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Four University of Ghana Business School academics make 2026 global scientists list
Four faculty members of the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS) have been named in the 2026 edition of the World’s Top 2% Scientists List, compiled by Stanford University researchers in collaboration with Elsevier. The four are Prof. Joshua Yindenaba Abor, Dr Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah, Prof. Godfred Alufar Bokpin and Prof. Robert Ebo Hinson. […]
manuel ·Oct 23, 2026 ·2 min read
Four faculty members of the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS) have been named in the 2026 edition of the World’s Top 2% Scientists List, compiled by Stanford University researchers in collaboration with Elsevier.
The four are Prof. Joshua Yindenaba Abor, Dr Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah, Prof. Godfred Alufar Bokpin and Prof. Robert Ebo Hinson.
The list, released on October 7, 2026, uses citation data from Elsevier’s Scopus database, updated to the end of 2025, to assess researchers’ influence in their respective fields.
All four academics are listed under Economics and Business in the single-year impact ranking.
Prof. Abor is ranked 24,350th globally, with a composite citation score of 3.19, 216 documents and 714 citations. His subfield ranking is 119th among 16,367 researchers.
Dr Abakah is ranked 65,025th globally, with a composite score of 2.88, 101 documents and 1,259 citations. He ranks 266th in his subfield among 16,367 researchers.
Prof. Bokpin is ranked 74,673rd globally, with a composite score of 2.84, 68 documents and 359 citations. His subfield ranking is 311th among 16,367 researchers.
Prof. Hinson is ranked 78,710th globally in the reported single-year ranking. His subfield position is 485th among 15,920 researchers, while his composite score ranking is 83,315th.
The World’s Top 2% Scientists List assesses researchers using citation-based measures of their scholarly work. It has two main categories: career-long impact and single-year impact.
The career-long ranking considers a researcher’s influence over their professional life, while the single-year ranking measures research impact within a particular year.
The assessment covers 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields. Its composite score, known as the c-score, draws on several measures, including citations, the h-index, co-authorship adjustments and authorship position. It also considers citation counts with and without self-citations.
The ranking is intended to assess research influence by looking beyond publication numbers to the extent to which other researchers cite a scholar’s work.
UGBS said the recognition highlights the international reach of the four academics’ research and their contributions to economics and business scholarship.
