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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. 22.0% 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%
9.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
22.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+106%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Energy and Environment Impacts research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.2k and 1.4k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 2.2k works
  2. 2 United States 1.4k works
  3. 3 India 1.3k works
  4. 4 Nigeria 798 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 637 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 546 works
  7. 7 Brazil 522 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 379 works
  9. 9 South Africa 366 works
  10. 10 Germany 347 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: 25.4%United States: 16.8%India: 15.5%Nigeria: 9.4%6 others listed: 33.0%25%largest
China2,152 · 25.4%United States1,425 · 16.8%India1,314 · 15.5%Nigeria798 · 9.4%6 others listed2,798 · 33.0%

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

Which institutions lead Energy and Environment Impacts research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Johannesburg publishes the most Energy and Environment Impacts research, followed by North China Electric Power University and University of Port Harcourt.

Who are the leading researchers in Energy and Environment Impacts?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Energy and Environment Impacts include Chuanhua Yu, Lídia Morawska and İbrahim Dinçer.

  1. 1 Chuanhua Yu China 7.4k citations
  2. 2 Lídia Morawska Australia 6.4k citations
  3. 3 İbrahim Dinçer Canada 5.9k citations
  4. 4 Michelle L. Bell United States 5.1k citations

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

Where is Energy and Environment Impacts research done?

The largest centres of Energy and Environment Impacts research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 514 works
  2. 2 London United Kingdom 151 works
  3. 3 Dhaka Bangladesh 150 works
  4. 4 New Delhi India 146 works
  5. 5 Tehran Iran 141 works
  6. 6 Nanjing China 135 works
  7. 7 Wuhan China 122 works
  8. 8 Shanghai China 111 works
  9. 9 Nairobi Kenya 102 works
  10. 10 Istanbul Türkiye 101 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SunyaniGH · 28.2 works36×
  2. MogadishuSO · 23.3 works24×
  3. DschangCM · 27.2 works18×
  4. Port HarcourtNG · 76.9 works14×
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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, Lebanese American University, ILMA University and Near East University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%50%100%mean 52.84%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Lebanese American University: 14, 76.1%ILMA University: 8, 70.9%Near East University: 26, 51.7%University of Johannesburg: 71, 21.6%Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology: 20, 31.3%Université de Dschang: 27, 36.0%University of International Business and Economics: 18, 60.7%European University of Lefke: 8, 66.5%Cyprus International University: 13, 57.6%Azerbaijan State University of Economics: 14, 56.0%Lebanese American Un…ILMA UniversityNear East UniversityUniversity of Johann…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Lebanese American UniversityLebanon 69.976.1%8.1×14
2 ILMA UniversityPakistan 68.170.9%38.0×8
3 Near East UniversityCyprus 67.851.7%13.0×26
4 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 66.121.6%7.6×71 +226.6%
5 Lappeenranta-Lahti University of TechnologyFinland 65.531.3%12.9×20 +320.8%
6 Université de DschangCameroon 65.036.0%17.9×27 +138.5%
7 University of International Business and EconomicsChina 65.060.7%12.4×18
8 European University of LefkeTürkiye 63.366.5%27.9×8
9 Cyprus International UniversityCyprus 62.957.6%16.6×13
10 Azerbaijan State University of EconomicsAzerbaijan 62.756.0%16.1×14

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Energy and Environment Impacts research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 106% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.