Papers on “carbon tax”
Research on “carbon tax” 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 tax” appeared in 841 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (546), operations research (210) and finance (30).
- 115 of them were published in 2025, against 53 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Shanghai Maritime University (9), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (8) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Energy Economics (46), Energy Policy (40) and Resources Policy (22).
- The most-cited of them is “Retailer-driven carbon emission abatement with consumer environmental awareness and carbon tax: Revenue-sharing versus Cost-sharing” (Omega, 2017), with 424 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 40 | 47 | 46 | 47 | 53 | 46 | 63 | 71 | 69 | 64 |
| Operations Research | 12 | 13 | 15 | 10 | 21 | 28 | 25 | 28 | 31 | 27 |
| Finance | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 5 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 53 | 63 | 64 | 67 | 81 | 83 | 98 | 115 | 115 | 102 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Energy Economics | 46 |
| 2 | Energy Policy | 40 |
| 3 | Resources Policy | 22 |
| 4 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 22 |
| 5 | Ecological Economics | 18 |
| 6 | Annals of Operations Research | 15 |
| 7 | Economic Modelling | 13 |
| 8 | International Journal of Production Economics | 13 |
| 9 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 13 |
| 10 | Environmental and Resource Economics | 12 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shanghai Maritime University | 9 |
| 2 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 8 |
| 3 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 8 |
| 4 | University of Tehran | 8 |
| 5 | European Central Bank | 7 |
| 6 | Yonsei University | 7 |
| 7 | ETH Zurich | 6 |
| 8 | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | 6 |
| 9 | Northeastern University | 6 |
| 10 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 148 |
| 2 | United States | 53 |
| 3 | Germany | 32 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 32 |
| 5 | Italy | 31 |
| 6 | France | 28 |
| 7 | India | 24 |
| 8 | Canada | 20 |
| 9 | Australia | 18 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 16 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CO2 emissions | 82 |
| 2 | carbon pricing | 78 |
| 3 | climate policy | 74 |
| 4 | emissions trading | 54 |
| 5 | carbon emission reduction | 40 |
| 6 | emission reduction | 30 |
| 7 | greenhouse gas emissions | 24 |
| 8 | China | 23 |
| 9 | decarbonization | 22 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 424 | 3.8 | Retailer-driven carbon emission abatement with consumer environmental awareness and carbon tax: Revenue-sharing versus Cost-sharing | Omega | 2017-07-08 | Huixiao Yang, Wenbo Chen |
| 2 | 338 | 4.0 | French attitudes on climate change, carbon taxation and other climate policies | Ecological Economics | 2019-11-12 | Thomas Douenne, Adrien Fabre |
| 3 | 318 | 4.1 | Price competition between green and non green products under corporate social responsible firm | Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services | 2020-04-30 | Shib Sankar Sana |
| 4 | 298 | 2.9 | Carbon Pricing: Effectiveness and Equity | Ecological Economics | 2018-04-17 | James K. Boyce |
| 5 | 296 | 2.6 | Jobs and climate policy: Evidence from British Columbia's revenue-neutral carbon tax | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 2017-03-27 | Akio Yamazaki |
Research ideas that follow this keyword#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “carbon tax”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/carbon-tax
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