Papers on “climate change”
Research on “climate change” 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 “climate change” appeared in 1,378 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (788), finance (193) and management (152).
- 221 of them were published in 2025, against 58 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Lebanese American University (17), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (13) and University of Bologna (10).
- The journals publishing most of them were Energy Economics (46), Finance research letters (37) and Resources Policy (35).
- The most-cited of them is “Climate risks and market efficiency” (Journal of Econometrics, 2018), with 964 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 42 | 50 | 43 | 75 | 58 | 95 | 105 | 147 | 102 | 71 |
| Finance | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 22 | 21 | 41 | 55 | 33 |
| Management | 3 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 22 | 19 | 14 | 33 | 22 | 14 |
| Operations Research | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 9 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 5 |
| AI | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Higher Education and Research | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Statistics | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| All categories | 58 | 73 | 64 | 104 | 118 | 157 | 168 | 260 | 221 | 155 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Energy Economics | 46 |
| 2 | Finance research letters | 37 |
| 3 | Resources Policy | 35 |
| 4 | Ecological Economics | 33 |
| 5 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 25 |
| 6 | Energy Policy | 24 |
| 7 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 24 |
| 8 | Land Use Policy | 23 |
| 9 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 21 |
| 10 | World Development | 20 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lebanese American University | 17 |
| 2 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 13 |
| 3 | University of Bologna | 10 |
| 4 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 9 |
| 5 | Zhongnan University of Economics and Law | 9 |
| 6 | Capital University of Economics and Business | 8 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund | 8 |
| 8 | Monash University | 8 |
| 9 | University of Edinburgh | 8 |
| 10 | University of Oxford | 8 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 210 |
| 2 | United States | 142 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 105 |
| 4 | Italy | 73 |
| 5 | France | 63 |
| 6 | Australia | 60 |
| 7 | Germany | 51 |
| 8 | Spain | 41 |
| 9 | Canada | 37 |
| 10 | India | 37 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 66 |
| 2 | CO2 emissions | 65 |
| 3 | climate risk | 51 |
| 4 | economic growth | 40 |
| 5 | sustainable development | 39 |
| 6 | climate change adaptation | 37 |
| 7 | green finance | 33 |
| 8 | energy transition | 29 |
| 9 | environmental sustainability | 28 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 964 | 10.0 | Climate risks and market efficiency | Journal of Econometrics | 2018-10-16 | Harrison G. Hong, Frank Weikai Li, Jiangmin Xu |
| 2 | 792 | 7.5 | An Inconvenient Cost: The Effects of Climate Change on Municipal Bonds | Journal of Financial Economics | 2018-01-01 | Marcus Painter |
| 3 | 764 | 7.6 | Climate Change, Financial Stability and Monetary Policy | Ecological Economics | 2018-06-19 | Yannis Dafermos, Maria Nikolaidi, Giorgos Galanis |
| 4 | 761 | 12.8 | Climate change and COP26: Are digital technologies and information management part of the problem or the solution? An editorial reflection and call to action | International Journal of Information Management | 2021-11-24 | Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Laurie Hughes, Arpan Kumar Kar et al. |
| 5 | 715 | 8.5 | The sustainable development index: Measuring the ecological efficiency of human development in the anthropocene | Ecological Economics | 2019-11-12 | Jason Hickel |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “climate change”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-change
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