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Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies

Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies is a research topic within Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Science Explorer counts 37k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the rebound effect, which refers to the phenomenon where improvements in energy efficiency lead to an increase in consumption, offsetting some of the initial gains. The papers explore various aspects of the rebound effect, including its implications for energy efficiency policies, fuel taxes, household behavior, and environmental impact. They also analyze the elasticity of demand, fossil fuel subsidies, and the effects on the transportation sector and global energy demand.

  • Rebound Effect
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Consumption
  • Fuel Taxes
  • Elasticity of Demand
  • Fossil Fuel Subsidies
  • Transportation Sector
  • Household Behavior
  • Environmental Impact
  • Global Energy Demand
Research works
37k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+63%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies

Which countries lead Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.7k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.7k works
  2. 2 United States 1.2k works
  3. 3 India 958 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 562 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 544 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 522 works
  7. 7 Germany 367 works
  8. 8 Nigeria 348 works
  9. 9 Pakistan 307 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 275 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: 41.8%United States: 14.0%India: 10.9%Indonesia: 6.4%6 others listed: 26.9%42%largest
China3,679 · 41.8%United States1,236 · 14.0%India958 · 10.9%Indonesia562 · 6.4%6 others listed2,363 · 26.9%

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

Which institutions lead Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Xiamen UniversityChina 62 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 58 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 53 works
  4. 4 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 52 works
  5. 5 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 50 works
  6. 6 Tsinghua UniversityChina 47 works
  7. 7 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 45 works
  8. 8 Jiangsu UniversityChina 44 works
  9. 9 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 44 works
  10. 10 Wuhan UniversityChina 40 works

Who are the leading researchers in Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies include Salim Yusuf, Ted R. Miller and Lídia Morawska.

  1. 1 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k citations
  2. 2 Ted R. Miller United States 279k citations
  3. 3 Lídia Morawska Australia 244k citations
  4. 4 Philippe Ciais France 237k 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, Environment, and Transportation Policies?

The most cited paper in Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies is "The role of renewable energy in the global energy transformation" (Dolf J. Gielen, Francisco Boshell, Değer Saygin et al., 2019), with 4,968 citations. Next come "The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals" (3,211) and "Food systems are responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emissions" (3,161).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The role of renewable energy in the global energy transformation Dolf J. Gielen, Francisco Boshell, Değer Saygin et al. · Energy Strategy Reviews Open access 31 Jan 2019 4,968
2 The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Ricardo Vinuesa, Hossein Azizpour, Iolanda Leite et al. · Nature Communications Open access 13 Jan 2020 3,211
3 Food systems are responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emissions Monica Crippa, Efisio Solazzo, Diego Guizzardi et al. · Nature Food 8 Mar 2021 3,161
4 Environmental Quality and Development: Is There a Kuznets Curve for Air Pollution Emissions? Thomas M. Selden, Daqing Song · Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Open access Sep 1994 2,870
5 The Impact of Charging Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles on a Residential Distribution Grid Kristien Clement-Nyns, Edwin Haesen, Johan Driesen · IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Open access 21 Dec 2009 2,856
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Where is Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies research done?

The largest centres of Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bengbu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 653 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 241 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 233 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 186 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 146 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 139 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 136 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 126 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 114 works
  10. 10 JakartaIndonesia 108 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BengbuCN · 34.9 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

See Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies on the map

Where is the best place to study Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies?

Among universities, judged by research, Lebanese American University, ILMA University and Cyprus International University 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 28.95%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →ILMA UniversityLebanese American Un…Cyprus International…University of Intern…
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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 77.833.9%21.3×28 +1150.2%
2ILMA UniversityPakistan 71.935.5%81.5×14 +262.9%
3Cyprus International UniversityCyprus 71.328.6%40.3×24 +101.5%
4University of International Business and EconomicsChina 70.825.4%35.6×40 +118.5%
5Xiamen UniversityChina 70.620.6%6.1×62 +69.2%
6National University of MalaysiaMalaysia 70.546.9%2.9×23 +202.0%
7University of Business and TechnologySaudi Arabia 70.027.5%22.1×24 +124.3%
8Azerbaijan State University of EconomicsAzerbaijan 69.829.8%40.8×27 +712.7%
9Jiangsu UniversityChina 66.622.3%4.7×44 +99.0%
10Southwestern University of Finance and EconomicsChina 64.919.0%23.7×40 +83.9%

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, Environment, and Transportation Policies, country by country

Is Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 63% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies.

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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, Environment, and Transportation Policies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.066% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies0.054% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies 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, Environment, and Transportation Policies10.3% 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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