Albert Kobina Mensah

@sri.csir.org.gh

Research Scientist and Lecturer
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Soil Research Institute GHANA

Albert Kobina Mensah


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RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Environmental Science, Pollution, Soil Science
1605

Scholar Citations

15

Scholar h-index

16

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Beyond Total Concentrations: Geochemical Fractionation and Metal Mobilisation in Abandoned Mine Soils
    I Muhammad, AK Mensah, A Abdulhameed, P Addai, A Ibrahim, A Kabir
    Preprints , 2026
    2026
  • Subaltern environmentalism and small-scale mining reforms in Ghana: the new government's five-point strategy and a model for mining site reclamation
    AK Mensah, FXD Tuokuu
    Resources Policy 111, 105762 , 2025
    2025
  • Potentially toxic elements in flooded-gold-mine fields: compost stabilises Cd, biochar and manure mobilize As and Pb
    AK Mensah, E Sekyi-Annan, S Adams, H Okyere, F Issaka, PC Asante, ...
    Journal of Hazardous Materials, 139736 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • 2. Soil Remediation Practices Among Home Gardeners Frank Kweku Ackah1, Albert Kobina Mensah2, 3, Ephraim Sekyi-Annan2, 3, Adjei Boakye4
    FK Ackah, AK Mensah
    VENUE: CSIR–SOIL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, KWADASO, KUMASI, GHANA , 2025
    2025
  • Availability and mobilisation of potentially harmful elements in contaminated mining sites: A systematic review of using soil amendments and plants for remediation
    AK Mensah, E Sekyi-Annan, E Amoakwah
    Journal of Trace Elements and Minerals 12, 100234 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 8
  • General conclusions and summaries
    AK Mensah
    Soil pollution and remediation: risk assessment. Phytorem, Revegetation 4, 373 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Soil Pollution and Remediation: Risk Assessment, Phytoremediation, Revegetation
    AK Mensah
    De Gruyter , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Potentially harmful elements in mining sites in Ghana: assessment of their carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health risks for children and adults
    AK Mensah, A Samuel Obeng, P Addai, A Owusu-Ansah, ...
    Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 36 (2), 539-561 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 5
  • Manure and iron oxide show potential for reducing uptake of arsenic and mercury in lettuce grown in a contaminated mining site
    AK Mensah, E Sekyi-Annan, P Addai, OO Ulzen, M Salifu, S Adams
    Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances 17, 100545 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 7
  • Potential Human Health Risks From Ingestion and Dermal Exposure to Geophagic Clays: Applications of Multivariate Analyses (MVA) and Near‐Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy
    AK Mensah, E Sekyi-Annan, S Adams, HG Yakubu, PC Asante
    Journal of Chemistry 2025 (1), 2167390 , 2025
    2025
  • Soil biogeochemical factors influencing mobilization of toxic
    AK Mensah, E Amoakwah
    Perspectives and Insights on Soil Contamination and Effective Remediation … , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 6
  • Cadmium, Cu, Hg, Sb, Se and Ti contamination in abandoned and active mining sites in Ghana shows concerns for soil and human health risks
    AK Mensah, P Addai
    Environmental Advances 15, 100500 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 20
  • Soil amendment-assisted phytoremediation with ryegrass offers a promising approach to mitigate environmental health concerns
    AK Mensah
    International Journal of Phytoremediation, 1 - 18 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 8
  • Biochar, compost and/or NPK fertilizer affect the uptake of potentially toxic elements and promote the yield of lettuce grown in an abandoned gold mine tailing
    P Addai, AK Mensah, E Sekyi-Annan, EO Adjei
    Journal of Trace Elements and Minerals 4, 100066 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 25
  • Polluting our rivers in search of gold: how sustainable are reforms to stop informal miners from returning to mining sites in Ghana?
    AK Mensah, FXD Tuokuu
    Frontiers in Environmental Science 11, 1154091 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 31
  • Arsenic in gold mining wastes: An environmental and human health threat in Ghana
    AK Mensah, B Marschner, KJ Bansah, E Stemn, SM Shaheen, J Rinklebe
    Global Arsenic Hazard: Ecotoxicology and Remediation, 49-83 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 16
  • Phytoavailability and uptake of arsenic in ryegrass affected by various amendments in soil of an abandoned gold mining site
    AK Mensah, SM Shaheen, J Rinklebe, S Heinze, B Marschner
    Environmental research 214, 113729 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 34
  • Reducing conditions increased the mobilisation and hazardous effects of arsenic in a highly contaminated gold mine spoil
    AK Mensah, B Marschner, J Wang, J Bundschuh, SL Wang, PT Yang, ...
    Journal of hazardous materials 436, 129238 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 30
  • Biochar, compost, iron oxide, manure, and inorganic fertilizer affect bioavailability of arsenic and improve soil quality of an abandoned arsenic-contaminated gold mine spoil
    AK Mensah, B Marschner, SM Shaheen, J Rinklebe
    Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 234, 113358 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 61
  • Human health risk via soil ingestion of potentially toxic elements and remediation potential of native plants near an abandoned mine spoil in Ghana
    AK Mensah, B Marschner, V Antoniadis, E Stemn, SM Shaheen, ...
    Science of the Total Environment 798, 149272 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 76

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Biochar and/or compost applications improve soil properties, growth, and yield of maize grown in acidic rainforest and coastal savannah soils in Ghana
    AK Mensah, KA Frimpong
    International journal of agronomy 2018 (1), 6837404 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 327
  • Environmental impacts of mining: a study of mining communities in Ghana
    AK Mensah, IO Mahiri, O Owusu, OD Mireku, I Wireko, EA Kissi
    Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences 3 (3), 81-94 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 315
  • Role of revegetation in restoring fertility of degraded mined soils in Ghana: A review
    AK Mensah
    International journal of biodiversity and conservation 7 (2), 57-80 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 203
  • “Small in size, but big in impact”: socio-environmental reforms for sustainable artisanal and small-scale mining
    O Owusu, KJ Bansah, AK Mensah
    Journal of Sustainable Mining 18 (1), 38-44 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 149
  • Arsenic contamination in abandoned and active gold mine spoils in Ghana: Geochemical fractionation, speciation, and assessment of the potential human health risk
    AK Mensah, B Marschner, SM Shaheen, J Wang, SL Wang, J Rinklebe
    Environmental Pollution 261, 114116 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 146
  • Effects of mulching on soil hydro-physical properties in Kibaale Sub-catchment, South Central Uganda
    J Kakaire, GL Makokha, M Mwanjalolo, AK Mensah, M Emmanuel
    Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 78
  • Human health risk via soil ingestion of potentially toxic elements and remediation potential of native plants near an abandoned mine spoil in Ghana
    AK Mensah, B Marschner, V Antoniadis, E Stemn, SM Shaheen, ...
    Science of the Total Environment 798, 149272 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 76
  • Biochar, compost, iron oxide, manure, and inorganic fertilizer affect bioavailability of arsenic and improve soil quality of an abandoned arsenic-contaminated gold mine spoil
    AK Mensah, B Marschner, SM Shaheen, J Rinklebe
    Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 234, 113358 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 61
  • Phytoavailability and uptake of arsenic in ryegrass affected by various amendments in soil of an abandoned gold mining site
    AK Mensah, SM Shaheen, J Rinklebe, S Heinze, B Marschner
    Environmental research 214, 113729 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 34
  • Polluting our rivers in search of gold: how sustainable are reforms to stop informal miners from returning to mining sites in Ghana?
    AK Mensah, FXD Tuokuu
    Frontiers in Environmental Science 11, 1154091 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 31
  • Reducing conditions increased the mobilisation and hazardous effects of arsenic in a highly contaminated gold mine spoil
    AK Mensah, B Marschner, J Wang, J Bundschuh, SL Wang, PT Yang, ...
    Journal of hazardous materials 436, 129238 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 30
  • Biochar, compost and/or NPK fertilizer affect the uptake of potentially toxic elements and promote the yield of lettuce grown in an abandoned gold mine tailing
    P Addai, AK Mensah, E Sekyi-Annan, EO Adjei
    Journal of Trace Elements and Minerals 4, 100066 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 25
  • Cadmium, Cu, Hg, Sb, Se and Ti contamination in abandoned and active mining sites in Ghana shows concerns for soil and human health risks
    AK Mensah, P Addai
    Environmental Advances 15, 100500 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 20
  • Arsenic in gold mining wastes: An environmental and human health threat in Ghana
    AK Mensah, B Marschner, KJ Bansah, E Stemn, SM Shaheen, J Rinklebe
    Global Arsenic Hazard: Ecotoxicology and Remediation, 49-83 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 16
  • Effects of eucalyptus plantation on soil physico-chemical properties in Thiririka sub-catchment, Kiambu County, Kenya
    AK Mensah
    A Master’s Thesis, School of Pure and Applied Sciences of Kenyatta University , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 16
  • The performance of the mining sector in Ghana: A decomposition analysis of the relative contribution of price and output to revenue growth
    O Owusu, I Wireko, AK Mensah
    Resources Policy 50, 214-223 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 13
  • Availability and mobilisation of potentially harmful elements in contaminated mining sites: A systematic review of using soil amendments and plants for remediation
    AK Mensah, E Sekyi-Annan, E Amoakwah
    Journal of Trace Elements and Minerals 12, 100234 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 8
  • Soil amendment-assisted phytoremediation with ryegrass offers a promising approach to mitigate environmental health concerns
    AK Mensah
    International Journal of Phytoremediation, 1 - 18 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 8
  • Manure and iron oxide show potential for reducing uptake of arsenic and mercury in lettuce grown in a contaminated mining site
    AK Mensah, E Sekyi-Annan, P Addai, OO Ulzen, M Salifu, S Adams
    Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances 17, 100545 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 7
  • Factors affecting adoption of mulching in Kibaale sub-catchment, South Central Uganda
    J Kakaire, AK Mensah, E Menya
    International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and Informatics … , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 7