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Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie

Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie

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Rising Stars
2025

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Rising Stars

D-Index
63
Citations
18961
World Ranking
137
National Ranking
1

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
71
Citations
21977
World Ranking
1555
National Ranking
19

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie is affiliated with Nord University in Norway and has developed a significant body of research across economics, econometrics, finance, and environmental science. Their work spans various aspects of environmental sustainability, economic growth, and the intersection of energy policies and environmental impacts.

The scientist's recent papers cover multiple facets of environmental and economic challenges, including:

  • Energy efficiency: The role of technological innovation and knowledge spillover (2021, Technological Forecasting and Social Change)
  • Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on waste management (2020, Environment Development and Sustainability)
  • Mitigating degradation and emissions in China: The role of environmental sustainability, human capital and renewable energy (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Global assessment of environment, health and economic impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) (2020, Environment Development and Sustainability)
  • Electricity access, human development index, governance and income inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (2020, Energy Reports)

They collaborate frequently with a core group of co-authors, including:

  • Phebe Asantewaa Owusu
  • Maruf Yakubu Ahmed
  • Festus Víctor Bekun
  • Abdimalik Ali Warsame
  • Sinan Erdoğan

Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie's publications often appear in venues specializing in environmental and sustainability research, such as:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Heliyon
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Sustainability
  • Environment Development and Sustainability

Their expertise covers broad main fields of study:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, their subfield focus includes:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Pollution
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change

The primary topics of their research address complex interdisciplinary themes, such as:

  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Market Dynamics and Volatility
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Their work contributes to understanding the interrelations between energy systems, environmental sustainability, economic development, and public health, especially within the contexts affected by technological innovation, governance, and global crises like the COVID-19 pandemic.

Best Publications

  • A review of renewable energy sources, sustainability issues and climate change mitigation

    Phebe Asantewaa Owusu;Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

  • Toward a sustainable environment: Nexus between CO2 emissions, resource rent, renewable and nonrenewable energy in 16-EU countries

    Festus Victor Bekun;Andrew Adewale Alola;Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie

  • Effect of foreign direct investments, economic development and energy consumption on greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries

    Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie;Vladimir Strezov

  • Investigation of Environmental Kuznets Curve for Ecological Footprint: The Role of Energy and Financial Development

    Mehmet Akif Destek;Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie

  • Dynamic impact of trade policy, economic growth, fertility rate, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on ecological footprint in Europe.

    Andrew Adewale Alola;Festus Victor Bekun;Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie

  • Renewable energy, nuclear energy, and environmental pollution: Accounting for political institutional quality in South Africa

    Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie;Samuel Adams

  • A review on Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis using bibliometric and meta-analysis

    Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie;Vladimir Strezov

  • Energy efficiency: The role of technological innovation and knowledge spillover

    Huaping Sun;Bless Kofi Edziah;Anthony Kwaku Kporsu;Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie

  • Another look at the relationship between energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, and economic growth in South Africa.

    Festus Victor Bekun;Fırat Emir;Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie

  • Empirical study of the Environmental Kuznets curve and Environmental Sustainability curve hypothesis for Australia, China, Ghana and USA

    Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie;Vladimir Strezov

  • Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on waste management.

    Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie;Phebe Asantewaa Owusu

  • The invisible hand and EKC hypothesis: what are the drivers of environmental degradation and pollution in Africa?

    Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie

  • Mitigating degradation and emissions in China: The role of environmental sustainability, human capital and renewable energy.

    Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie;Samuel Adams;Phebe Asantewaa Owusu;Thomas Leirvik

  • Global assessment of environment, health and economic impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

    Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie;Phebe Asantewaa Owusu

  • The role of renewable and nuclear energy R&D expenditures and income on environmental quality in Germany: Scrutinizing the EKC and LCC hypotheses with smooth structural changes

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  • Investigating the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis in Kenya: A multivariate analysis

    Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie;Ilhan Ozturk

  • Testing the role of oil production in the environmental Kuznets curve of oil producing countries: New insights from Method of Moments Quantile Regression

    George N. Ike;Ojonugwa Usman;Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie

  • Assessment of the role of renewable energy consumption and trade policy on environmental degradation using innovation accounting: Evidence from the US

    Ojonugwa Usman;Andrew Adewale Alola;Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie

  • Environmental sustainability assessment using dynamic Autoregressive-Distributed Lag simulations - nexus between greenhouse gas emissions, biomass energy, food and economic growth.

    Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie;Vladimir Strezov;Haftom Weldekidan;Ernest Frimpong Asamoah

  • Electricity access, human development index, governance and income inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie;Samuel Adams

  • Environmental quality effects of income, energy prices and trade: The role of renewable energy consumption in G-7 countries.

    George N. Ike;Ojonugwa Usman;Andrew Adewale Alola;Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie

  • Impact of meteorological factors on COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from top 20 countries with confirmed cases.

    Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie;Phebe Asantewaa Owusu

Frequent Co-Authors

Festus Victor Bekun
Festus Victor Bekun Gelişim Üniversitesi
Vladimir Strezov
Vladimir Strezov Macquarie University
Cosimo Magazzino
Cosimo Magazzino LUM University
Andrew Adewale Alola
Andrew Adewale Alola Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
James A. Lutz
James A. Lutz Utah State University
Philip Kofi Adom
Philip Kofi Adom Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration
Solomon Prince Nathaniel
Solomon Prince Nathaniel Pan-Atlantic University
Ilhan Ozturk
Ilhan Ozturk Nişantaşı University
Avik Sinha
Avik Sinha Management Development Institute

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