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Energy and Environment Impacts

Energy and Environment Impacts is a research topic within Pollution. Science Explorer counts 44k 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 impact of indoor air pollution from household fuel use, particularly in developing countries. It covers topics such as energy poverty, respiratory infections, solid fuel use, renewable energy solutions, health impacts, and rural electrification.

  • Indoor Air Pollution
  • Household Fuel Use
  • Energy Poverty
  • Respiratory Infections
  • Solid Fuel
  • Renewable Energy
  • Cookstoves
  • Health Impacts
  • Rural Electrification
  • Biomass Combustion
Research works
44k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
4.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+39%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Energy and Environment Impacts

Which countries lead Energy and Environment Impacts research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.3k and 1.5k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.3k works
  2. 2 United States 1.5k works
  3. 3 India 1.4k works
  4. 4 Nigeria 872 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 674 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 560 works
  7. 7 Brazil 532 works
  8. 8 South Africa 406 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 398 works
  10. 10 Germany 366 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: 25.6%United States: 16.7%India: 15.3%Nigeria: 9.7%6 others listed: 32.6%26%largest
China2,306 · 25.6%United States1,501 · 16.7%India1,380 · 15.3%Nigeria872 · 9.7%6 others listed2,935 · 32.6%

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

Which institutions lead Energy and Environment Impacts research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Energy and Environment Impacts research, followed by University of Johannesburg and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 83 works
  2. 2 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 77 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 71 works
  4. 4 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 50 works
  5. 5 University of Port HarcourtNigeria 49 works
  6. 6 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana 46 works
  7. 7 University of NigeriaNigeria 45 works
  8. 8 Peking UniversityChina 41 works
  9. 9 University of TehranIran 39 works
  10. 10 Makerere UniversityUganda 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Energy and Environment Impacts?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Energy and Environment Impacts include Christopher J L Murray, Michaël Grätzel and Simon Iain Hay.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  4. 4 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  5. 5 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  6. 6 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  7. 7 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  8. 8 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  9. 9 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  10. 10 Farshad Farzadfar Iran 298k 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 Energy and Environment Impacts?

The most cited paper in Energy and Environment Impacts is "Lung Cancer, Cardiopulmonary Mortality, and Long-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution" (C. Arden Pope, 2002), with 8,639 citations. Next come "An Association between Air Pollution and Mortality in Six U.S. Cities" (8,197) and "The contribution of outdoor air pollution sources to premature mortality on a global scale" (6,216).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Lung Cancer, Cardiopulmonary Mortality, and Long-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution C. Arden Pope · JAMA Open access 6 Mar 2002 8,639
2 An Association between Air Pollution and Mortality in Six U.S. Cities Douglas W. Dockery, C. Arden Pope, Xiping Xu et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 9 Dec 1993 8,197
3 The contribution of outdoor air pollution sources to premature mortality on a global scale Jos Lelieveld, John S. Evans, Mohammed S. Fnais et al. · Nature Open access Sep 2015 6,216
4 Environmental and Health Impacts of Air Pollution: A Review Ioannis Manisalidis, Elisavet Stavropoulou, Agathangelos Stavropoulos et al. · Frontiers in Public Health Open access 20 Feb 2020 5,270
5 The Lancet Commission on pollution and health Philip J. Landrigan et al. · The Lancet Open access 19 Oct 2017 4,954
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Energy and Environment Impacts research done?

The largest centres of Energy and Environment Impacts research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Dhaka (Bangladesh) and New Delhi (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sunyani, Mogadishu and Dschang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 533 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 160 works
  3. 3 DhakaBangladesh 157 works
  4. 4 New DelhiIndia 151 works
  5. 5 TehranIran 144 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 140 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 126 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 115 works
  9. 9 NairobiKenya 109 works
  10. 10 JohannesburgSouth Africa 108 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SunyaniGH · 30.0 works34×
  2. MogadishuSO · 25.8 works21×
  3. DschangCM · 28.0 works18×
  4. OtaNG · 21.5 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Energy and Environment Impacts than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Energy and Environment Impacts?

Among universities, judged by research, University of International Business and Economics, ILMA University and China University of Petroleum, East China 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 28.91%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →China University of …ILMA UniversityUniversity of Intern…King Fahd 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
1University of International Business and EconomicsChina 69.837.0%13.6×18 +231.5%
2ILMA UniversityPakistan 69.439.5%41.5×8 +560.8%
3China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 66.441.5%2.5×17 +114.3%
4King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsSaudi Arabia 64.323.1%6.6×32 +138.6%
5Lappeenranta-Lahti University of TechnologyFinland 64.126.1%14.8×21 +25.1%
6University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 62.811.6%8.8×77 +46.1%
7Lebanese American UniversityLebanon 62.435.2%8.8×14 -
8Azerbaijan State University of EconomicsAzerbaijan 62.030.2%18.2×14 +900.7%
9Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 61.426.0%1.5×18 +137.5%
10University of TehranIran 60.218.9%4.8×39 +29.6%

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 Energy and Environment Impacts, country by country

Is Energy and Environment Impacts research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 39% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Energy and Environment Impacts.

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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 Energy and Environment Impacts as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.076% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Energy and Environment Impacts0.060% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Energy and Environment Impacts 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%Energy and Environment Impacts10.3% 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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