2026 Ashok K. Mishra: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	63	709	639	445	393	425	13485

Overview

Ashok K. Mishra is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and has a substantial body of research primarily within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their work spans several key subfields including Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science, Sociology and Political Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's research topics focus on Agricultural risk and resilience, Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets, COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts, Climate change impacts on agriculture, and Land Rights and Reforms.

Recent publications include:

India's COVID-19 social assistance package and its impact on the agriculture sector (2021, Agricultural Systems)
Agritourism: structured literature review and bibliometric analysis (2020, Tourism Recreation Research)
The impact of China's new agricultural subsidy policy on grain crop acreage (2023, Food Policy)
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food prices: Evidence from storable and perishable commodities in India (2022, PLoS ONE)
Climate risk, vulnerability and resilience: Supporting livelihood of smallholders in semiarid India (2020, Land Use Policy)

Frequent collaborators include Anjani Kumar, Stefan Hirsch, Alexis H. Villacis, P. K. Joshi, and Valerien O. Pede, with collaboration counts ranging from six to twelve publications with each coauthor.

Publication venues where their work is most frequently published include the SSRN Electronic Journal, Food Policy, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Agribusiness, and AgEcon Search hosted by the University of Minnesota, USA.

This profile reflects an academic career with extensive engagement in agricultural economics and policy-oriented research focused on resilience, sustainability, and socio-economic impacts within agriculture at both national and international levels.

Best Publications

Farm Income Variability and the Supply of Off-Farm Labor

Ashok K. Mishra;Barry K. Goodwin

510
Citations
Knowledge and passive adaptation to climate change: An example from Indian farmers

Amarnath Tripathi;Ashok K. Mishra

342
Citations
Big Data in Agriculture: A Challenge for the Future

Keith H Coble;Ashok K Mishra;Shannon Ferrell;Terry Griffin

338
Citations
Are “Decoupled” Farm Program Payments Really Decoupled? An Empirical Evaluation

Barry K. Goodwin;Ashok K. Mishra

330
Citations
Farming Efficiency and the Determinants of Multiple Job Holding by Farm Operators

Barry K. Goodwin;Ashok K. Mishra

324
Citations
What's Wrong with Our Models of Agricultural Land Values?Agricultural Land Values, Government Payments, and Production (Allen Featherstone, Kansas State University, presiding)

Barry K. Goodwin;Ashok K. Mishra;François N. Ortalo-Magné

318
Citations
Off-Farm Income, Technology Adoption, and Farm Economic Performance

Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo;Ashok K. Mishra;Richard F. Nehring;Chad Hendricks

279
Citations
Health Status and Health Care Access of Farm and Rural Populations

Carol Adaire Jones;Timothy S. Parker;Mary Clare Ahearn;Ashok K. Mishra

270
Citations
Technology Adoption and Off-Farm Household Income: The Case of Herbicide-Tolerant Soybeans

Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo;Chad Hendricks;Ashok K. Mishra

267
Citations
INCOME, WEALTH, AND THE ECONOMIC WELL-BEING OF FARM HOUSEHOLDS

Ashok Mishra;Hisham S. El-Osta;Mitchell J. Morehart;James D. Johnson

259
Citations
The Impacts of Different Farm Programs on Cash Rents

Sergio Lence;Ashok Mishra

201
Citations
Organic farmers or conventional farmers: Where's the money?

Hiroki Uematsu;Ashok K. Mishra

193
Citations
Factors affecting farm enterprise diversification

Ashok K. Mishra;Hisham S. El‐Osta;Carmen L. Sandretto

187
Citations
Impact of land ownership on productivity and efficiency of rice farmers: The case of the Philippines

Krishna H. Koirala;Ashok K. Mishra;Samarendu Mohanty

181
Citations
Stability of Farm Income and the Role of Nonfarm Income in U.S. Agriculture

Ashok K. Mishra;Carmen L. Sandretto

169
Citations
Energy prices and agricultural commodity prices: Testing correlation using copulas method

Krishna H. Koirala;Ashok K. Mishra;Jeremy M. D'Antoni;Joey E. Mehlhorn

161
Citations
Impact of off-farm labor supply on food expenditures of the farm household

Hung Hao Chang;Ashok Mishra

149
Citations
Another Look at Decoupling: Additional Evidence on the Production Effects of Direct Payments

Barry K. Goodwin;Ashok K. Mishra

147
Citations
Factors affecting financial performance of new and beginning farmers

Ashok Mishra;Christine Wilson;Robert Williams

143
Citations
Aging population, farm succession, and farmland usage: Evidence from rural China

Baoling Zou;Ashok K. Mishra;Biliang Luo

129
Citations
Effect of agricultural policy on succession decisions of farm households

Ashok K. Mishra;Hisham S. El-Osta

127
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dayton M. Lambert Oklahoma State University

Barry K. Goodwin North Carolina State University

Robert Finger ETH Zurich

Loren W. Tauer Cornell University

Andrew Schmitz University of Florida

Michael Harris University of Florida

Awudu Abdulai Kiel University

David Zilberman University of California, Berkeley

Jean C. Buzby United States Department of Agriculture

Murali Krishna Gumma International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

External Links

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