Wapulumuka Mulwafu

661 total citations
25 papers, 417 citations indexed

About

Wapulumuka Mulwafu is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Ocean Engineering and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Wapulumuka Mulwafu has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 417 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 7 papers in Ocean Engineering and 6 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Wapulumuka Mulwafu's work include Water resources management and optimization (7 papers), African history and culture studies (5 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (5 papers). Wapulumuka Mulwafu is often cited by papers focused on Water resources management and optimization (7 papers), African history and culture studies (5 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (5 papers). Wapulumuka Mulwafu collaborates with scholars based in Malawi, Sweden and United Kingdom. Wapulumuka Mulwafu's co-authors include J. D. Omer‐Cooper, Graham Jewitt, Maxwell Mudhara, Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Aidan Senzanje, Ellen Hillbom, Göran Djurfeldt, Peter Mvula, Russel Chidya and Theresa Mkandawire and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Land Use Policy and Marine Policy.

In The Last Decade

Wapulumuka Mulwafu

23 papers receiving 374 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wapulumuka Mulwafu Malawi 12 147 105 87 74 51 25 417
Ram C. Bastakoti Thailand 11 102 0.7× 73 0.7× 120 1.4× 64 0.9× 67 1.3× 26 393
Wolfram Laube Germany 11 112 0.8× 90 0.9× 67 0.8× 74 1.0× 42 0.8× 20 531
Marie-Charlotte Buisson Sri Lanka 10 77 0.5× 48 0.5× 63 0.7× 59 0.8× 95 1.9× 22 356
Diana Suhardiman Sri Lanka 13 265 1.8× 168 1.6× 121 1.4× 110 1.5× 37 0.7× 28 615
Xinjun Yang China 12 138 0.9× 125 1.2× 174 2.0× 75 1.0× 16 0.3× 36 561
Benjamin Schraven Germany 7 433 2.9× 86 0.8× 84 1.0× 103 1.4× 23 0.5× 23 776
Enlai Liu China 6 181 1.2× 102 1.0× 105 1.2× 121 1.6× 12 0.2× 8 376
Thomas A. Smucker United States 13 185 1.3× 68 0.6× 201 2.3× 75 1.0× 23 0.5× 23 549
M.G. Chandrakanth India 12 57 0.4× 78 0.7× 68 0.8× 92 1.2× 129 2.5× 38 362
Brian Halweil 9 64 0.4× 46 0.4× 69 0.8× 34 0.5× 51 1.0× 16 512

Countries citing papers authored by Wapulumuka Mulwafu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wapulumuka Mulwafu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wapulumuka Mulwafu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wapulumuka Mulwafu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wapulumuka Mulwafu 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 Wapulumuka Mulwafu. Wapulumuka Mulwafu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wilson, David, et al.. (2025). Fishing (in) the past to inform the future: Lessons from the histories of fisheries management in Lake Malawi and Mbenji Island. Marine Policy. 173. 106589–106589. 1 indexed citations
2.
Chiwaula, Levison, et al.. (2023). The seed sector development in low-income countries: Lessons from the Malawi seed sector policy process. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 7. 5 indexed citations
3.
Kayuni, Happy, et al.. (2023). Post-Colonial Agriculture Policy and Agrarian Change in Malawi, 1964–1979. The African Review. 51(1-2). 92–115.
4.
Mulwafu, Wapulumuka, et al.. (2022). Beyond Impunity: New Directions for Governance in Malawi. 2 indexed citations
5.
Mulwafu, Wapulumuka, et al.. (2020). Generational dynamics of agricultural intensification in Malawi: challenges for the youth and elderly smallholder farmers. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. 19(5-6). 423–436. 34 indexed citations
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Senzanje, Aidan, et al.. (2019). Strategies for coping and adapting to flooding and their determinants: A comparative study of cases from Namibia and Zambia. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Parts A/B/C. 111. 20–34. 41 indexed citations
7.
Mulwafu, Wapulumuka, et al.. (2018). Colonialism and its legacies, as reflected in water, incorporating a view from Malawi. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 5(4). 16 indexed citations
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Senzanje, Aidan, et al.. (2018). Rural households’ flood preparedness and social determinants in Mwandi district of Zambia and Eastern Zambezi Region of Namibia. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 28. 284–297. 62 indexed citations
9.
Nagoli, Joseph, Erik Green, Wapulumuka Mulwafu, & Linley Chiwona‐Karltun. (2017). Coping with the Double Crisis: Lake Chilwa Recession and the Great Depression on Chisi Island in Colonial Malawi, 1930–1935. Human Ecology. 45(1). 111–117. 6 indexed citations
10.
Djurfeldt, Agnes Andersson, Ellen Hillbom, Wapulumuka Mulwafu, Peter Mvula, & Göran Djurfeldt. (2017). “The family farms together, the decisions, however are made by the man” —Matrilineal land tenure systems, welfare and decision making in rural Malawi. Land Use Policy. 70. 601–610. 50 indexed citations
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Nagoli, Joseph, et al.. (2016). Conflicts over Natural Resource Scarcity in the Aquatic Ecosystem of the Lake Chilwa. Environment and Ecology Research. 4(4). 207–216. 6 indexed citations
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Mulwafu, Wapulumuka. (2011). Conservation Song: A History of Peasant-State Relations and the Environment in Malawi, 1860-2000.. 10 indexed citations
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Mulwafu, Wapulumuka. (2010). Water rights in the context of pluralism and policy changes in Malawi. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Parts A/B/C. 35(13-14). 752–757. 6 indexed citations
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Mkandawire, Theresa & Wapulumuka Mulwafu. (2006). An analysis of IWRM capacity needs in Malawi. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Parts A/B/C. 31(15-16). 738–744. 9 indexed citations
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Ferguson, A. & Wapulumuka Mulwafu. (2005). Irrigation reform in Malawi: Exploring critical land-water intersections. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 8 indexed citations
16.
Mulwafu, Wapulumuka, et al.. (2004). The experience of irrigation management transfer in two irrigation schemes in Malawi, 1960s–2002. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Parts A/B/C. 29(15-18). 1327–1333. 17 indexed citations
17.
Mulwafu, Wapulumuka. (2004). The development of the coffee industry in the Misuku Hills of Northern Malawi, 1924-1964. 18. 1–16. 1 indexed citations
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Mulwafu, Wapulumuka, et al.. (2002). The use and management of water in the Likangala Irrigation Scheme Complex in Southern Malawi. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Parts A/B/C. 27(11-22). 839–844. 16 indexed citations
19.
Mulwafu, Wapulumuka. (2002). Soil Erosion and State Intervention into Estate Production in the Shire Highlands Economy of Colonial Malawi, 1891-1964. Journal of Southern African Studies. 28(1). 25–43. 7 indexed citations
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Mulwafu, Wapulumuka & J. D. Omer‐Cooper. (1991). History of Southern Africa. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines. 25(2). 344–344. 44 indexed citations

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