KsTU earns top-four position in Ghana in QS Sub-Saharan Africa Rankings 2026

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• Mafia 1 month ago

  https://www.scopus.com/results/authorNamesList.uri?sort=count-f&affiliationId=60277066&src=al&sid=e61d3c80a5efc3c3257f819eb144c2e8&sot=al&sdt=al&sl=16&s=AF--ID%2860277066%29&st1=Kumasi+Technical+University&selectionPageSearch ...
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  https://www.scopus.com/results/authorNamesList.uri?sort=count-f&affiliationId=60277066&src=al&sid=e61d3c80a5efc3c3257f819eb144c2e8&sot=al&sdt=al&sl=16&s=AF--ID%2860277066%29&st1=Kumasi+Technical+University&selectionPageSearch=anl&reselectAuthor=false&activeFlag=true&showDocument=false&resultsPerPage=20&offset=1&jtp=false¤tPage=1&previousSelectionCount=0&tooManySelections=false&previousResultCount=0&authSubject=LFSC&authSubject=HLSC&authSubject=PHSC&authSubject=SOSC&exactAuthorSearch=false&showFullList=false&authorPreferredName=&origin=AffiliationProfile&txGid=198ecb5b3e2fee655c601380db25b30c
  
  Bogus ranking. What research. The VC himself has only one paper in Scopus. Their overall research output as a university is 10 lecturers publication together in a traditional university.
  
  Check their bogus profile that is even less compared to other technical universities

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• Ayitey 1 month ago

  We have checked their research outputs. Please, can we also see the institutions that you are comparing with?

  We have checked their research outputs. Please, can we also see the institutions that you are comparing with?

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• Mafia 1 month ago

  Which research output? They have none to zero. Check their publications to their counterpart in Ho Technical University and Takordi. As for Traditional universities, it's not comparable. Their profiles are weak and they don't ...
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  Which research output? They have none to zero. Check their publications to their counterpart in Ho Technical University and Takordi. As for Traditional universities, it's not comparable. Their profiles are weak and they don't have any better research output if you check Scopus so I don't know where this fake and bogus ranking from. Even the VC knows he has only paper in Scopus and his staff with the highest number of publications is 37 in Scopus. So where is the research dominance. Check the names of traditional universities in Ghana even the recent ones of UENR and UHAS and their profiles to see if this KsTU is close to them in terms of research volume and citations?

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• Ayitey 1 month ago

  Bro, is Scopus only an index? I know a gentleman from the institution who has published all his papers in social science citation index (SSCI). A top-tier journal. From the link you provided, kindly check their names on Googl ...
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  Bro, is Scopus only an index? I know a gentleman from the institution who has published all his papers in social science citation index (SSCI). A top-tier journal. From the link you provided, kindly check their names on Google Scholar to find out their research outputs. There are researchers out there who are publishing good papers in leading journals from emeraild, elsevier, springer, taylor and francis, among others.

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• Mafia 1 month ago

  Any journal index SSCI is likely to be indexed in Scopus. It's not rocket science. KsTU is poor in research and that is it. Their research output is not even close to their counter parts in Ho and Takoradi not to talk Traditi ...
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  Any journal index SSCI is likely to be indexed in Scopus. It's not rocket science. KsTU is poor in research and that is it. Their research output is not even close to their counter parts in Ho and Takoradi not to talk Traditional Universities. SSCI is Web of Science index and when you pull the data together there are likely to be the same cos any journal with Impact Factor in WoS either SSCI or whatever is also indexed Scopus.

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• Mafia 1 month ago

  Google Scholar is useless in academia in the first place. No serious institution would rely on Google scholar to make a claim of research as all predatory journals are also index by Google scholar. Infact Google scholar can e ...
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  Google Scholar is useless in academia in the first place. No serious institution would rely on Google scholar to make a claim of research as all predatory journals are also index by Google scholar. Infact Google scholar can easily be gamed to increase citations by just writing anything and citing your papers and post on an online research link. It's not rocket science. Any serious institution will not even use Google scholar to make a case knowing full well it's deficiencies. Even with that, scholars in Ho and Takoradi Technical Universities are better than Kumasi Technical University. As for Traditional Universities, KsTU is not close to them in any way even with the new universities like UENR and UHAS not to talk of the oldies of UCC, UG, KNUST and the likes. You just take a professor in KsTU and do head to head comparison of their Google scholar, Scopus and WoS and see the gap. They nothing in research in terms of volume and quality (citations by better journals)

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• Mafia 1 month ago

  Mention the Gentleman's name and I will pull is data from WoS that has the SCCI index. He will just be having some 10 or papers bi. Nothing give these polytechnics self styled Universities with their quack professors from the ...
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  Mention the Gentleman's name and I will pull is data from WoS that has the SCCI index. He will just be having some 10 or papers bi. Nothing give these polytechnics self styled Universities with their quack professors from their VCs to their lecturers.

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• Mafia 1 month ago

  https://www.scopus.com/results/authorNamesList.uri?sort=count-f&affiliationId=60187532&src=al&sid=549a2d5ffd9ac9b57aa609d40eb26c40&sot=al&sdt=al&sl=16&s=AF--ID%2860187532%29&st1=University+of+Energy+and+Natural+Resources&sele ...
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  https://www.scopus.com/results/authorNamesList.uri?sort=count-f&affiliationId=60187532&src=al&sid=549a2d5ffd9ac9b57aa609d40eb26c40&sot=al&sdt=al&sl=16&s=AF--ID%2860187532%29&st1=University+of+Energy+and+Natural+Resources&selectionPageSearch=anl&reselectAuthor=false&activeFlag=true&showDocument=false&resultsPerPage=20&offset=1&jtp=false¤tPage=1&previousSelectionCount=0&tooManySelections=false&previousResultCount=0&authSubject=LFSC&authSubject=HLSC&authSubject=PHSC&authSubject=SOSC&exactAuthorSearch=false&showFullList=false&authorPreferredName=&origin=AffiliationProfile&txGid=f64ca2e4cffe6d60e6e898050181dd04
  This is UENR about 13 years old Traditional University
  
  https://www.scopus.com/results/authorNamesList.uri?sort=count-f&affiliationId=60116801&src=al&sid=d598dc3c8dded9bc79720d47a6908aa7&sot=al&sdt=al&sl=16&s=AF--ID%2860116801%29&st1=University+of+Health+and+Allied+Sciences%2c+Ghana&selectionPageSearch=anl&reselectAuthor=false&activeFlag=true&showDocument=false&resultsPerPage=20&offset=1&jtp=false¤tPage=1&previousSelectionCount=0&tooManySelections=false&previousResultCount=0&authSubject=LFSC&authSubject=HLSC&authSubject=PHSC&authSubject=SOSC&exactAuthorSearch=false&showFullList=false&authorPreferredName=&origin=AffiliationProfile&txGid=db8b8c89b5c1e12d6281ff2e43b151c8
  
  UHAS, another 13 year old Traditional University.
  
  Look at how these young traditional universities are dwarfing the so called QS top tier university research output. The journals published by these guys are also having better IF than these polytechnics.
  
  This is even young traditional universities, so is there a reason to compared against the big guys when their small boys are dwarfing the research output of these so called technical university?

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