Papers on “energy efficiency”
Research on “energy efficiency” 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 efficiency” appeared in 1,826 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,050), AI (391) and operations research (196).
- 290 of them were published in 2025, against 115 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Beijing Institute of Technology (24), Xi'an Jiaotong University (21) and Peking University (19).
- The journals publishing most of them were Energy Economics (134), Energy Policy (85) and Expert Systems with Applications (72).
- The most-cited of them is “Digitalization and energy consumption. Does ICT reduce energy demand?” (Ecological Economics, 2020), with 1,170 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 90 | 89 | 104 | 106 | 96 | 89 | 127 | 127 | 137 | 85 |
| AI | 7 | 16 | 20 | 22 | 30 | 32 | 46 | 63 | 89 | 66 |
| Operations Research | 13 | 14 | 18 | 10 | 18 | 20 | 17 | 20 | 29 | 37 |
| Management | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 8 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 18 | 17 |
| Information Systems | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 115 | 126 | 147 | 152 | 160 | 166 | 215 | 235 | 290 | 220 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Energy Economics | 134 |
| 2 | Energy Policy | 85 |
| 3 | Expert Systems with Applications | 72 |
| 4 | Resources Policy | 64 |
| 5 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 40 |
| 6 | Neural Networks | 29 |
| 7 | Neural Computing and Applications | 26 |
| 8 | Utilities Policy | 24 |
| 9 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 21 |
| 10 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 20 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 24 |
| 2 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 21 |
| 3 | Peking University | 19 |
| 4 | Xiamen University | 16 |
| 5 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 15 |
| 6 | Wuhan University | 14 |
| 7 | Hunan University | 13 |
| 8 | Tianjin University | 12 |
| 9 | Chongqing University | 11 |
| 10 | Fudan University | 11 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 470 |
| 2 | United States | 91 |
| 3 | India | 81 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 77 |
| 5 | Spain | 40 |
| 6 | France | 40 |
| 7 | Italy | 39 |
| 8 | Australia | 38 |
| 9 | Germany | 38 |
| 10 | Saudi Arabia | 33 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CO2 emissions | 103 |
| 2 | China | 99 |
| 3 | spiking neural networks | 64 |
| 4 | energy intensity | 60 |
| 5 | energy transition | 53 |
| 6 | economic growth | 51 |
| 7 | energy consumption | 45 |
| 8 | renewable energy | 45 |
| 9 | environmental regulation | 42 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,170 | 15.3 | Digitalization and energy consumption. Does ICT reduce energy demand? | Ecological Economics | 2020-06-23 | Steffen Lange, Johanna Pohl, Tilman Santarius |
| 2 | 786 | 11.7 | Public spending and green economic growth in BRI region: Mediating role of green finance | Energy Policy | 2021-03-31 | Dongyang Zhang, Muhammad Mohsin, Abdul Khaliq Rasheed et al. |
| 3 | 768 | 9.0 | Institutional quality, green innovation and energy efficiency | Energy Policy | 2019-09-27 | Huaping Sun, Bless Kofi Edziah, Chuanwang Sun et al. |
| 4 | 573 | 8.4 | Energy efficiency: The role of technological innovation and knowledge spillover | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 2021-02-24 | Huaping Sun, Bless Kofi Edziah, Anthony Kwaku Kporsu et al. |
| 5 | 564 | 5.4 | The impact of green innovation on energy intensity: An empirical analysis for 14 industrial sectors in OECD countries | Energy Economics | 2018-02-05 | Jules-Daniel Wurlod, Joëlle Noailly |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “energy efficiency”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/energy-efficiency
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