Elisha Kwaku Denkyirah

University of Ghana

Publishing since 2016, latest 2018

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Economics and Econometrics
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Horticulture
Information Systems
Business and International Management

In their own words

Agribusiness
Applied Economics
Innovation
Economic Development
Health Economics

Publications: 82016–2018
Citations: 458to those papers
h-index: 7i10-index 6
Field-weighted impact: 9.271.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 75%6 of 8 scored papers
Open access: 88%7 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

Graduate Research Fellow, Free Market InstituteFree Market Institute, Texas Tech University2021–2025
Graduate Research Assistant, Agribusiness and Applied EconomicsNorth Dakota State University2019–2021

Education

Ph.D., Agricultural and Applied EconomicsTexas Tech University2021–2025
Master of Science in International Agribusiness, Applied Economics and AgribusinessNorth Dakota State University2019–2021
Master of Philosophy Degree in Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness

Publications

8 in all

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

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences450%
Economics and Econometrics338%
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance225%
Horticulture225%
Information Systems225%
Business and International Management113%
Development113%
Ecology113%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics113%
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis113%

Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Agricultural Innovations and Practices4
Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy2
Economic Growth and Development2
Agricultural Economics and Policy1
Agricultural risk and resilience1
Air Quality and Health Impacts1
Climate change impacts on agriculture1
Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies1
Energy, Environment, Economic Growth1
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth1
Global trade and economics1
Innovation and Socioeconomic Development1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

50% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1122223Home

Most frequent partner countries

Germany3
United States1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

University of GöttingenDE3 papers
Baldwin Wallace UniversityUS1 paper

Where they publish

SpringerPlus2
Cogent Economics & Finance1
Cogent Food & Agriculture1
International Journal of Education Economics and Development1
Journal of Agricultural Studies1
Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

17Partnerships for the goals2
1No poverty1
8Decent work and economic growth1
13Climate action1

Most cited

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
Modeling Ghanaian cocoa farmers’ decision to use pesticide and frequency of application: the case of Brong Ahafo Region
SpringerPlus
201699 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Diamond

Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Agricultural Economics and AgribusinessUniversity of Ghana2008–2012

Cogent Economics & Finance

Education and economic growth: a co-integration approach

2017International Journal of Education Economics and DevelopmentJournalSenior author9 citations10.1504/ijeed.2017.088815

EFFECT OF TARIFF ESCALATION ON GHANAIAN COCOA EXPORTS: AN EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVE

2017RePEc: Research Papers in EconomicsJournalOpen access2 citations10.22004/ag.econ.266479

Access to Credit and Constraint Analysis: The Case of Smallholder Rice Farmers in Ghana

2016Journal of Agricultural StudiesJournalOpen accessFirst author15 citations10.5296/jas.v4i2.9167

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

How it can be read

88% free to read

Diamond 4 · 50%Free to read and to publish
Gold 1 · 13%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 1 · 13%Open in a subscription journal
Green 1 · 13%A copy in a repository
Closed 1 · 13%Behind a paywall

201686 citationsOpen access · Diamond

What are the drivers of cocoa farmers’ choice of climate change adaptation strategies in Ghana?

Cogent Food & Agriculture13

201767 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Diamond

Access to Credit and Constraint Analysis: The Case of Smallholder Rice Farmers in Ghana

Journal of Agricultural Studies

201615 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid