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2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
48
Citations
7252
World Ranking
1525
National Ranking
2

Zaghum Umar 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 Zaghum Umar sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 140 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Zaghum Umar 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 Zaghum Umar sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 48 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% 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 Arab Emirates Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Arab Emirates Leader Award

Overview

Zaghum Umar is affiliated with Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates and specializes in the fields of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their research output consists of over 300 publications, primarily in Economics and Econometrics as well as Finance. The researcher's work spans a variety of subfields and topics focused on market dynamics, energy, financial markets, and economic impacts.

The main fields of study associated with Zaghum Umar include:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Finance
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Accounting
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

The core topics of Umar's research cover:

  • Market Dynamics and Volatility
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
  • Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Applied Economics
  • Finance Research Letters
  • Research in International Business and Finance
  • Energy Economics
  • Pacific-Basin Finance Journal

Zaghum Umar has collaborated extensively, with regular co-authors including:

  • Тамара Теплова
  • Adam Zaremba
  • Mariya Gubareva
  • Xuan Vinh Vo
  • Ahmed Bossman

Some notable recent papers authored by Zaghum Umar are:

  • "The impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the connectedness of financial markets" (2022), published in Finance Research Letters
  • "A time-frequency analysis of the impact of the Covid-19 induced panic on the volatility of currency and cryptocurrency markets" (2020), published in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance
  • "The static and dynamic connectedness of environmental, social, and governance investments: International evidence" (2020), published in Economic Modelling

This profile reflects Zaghum Umar's contribution to examining financial markets through advanced econometric and statistical methods, with a focus on volatility, risk modeling, and the economic impact of global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical conflicts.

Best Publications

  • The impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the connectedness of financial markets

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  • Crude Oil futures contracts and commodity markets: New evidence from a TVP-VAR extended joint connectedness approach

    Mehmet Balcilar;David Gabauer;Zaghum Umar

  • Covid-19 impact on NFTs and major asset classes interrelations: insights from the wavelet coherence analysis

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  • Does geopolitical risk matter for global asset returns? Evidence from quantile-on-quantile regression

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  • A time-frequency analysis of the impact of the Covid-19 induced panic on the volatility of currency and cryptocurrency markets.

    Zaghum Umar;Mariya Gubareva

  • Risk transmission between Islamic and conventional stock markets: A return and volatility spillover analysis

    Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad;Román Ferrer;Laura Ballester;Zaghum Umar

  • Dynamic connectedness of oil price shocks and exchange rates

    Farooq Malik;Zaghum Umar

  • COVID–19 media coverage and ESG leader indices

    Akhtaruzzaman;Sabri Boubaker;Zaghum Umar;Zaghum Umar

  • The Static and Dynamic Connectedness of Environmental, Social, and Governance Investments: International Evidence

    Zaghum Umar;Zaghum Umar;Dimitris Kenourgios;Sypros Papathanasiou

  • A tale of company fundamentals vs sentiment driven pricing: The case of GameStop

    Zaghum Umar;Zaghum Umar;Mariya Gubareva;Mariya Gubareva;Imran Yousaf;Shoaib Ali

  • The impact of Covid-19 on commodity markets volatility: Analyzing time-frequency relations between commodity prices and coronavirus panic levels

    Zaghum Umar;Zaghum Umar;Mariya Gubareva;Mariya Gubareva;Tamara Teplova

  • The impact of COVID-19-related media coverage on the return and volatility connectedness of cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies

    Zaghum Umar;Francisco Jareño;María de la O González

  • Oil price shocks and the return and volatility spillover between industrial and precious metals

    Zaghum Umar;Zaghum Umar;Francisco Jareño;Ana Escribano

  • Modelling the asymmetric effect of COVID-19 on REIT returns: A quantile-on-quantile regression analysis

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  • Agricultural commodity markets and oil prices: An analysis of the dynamic return and volatility connectedness

    Zaghum Umar;Zaghum Umar;Francisco Jareño;Ana Escribano

  • Islamic vs conventional equities in a strategic asset allocation framework

    Zaghum Umar

  • Dynamic spillovers between the term structure of interest rates, bitcoin, and safe-haven currencies

    David Y. Aharon;Zaghum Umar;Zaghum Umar;Xuan Vinh Vo

  • COVID-19 and the quantile connectedness between energy and metal markets

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  • Return and volatility transmission between oil price shocks and agricultural commodities.

    Zaghum Umar;Mariya Gubareva;Muhammad Naeem;Ayesha Akhter

  • Oil shocks and equity markets: The case of GCC and BRICS economies

    Zaghum Umar;Zaghum Umar;Nader Trabelsi;Nader Trabelsi;Adam Zaremba;Adam Zaremba

  • Impact of the Covid-19 induced panic on the Environmental, Social and Governance leaders equity volatility: A time-frequency analysis

    Zaghum Umar;Zaghum Umar;Mariya Gubareva;Mariya Gubareva;Dang Khoa Tran;Tamara Teplova

  • The relationship between the Covid-19 media coverage and the Environmental, Social and Governance leaders equity volatility: a time-frequency wavelet analysis

    Zaghum Umar;Mariya Gubareva

  • Term Spreads and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from International Sovereign Bond Markets

    Adam Zaremba;Adam Zaremba;Renatas Kizys;David Y. Aharon;Zaghum Umar;Zaghum Umar

  • Inflation hedging with commodities: A wavelet analysis of seven centuries worth of data

    Adam Zaremba;Adam Zaremba;Zaghum Umar;Mateusz Mikutowski

  • Connectedness between cryptocurrency and technology sectors: International evidence

    Zaghum Umar;Zaghum Umar;Nader Trabelsi;Nader Trabelsi;Faisal Alqahtani

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Zaremba
Adam Zaremba Poznań University of Economics and Business
Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad
Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad Montpellier Business School
Imran Yousaf
Imran Yousaf Prince Sultan University
Aviral Kumar Tiwari
Aviral Kumar Tiwari Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya
David Gabauer
David Gabauer Lincoln University
Mehmet Balcilar
Mehmet Balcilar University of New Haven
Xuan Vinh Vo
Xuan Vinh Vo University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City
Sabri Boubaker
Sabri Boubaker EM Normandie
Sakiru Adebola Solarin
Sakiru Adebola Solarin Multimedia University

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