Papers on “carbon neutrality”
Research on “carbon neutrality” 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 “carbon neutrality” appeared in 636 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (376), management (80) and finance (80).
- 129 of them were published in 2025, against 2 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Beijing Institute of Technology (21), Lebanese American University (21) and Xiamen University (21).
- The journals publishing most of them were Energy Economics (64), Resources Policy (61) and Energy Policy (47).
- The most-cited of them is “Effects of digital economy on carbon emission reduction: New evidence from China” (Energy Policy, 2022), with 628 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 27 | 44 | 106 | 87 | 60 | 44 |
| Management | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 15 | 21 | 18 | 6 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 14 | 20 | 28 | 9 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 15 | 19 | 11 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 33 | 80 | 158 | 146 | 129 | 78 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Energy Economics | 64 |
| 2 | Resources Policy | 61 |
| 3 | Energy Policy | 47 |
| 4 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 31 |
| 5 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 21 |
| 6 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 21 |
| 7 | Finance research letters | 21 |
| 8 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 20 |
| 9 | Land Use Policy | 14 |
| 10 | Technology in Society | 10 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 21 |
| 2 | Lebanese American University | 21 |
| 3 | Xiamen University | 21 |
| 4 | Peking University | 17 |
| 5 | Renmin University of China | 15 |
| 6 | University of International Business and Economics | 15 |
| 7 | Qingdao University | 14 |
| 8 | Tsinghua University | 12 |
| 9 | Zhongnan University of Economics and Law | 12 |
| 10 | Central South University | 11 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 418 |
| 2 | United States | 31 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 29 |
| 4 | France | 24 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 21 |
| 6 | Lebanon | 21 |
| 7 | Australia | 19 |
| 8 | Macao | 19 |
| 9 | Malaysia | 18 |
| 10 | India | 17 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 145 |
| 2 | CO2 emissions | 111 |
| 3 | carbon peak | 82 |
| 4 | energy transition | 42 |
| 5 | green innovation | 39 |
| 6 | green finance | 35 |
| 7 | economic growth | 34 |
| 8 | sustainable development | 29 |
| 9 | Chinese listed companies | 26 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 628 | 12.8 | Effects of digital economy on carbon emission reduction: New evidence from China | Energy Policy | 2022-10-01 | Ming Yi, Yafen Liu, Mingyue Selena Sheng et al. |
| 2 | 506 | 8.1 | Towards carbon neutrality by implementing carbon emissions trading scheme: Policy evaluation in China | Energy Policy | 2021-08-14 | Xing Chen, Boqiang Lin |
| 3 | 464 | 8.0 | Assessing the Digital Economy and its Carbon-Mitigation Effects: The Case of China | Energy Economics | 2022-01-01 | Jianda Wang, Kangyin Y. Dong, Xiucheng Dong et al. |
| 4 | 460 | 12.5 | Media coverage and corporate ESG performance: Evidence from China | International Review of Financial Analysis | 2023-10-12 | Feng He, Xinyao Guo, Pengpeng Yue |
| 5 | 300 | 6.0 | How does the digital economy improve high-quality energy development? The case of China | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 2022-08-26 | Jianda Wang, Bo Wang, Kangyin Y. Dong et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “carbon neutrality”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/carbon-neutrality
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