Papers on “climate policy”
Research on “climate policy” 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 policy” appeared in 1,191 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (946), finance (112) and management (70).
- 190 of them were published in 2025, against 81 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Lebanese American University (14), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (12) and ETH Zurich (12).
- The journals publishing most of them were Energy Economics (88), Energy Policy (83) and Ecological Economics (36).
- The most-cited of them is “Disaster on the horizon: The price effect of sea level rise” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2019), with 889 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 70 | 79 | 73 | 74 | 81 | 67 | 111 | 117 | 136 | 138 |
| Finance | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 17 | 21 | 34 | 23 |
| Management | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 12 |
| Operations Research | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 81 | 85 | 82 | 90 | 98 | 85 | 144 | 151 | 190 | 185 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Energy Economics | 88 |
| 2 | Energy Policy | 83 |
| 3 | Ecological Economics | 36 |
| 4 | Finance research letters | 28 |
| 5 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 24 |
| 6 | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 19 |
| 7 | Environmental and Resource Economics | 19 |
| 8 | European Economic Review | 17 |
| 9 | Economic Modelling | 17 |
| 10 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 15 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lebanese American University | 14 |
| 2 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 12 |
| 3 | ETH Zurich | 12 |
| 4 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 9 |
| 5 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | 9 |
| 6 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 8 |
| 7 | European Central Bank | 8 |
| 8 | Qingdao University | 8 |
| 9 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 8 |
| 10 | Xiamen University | 8 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 164 |
| 2 | United States | 101 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 97 |
| 4 | Germany | 71 |
| 5 | Italy | 71 |
| 6 | France | 54 |
| 7 | Australia | 36 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 32 |
| 9 | Spain | 30 |
| 10 | India | 25 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | carbon pricing | 86 |
| 2 | CO2 emissions | 80 |
| 3 | carbon tax | 74 |
| 4 | energy transition | 41 |
| 5 | emissions trading | 40 |
| 6 | China | 39 |
| 7 | greenhouse gas emissions | 36 |
| 8 | Paris Agreement | 35 |
| 9 | renewable energy | 33 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 889 | 9.7 | Disaster on the horizon: The price effect of sea level rise | Journal of Financial Economics | 2019-03-22 | Asaf Bernstein, Matthew Gustafson, Ryan Lewis |
| 2 | 626 | 9.7 | Real effects of climate policy: Financial constraints and spillovers | Journal of Financial Economics | 2021-06-23 | Söhnke M. Bartram, Kewei Hou, Sehoon Kim |
| 3 | 622 | 7.5 | Can carbon emission trading scheme achieve energy conservation and emission reduction? Evidence from the industrial sector in China | Energy Economics | 2019-11-19 | Yucai Hu, Shenggang Ren, Yangjie Wang et al. |
| 4 | 454 | 11.4 | Dissecting climate risks: Are they reflected in stock prices? | Journal of Banking & Finance | 2023-07-08 | Renato Faccini, Rastin Matin, George S. Skiadopoulos |
| 5 | 423 | 4.0 | Carbon Risk and Corporate Capital Structure | Journal of Corporate Finance | 2018-01-01 | Justin Hung Nguyen, Hieu V. Phan |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “climate policy”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-policy
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