Dr Alex Acheampong

Research interests

Dr Alex Acheampong is an Associate Professor of Economics at Bond Business School. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Newcastle, Australia. His research interests span energy economics, environmental economics, neo-institutional economics/political economy, macroeconomics, development economics, international economics, and infrastructure economics. 

Dr Acheampong is a globally recognized researcher in applied economics. Clarivate ranked him among the top 1% of the 2024 Highly Cited Researchers. Again, he has been ranked in the prestigious World Top 2% Scientists list by Stanford University for citation impact for five consecutive years (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021). He is also ranked among the top 200 young economists in the world by Research Papers in Economics (RePEc). Again, RePEc ranked him among the top 10% of Economists in Australia. The Australian 2025 Research Magazine named him as Australia's top researcher in "Economic Policy."

Reflecting on his research excellence, Dr Acheampong received the 2024 Bond University Vice Chancellor's Early Career Research Award. He also received the 2025 and 2024 Bond Business School (BBS) Executive Dean's Outstanding Research Award, as well as the BBS Dean's Research Award for Early Career Research Excellence in both 2023 and 2024. Dr. Acheampong was also awarded the Best Higher Degree Research (HDR) Published Journal Article by the Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle, Australia, for three consecutive years—2018, 2019, and 2020.

Currently, Dr Acheampong has published 70+peer-reviewed journal articles and 10book chapters. He has more than 85% of his peer-reviewed articles published in the Australian Business Dean Council (ABDC) A/A*-ranked and Scimago Q1-ranked Journals. Specifically, his publications have featured in leading international academic journals, including Energy Economics (ABDC: A*), World Development (ABDC: A), Journal of Policy Modeling (ABDC: A), Applied Economics (ABDC: A), Finance Research Letters (ABDC: A), Tourism Management Perspectives (ABDC: A), International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (ABDC: A), Social Science & Medicine (SJR: Q1), Economics & Politics (ABDC: A), The Journal of Economic Inequality (ABDC: A), Technological Forecasting and Social Change (ABDC: A), Social Indicators Research (ABDC: A), Economics of Transition and Institutional Change (formerly: Economics of Transition) (ABDC: A), Journal of Consumer Affairs (ABDC: A), Journal of Environmental Management (ABDC: A), Business Strategy and the Environment (ABDC: A),  Journal of Cleaner Production (ABDC: A), Utilities Policy (SJR: Q1), International Economics (SJR: Q1), International Journal of Energy Research (SJR: Q1), Environmental Science & Policy (SJR: Q1) and Science of the Total Environment (SJR: Q1).

A recent Impact  metric released by Scopus shows that his research has contributed to every aspect of the United Nations SDGs and had a significant impact on policy. His publications have received citations in policy documents by notable institutions, such as the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, the United Kingdom Government, the Bank of Spain, and the European Union.

Dr Acheampong's research outputs have amassed over 6600 citations on Google Scholar, reflecting a substantial H-index of 36 and i10-index of 58. Also, on Scopus, his research outputs have amassed over 5000 citations and a substantial H-Index of 30. Based on Scopus Field-Weighted Citation Impact, his research outputs are more cited than expected (global average).

Dr Acheampong is an Associate Editor for Energy Economics and the Journal of Public Affairs and Executive Guest Editor for World Development Sustainability.