Papers on “air pollution”
Research on “air pollution” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “air pollution” appeared in 893 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (573), finance (84) and operations research (74).
- 111 of them were published in 2025, against 50 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Peking University (21), Central University of Finance and Economics (16) and Renmin University of China (16).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (49), Energy Economics (33) and Economic Analysis and Policy (20).
- The most-cited of them is “Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect mental health and subjective well-being?” (Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2017), with 659 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 33 | 28 | 41 | 68 | 60 | 56 | 74 | 82 | 70 | 61 |
| Finance | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 21 | 11 | 10 |
| Operations Research | 6 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 10 | 7 |
| AI | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 5 |
| Statistics | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| Management | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Marketing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Accounting | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 50 | 46 | 55 | 98 | 96 | 94 | 110 | 133 | 111 | 100 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 49 |
| 2 | Energy Economics | 33 |
| 3 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 20 |
| 4 | Environmental and Resource Economics | 19 |
| 5 | China Economic Review | 17 |
| 6 | Transport Policy | 14 |
| 7 | Journal of Development Economics | 12 |
| 8 | Ecological Economics | 11 |
| 9 | Structural Change and Economic Dynamics | 11 |
| 10 | Expert Systems with Applications | 10 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peking University | 21 |
| 2 | Central University of Finance and Economics | 16 |
| 3 | Renmin University of China | 16 |
| 4 | Shandong University | 14 |
| 5 | Zhejiang University | 12 |
| 6 | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics | 11 |
| 7 | University of International Business and Economics | 11 |
| 8 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 10 |
| 9 | Zhongnan University of Economics and Law | 10 |
| 10 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 9 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 257 |
| 2 | United States | 82 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 34 |
| 4 | Germany | 27 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 22 |
| 6 | Spain | 18 |
| 7 | India | 17 |
| 8 | Italy | 17 |
| 9 | Australia | 16 |
| 10 | Canada | 13 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 113 |
| 2 | PM2.5 | 90 |
| 3 | air quality | 34 |
| 4 | environmental regulation | 31 |
| 5 | temperature inversion | 25 |
| 6 | particulate matter | 22 |
| 7 | air quality index | 20 |
| 8 | environmental policy | 19 |
| 9 | CO2 emissions | 17 |
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Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “air pollution”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/air-pollution
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