Luke Emeka Okafor

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 846 citations indexed

About

Luke Emeka Okafor is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, Luke Emeka Okafor has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 846 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 20 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 16 papers in General Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Recurrent topics in Luke Emeka Okafor's work include Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (19 papers), Global trade and economics (15 papers) and International Business and FDI (12 papers). Luke Emeka Okafor is often cited by papers focused on Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (19 papers), Global trade and economics (15 papers) and International Business and FDI (12 papers). Luke Emeka Okafor collaborates with scholars based in Malaysia, United Arab Emirates and Netherlands. Luke Emeka Okafor's co-authors include Usman Khalid, Katarzyna Burzynska, Muhammad Shafiullah, Mita Bhattacharya, Sasidaran Gopalan, Harry Bloch, Nicholas Apergis, Joanna Tyrowicz, Ogechi Adeola and Oludele Folarin and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Tourism Management.

In The Last Decade

Luke Emeka Okafor

34 papers receiving 810 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Does the size of the tourism sector influence the economic policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic?

2021 157 citations Usman Khalid, Luke Emeka Okafor et al. Current Issues in Tourism profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luke Emeka Okafor Malaysia	17	523	394	167	163	148	36	846
Neelu Seetaram United Kingdom	19	755 1.4×	455 1.2×	274 1.6×	128 0.8×	72 0.5×	36	1.0k
Ghialy Yap Australia	10	543 1.0×	298 0.8×	111 0.7×	53 0.3×	95 0.6×	27	672
Josep María Raya Spain	17	380 0.7×	361 0.9×	169 1.0×	52 0.3×	65 0.4×	51	852
Egon Smeral Austria	22	1.2k 2.3×	652 1.7×	427 2.6×	119 0.7×	168 1.1×	72	1.6k
Juan A. Campos‐Soria Spain	14	497 1.0×	298 0.8×	182 1.1×	26 0.2×	65 0.4×	27	820
Melchor Fernández Fernández Spain	12	390 0.7×	378 1.0×	124 0.7×	49 0.3×	25 0.2×	64	758
Mina Dragouni United Kingdom	10	446 0.9×	336 0.9×	103 0.6×	39 0.2×	47 0.3×	18	663
Zheng Cao United Kingdom	7	561 1.1×	235 0.6×	146 0.9×	32 0.2×	67 0.5×	9	725
Paul C. Cheshire United Kingdom	16	267 0.5×	746 1.9×	105 0.6×	57 0.3×	62 0.4×	47	1.2k
Kwok Tong Soo United Kingdom	11	150 0.3×	573 1.5×	88 0.5×	97 0.6×	85 0.6×	34	913

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20 of 20 papers shown

Okafor, Luke Emeka. (2025). Bank Loans, Financial Incentives, and the Use of Imported Inputs and Services During the 2008 Financial Crisis. The International Trade Journal. 40(1). 34–56.

Yan, Eric, Luke Emeka Okafor, & Chi‐Chur Chao. (2024). Welfare and productivity of the Chinese regional economy under forced technology transfer in the post-intervention period of the Green Credit Policy. Journal of Asian Economics. 96. 101847–101847.

Adeola, Ogechi, Olaniyi Evans, & Luke Emeka Okafor. (2023). Does Social Media Moderate the Link Between Tourism and Economic Well-Being? Evidence From the Iterated Gmm Approach. Tourism Analysis. 28(3). 403–420. 1 indexed citations

Gopalan, Sasidaran, Usman Khalid, & Luke Emeka Okafor. (2023). Do greenfield FDI inflows promote international tourism?. Current Issues in Tourism. 27(24). 4561–4578. 6 indexed citations

Okafor, Luke Emeka & Usman Khalid. (2023). COVID-19 economic stimulus packages, tourism industry and external debt: The influence of extreme poverty. PLoS ONE. 18(8). e0287384–e0287384. 1 indexed citations

Shafiullah, Muhammad, Usman Khalid, & Luke Emeka Okafor. (2022). Do birds of a feather flock together? Analyzing environmental performance and tourist behavior using a gravity approach. Tourism Economics. 29(5). 1139–1163. 3 indexed citations

Okafor, Luke Emeka, et al.. (2022). Dyadic hostility, tourism, and regional trade agreements. Current Issues in Tourism. 26(22). 3734–3750. 4 indexed citations

Okafor, Luke Emeka, Usman Khalid, & Sasidaran Gopalan. (2022). COVID-19 economic policy response, resilience and tourism recovery. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 100073–100073. 38 indexed citations

Okafor, Luke Emeka, et al.. (2022). Risk dimensions, risk clusters, and foreign direct investments in developing countries. International Review of Economics & Finance. 82. 636–649. 16 indexed citations

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Khalid, Usman, Luke Emeka Okafor, & Katarzyna Burzynska. (2021). Does the quality of health security of a country moderate the link between bilateral tourism flows and the COVID-19 death rate?. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism Leisure and Events. 16(2). 227–245. 4 indexed citations

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Okafor, Luke Emeka, Usman Khalid, & Katarzyna Burzynska. (2021). Does the level of a country's resilience moderate the link between the tourism industry and the economic policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic?. Current Issues in Tourism. 25(2). 303–318. 55 indexed citations

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Khalid, Usman, Luke Emeka Okafor, & Katarzyna Burzynska. (2021). Does the size of the tourism sector influence the economic policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic?. Current Issues in Tourism. 24(19). 2801–2820. 157 indexed citations breakdown →

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Okafor, Luke Emeka, Ogechi Adeola, & Oludele Folarin. (2021). Natural disasters, trade openness and international tourism: the role of income levels across countries. Tourism Recreation Research. 48(1). 60–78. 17 indexed citations

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Khalid, Usman, et al.. (2021). Exploring Diverse Sources of Linguistic Influence on International Tourism Flows. Journal of Travel Research. 61(3). 696–714. 26 indexed citations

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Okafor, Luke Emeka. (2020). Export Market Destinations, Imported Intermediates, and Productivity: Firm-level Evidence from Ghana. The International Trade Journal. 35(4). 383–410. 16 indexed citations

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Khalid, Usman, Luke Emeka Okafor, & Muhammad Shafiullah. (2019). The Effects of Economic and Financial Crises on International Tourist Flows: A Cross-Country Analysis. Journal of Travel Research. 59(2). 315–334. 87 indexed citations

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Okafor, Luke Emeka, et al.. (2019). 2018 WTO Trade Policy Review of Malaysia. World Economy. 42(12). 3447–3463. 12 indexed citations

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Shafiullah, Muhammad, Luke Emeka Okafor, & Usman Khalid. (2018). Determinants of international tourism demand: Evidence from Australian states and territories. Tourism Economics. 25(2). 274–296. 52 indexed citations

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Okafor, Luke Emeka & Joanna Tyrowicz. (2010). Saving less when there is more foreign lending? Foreign debt and savings in developing countries. Journal of Economic Policy Reform. 13(3). 213–223. 6 indexed citations

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Okafor, Luke Emeka & Joanna Tyrowicz. (2008). Foreign Debt and Domestic Savings In Developing Countries. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 8 indexed citations

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