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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. 6.9% 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%
337
per year above
Top-10% rate
6.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-11%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Environmental Policies and Emissions research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (130 and 54 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 130 works
  2. 2 United States 54 works
  3. 3 France 45 works
  4. 4 South Korea 40 works
  5. 5 Germany 39 works
  6. 6 Poland 32 works
  7. 7 Russia 23 works
  8. 8 Netherlands 20 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 19 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 17 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: 30.9%United States: 12.8%France: 10.7%South Korea: 9.5%6 others listed: 36.1%31%largest
China130 · 30.9%United States54 · 12.8%France45 · 10.7%South Korea40 · 9.5%6 others listed151 · 36.1%

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

Which institutions lead Environmental Policies and Emissions research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Aarhus University publishes the most Environmental Policies and Emissions research, followed by National Institute of Environmental Research and Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Aarhus University Denmark 8 works
  2. 2 National Institute of Environmental Research South Korea 5 works
  3. 3 Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research Germany 4 works
  4. 4 Technical University of Denmark Denmark 4 works
  5. 5 Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences China 3 works
  6. 6 Poznań University of Technology Poland 3 works
  7. 7 Seoul National University South Korea 3 works
  8. 8 Research Network (United States) United States 3 works
  9. 9 University of Groningen Netherlands 3 works
  10. 10 Häme University of Applied Sciences Finland 3 works

Who are the leading researchers in Environmental Policies and Emissions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Environmental Policies and Emissions include Peter Nijkamp and Jan Willem Erisman.

  1. 1 Peter Nijkamp 2k citations
  2. 2 Jan Willem Erisman 1.9k citations

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

Where is Environmental Policies and Emissions research done?

The largest centres of Environmental Policies and Emissions research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Nanjing (China) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Beijing.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 39 works
  2. 2 Seoul South Korea 16 works
  3. 3 Nanjing China 9 works
  4. 4 Paris France 8 works
  5. 5 Moscow Russia 8 works
  6. 6 Tianjin China 8 works
  7. 7 Shanghai China 8 works
  8. 8 Aarhus Denmark 8 works
  9. 9 Prague Czechia 8 works
  10. 10 Warsaw Poland 7 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BeijingCN · 39.2 works1.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Environmental Policies and Emissions than the world average.

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Is Environmental Policies and Emissions research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 11% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2014. The fastest-growing topics are Environmental Policies and Emissions.

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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.