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D-Index
55
Citations
17561
World Ranking
1044
National Ranking
650

Bekele Shiferaw publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bekele Shiferaw sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 133 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Bekele Shiferaw D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bekele Shiferaw sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 126 scientists 31 D-Index: 147 scientists 32 D-Index: 157 scientists 33 D-Index: 178 scientists 34 D-Index: 171 scientists 35 D-Index: 141 scientists 36 D-Index: 132 scientists 37 D-Index: 129 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 120 scientists 40 D-Index: 117 scientists 41 D-Index: 113 scientists 42 D-Index: 114 scientists 43 D-Index: 97 scientists 44 D-Index: 115 scientists 45 D-Index: 86 scientists 46 D-Index: 78 scientists 47 D-Index: 83 scientists 48 D-Index: 62 scientists 49 D-Index: 74 scientists 50 D-Index: 50 scientists 51 D-Index: 66 scientists 52 D-Index: 69 scientists 53 D-Index: 55 scientists 54 D-Index: 67 scientists 55 D-Index: 61 scientists 56 D-Index: 62 scientists 57 D-Index: 45 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 47 scientists 60 D-Index: 46 scientists 61 D-Index: 36 scientists 62 D-Index: 37 scientists 63 D-Index: 56 scientists 64 D-Index: 50 scientists 65 D-Index: 32 scientists 66 D-Index: 28 scientists 67 D-Index: 30 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 25 scientists 70 D-Index: 22 scientists 71 D-Index: 21 scientists 72 D-Index: 26 scientists 73 D-Index: 24 scientists 74 D-Index: 23 scientists 75 D-Index: 12 scientists 76 D-Index: 14 scientists 77 D-Index: 15 scientists 78 D-Index: 15 scientists 79 D-Index: 17 scientists 80 D-Index: 17 scientists 81 D-Index: 11 scientists 82 D-Index: 10 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 11 scientists 85 D-Index: 5 scientists 86 D-Index: 9 scientists 87 D-Index: 13 scientists 88 D-Index: 9 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 6 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 8 scientists 93 D-Index: 10 scientists 94 D-Index: 11 scientists 95 D-Index: 6 scientists 96 D-Index: 4 scientists 97 D-Index: 4 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100 D-Index: 8 scientists 101+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences

Overview

Bekele Shiferaw was affiliated with the World Bank Group in the United States. Their research contributed to multiple domains within social and environmental sciences, focusing on interconnected topics across migration, agriculture, water resources, and labor dynamics.

The scientist's recent published works include:

  • Youth Migration Decisions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Satellite-Based Empirical Evidence from Nigeria (2021, Population and Development Review)
  • Variability in agricultural productivity and rural household consumption inequality: Evidence from Nigeria and Uganda (2021, Agricultural Economics)
  • Groundwater governance under climate change in India: lessons based on evaluation of World Bank interventions (2023, International Journal of Water Resources Development)

Bekele Shiferaw collaborated frequently with several co-authors, notably:

  • Mulubrhan Amare
  • Kibrom A. Abay
  • Channing Arndt
  • Hiroyuki Takeshima
  • George Mavrotas

The primary publication venues for their research were:

  • Population and Development Review
  • Agricultural Economics
  • International Journal of Water Resources Development

Their main fields of study encompassed Social Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these fields, they addressed subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Transportation, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, and Gender Studies.

The work of Bekele Shiferaw covered the following main topics:

  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Impact of Light on Environment and Health
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Water resources management and optimization

Bekele Shiferaw was recognized as a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Crops that feed the world 6. Past successes and future challenges to the role played by maize in global food security

    Bekele Shiferaw;Boddupalli M. Prasanna;Jonathan Hellin;Marianne Bänziger

  • Coping better with current climatic variability in the rain-fed farming systems of sub-Saharan Africa: An essential first step in adapting to future climate change?

    P.J.M. Cooper;J. Dimes;K.P.C. Rao;B. Shapiro

  • Adoption of interrelated sustainable agricultural practices in smallholder systems: Evidence from rural Tanzania

    Menale Kassie;Moti Jaleta;Bekele Shiferaw;Frank Mmbando

  • Adoption of multiple sustainable agricultural practices in rural Ethiopia

    Hailemariam Teklewold;Menale Kassie;Bekele Shiferaw

  • IMPACT OF MODERN AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES ON SMALLHOLDER WELFARE: EVIDENCE FROM TANZANIA AND ETHIOPIA

    Solomon Asfaw;Bekele Shiferaw;Franklin Simtowe;Leslie Lipper

  • Resource degradation and adoption of land conservation technologies in the Ethiopian Highlands: A case study in Andit Tid, North Shewa

    Bekele Shiferaw;Stein T. Holden

  • Agricultural technology, crop income, and poverty alleviation in Uganda

    Menale Kassie;Bekele Shiferaw;Geoffrey Muricho

  • Managing vulnerability to drought and enhancing livelihood resilience in sub-Saharan Africa: Technological, institutional and policy options

    Bekele Shiferaw;Kindie Tesfaye;Menale Kassie;Tsedeke Abate

  • Adoption of improved wheat varieties and impacts on household food security in Ethiopia

    Bekele Shiferaw;Menale Kassie;Moti Jaleta;Chilot Yirga

  • Factors that transformed maize productivity in Ethiopia

    Tsedeke Abate;Bekele Shiferaw;Abebe Menkir;Dagne Wegary

  • Cropping system diversification, conservation tillage and modern seed adoption in Ethiopia: Impacts on household income, agrochemical use and demand for labor

    Hailemariam Teklewold;Menale Kassie;Bekele Shiferaw;Gunnar Köhlin

  • Adoption and adaptation of natural resource management innovations in smallholder agriculture: reflections on key lessons and best practices

    Bekele A. Shiferaw;Julius Okello;Ratna V. Reddy

  • Poverty, market imperfections and time preferences: of relevance for environmental policy?

    Stein T. Holden;Bekele Shiferaw;Mette Wik

  • Soil Erosion and Smallholders' Conservation Decisions in the Highlands of Ethiopia

    Bekele Shiferaw;Stein Holden

  • Non-farm income, household welfare, and sustainable land management in a less-favoured area in the Ethiopian highlands

    Stein Holden;Bekele Shiferaw;John Pender

  • Are there systematic gender differences in the adoption of sustainable agricultural intensification practices? Evidence from Kenya

    S. Wagura Ndiritu;Menale Kassie;Bekele Shiferaw

  • The metal silo: An effective grain storage technology for reducing post-harvest insect and pathogen losses in maize while improving smallholder farmers' food security in developing countries

    Tadele Tefera;Fred Kanampiu;Hugo De Groote;Jon Hellin

  • Technology adoption under seed access constraints and the economic impacts of improved pigeonpea varieties in Tanzania

    Bekele A. Shiferaw;Tewodros A. Kebede;Liang You

  • Welfare impacts of maize–pigeonpea intensification in Tanzania

    Mulubrhan Amare;Solomon Asfaw;Bekele Shiferaw

  • Impact of Improved Maize Adoption on Welfare of Farm Households in Malawi: A Panel Data Analysis

    Sosina Bezu;Girma T. Kassie;Bekele Shiferaw;Jacob Ricker-Gilbert

  • Cropping system diversification, conservation tillage and modern seed adoption in Ethiopia: Impacts on household income, agrochemical use

    Hailemariam Teklewold;Menale Kassie;Bekele Shiferaw;Gunnar Köhlin

Frequent Co-Authors

Menale Kassie
Menale Kassie International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
Stein T. Holden
Stein T. Holden Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Jeffrey Alwang
Jeffrey Alwang Virginia Tech
John Pender
John Pender United States Department of Agriculture
Matin Qaim
Matin Qaim University of Bonn
Suhas P. Wani
Suhas P. Wani International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
Boddupalli M. Prasanna
Boddupalli M. Prasanna International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Marianne Bänziger
Marianne Bänziger International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Daniel Rodriguez
Daniel Rodriguez University of Queensland
Thomas Payne
Thomas Payne University of Missouri

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