Derick T. Adu

Teaching Assistant, Auburn University, since 2021per ORCID
Research Assistant, Auburn University, since 2019per ORCID

Publishing since 2016, latest 2018

I am Assistant Professor at Alcorn State University, USA. My research interest includes international trade policy, economic development, and agricultural economics. Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/dericktaduapecon/home From ORCID

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Economics and Econometrics
Horticulture
Information Systems
Soil Science

Publications: 72016–2018
Citations: 677to those papers
h-index: 7i10-index 6
Field-weighted impact: 12.161.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 86%6 of 7 scored papers
Open access: 86%6 papers free to read

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress

Citations received each year

Peerford

To all their work, old papers included. Google Scholar also counts citations from theses, books and web pages, so its line runs higher.

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Teaching Assistant, Agricultural Economics and Rural SociologyAuburn Universitysince 2021
Research Assistant, Agricultural Economics and Rural SociologyAuburn Universitysince 2019
Adjunct Lecturer, Development and Management StudiesAnglican University College of Technology2018–2019
Project Manager, Project ManagementFreshmacs Ghana Limited2017–2019
Sustainability Monitoring and Assessment Routine Auditor, Agricultural Economics and AgribusinessUniversity of Ghana

Publications

7 in all

Economic growth and environmental pollution in West Africa: Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis
2018Kasetsart Journal of Social SciencesJournalOpen accessFirst author170 citations10.1016/j.kjss.2017.12.008
Foreign aid— real exchange rate Nexus: Empirical evidence from Ghana
2018

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences343%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics229%
Economics and Econometrics229%
Horticulture229%
Information Systems229%
Soil Science229%
Development114%
Ecology114%
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance114%
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis114%

Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Agricultural Innovations and Practices3
Agricultural risk and resilience2
Climate change impacts on agriculture2
Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy2
Economic Growth and Development2
Agricultural Economics and Policy1
Air Quality and Health Impacts1
Energy and Environment Impacts1
Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies1
Energy, Environment, Economic Growth1
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth1
International Development and Aid1

Who they write with

Their most frequent co-authors, and the papers those co-authors share

Where their co-authors are

43% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1111111Home

Most frequent partner countries

Germany1
Thailand1
United States1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Asian Institute of TechnologyTH1 paper
Baldwin Wallace UniversityUS1 paper
University of GöttingenDE1 paper

Where they publish

Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences2
SpringerPlus2
Cogent Economics & Finance1
Cogent Food & Agriculture1
International Journal of Education Economics and Development1

How it can be read

86% free to read

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

13Climate action2
1No poverty1
8Decent work and economic growth1
17Partnerships for the goals1

Most cited

Application of livelihood vulnerability index in assessing smallholder maize farming households' vulnerability to climate change in Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana
Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences13
2017236 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Diamond
Economic growth and environmental pollution in West Africa: Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis
Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences1
2018170 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Diamond