Abdul‐Gafaru Abdulai

1.2k total citations
42 papers, 574 citations indexed

About

Abdul‐Gafaru Abdulai is a scholar working on Development, Sociology and Political Science and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, Abdul‐Gafaru Abdulai has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 574 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Development, 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 12 papers in General Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Recurrent topics in Abdul‐Gafaru Abdulai's work include International Development and Aid (14 papers), Natural Resources and Economic Development (12 papers) and Mining and Resource Management (8 papers). Abdul‐Gafaru Abdulai is often cited by papers focused on International Development and Aid (14 papers), Natural Resources and Economic Development (12 papers) and Mining and Resource Management (8 papers). Abdul‐Gafaru Abdulai collaborates with scholars based in Ghana, United Kingdom and United States. Abdul‐Gafaru Abdulai's co-authors include Giles Mohan, Gordon Crawford, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Cynthia Sanborn, Marja Hinfelaar, David Hulme, Anthony Bebbington, Sam Hickey, Justice Nyigmah Bawole and Anthony Bebbington and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, World Development and BMC Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Abdul‐Gafaru Abdulai

41 papers receiving 529 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Abdul‐Gafaru Abdulai Ghana 14 226 172 170 159 95 42 574
Anne Mette Kjær Denmark 13 203 0.9× 197 1.1× 91 0.5× 159 1.0× 131 1.4× 38 694
Ole Therkildsen Denmark 12 162 0.7× 187 1.1× 87 0.5× 162 1.0× 145 1.5× 26 592
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira United Kingdom 11 268 1.2× 266 1.5× 92 0.5× 164 1.0× 175 1.8× 35 653
E. Gyimah‐Boadi Ghana 13 386 1.7× 146 0.8× 48 0.3× 75 0.5× 159 1.7× 34 669
Lindsay Whitfield Denmark 19 334 1.5× 346 2.0× 76 0.4× 221 1.4× 216 2.3× 50 1.0k
I. Cyril Sweden 15 361 1.6× 134 0.8× 123 0.7× 308 1.9× 185 1.9× 68 800
Benedicte Bull Norway 16 198 0.9× 151 0.9× 55 0.3× 69 0.4× 168 1.8× 53 547
Alexander Moradi United Kingdom 14 299 1.3× 55 0.3× 50 0.3× 113 0.7× 76 0.8× 24 891
Kevin M. Morrison United States 11 358 1.6× 389 2.3× 97 0.6× 237 1.5× 211 2.2× 20 808
Bonnie Campbell Canada 14 367 1.6× 148 0.9× 473 2.8× 269 1.7× 108 1.1× 60 874

Countries citing papers authored by Abdul‐Gafaru Abdulai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Abdul‐Gafaru Abdulai

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Abdulai, Abdul‐Gafaru, et al.. (2025). Party political campaigning and the illegal extraction of gold in Ghana. World Development. 192. 107008–107008. 2 indexed citations
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Tyce, Matthew, et al.. (2024). Confronting shifting energy landscapes and contested domestic politics: Ghana's national oil company and the global energy transition. Energy Research & Social Science. 119. 103901–103901. 4 indexed citations
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Abdulai, Abdul‐Gafaru, et al.. (2024). Local politics and the revenue collection effort in a developing country context: experiences from Ghana. SN Social Sciences. 4(3). 2 indexed citations
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Abdulai, Abdul‐Gafaru, et al.. (2022). Understanding the discourse of the “Community” in community development in Ghana’s mining industry. Mineral Economics. 36(1). 45–58.
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Abdulai, Abdul‐Gafaru, et al.. (2022). Conceptualizing and Measuring State Effectiveness as Impartiality. Public Organization Review. 23(4). 1417–1436. 1 indexed citations
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Attah, Simon K., et al.. (2021). Infection of Plasmodium falciparum and helminths among school children in communities in Southern and Northern Ghana. BMC Infectious Diseases. 21(1). 1259–1259. 9 indexed citations
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Abdulai, Abdul‐Gafaru, et al.. (2020). Introduction: The uncertainties of Ghana’s 2020 elections. African Affairs. 121(484). e25–e53. 7 indexed citations
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Hickey, Sam, et al.. (2020). Responding to the commodity boom with varieties of resource nationalism: a political economy explanation for the different routes taken by Africa's new oil producers. The Extractive Industries and Society. 7(4). 1246–1256. 18 indexed citations
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Abdulai, Abdul‐Gafaru, et al.. (2019). Is social protection in Ghana a right?. Development in Practice. 29(8). 1064–1074. 9 indexed citations
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Mosley, Paul & Abdul‐Gafaru Abdulai. (2019). The political economy of progressive fiscal contracts in Africa and Latin America. Development Policy Review. 38(4). 411–427. 1 indexed citations
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Abdulai, Abdul‐Gafaru & Giles Mohan. (2019). The Politics of Bureaucratic ‘Pockets of Effectiveness’: Insights From Ghana’s Ministry of Finance. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations
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Abdulai, Abdul‐Gafaru, et al.. (2018). Rethinking Persistent Poverty in Northern Ghana: The Primacy of Policy and Politics over Geography. Politics & Policy. 46(2). 233–262. 27 indexed citations
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Mohan, Giles, et al.. (2017). Party Politics and the Political Economy of Ghana’s Oil. New Political Economy. 23(3). 274–289. 34 indexed citations
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Abdulai, Abdul‐Gafaru. (2017). Competitive Clientelism and the Political Economy of Mining in Ghana. SSRN Electronic Journal. 23 indexed citations
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Abdulai, Abdul‐Gafaru, et al.. (2017). The Influence of Policy and Legal Frameworks on the Development of National Social Protection Systems. OpenDocs (Institute of Development Studies). 5 indexed citations
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Abdulai, Abdul‐Gafaru & Sam Hickey. (2014). Rethinking the politics of development in Africa? How the 'political settlement' shapes resource allocation in Ghana. African Affairs. 1 indexed citations
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Abdulai, Abdul‐Gafaru & Sam Hickey. (2014). Rethinking the Politics of Development in Africa? How the 'Political Settlement' Shapes Resource Allocation in Ghana. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations
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Abdulai, Abdul‐Gafaru. (2014). The Politics of Resource Sharing and Regional Inequality in Ghana: Lessons for the post-2015 development agenda. Development. 57(3-4). 488–496. 3 indexed citations
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Abdulai, Abdul‐Gafaru. (2014). Rethinking Spatial Inequalities in Development: The Primacy of Politics and Power Relations. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Crawford, Gordon & Abdul‐Gafaru Abdulai. (2009). 'The World Bank and Ghana’s Poverty Reduction Strategies: Strengthening the State or Consolidating Neo-liberalism?'. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 12 indexed citations

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