Papers on “energy consumption”
Research on “energy consumption” 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 “energy consumption” appeared in 1,280 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (601), operations research (281) and AI (223).
- 182 of them were published in 2025, against 80 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Tongji University (16), Tsinghua University (14) and Beijing Institute of Technology (13).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (71), Energy Economics (57) and Computers & Industrial Engineering (57).
- The most-cited of them is “Environmental degradation in France: The effects of FDI, financial development, and energy innovations” (Energy Economics, 2018), with 1,193 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 51 | 56 | 53 | 55 | 62 | 74 | 81 | 71 | 68 | 30 |
| Operations Research | 13 | 13 | 12 | 19 | 20 | 26 | 38 | 53 | 43 | 44 |
| AI | 12 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 19 | 22 | 37 | 33 | 45 | 32 |
| Finance | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Management | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 4 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 80 | 79 | 75 | 105 | 123 | 144 | 182 | 183 | 182 | 127 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 71 |
| 2 | Energy Economics | 57 |
| 3 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 57 |
| 4 | Resources Policy | 44 |
| 5 | Energy Policy | 26 |
| 6 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 26 |
| 7 | Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies | 18 |
| 8 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 17 |
| 9 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 15 |
| 10 | Annals of Operations Research | 13 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tongji University | 16 |
| 2 | Tsinghua University | 14 |
| 3 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 13 |
| 4 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 10 |
| 5 | Lebanese American University | 9 |
| 6 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 9 |
| 7 | Southwest Jiaotong University | 9 |
| 8 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 8 |
| 9 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 8 |
| 10 | Jilin University | 8 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 333 |
| 2 | India | 62 |
| 3 | United States | 61 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 58 |
| 5 | Turkey | 38 |
| 6 | France | 33 |
| 7 | Australia | 26 |
| 8 | Malaysia | 25 |
| 9 | Canada | 23 |
| 10 | Iran | 23 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CO2 emissions | 120 |
| 2 | multi-objective optimization | 65 |
| 3 | China | 63 |
| 4 | economic growth | 56 |
| 5 | energy efficiency | 45 |
| 6 | environmental sustainability | 33 |
| 7 | renewable energy | 33 |
| 8 | makespan minimization | 29 |
| 9 | sustainable development | 29 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,193 | 12.0 | Environmental degradation in France: The effects of FDI, financial development, and energy innovations | Energy Economics | 2018-07-29 | Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz, Muhammad Ali Nasir, David Roubaud |
| 2 | 1,170 | 15.3 | Digitalization and energy consumption. Does ICT reduce energy demand? | Ecological Economics | 2020-06-23 | Steffen Lange, Johanna Pohl, Tilman Santarius |
| 3 | 935 | 13.8 | Digitalization and energy: How does internet development affect China's energy consumption? | Energy Economics | 2021-03-18 | Siyu Ren, Yu Hao, Lu Xu et al. |
| 4 | 854 | 8.6 | Economic growth, CO2 emissions and energy consumption: What causes what and where? | Energy Economics | 2018-07-27 | Alex Opoku Acheampong |
| 5 | 811 | 9.2 | The impact of natural resources, human capital, and foreign direct investment on the ecological footprint: The case of the United States | Resources Policy | 2019-06-17 | Muhammad Wasif Zafar, Syed Anees Haider Zaidi, Naveed R. Khan et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “energy consumption”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/energy-consumption
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