2026 Thomas W. Hertel: 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	92	163	147	118	104	753	30725

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

4970
Citations
Systems integration for global sustainability

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

1416
Citations
Global Trade Analysis: Modeling and Applications

Thomas W. Hertel

1359
Citations
Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

Jianguo Liu;Vanessa Hull;Mateus Batistella;Ruth DeFries

1142
Citations
How Confident Can We Be in CGE-Based Assessments of Free Trade Agreements?

Thomas Hertel;David Hummels;Maros Ivanic;Roman Keeney

788
Citations
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

780
Citations
The poverty implications of climate-induced crop yield changes by 2030

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

662
Citations
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

600
Citations
Climate Change, Agriculture, and Poverty

Thomas W. Hertel;Stephanie D. Rosch

478
Citations
Biofuels and their by-products: Global economic and environmental implications

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

437
Citations
Climate volatility deepens poverty vulnerability in developing countries

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

405
Citations
DYNAMIC EFFECTS OF THE "NEW AGE" FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN JAPAN AND SINGAPORE

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

358
Citations
The Indirect Land Use Impacts of United States Biofuel Policies: The Importance of Acreage, Yield, and Bilateral Trade Responses

Roman Keeney;Thomas W. Hertel

344
Citations
Applied methods for trade policy analysis : a handbook

Joseph F. Francois;Kenneth A. Reinert

336
Citations
DYNAMIC EFFECTS OF THE "NEW AGE" FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN JAPAN AND SINGAPORE

Thomas W. Hertel;Terrie Walmsley;Ken Itakura

336
Citations
The Global Supply and Demand for Agricultural Land in 2050: A Perfect Storm in the Making?

Thomas W. Hertel

335
Citations
The Global Impacts of Biofuel Mandates

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

292
Citations
The Standard GTAP Model, Version 7

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

274
Citations
Decomposing Welfare Changes in GTAP

Karen Huff;Thomas W. Hertel

265
Citations
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

263
Citations
Poverty and the WTO: Impacts of the Doha Development Agenda

L. Alan Winters;Thomas W. Hertel

258
Citations
Global Trade Analysis

Thomas Hertel

252
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul V. Preckel Purdue University West Lafayette

Will Martin International Food Policy Research Institute

John Cranfield University of Guelph

Navin Ramankutty University of British Columbia

Wallace E. Tyner Purdue University West Lafayette

Noah S. Diffenbaugh Stanford University

Kym Anderson University of Adelaide

David B. Lobell Stanford University

L. Alan Winters University of Sussex

Bernard Hoekman European University Institute

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