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title: "Climate policy research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# 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.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 70 | 79 | 73 | 74 | 81 | 67 | 111 | 117 | 136 | 138 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 17 | 21 | 34 | 23 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 12 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 88 |
| 2 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 83 |
| 3 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 36 |
| 4 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 28 |
| 5 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 24 |
| 6 | [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-environmental-economics-and-management.md) | 19 |
| 7 | [Environmental and Resource Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-and-resource-economics.md) | 19 |
| 8 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 17 |
| 9 | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 17 |
| 10 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 15 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Lebanese American University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lebanese-american-university.md) | 14 |
| 2 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [ETH Zurich](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/eth-zurich.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [Southwestern University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwestern-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 8 |
| 7 | European Central Bank | 8 |
| 8 | [Qingdao University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/qingdao-university.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [Xiamen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xiamen-university.md) | 8 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [carbon pricing](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/carbon-pricing.md) | 86 |
| 2 | [CO2 emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/co2-emissions.md) | 80 |
| 3 | [carbon tax](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/carbon-tax.md) | 74 |
| 4 | [energy transition](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/energy-transition.md) | 41 |
| 5 | [emissions trading](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emissions-trading.md) | 40 |
| 6 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 39 |
| 7 | [greenhouse gas emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/greenhouse-gas-emissions.md) | 36 |
| 8 | Paris Agreement | 35 |
| 9 | [renewable energy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/renewable-energy.md) | 33 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 889 | 9.7 | [Disaster on the horizon: The price effect of sea level rise](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2019.03.013) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2019-03-22 | Asaf Bernstein, Matthew Gustafson, Ryan Lewis |
| 2 | 626 | 9.7 | [Real effects of climate policy: Financial constraints and spillovers](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2021.06.015) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104590) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2019-11-19 | Yucai Hu, Shenggang Ren, Yangjie Wang et al. |
| 4 | 454 | 11.4 | [Dissecting climate risks: Are they reflected in stock prices?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2023.106948) | [Journal of Banking & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-banking-finance.md) | 2023-07-08 | Renato Faccini, Rastin Matin, George S. Skiadopoulos |
| 5 | 423 | 4.0 | [Carbon Risk and Corporate Capital Structure](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2020.101713) | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | 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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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “climate policy”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-policy}},
  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).