Dr. Festus Victor Bekun
Research Faculty
Dr. Festus Victor Bekun currently serves as an Assistant professor at Istanbul Gelisim University Turkey Istanbul Turkey, and he is also a senior adjunct research fellow at Lebanese American University Dr. Bekun has over 270+ refereed scientific publications indexed in WOS and Scopus index top-tier outlet. Dr. Bekun Hi-index over span over 64, 57 and 58 in Googlesholar Scopus and WOS index respectively. Dr. Bekun is also listed among global influential scientist as outlined by the Stanford university among global 2% influential scientists since 2021 till date edition available at August 2021 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators” - Elsevier BV (digitalcommonsdata.com) and also more recently the 2022 just published list available at September 2022 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators” - Elsevier BV (digitalcommonsdata.com). Dr is also recently listed as highly cited research (HCR) by WOS available at Highly Cited Researchers - Clarivate. Dr. Bekun research interest is in the areas of agricultural economics, energy economics, sustainability, and carbon reduction policies. Dr. works have appeared in top-tier journals including Science of The Total Environment, Energy & Environment, Journal of cleaner production, Energy & Environment, Sustainable development more recently Current Issues in Tourism, Heliyon and the prestigious renewable and sustainable energy review (RSER) Journal, among others. The author is currently serving as an associate editor to several WOS and SCOPUS index journals namely: Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment, Editor-Open Agriculture, Editor- Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Guest Editor-Sustainability, Associate Editor- Journal of Public Affairs among othersFurther insight on Dr. Festus Victor Bekun are available at
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I can be contact via E-mail: fbekun@gelisim.edu.tr or festus.bekun@emu.edu.tr
Bekun, F. V. (2024). Race to carbon neutrality in South Africa: what role does environmental technological innovation play?. Applied Energy, 354, 122212.
Bekun, F. V., & Ozturk, I. Economic globalization and ecological impact in emerging economies in the post‐COP21 agreement: A panel econometrics approach. In Natural Resources Forum. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Rodríguez-Benavides, D., Andrés-Rosales, R., Álvarez-García, J., & Bekun, F. V. (2024). Convergence of clubs between per capita carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and cement production. Energy Policy, 186, 114007.
Bekun, F. V., Alola, A. A., & Sarkodie, S. A. (2019). Toward a sustainable environment: Nexus between CO2 emissions, resource rent, renewable and nonrenewable energy in 16-EU countries. Science of the total Environment, 657, 1023-1029.
Bekun, F. V., Emir, F., & Sarkodie, S. A. (2019). Another look at the relationship between energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, and economic growth in South Africa. Science of the Total Environment, 655, 759-765.