Sciences
Physical Sciences

Topics most written on

Irrigation Practices and Water Management15
Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies6
Cavitation Phenomena in Pumps4
Energy and Environment Impacts4
Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics4
Climate change impacts on agriculture3
Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems3
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics3
Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses3
Water resources management and optimization3
Agricultural Innovations and Practices2
Agricultural Science and Fertilization2

Who they write with

118 co-authors, here and elsewhere

Same unit
Same university
Same country
No African institution

The 30 most frequent of 118 co-authors. Circle area and line width are papers written together; the strongest ties sit nearest. “No African institution” is anyone the papers place outside Africa’s institutions; Peerford records affiliations only there.