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Climate Change Policy and Economics

Climate Change Policy and Economics is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 40k research works in it since 1951. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the economic implications of climate change policies, including the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions, energy transition, and mitigation strategies. It explores various policy instruments such as carbon pricing and examines the socioeconomic pathways related to climate change. The research also delves into the potential global warming effects and the assessment of different environmental policies.

  • Climate Change
  • Economic Impacts
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  • Policy Instruments
  • Carbon Pricing
  • Socioeconomic Pathways
  • Energy Transition
  • Global Warming
  • Mitigation Strategies
  • Environmental Policy
Research works
40k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
4.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+60%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Climate Change Policy and Economics

Which countries lead Climate Change Policy and Economics research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3k works
  2. 2 United States 1.4k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 666 works
  4. 4 Germany 591 works
  5. 5 France 402 works
  6. 6 India 371 works
  7. 7 Italy 315 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 274 works
  9. 9 Spain 260 works
  10. 10 Australia 234 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 40.2%United States: 18.1%United Kingdom: 8.9%Germany: 7.9%6 others listed: 24.9%40%largest
China2,998 · 40.2%United States1,351 · 18.1%United Kingdom666 · 8.9%Germany591 · 7.9%6 others listed1,856 · 24.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Climate Change Policy and Economics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Climate Change Policy and Economics research, followed by Leibniz Association and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 93 works
  2. 2 Leibniz AssociationGermany 69 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 62 works
  4. 4 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 60 works
  5. 5 Tsinghua UniversityChina 56 works
  6. 6 Xiamen UniversityChina 45 works
  7. 7 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 43 works
  8. 8 Wuhan UniversityChina 37 works
  9. 9 London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 36 works
  10. 10 Renmin University of ChinaChina 35 works

Who are the leading researchers in Climate Change Policy and Economics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Climate Change Policy and Economics include Yoshua Bengio, Amos Tversky and Mark A. Bradford.

  1. 1 Yoshua Bengio Canada 476k citations
  2. 2 Amos Tversky United States 327k citations
  3. 3 Mark A. Bradford United States 268k citations
  4. 4 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  7. 7 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  8. 8 Michelle Lee Bell United States 197k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Climate Change Policy and Economics?

The most cited paper in Climate Change Policy and Economics is "Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship" (Michael E. Porter, Claas van der Linde, 1995), with 13,204 citations. Next come "Decisions with Multiple Objectives: Preferences and Value Tradeoffs." (8,433) and "The representative concentration pathways: an overview" (8,089).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship Michael E. Porter, Claas van der Linde · The Journal of Economic Perspectives Open access Nov 1995 13,204
2 Decisions with Multiple Objectives: Preferences and Value Tradeoffs. Alexis Tsoukias, Ralph L. Keeney, Howard Raiffa · Journal of the Operational Research Society Sep 1994 8,433
3 The representative concentration pathways: an overview Detlef Peter van Vuuren, Jae Edmonds, Mikiko Kainuma et al. · Climatic Change Open access 4 Aug 2011 8,089
4 The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview Keywan Riahi et al. · Global Environmental Change Open access 13 Sep 2016 6,791
5 The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment Richard H. Moss, Jae Edmonds, Kathy A. Hibbard et al. · Nature Feb 2010 6,734
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Where is Climate Change Policy and Economics research done?

The largest centres of Climate Change Policy and Economics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Shanghai (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Laxenburg and Bengbu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 665 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 211 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 193 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 190 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 157 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 145 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 143 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 110 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 100 works
  10. 10 Xi'anChina 93 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LaxenburgAT · 26.9 works73×
  2. BengbuCN · 23.8 works8.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Climate Change Policy and Economics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Climate Change Policy and Economics?

Among universities, judged by research, Lebanese American University, Xiamen University and Azerbaijan State University of Economics score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 27.17%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Lebanese American Un…Azerbaijan State Uni…University of Busine…Xiamen University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Lebanese American UniversityLebanon 76.737.4%13.4×14 +1059.6%
2Xiamen UniversityChina 72.224.4%5.4×45 +128.3%
3Azerbaijan State University of EconomicsAzerbaijan 71.236.5%31.9×17 -
4University of Business and TechnologySaudi Arabia 68.736.5%11.8×11 -
5Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 67.325.3%3.0×34 +31.3%
6European University of LefkeTürkiye 65.427.1%65.2×12 +776.0%
7Tsinghua UniversityChina 65.316.5%2.5×56 +42.7%
8China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 65.037.2%3.5×16 +58.6%
9Jiangsu UniversityChina 64.524.3%4.0×31 +161.8%
10University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 63.36.5%4.4×60 +33.0%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Climate Change Policy and Economics, country by country

Is Climate Change Policy and Economics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 60% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Climate Change Policy and Economics.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Climate Change Policy and Economics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.055% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Climate Change Policy and Economics0.049% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Climate Change Policy and Economics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Climate Change Policy and Economics10.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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