Education

Ph.D (Information Studies)
M. A. (Information Studies)
B. A. (Information Studies and Political Science)

Research Interest

Information Behaviour
Information Dissemination
Information Research

Publications

Published Refereed Papers in Academic Journals

1. Kankam, P. K. & Baffour, F. D. (2023). Information behaviour of prison inmates in Ghana. Information Development. https://doi.org/10.1177/02666669231178661
2. Kankam, P. K. (2023). Information literacy development and competencies of high school students in Accra. Information Discovery and Delivery. https://doi.org/10.1108/IDD-10-2021-0114
3. Attuh, S., & Kankam, P. K. (2022). Community radio as Information Dissemination Tool for Sustainable Rural Development in Ghana. Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 1-23 https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2022.2146119
4. Kankam, P. K., & Attuh, S. (2022). The role of community radio in information dissemination towards youth development in Ghana. Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, . https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/GKMC-01-2022-0023/fu...
5. Kankam, P. K. (2021). Employing Case Study and Survey designs in information research. Journal of Information Technology Research, 14(1), 167-177
6. Kyere, I. and Kankam, P. K. (2021). Information dissemination during pandemics: a review on the Spanish anfluenza and the Covid-19. Record and Library Journal, 7(2), 254-264
7. Kankam, P. K. and Baffour, F. D. (2021). Why librarians matter in the promotion of mental health literacy in higher education. International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change, 15(1), 1-17
8. Brobbey, E. E., Ankrah, E. and Kankam, P. K. (2021). The role of artificial intelligence in integrated marketing. A case study of Jumia Ghana. Inkanyiso: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 13(1), 120-136
9. Owusu-Achaw, J. K. and Kankam, P. K. (2021). The use of information dissemination to reflect altruism of Corporate Social Responsibility projects in Ghana. Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal).
10. Kankam, P. K. (2020). Mobile information behaviour of sandwich students towards mobile learning integration at the University of Ghana. Cogent Education, 7(1), [1796202], 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2020.1796202
11. Kankam, P. K., Okyere, E. K. and Awuah, P. (2020). A Bibliometric Study of MPhill Theses at The Department of Information Studies, University of Ghana (2000-2018). Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal). 4282. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/4282
12. Kankam, P. K. (2020). Approaches in Information Research. New Review of Academic Librarianship, 26(1), 165-183 https://doi.org/10.1080/13614533.2019.1632216
13. Owusu, C. and Kankam, P. K. (2019), Information seeking behaviour of beggars in Accra", Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, 69(4/5), 205-220 https://doi.org/10.1108/GKMC-07-2019-0080
14. Kankam, P. K. (2019). The use of paradigms in information research. Library and Information Science Research, 41, 85–92
15. Kankam, P. K. and Nsibirwa, Z. (2019). Internet access and information retrieval competencies of high school students in Ghana. Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal). 2342. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/2342
16. Nsibirwa, Z. and Kankam, P. K. (2018). Barriers to high school learners’ online information behaviour in Ghana. Mousaion, 36(3), 1-22 https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-659X/6009
17. Kankam, P. K. and Nsibirwa, Z. (2018). Librarians role in facilitating high school learners’ information literacy competencies in Ghana. Innovation, 57, 14-37
18. Kankam, P. K. (2018). Evaluation of Internet information sources by high school students in Ghana. International Information & Library Review, 50(2), 1-6
19. Kankam, P. K., and Boateng, S. O. (2017). Addressing the problem of speech anxiety among students. International Journal of Public Leadership, 13(1), 26-39.
20. Kankam, P. K., Nimo-Ntim, D. and Sackey, M. (2016). Information seeking behaviour of undergraduate students in the internet age. Journal of Global Research in Education and Social Science. 9(3), 158-167
21. Kankam, P. K. (2014). Dissertations of African University College of Communications: A Bibliometric Study. Research Journal of Library Sciences, 2(4), 1-5