Papers on “electric vehicles”
Research on “electric vehicles” 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 “electric vehicles” appeared in 923 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (366), economics (366) and management (98).
- 145 of them were published in 2025, against 55 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (14), Tongji University (13) and South China University of Technology (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were Energy Policy (45), Transport Policy (41) and Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice (33).
- The most-cited of them is “The electric vehicle routing problem with nonlinear charging function” (Transportation Research Part B Methodological, 2017), with 637 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations Research | 21 | 27 | 25 | 25 | 32 | 30 | 38 | 50 | 58 | 60 |
| Economics | 28 | 31 | 37 | 23 | 39 | 39 | 30 | 43 | 48 | 48 |
| Management | 5 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 11 | 13 |
| AI | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 9 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 55 | 69 | 78 | 61 | 89 | 90 | 89 | 116 | 145 | 131 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Energy Policy | 45 |
| 2 | Transport Policy | 41 |
| 3 | Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice | 33 |
| 4 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 30 |
| 5 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 24 |
| 6 | Research in Transportation Business & Management | 22 |
| 7 | Expert Systems with Applications | 21 |
| 8 | Energy Economics | 20 |
| 9 | Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies | 17 |
| 10 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 16 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 14 |
| 2 | Tongji University | 13 |
| 3 | South China University of Technology | 9 |
| 4 | Central South University | 8 |
| 5 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | 8 |
| 6 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 7 |
| 7 | Delft University of Technology | 6 |
| 8 | Purdue University West Lafayette | 6 |
| 9 | The University of Sydney | 6 |
| 10 | Tsinghua University | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 153 |
| 2 | United States | 73 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 41 |
| 4 | Germany | 36 |
| 5 | India | 28 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 26 |
| 7 | Australia | 25 |
| 8 | Norway | 19 |
| 9 | Italy | 18 |
| 10 | Canada | 17 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | charging infrastructure | 31 |
| 2 | CO2 emissions | 29 |
| 3 | sustainable transport | 29 |
| 4 | China | 26 |
| 5 | electric vehicle adoption | 24 |
| 6 | vehicle-to-grid | 23 |
| 7 | energy transition | 21 |
| 8 | purchase intention | 19 |
| 9 | vehicle routing | 19 |
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Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “electric vehicles”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/electric-vehicles
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