Britwum AKUA OPOKUA

Professor · Labour and Human Resource Studies

Associate Professor of Gender and Labour Studies

Associate Prof, University of Cape Coastper ORCID

Publications: 102017–2023
Citations: 114to those papers
h-index: 5i10-index 5
Field-weighted impact: 1.751.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 40%4 of 10 scored papers
Open access: 50%5 papers free to read

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Sociology and Political Science550%
Urban Studies330%
Economics and Econometrics220%
Pollution220%
Waste Management and Disposal220%
Development110%
Finance110%
Gender Studies110%
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences110%
General Health Professions110%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Digital Economy and Work Transformation3
Urban and Rural Development Challenges3
Energy and Environment Impacts2
Municipal Solid Waste Management2
Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development1
Gender Diversity and Inequality1
Gender Roles and Identity Studies1
Health Policy Implementation Science1
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism1
International Development and Aid1
Labor Movements and Unions1
Land Rights and Reforms1

Who they write with

21 co-authors, here and elsewhere

Same unit
Same university
Elsewhere in Africa
No African institution

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.

Where their co-authors are

40% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

United States1
South Africa1
Spain1
Germany1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Centre Marc BlochDE1 paper
ESIC Business & Marketing School1 paper
ESIC University1 paper
Universidad Complutense de MadridES1 paper
University of MichiganUS1 paper
University of the WitwatersrandZA1 paper

Where they publish

Oguaa Journal of Social Sciences2
Africa Development1
Employee Relations1
Global Labour Journal1
Journal of Agrarian Change1
Oral Presentations1
Research in Globalization

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

5Gender equality4
8Decent work and economic growth4

Most cited

Solid waste management and gender dynamics: Evidence from rural Ghana
Britwum AKUA OPOKUA, Essaw David Wellington, John Oti Amoah, Justice Mensah
Research in Globalization5
202335 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Penalizing fathers who use family-friendly measures. A comparative study with university students from Ghana and Spain
Amanda Odoi

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Associate Prof, Department of Labour and Human Resource StudiesUniversity of Cape Coast

Education

PhD, ICISMaastricht University2010

Recent publications

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Solid waste management and gender dynamics: Evidence from rural Ghana
Britwum AKUA OPOKUA, Essaw David Wellington, John Oti Amoah, Justice Mensah
Research in Globalization5
202335 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Online ride-hailing drivers' organising for interest representation in Ghana
Akorsu Angela Dziedzom, Benjamin Yaw Tachie, Britwum AKUA OPOKUA, Musah Dankwah, Shaibu Bukari
Employee Relations8
202211 citationsWorld top 10%
4 - Post-Independence Development Planning in Ghana and Tanzania: Agriculture, Women and Nation-building
Britwum AKUA OPOKUA
Africa Development5
20222 citationsOpen access · Diamond
Informal operators in waste management in Accra, Ghana: From neglect to recognition?
Akorsu Angela Dziedzom, Britwum AKUA OPOKUA, Dr. Owusu Boampong
Oguaa Journal of Social Sciences
20205 citationsOpen access · Diamond
Does labour matter in reforms? Indications from Ghana’s environmental sanitation policy
Akorsu Angela Dziedzom, Britwum AKUA OPOKUA, Dr. Owusu Boampong
Oguaa Journal of Social Sciences8
20200 citationsOpen access · Diamond
Penalizing fathers who use family-friendly measures. A comparative study with university students from Ghana and Spain
Amanda Odoi, Britwum AKUA OPOKUA
Social Science Research5
201927 citationsWorld top 10%
Labour reserves and surplus populations: Northern Ghana and the Eastern Cape of South Africa
Britwum AKUA OPOKUA
Journal of Agrarian Change8
201921 citationsWorld top 10%
Labour and the State
Britwum AKUA OPOKUA
8
20191 citation
Power Resources and Organising Informal Economy Workers
Britwum AKUA OPOKUA
Global Labour Journal
201811 citationsOpen access · Diamond
22 Using the adapt-itt model to adapt an evidence-based primary prevention sexual violence intervention from the united states to ghana
Britwum AKUA OPOKUA, Eugene Kofuor Maafo Darteh
Oral Presentations5
20171 citation

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