Kwaku Oduro-Appiah

Senior Lecturer · Department of Chemistry

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Coast, since 2008per ORCID

In their own words

Solid Waste Management
Wastewater Engineering
Sustainable Environmental Behaviour
Municipal Solid Waste Management
Integrated Sustainable Waste Management
Intervention Mapping

Publications: 132013–2024
Citations: 270to those papers
h-index: 10i10-index 10
Field-weighted impact: 3.671.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 57%4 of 7 scored papers
Open access: 71%5 of the 7 whose access is recorded

In 2016–2025: 10 publications, 224 citations to them, h-index 8.

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

Waste Management and Disposal754%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health431%
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law215%
Urban Studies215%
Food Science18%
Marketing18%
Pollution18%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Municipal Solid Waste Management7
Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management4
Recycling and Waste Management Techniques3
Environmental Education and Sustainability2
Urban and Rural Development Challenges2
Energy and Environment Impacts1
Environmental Sustainability in Business1
Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability1

Who they write with

12 co-authors, here and elsewhere

Same university
Same country
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

86% of their 7 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

papers co-written2233334Home

Most frequent partner countries

Netherlands4
United States2
Philippines2
Germany2

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Maastricht UniversityNL4 papers
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale ZusammenarbeitDE2 papers
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale ZusammenarbeitPH2 papers
Antioch University New EnglandUS1 paper
The Century FoundationUS1 paper
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGH1 paper

Where they publish

International Journal of Development and Sustainability2
Waste Management & Research The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy2
Advances in environmental engineering and green technologies book series1
African Journal of Science Technology Innovation and Development1
Frontiers in Psychology1
Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

17Partnerships for the goals2

Most cited

Working with the Informal Service Chain as a Locally Appropriate Strategy for Sustainable Modernization of Municipal Solid Waste Management Systems in Lower-Middle Income Cities: Lessons from Accra, Ghana
Kwaku Oduro-Appiah
Resources
201950 citationsOpen access · Gold
The contribution of participatory engagement strategies to reliable data gathering and inclusive policies in developing countries: Municipal solid waste management data in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana
Kwaku Oduro-Appiah
African Journal of Science Technology Innovation and Development17
202049 citations

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Senior Lecturer, Water and SanitationUniversity of Cape Coastsince 2008

Education

PhD, Environmental EngineeringMaastricht University2015–2020
M. Sc. Air Pollution Control, Solid Waste and Wastewater Process Engineering, WASTEUniversität Stuttgart2003–2006
B.Sc. Geological Engineering, Geological EngineeringKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology1997–2001

Honours, memberships and service

International Solid Waste Associationsince 2017

How it can be read

71% free to read, of the 7 recorded

Gold 3 · 23%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 2 · 15%Open in a subscription journal
Closed 2 · 15%Behind a paywall
Unknown 6 · 46%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

2 of 13 papers name a funder

Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education1
Nuffic1