Samuel Agyei-Mensah profile image

Samuel Agyei-Mensah

PROFESSOR

Verified email at ug.edu.gh Professor of Population and Health Geography, University of Ghana Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Population and Health Geography
Publications

174

Citations

5,024

H-index

36

i10-index

73

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
28.9
Most cited paper
614
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
14 Sep 2026, 07:46
Publications

174 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Personal particulate matter exposures and locations of students in four neighborhoods in Accra, Ghana
RE Arku, KL Dionisio, AF Hughes, J Vallarino, JD Spengler, MC Castro, ...
2015 Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology 25 (6), 557-566, 2015 Social Sciences 53
Neighbourhood, built environment and children’s outdoor play spaces in urban Ghana: Review of policies and challenges
D Adjei-Boadi, S Agyei-Mensah, G Adamkiewicz, JI Rodriguez, ...
2022 Landscape and urban planning 218, 104288, 2022 Social Sciences 47
Spatial modelling and inequalities of environmental noise in Accra, Ghana
SN Clark, AS Alli, M Ezzati, M Brauer, MB Toledano, J Nimo, JB Moses, ...
2022 Environmental research 214, 113932, 2022 Social Sciences 47
Space-time characterization of community noise and sound sources in Accra, Ghana
SN Clark, AS Alli, R Nathvani, A Hughes, M Ezzati, M Brauer, ...
2021 Scientific reports 11 (1), 11113, 2021 Social Sciences 47
High-resolution spatiotemporal measurement of air and environmental noise pollution in Sub-Saharan African cities: Pathways to Equitable Health Cities Study protocol for Accra …
SN Clark, AS Alli, M Brauer, M Ezzati, J Baumgartner, MB Toledano, ...
2020 BMJ open 10 (8), e035798, 2020 Health Sciences 47
Poverty and HIV prevalence in Ghana: A geographical perspective
S Agyei-Mensah
2006 GeoJournal 66 (4), 311-324, 2006 Health Sciences 44
Spatial heterogeneity in drinking water sources in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana
JD Tetteh, MR Templeton, A Cavanaugh, H Bixby, G Owusu, SM Yidana, ...
2022 Population and Environment 44 (1), 46-76, 2022 Social Sciences 42
HIV/AIDS in West Africa: the case of Senegal, Ghana, and Nigeria
JR Oppong
2004 HIV and AIDS in Africa: Beyond epidemiology, 70-88, 2004 Health Sciences 39
Ethnic residential clusters in Nima, Ghana
S Agyei-Mensah, G Owusu
2012 Urban Forum 23 (1), 133-149, 2012 Social Sciences 38
Loops and Building Blocks: a Knowledge co-Production Framework for Equitable Urban Health: Audia et al.
C Audia, F Berkhout, G Owusu, Z Quayyum, S Agyei-Mensah
2021 Journal of Urban Health 98 (3), 394-403, 2021 Social Sciences 37
High-resolution patterns and inequalities in ambient fine particle mass (PM2. 5) and black carbon (BC) in the Greater Accra Metropolis, Ghana
AS Alli, SN Clark, J Wang, J Bennett, AF Hughes, M Ezzati, M Brauer, ...
2023 Science of the Total Environment 875, 162582, 2023 Social Sciences 36
Explaining regional fertility variations in Ghana
S Agyei-Mensah, NS Owoo
2015 Journal of Population Research 32 (3), 157-172, 2015 Social Sciences 34
Identifying deprived “slum” neighbourhoods in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana using census and remote sensing data
R MacTavish, H Bixby, A Cavanaugh, S Agyei-Mensah, A Bawah, ...
2023 World development 167, 106253, 2023 Social Sciences 33
Socio-demographic and neighbourhood factors influencing urban green space use and development at home: A population-based survey in Accra, Ghana
AK Amegah, K Yeboah, V Owusu, L Afriyie, E Kyere-Gyeabour, ...
2023 PLoS One 18 (6), e0286332, 2023 Social Sciences 30
Sachet water in Ghana: A spatiotemporal analysis of the recent upward trend in consumption and its relationship with changing household characteristics, 2010–2017
S Moulds, ACH Chan, JD Tetteh, H Bixby, G Owusu, S Agyei-Mensah, ...
2022 PloS one 17 (5), e0265167, 2022 Social Sciences 30
The global and the local: Urban change in Cape Coast from pre-colonial times to the present
S Agyei-Mensah, E Ardayfio-Schandorf
2007 Urban Design International 12 (2), 101-114, 2007 Social Sciences 28
Patterns of fertility change in Ghana: A time and space perspective
S Agyei‐Mensah, A Aase
1998 Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 80 (4), 203-213, 1998 Social Sciences 28
Measurement of urban vitality with time-lapsed street-view images and object-detection for scalable assessment of pedestrian-sidewalk dynamics
R Nathvani, A Cavanaugh, E Suel, H Bixby, SN Clark, AB Metzler, J Nimo, ...
2025 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 221, 251-264, 2025 Social Sciences 27
Beyond here and now: Evaluating pollution estimation across space and time from street view images with deep learning
R Nathvani, D Vishwanath, SN Clark, AS Alli, E Muller, H Coste, ...
2023 Science of the total environment 903, 166168, 2023 Engineering 27
Face mask use among commercial drivers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Accra, Ghana
E Agyemang, S Agyei-Mensah, E Kyere-Gyeabour
2021 Journal of community health 46 (6), 1226-1235, 2021 Social Sciences 27
Migration and Population Dynamics: Changing Community Formations in Ghana.
J Yaro, ANA Codjoe, S Agyei-Mensah, A Darkwah, SO Kwankye
2011 Social Sciences 27
Between policy and risk communication: coverage of air pollution in Ghanaian newspapers
S Agyei-Mensah, E Kyere-Gyeabour, A Mwaura, P Mudu
2022 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19 (20), 13246, 2022 Social Sciences 24
Inequalities in urban air pollution in sub-Saharan Africa: an empirical modeling of ambient NO and NO2 concentrations in Accra, Ghana
J Wang, AS Alli, SN Clark, M Ezzati, M Brauer, AF Hughes, J Nimo, ...
2024 Environmental Research Letters 19 (3), 034036, 2024 Social Sciences 23
The effect of neighbourhood mortality shocks on fertility preferences: a spatial econometric approach
NS Owoo, S Agyei-Mensah, E Onuoha
2015 The European Journal of Health Economics 16 (6), 629-645, 2015 Social Sciences 23
Four principles of transformative adaptation to climate change‐exacerbated hazards in informal settlements
BC Howard, S Moulds, S Agyei‐Mensah, KTK Nahin, Z Quayyum, ...
2025 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 16 (3), e70008, 2025 Natural Sciences 22