Alex O. Acheampong

6.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
74 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Alex O. Acheampong is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex O. Acheampong has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 30 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 29 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Alex O. Acheampong's work include Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (49 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (30 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (29 papers). Alex O. Acheampong is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (49 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (30 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (29 papers). Alex O. Acheampong collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and United Kingdom. Alex O. Acheampong's co-authors include Samuel Adams, Elliot Boateng, Janet Dzator, Eric Evans Osei Opoku, Mary Amponsah, Emmanuel B. Boateng, Isaac Appiah‐Otoo, Matthew Abunyewah, Michael Odei Erdiaw‐Kwasie and Michael Dzator and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Alex O. Acheampong

68 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

Economic growth, CO2 emis... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2019 2019 2020 2022 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Economic growth, CO2 emissions and energy consumption: What causes what and where?
    2018 635 citations Alex O. Acheampong Energy Economics profile →
  2. Do globalization and renewable energy contribute to carbon emissions mitigation in Sub-Saharan Africa?
    2019 478 citations Alex O. Acheampong et al. profile →
  3. Modelling for insight: Does financial development improve environmental quality?
    2019 457 citations Alex O. Acheampong Energy Economics profile →
  4. Does financial development mitigate carbon emissions? Evidence from heterogeneous financial economies
    2020 344 citations Alex O. Acheampong et al. Energy Economics profile →
  5. Renewable energy, nonrenewable energy, and environmental quality nexus: An investigation of the N-shaped Environmental Kuznets Curve based on six environmental indicators
    2022 183 citations Alex O. Acheampong et al. profile →
  6. Urban climate adaptability and green total-factor productivity: Evidence from double dual machine learning and differences-in-differences techniques
    2023 81 citations Alex O. Acheampong et al. Journal of Environmental Management profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alex O. Acheampong Australia 29 3.9k 2.2k 1.3k 1.0k 386 74 4.8k
Mantu Kumar Mahalik India 38 4.6k 1.2× 2.6k 1.2× 1.2k 1.0× 967 0.9× 346 0.9× 125 5.4k
Solomon Prince Nathaniel Nigeria 36 4.7k 1.2× 2.6k 1.2× 1.4k 1.1× 1.9k 1.8× 240 0.6× 65 5.3k
Roula Inglesi‐Lotz South Africa 36 3.7k 0.9× 2.5k 1.1× 1.5k 1.2× 1.2k 1.1× 176 0.5× 109 4.8k
Muhammad Kamran Khan Pakistan 31 3.5k 0.9× 2.0k 0.9× 871 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 187 0.5× 97 4.4k
Mohammad Salahuddin Australia 23 3.2k 0.8× 1.9k 0.8× 832 0.7× 811 0.8× 313 0.8× 56 3.8k
Samuel Adams Ghana 27 3.6k 0.9× 2.1k 0.9× 1.0k 0.8× 884 0.8× 446 1.2× 65 4.7k
Muhammad Awais Baloch China 25 4.9k 1.2× 2.8k 1.2× 1.3k 1.0× 1.7k 1.6× 290 0.8× 41 5.5k
José Alberto Fuinhas Portugal 41 3.9k 1.0× 2.4k 1.1× 1.4k 1.1× 1.1k 1.0× 161 0.4× 169 5.1k
Ali Acaravcı Türkiye 21 3.9k 1.0× 2.6k 1.1× 1.1k 0.9× 1.1k 1.1× 193 0.5× 49 4.3k
Syed Anees Haider Zaidi China 22 3.1k 0.8× 1.7k 0.7× 831 0.7× 940 0.9× 231 0.6× 38 3.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bukari, Chei & Alex O. Acheampong. (2025). Mitigating the impact of climate change on poverty in Africa: the moderating role of financial inclusion. Finance research letters. 84. 107853–107853.
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Opoku, Eric Evans Osei, et al.. (2024). Does gender diversity in politics improve access to electricity and electrification inequality? A global analysis. Energy Economics. 131. 107399–107399. 14 indexed citations
3.
Opoku, Eric Evans Osei, et al.. (2024). Women's political participation and disease prevention: Evidence from access to water and sanitation services. Social Science & Medicine. 365. 117585–117585. 2 indexed citations
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Acheampong, Alex O., Gulasekaran Rajaguru, & Neil Campbell. (2024). Financial inclusion and political institutions’ role in renewable energy transition: what does the data say?. Applied Economics. 57(59). 10719–10734. 2 indexed citations
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Opoku, Eric Evans Osei, Alex O. Acheampong, Kingsley E. Dogah, & Isaac Koomson. (2024). Energy innovation investment and renewable energy in OECD countries. Energy Strategy Reviews. 54. 101462–101462. 33 indexed citations
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Acheampong, Alex O. & Eric Evans Osei Opoku. (2024). Analyzing the health implications of rising income inequality: What does the data say?. Economics of Transition and Institutional Change. 32(4). 1003–1035. 2 indexed citations
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Acheampong, Alex O., et al.. (2024). Does Financial Inclusion Matter to Population Health? Insight From a Global Dataset. Social Indicators Research. 172(3). 1005–1040. 2 indexed citations
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Acheampong, Alex O., et al.. (2024). Addressing rural energy poverty and rural-urban energy access gap in developing countries: does international remittances matter?. Applied Economics. 57(23). 2998–3015. 10 indexed citations
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Abban, Olivier Joseph, et al.. (2024). The road to decarbonization in Australia. A Morlet wavelet approach. Journal of Environmental Management. 365. 121570–121570. 8 indexed citations
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Twumasi, Martinson Ankrah, Frank Adusah‐Poku, Alex O. Acheampong, & Eric Evans Osei Opoku. (2024). Residential energy expenditures and the relevance of financial inclusion across location, wealth quintiles and household structures. Heliyon. 10(5). e26710–e26710. 2 indexed citations
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Dzator, Janet, et al.. (2023). Do remittances reduce school dropout in Bangladesh? The role of government’s administrative and structural support. Journal of Policy Modeling. 45(2). 388–404. 8 indexed citations
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Acheampong, Alex O., Janet Dzator, Matthew Abunyewah, Michael Odei Erdiaw‐Kwasie, & Eric Evans Osei Opoku. (2023). Sub-Saharan Africa’s Tragedy: Resource Curse, Democracy and Income Inequality. Social Indicators Research. 168(1-3). 471–509. 17 indexed citations
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Acheampong, Alex O. & Eric Evans Osei Opoku. (2023). Energy justice, democracy and deforestation. Journal of Environmental Management. 341. 118012–118012. 25 indexed citations
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Acheampong, Alex O.. (2023). Governance, credit access and clean cooking technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for energy transition. Journal of Policy Modeling. 45(2). 445–468. 55 indexed citations
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Acheampong, Alex O., Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo, Janet Dzator, & Isaac Koomson. (2023). Income inequality and economic growth in BRICS: insights from non-parametric techniques. The Journal of Economic Inequality. 21(3). 619–640. 16 indexed citations
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Aluko, Olufemi Adewale, Eric Evans Osei Opoku, & Alex O. Acheampong. (2022). Economic complexity and environmental degradation: Evidence from OECD countries. Business Strategy and the Environment. 32(6). 2767–2788. 50 indexed citations
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Koomson, Isaac, Simplice Asongu, & Alex O. Acheampong. (2022). Financial Inclusion and Food Insecurity: Examining Linkages and Potential Pathways. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Appiah‐Otoo, Isaac, Alex O. Acheampong, Na Song, & Xudong Chen. (2022). The impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on carbon dioxide emissions: Evidence from heterogeneous ICT countries. Energy & Environment. 34(8). 3080–3102. 51 indexed citations
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Opoku, Eric Evans Osei, et al.. (2022). Does environmental sustainability attract foreign investment? Evidence from developing countries. Business Strategy and the Environment. 31(7). 3542–3573. 28 indexed citations
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Appiah‐Otoo, Isaac & Alex O. Acheampong. (2021). Does insurance sector development improve environmental quality? Evidence from BRICS. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(23). 29432–29444. 24 indexed citations

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