Eyo Mensah

926 total citations
72 papers, 468 citations indexed

About

Eyo Mensah is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Language and Linguistics and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Eyo Mensah has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 468 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 30 papers in Language and Linguistics and 17 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Eyo Mensah's work include Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research (25 papers), Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism (16 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (15 papers). Eyo Mensah is often cited by papers focused on Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research (25 papers), Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism (16 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (15 papers). Eyo Mensah collaborates with scholars based in Nigeria, Ghana and Netherlands. Eyo Mensah's co-authors include Vivian Dzokoto and Eun-Soo Choi and has published in prestigious journals such as Personal Relationships, Death Studies and Anthropological Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Eyo Mensah

64 papers receiving 446 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Eyo Mensah Nigeria 12 269 158 99 97 95 72 468
Russell Rickford United States 6 203 0.8× 101 0.6× 192 1.9× 38 0.4× 31 0.3× 9 480
Gregory Matoesian United States 9 111 0.4× 213 1.3× 31 0.3× 37 0.4× 48 0.5× 26 418
Theresa Catalano United States 11 103 0.4× 121 0.8× 106 1.1× 51 0.5× 17 0.2× 48 405
Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación Spain 2 114 0.4× 39 0.2× 21 0.2× 56 0.6× 27 0.3× 6 257
Frances R. Aparicio Portugal 12 180 0.7× 36 0.2× 51 0.5× 46 0.5× 83 0.9× 44 480
Yoshitaka Miike United States 10 101 0.4× 94 0.6× 36 0.4× 141 1.5× 12 0.1× 15 318
Moira Inghilleri United Kingdom 13 172 0.6× 392 2.5× 46 0.5× 19 0.2× 12 0.1× 18 621
Kwesi Yankah Ghana 11 98 0.4× 68 0.4× 42 0.4× 44 0.5× 16 0.2× 31 321
Marco Jacquemet United States 9 145 0.5× 236 1.5× 287 2.9× 19 0.2× 22 0.2× 20 534
Peter Backhaus Japan 8 106 0.4× 526 3.3× 597 6.0× 68 0.7× 36 0.4× 15 844

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Fields of papers citing papers by Eyo Mensah

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eyo Mensah

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Eyo Mensah. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Eyo Mensah based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Eyo Mensah. Eyo Mensah is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Mensah, Eyo, et al.. (2025). Praise Names among Heterosexual Igbo Women in Nigeria: Construction of Identity, Social Positioning, and Egalitarian Femininity. Africa Spectrum. 60(3). 364–384. 1 indexed citations
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Mensah, Eyo. (2024). Name This Child. Names. 72(4). 12–23. 1 indexed citations
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Mensah, Eyo, et al.. (2024). Child of an outcast: cultural context of naming among the Nsirimo (Igbo) people in Nigeria. Cogent Arts and Humanities. 12(1). 2 indexed citations
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Mensah, Eyo & Vivian Dzokoto. (2023). Melting intestines, red hearts, and scattering eyes: exploring embodiment in the Efik feeling lexica. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 44(1). 49–75.
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Mensah, Eyo, et al.. (2023). Sexual jokes in Nigerian stand-up comedy. European Journal of Humour Research. 11(3). 54–71. 3 indexed citations
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Mensah, Eyo, et al.. (2022). Giving a Dog a Bad Name: The Strategic Use of Labelling in Contemporary Nigerian Political Discourse. Communicatio. 48(2). 63–84. 6 indexed citations
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Mensah, Eyo, et al.. (2022). Christianity and the Gendering of Personal Names among the Bette in Southeastern Nigeria. Journal of Religion in Africa. 53(1). 53–77. 9 indexed citations
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Mensah, Eyo, et al.. (2022). Satire, Agency and the Contestation of Patriarchy in Ibibio Women’s Songs. African Studies. 81(1). 23–44. 11 indexed citations
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Mensah, Eyo, et al.. (2022). Creativity and Authenticity in an Emerging Naija's Youth Hip Hop Culture. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2 indexed citations
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Mensah, Eyo, et al.. (2021). Laughing at the Pandemic: Youth Performance and Digital Humour in Response to Covid-19 in Nigeria. English Academy Review. 38(2). 105–116. 11 indexed citations
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Mensah, Eyo, et al.. (2018). The Discourse of Tattoo Consumption among Female Youth in Nigeria. Communicatio. 44(3). 56–73. 8 indexed citations
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Mensah, Eyo, et al.. (2016). The language of libation rituals among the Efik. 22(1). 3 indexed citations
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Mensah, Eyo. (2015). Personal names in language contact situations: A case of Cross River State, South-eastern Nigeria. Acta Academica Critical views on society culture and politics. 47(2). 102–138. 8 indexed citations
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Mensah, Eyo, et al.. (2012). Language Choice and Family Language Policy in Inter-Ethnic Marriages in South-Eastern Nigeria. Studies in literature and language. 4(2). 107–114. 3 indexed citations
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Mensah, Eyo. (2012). Grammaticalization in Nigerian Pidgin. Íkala Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura. 17(2). 167–179. 5 indexed citations
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Mensah, Eyo. (2011). Lexicalization in Nigerian Pidgin. 37(2). 209–240. 15 indexed citations
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Mensah, Eyo. (2010). The Morphosyntax of Code-Mixing: The Efik-English Perspective. 36(2). 235–256. 7 indexed citations

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