Sandylove Afrane

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Sandylove Afrane is a scholar working on Pollution, Economics and Econometrics and Energy Engineering and Power Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sandylove Afrane has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Pollution, 12 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 11 papers in Energy Engineering and Power Technology. Recurrent topics in Sandylove Afrane's work include Energy and Environment Impacts (15 papers), Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (11 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (9 papers). Sandylove Afrane is often cited by papers focused on Energy and Environment Impacts (15 papers), Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (11 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (9 papers). Sandylove Afrane collaborates with scholars based in China, Cyprus and Russia. Sandylove Afrane's co-authors include Jeffrey Dankwa Ampah, Chao Jin, Abdulfatah Abdu Yusuf, Haifeng Liu, Ephraim Bonah Agyekum, Humphrey Adun, Zhenlong Geng, Olusola Bamisile, Ibham Veza and Guozhu Mao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Sandylove Afrane

39 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Reviewing two decades of cleaner alternative marine fuels: Towards IMO's decarbonization of the maritime transport sector
    2021 257 citations Jeffrey Dankwa Ampah, Abdulfatah Abdu Yusuf et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sandylove Afrane China 22 350 319 303 292 243 41 1.4k
Jeffrey Dankwa Ampah China 27 371 1.1× 363 1.1× 363 1.2× 354 1.2× 317 1.3× 68 2.0k
Oludolapo Akanni Olanrewaju South Africa 22 492 1.4× 283 0.9× 327 1.1× 292 1.0× 122 0.5× 142 2.2k
Julia Hansson Sweden 24 447 1.3× 518 1.6× 824 2.7× 153 0.5× 250 1.0× 56 2.2k
Domenico Curto Italy 23 630 1.8× 280 0.9× 335 1.1× 167 0.6× 81 0.3× 89 2.1k
Maria Grahn Sweden 21 575 1.6× 618 1.9× 803 2.7× 125 0.4× 358 1.5× 53 1.9k
Lonza Laura Italy 16 415 1.2× 140 0.4× 328 1.1× 99 0.3× 507 2.1× 27 1.8k
Abdulfatah Abdu Yusuf Liberia 24 213 0.6× 194 0.6× 309 1.0× 221 0.8× 425 1.7× 64 1.9k
Sgouris Sgouridis United Arab Emirates 21 473 1.4× 261 0.8× 265 0.9× 177 0.6× 151 0.6× 65 1.8k
Romain Sacchi Switzerland 20 535 1.5× 279 0.9× 606 2.0× 136 0.5× 307 1.3× 44 1.8k
Ahmad Hajinezhad Iran 22 344 1.0× 266 0.8× 117 0.4× 238 0.8× 91 0.4× 83 1.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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Afrane, Sandylove, Jeffrey Dankwa Ampah, Humphrey Adun, et al.. (2025). Targeted carbon dioxide removal measures are essential for the cost and energy transformation of the electricity sector by 2050. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 4 indexed citations
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Ampah, Jeffrey Dankwa, Chao Jin, Haifeng Liu, et al.. (2025). Scaling carbon removal without delaying emission reductions. 1(9). 599–601.
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Ampah, Jeffrey Dankwa, Chao Jin, Sandylove Afrane, et al.. (2024). Race towards net zero emissions (NZE) by 2050: reviewing a decade of research on hydrogen-fuelled internal combustion engines (ICE). Green Chemistry. 26(16). 9025–9047. 21 indexed citations
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Ampah, Jeffrey Dankwa, Chao Jin, Haifeng Liu, et al.. (2024). Prioritizing Non-Carbon Dioxide Removal Mitigation Strategies Could Reduce the Negative Impacts Associated with Large-Scale Reliance on Negative Emissions. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(8). 3755–3765. 29 indexed citations
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Ampah, Jeffrey Dankwa, Sandylove Afrane, Humphrey Adun, et al.. (2024). Carbon dioxide removal and net zero emissions in Africa: an integrated assessment modelling based on three different land-based negative emission solutions. Environmental Research Letters. 19(8). 84021–84021. 5 indexed citations
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Ampah, Jeffrey Dankwa, Chao Jin, Haifeng Liu, et al.. (2024). Deployment expectations of multi-gigatonne scale carbon removal could have adverse impacts on Asia’s energy-water-land nexus. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6342–6342. 13 indexed citations
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Afrane, Sandylove, et al.. (2024). Deployment of carbon removal technologies could reduce the rapid and potentially disruptive pace of decarbonization in South Africa's climate ambitions. Journal of Cleaner Production. 464. 142753–142753. 4 indexed citations
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Ampah, Jeffrey Dankwa, et al.. (2023). Potential benefits and trade-offs associated with hydrogen transition under diverse carbon dioxide removal strategies. Science Bulletin. 69(1). 34–39. 12 indexed citations
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Yusuf, Abdulfatah Abdu, Jeffrey Dankwa Ampah, Ibham Veza, et al.. (2023). Investigating the influence of plastic waste oils and acetone blends on diesel engine combustion, pollutants, morphological and size particles: Dehalogenation and catalytic pyrolysis of plastic waste. Energy Conversion and Management. 291. 117312–117312. 59 indexed citations
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Ampah, Jeffrey Dankwa, et al.. (2023). Deployment of hydrogen in hard-to-abate transport sectors under limited carbon dioxide removal (CDR): Implications on global energy-land-water system. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 184. 113578–113578. 33 indexed citations
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Agyekum, Ephraim Bonah, Jeffrey Dankwa Ampah, Tabbi Wilberforce, Sandylove Afrane, & Christabel Nutakor. (2022). Research Progress, Trends, and Current State of Development on PEMFC-New Insights from a Bibliometric Analysis and Characteristics of Two Decades of Research Output. Membranes. 12(11). 1103–1103. 68 indexed citations
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Ampah, Jeffrey Dankwa, Sandylove Afrane, Ephraim Bonah Agyekum, et al.. (2022). Electric vehicles development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Performance assessment of standalone renewable energy systems for hydrogen refuelling and electricity charging stations (HRECS). Journal of Cleaner Production. 376. 134238–134238. 66 indexed citations
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Ampah, Jeffrey Dankwa, Krzysztof Wróbel, Abdulfatah Abdu Yusuf, et al.. (2022). Alternative fuels in shipping: Discussion on the findings of two recently published, independent bibliometric studies. Journal of Cleaner Production. 338. 130651–130651. 17 indexed citations
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Praveenkumar, Seepana, Ephraim Bonah Agyekum, Abhinav Kumar, et al.. (2022). Techno-Economics and the Identification of Environmental Barriers to the Development of Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Plants in India. Applied Sciences. 12(20). 10400–10400. 21 indexed citations
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Afrane, Sandylove, et al.. (2022). Investigating evolutionary trends and characteristics of renewable energy research in Africa: a bibliometric analysis from 1999 to 2021. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29(39). 59328–59362. 25 indexed citations
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Afrane, Sandylove, Jeffrey Dankwa Ampah, Ephraim Bonah Agyekum, et al.. (2022). Integrated AHP-TOPSIS under a Fuzzy Environment for the Selection of Waste-To-Energy Technologies in Ghana: A Performance Analysis and Socio-Enviro-Economic Feasibility Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(14). 8428–8428. 23 indexed citations
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Ampah, Jeffrey Dankwa, Abdulfatah Abdu Yusuf, Sandylove Afrane, Chao Jin, & Haifeng Liu. (2021). Reviewing two decades of cleaner alternative marine fuels: Towards IMO's decarbonization of the maritime transport sector. Journal of Cleaner Production. 320. 128871–128871. 257 indexed citations breakdown →
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Afrane, Sandylove, et al.. (2021). Visualization and analysis of mapping knowledge domains for the global transition towards clean cooking: a bibliometric review of research output from 1990 to 2020. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29(16). 23041–23068. 17 indexed citations
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Afrane, Sandylove, et al.. (2021). Techno-economic feasibility of waste-to-energy technologies for investment in Ghana: A multicriteria assessment based on fuzzy TOPSIS approach. Journal of Cleaner Production. 318. 128515–128515. 57 indexed citations

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