Patrick Kwashie Akorsu

Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Coast, since 2005per ORCID

Publishing since 2009, latest 2026

Economics and Econometrics
Finance
Accounting
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Pollution

Publications: 212009–2026
Citations: 168to those papers
h-index: 7i10-index 4
Field-weighted impact: 5.111.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 47%8 of 17 scored papers
Open access: 76%13 of the 17 whose access is recorded

5 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.

Google Scholar shows 376 citations, h-index 9 and i10-index 9 (286 citations and h-index 9 since 2021), as of October 5, 2026. It also counts theses, books and web pages, so it runs higher.

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

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

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Senior Lecturer, FinanceUniversity of Cape Coastsince 2005

Education

PhD, Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SAUniversity of Cape Coast2020–2023

Publications

21 in all

Spillover connectedness among climate risk, cleantech and green bonds: evidence from quantile and frequency-dependent approach
2026Future Business JournalJournalOpen access1 citation10.1186/s43093-026-00884-9
Sustainable Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Moderating Role of Technological Innovation in the Finance-Sustainability Nexus
2026

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Citations received each year

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

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Economics and Econometrics1467%
Finance629%
Accounting419%
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment419%
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance314%
Pollution210%
Strategy and Management210%
General Energy15%
Management Science and Operations Research15%
Urban Studies15%

Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Market Dynamics and Volatility9
Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds3
Banking stability, regulation, efficiency2
Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis2
Corporate Finance and Governance2
Energy and Environment Impacts2
Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies2
Energy, Environment, Economic Growth2
Global Energy and Sustainability Research2
Islamic Finance and Banking Studies2
Monetary Policy and Economic Impact2
Business Strategies and Management Research1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

24% of their 17 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

United States1
China1
South Africa1
United Kingdom1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Cardiff Metropolitan UniversityGB1 paper
Chengdu UniversityCN1 paper
Southern Illinois University CarbondaleUS1 paper
University of the WitwatersrandZA1 paper
University of GhanaGH1 paper

Where they publish

Future Business Journal4
Complexity2
Oguaa Journal of Social Sciences2
Cogent Economics & Finance1
Digital Finance1
European Journal of Management and Business Economics1
Journal of Business and Enterprise Development

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

1No poverty2
8Decent work and economic growth1
9Industry, innovation and infrastructure1
13Climate action1

Most cited

Flights‐to‐and‐from‐Quality with Islamic and Conventional Bonds in the COVID‐19 Pandemic Era: ICEEMDAN‐Based Transfer Entropy
Complexity
202254 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Geopolitical risk and exchange rate dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa’s emerging economies
Future Business Journal
202521 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Diamond
Time and frequency nexus among public debt, exchange rate, inflation, monetary policy rate and economic growth in Ghana

World Development Sustainability

Trade openness, foreign direct investment and industrialisation in Ghana

2023Cogent Economics & FinanceJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding17 citations10.1080/23322039.2023.2183638

Credit default swaps, investor protection, and audit cost: international evidence

2023European Journal of Management and Business EconomicsJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding1 citation10.1108/ejmbe-04-2022-0099

Testing the Pecking Order and Signalling Theories for Financial Institutions in Ghana

2014Journals & Books Hosting (International Knowledge Sharing Platform)JournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding8 citations

Human resource management practice: A substitute for trade unionism

2009Journal of Business and Enterprise DevelopmentJournalSenior author4 citations

Journals & Books Hosting (International Knowledge Sharing Platform)1

How it can be read

76% free to read, of the 17 recorded

Diamond 6 · 29%Free to read and to publish
Gold 6 · 29%In an open-access journal
Green 1 · 5%A copy in a repository
Closed 4 · 19%Behind a paywall
Unknown 4 · 19%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

1 of 21 papers name a funder

Chengdu University1

Trade openness, foreign direct investment and industrialisation in Ghana

Cogent Economics & Finance

202317 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold

Testing the Pecking Order and Signalling Theories for Financial Institutions in Ghana

Journals & Books Hosting (International Knowledge Sharing Platform)

20148 citationsOpen access · Green