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2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
92
Citations
30725
World Ranking
163
National Ranking
118

Thomas W. Hertel 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 Thomas W. Hertel sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 753 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas W. Hertel 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 Thomas W. Hertel sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 92 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award

Overview

Thomas W. Hertel is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to several subfields including global and planetary change, economics and econometrics, ecology, environmental engineering, and water science and technology.

Their work addresses topics that intersect agriculture sustainability, environmental impact, climate change policy and economics, and conservation. These main topics of research include:

  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation

Thomas W. Hertel's recent research papers include:

  • "Global food waste across the income spectrum: Implications for food prices, production and resource use," 2020, Food Policy
  • "The COVID-19 lockdowns: a window into the Earth System," 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Heat stress on agricultural workers exacerbates crop impacts of climate change," 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Quantifying the impacts of compound extremes on agriculture," 2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "Modelling food security: Bridging the gap between the micro and the macro scale," 2020, Global Environmental Change

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Hertel multiple times include:

  • Uris Lantz C. Baldos
  • Iman Haqiqi
  • Jing Liu
  • Stephen Polasky
  • Maksym Chepeliev

Their research has been published notably in venues such as:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Food Policy
  • Global Environmental Change

In addition to journal articles, Hertel has contributed to book publications. One such publication is titled Modeling Uncertainty in Large Natural Resource Allocation Problems, published by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Global Trade Analysis: Modeling and applications

    Thomas Hertel

  • Systems integration for global sustainability

    Jianguo Liu;Harold A. Mooney;Vanessa Hull;Steven J. Davis

  • Global Trade Analysis: Modeling and Applications

    Thomas W. Hertel

  • Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

    Jianguo Liu;Vanessa Hull;Mateus Batistella;Ruth DeFries

  • How Confident Can We Be in CGE-Based Assessments of Free Trade Agreements?

    Thomas Hertel;David Hummels;Maros Ivanic;Roman Keeney

  • Globalization of land use: distant drivers of land change and geographic displacement of land use

    Patrick Meyfroidt;Eric F Lambin;Eric F Lambin;Karl-Heinz Erb;Thomas W Hertel

  • The poverty implications of climate-induced crop yield changes by 2030

    Thomas W. Hertel;Thomas W. Hertel;Marshall B. Burke;David B. Lobell

  • Effects of US Maize Ethanol on Global Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Estimating Market-mediated Responses

    Thomas W. Hertel;Alla A. Golub;Andrew D. Jones;Michael O'Hare

  • Climate Change, Agriculture, and Poverty

    Thomas W. Hertel;Stephanie D. Rosch

  • Biofuels and their by-products: Global economic and environmental implications

    Farzad Taheripour;Thomas W. Hertel;Wallace E. Tyner;Jayson F. Beckman

  • Climate volatility deepens poverty vulnerability in developing countries

    Syud A Ahmed;Noah S Diffenbaugh;Thomas W Hertel;Thomas W Hertel

  • DYNAMIC EFFECTS OF THE "NEW AGE" FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN JAPAN AND SINGAPORE

    Thomas W. Hertel;Terrie L. Walmsley;Ken Itakura

  • The Indirect Land Use Impacts of United States Biofuel Policies: The Importance of Acreage, Yield, and Bilateral Trade Responses

    Roman Keeney;Thomas W. Hertel

  • Applied methods for trade policy analysis : a handbook

    Joseph F. Francois;Kenneth A. Reinert

  • DYNAMIC EFFECTS OF THE "NEW AGE" FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN JAPAN AND SINGAPORE

    Thomas W. Hertel;Terrie Walmsley;Ken Itakura

  • The Global Supply and Demand for Agricultural Land in 2050: A Perfect Storm in the Making?

    Thomas W. Hertel

  • The Global Impacts of Biofuel Mandates

    Thomas W. Hertel;Wallace E. Tyner;Dileep K. Birur

  • The Standard GTAP Model, Version 7

    Erwin L. Corong;Thomas W. Hertel;Robert McDougall;Marinos E. Tsigas

  • Decomposing Welfare Changes in GTAP

    Karen Huff;Thomas W. Hertel

  • The Opportunity Cost of Land Use and the Global Potential for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Agriculture and Forestry

    Alla Golub;Thomas Hertel;Huey-Lin Lee;Steven Rose

  • Poverty and the WTO: Impacts of the Doha Development Agenda

    L. Alan Winters;Thomas W. Hertel

  • Global Trade Analysis

    Thomas Hertel

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul V. Preckel
Paul V. Preckel Purdue University West Lafayette
Will Martin
Will Martin International Food Policy Research Institute
Brent Sohngen
Brent Sohngen The Ohio State University
John Cranfield
John Cranfield University of Guelph
Navin Ramankutty
Navin Ramankutty University of British Columbia
Wallace E. Tyner
Wallace E. Tyner Purdue University West Lafayette
Noah S. Diffenbaugh
Noah S. Diffenbaugh Stanford University
Kym Anderson
Kym Anderson University of Adelaide
Terrie Walmsley
Terrie Walmsley University of Southern California

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