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Environmental Policies and Emissions

Environmental Policies and Emissions is a research topic within Pollution. Science Explorer counts 4.9k research works in it since 1953. 10.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the implementation and assessment of Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) techniques, including the identification of Best Available Techniques, emission inventory guidelines, environmental permitting, and the impact of coal on health and the environment. The cluster also addresses eco-efficiency in various industries and the implications of environmental legislation on company management and competitiveness.

  • Integrated Pollution Prevention
  • Best Available Techniques
  • IPPC Directive
  • Emission Inventory Guidebook
  • Water Resources Management
  • Environmental Permitting
  • Eco-efficiency
  • Health Impacts of Coal
  • Techno-economic Assessment
  • Environmental Legislation
Research works
4.9k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
518
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Environmental Policies and Emissions

Which countries lead Environmental Policies and Emissions research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (141 and 60 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 141 works
  2. 2 United States 60 works
  3. 3 France 48 works
  4. 4 Germany 44 works
  5. 5 South Korea 42 works
  6. 6 Poland 37 works
  7. 7 Russia 26 works
  8. 8 Netherlands 23 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 22 works
  10. 10 Finland 22 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: 30.3%United States: 13.0%France: 10.3%Germany: 9.4%6 others listed: 36.9%30%largest
China141 · 30.3%United States60 · 13.0%France48 · 10.3%Germany44 · 9.4%6 others listed171 · 36.9%

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

Which institutions lead Environmental Policies and Emissions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Environmental Policies and Emissions research, followed by Aarhus University and Université de Lyon.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 11 works
  2. 2 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 8 works
  3. 3 Université de LyonFrance 6 works
  4. 4 National Institute of Environmental ResearchSouth Korea 5 works
  5. 5 Leibniz AssociationGermany 5 works
  6. 6 Université de LorraineFrance 4 works
  7. 7 European CommissionBelgium 4 works
  8. 8 Technical University of DenmarkDenmark 4 works
  9. 9 University of GroningenNetherlands 4 works
  10. 10 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Environmental Policies and Emissions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Environmental Policies and Emissions include Lídia Morawska, Philippe Ciais and Markku Kulmala.

  1. 1 Lídia Morawska Australia 244k citations
  2. 2 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  3. 3 Markku Kulmala Finland 145k 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 Environmental Policies and Emissions?

The most cited paper in Environmental Policies and Emissions is "Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report: A contribution of Working Groups I, II, and III to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" (R. Watson et al., 2001), with 3,502 citations. Next come "Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change" (1,042) and "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA)" (669).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report: A contribution of Working Groups I, II, and III to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change R. Watson et al. 2001 3,502
2 Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Richard L. Ottinger, Nicholas Robinson, Victor Tafur · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapterOpen access 11 Apr 2005 1,042
3 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA) Dieter Martinetz · Umweltwissenschaften und Schadstoff-Forschung Open access May 1989 669
4 Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 Establishing a Scheme for Greenhouse Gas Emission Allowance Trading Within the Community and Amending Council Directive 96/61/EC Richard L. Ottinger, Nicholas Andrew Robinson, Víctor Tafur · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 11 Apr 2005 667
5 Application of uncertainty and variability in LCA Mark A. J. Huijbregts · The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment Sep 1998 592
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Where is Environmental Policies and Emissions research done?

The largest centres of Environmental Policies and Emissions research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Moscow (Russia) and Helsinki (Finland).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 41 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 16 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 9 works
  4. 4 HelsinkiFinland 9 works
  5. 5 PragueCzechia 9 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 9 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 9 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 8 works
  9. 9 BrusselsBelgium 8 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 8 works
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Is Environmental Policies and Emissions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2014. The fastest-growing topics are Environmental Policies and Emissions.

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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 Environmental Policies and Emissions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0034% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Environmental Policies and Emissions 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.

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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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