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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
Phenotyping urban built and natural environments with high-resolution satellite images and unsupervised deep learning
AB Metzler, R Nathvani, V Sharmanska, W Bai, E Muller, S Moulds, ...
2023 Science of the Total Environment 893, 164794, 2023 Social Sciences 22
Urban health in Africa: looking beyond the MDGs
S Agyei-Mensah, G Owusu, C Wrigley-Asante
2015 International Development Planning Review 37 (1), 53-60, 2015 Social Sciences 22
Quantifying within-city inequalities in child mortality across neighbourhoods in Accra, Ghana: a Bayesian spatial analysis
H Bixby, JE Bennett, AA Bawah, RE Arku, SK Annim, JD Anum, SE Mintah, ...
2022 BMJ open 12 (1), e054030, 2022 Health Sciences 21
New times, new families: the stall in Ghanaian fertility
S Agyei-Mensah
2007 fifth African Population Conference, Arusha, Tanzania, 2007 Social Sciences 21
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa: Homogeneity or heterogeneity?
S Agyei-Mensah
2005 Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography 59 (1), 14-25, 2005 Social Sciences 21
Socio-economic perspectives of off-reserve forest management in the Goaso forest district of Ghana
E Ardayfio-Schandorf
2007 Woeli Publishing Services, 2007 Social Sciences 20
The state of residential mortgage in Ghana
JZ Ayitey, F Gyamfi-Yeboah, S Agyei-Mensah
2010 The Ghana Surveyor 3 (1), 33-44, 2010 Social Sciences 18
Itinerant gold mines? Mobility, sexuality and the spread of gonorrhoea and syphilis in twentieth century Ghana
E Akyeampong, S Agyei-Mensah
2006 Sex and Gender in an Era of AIDS: Ghana at the Turn of the Millennium. Accra …, 2006 Social Sciences 17
Fertility Change in a Time and Space Perspective: Lessons from Three Ghanian Settlements
S Agyei-Mensah
1997 Geografisk institutt, Fakultet for samfunnsvitenskap og teknologiledelse …, 1997 Social Sciences 16
Chronic Non-communicable Diseases in Gha: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
S Agyei-Mensah
2014 African Books Collective, 2014 Social Sciences 15
Gender, politics and development in Accra, Ghana
S Agyei-Mensah, C Wrigley-Asante
2014 Alternative Development: Unravelling Marginalization, Voicing Change 1, 117-133, 2014 Social Sciences 15
Characterisation of urban environment and activity across space and time using street images and deep learning in Accra
R Nathvani, SN Clark, E Muller, AS Alli, JE Bennett, J Nimo, JB Moses, ...
2022 Scientific Reports 12 (1), 20470, 2022 Social Sciences 14
It's not all about wealth and beauty: Changing perceptions of fatness among Makola market women of Accra, Ghana
C Wrigley‐Asante, S Agyei‐Mensah, FA Obeng
2017 Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 38 (3), 414-428, 2017 Social Sciences 14
Demographic transition in Africa: The polygamy and fertility nexus
P Cahu, F Falilou, R Pongou, S Agyei-Mensah, AJ Mturi
2011 Fertility diversity and its future prospects in Africa, 95-188, 2011 Social Sciences 14
Chiefs and floods: hybrid governance and co-production of flood risk adaptation in Tamale, Ghana
S Agyei-Mensah, G Owusu, C Awuni, B Howard, I Fuseini, W Buytaert, ...
2024 Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 26 (6), 656-672, 2024 Social Sciences 13
The fertility transition in Ghana revisited
S Agyei-Mensah
2005 XXV IUSSP, International Population Conference, 2005 Social Sciences 13
Fertility transition in West Africa
S Agyei-Mensah
2002 Journal of African Policy Studies 8 (2), 5, 2002 Social Sciences 13
New perspective on the fertility situation in Sub–Saharan Africa
S Agyei-Mensah
1996 Taylor & Francis Group 50 (2), 101-112, 1996 Social Sciences 13
HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: Geographical perspectives
A Aase, S Agyei-Mensah
2005 Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography 59 (1), 1-5, 2005 Social Sciences 12
Unsupervised deep clustering of high-resolution satellite imagery reveals phenotypes of urban development in Sub-Saharan Africa
AB Metzler, R Nathvani, V Sharmanska, W Bai, S Moulds, NS Owoo, ...
2025 Science of The Total Environment 988, 179739, 2025 Social Sciences 11
Tracking urban health policies: a conceptual framework with special focus on air pollution in African cities
M Pierpaolo, H Adair-Rohani, P DeSOUZA, SP GUMY, TH de Sá, J Lewis, ...
2023 World Health Organization, 2023 Social Sciences 11
Stroke in Ghana: A systematic literature review
O Sanuade, C Agyemang, A de-Graft Aikins, S Agyei-Mensah, ...
2013 Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases in Ghana: Multidisciplinary Perspectives …, 2013 Humanities 11
Reproduction and social context in sub-Saharan Africa: A collection of micro-demographic studies
S Agyei-Mensah, JB Casterline
2003 Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2003 Social Sciences 10
Education and employment outcomes in Ghana through the lens of the capability approach
AO Sarkodie, S Agyei-Mensah, JK Anarfi, TA Bosiakoh
2014 African Population Studies 28 (2), 797-815, 2014 Social Sciences 9
Moving beyond the noise: geospatial modelling of urban sound environments in a sub-Saharan African city
SN Clark, RE Arku, M Ezzati, J Bennett, R Nathvani, AS Alli, J Nimo, ...
2025 Scientific Reports 15 (1), 21403, 2025 Social Sciences 8