Papers on “environmental performance”
Research on “environmental performance” 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 “environmental performance” appeared in 786 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (198), finance (178) and management (167).
- 145 of them were published in 2025, against 39 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Central University of Finance and Economics (9), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (9) and NEOMA Business School (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (43), International Review of Economics & Finance (28) and Technological Forecasting and Social Change (22).
- The most-cited of them is “Corporate green bonds” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2021), with 2,653 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 14 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 18 | 26 | 26 | 38 | 25 | 27 |
| Finance | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 20 | 46 | 59 | 25 |
| Management | 6 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 29 | 30 |
| Operations Research | 12 | 9 | 11 | 18 | 15 | 21 | 19 | 17 | 21 | 13 |
| Accounting | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| Marketing | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| AI | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 39 | 30 | 40 | 43 | 61 | 85 | 93 | 143 | 145 | 107 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 43 |
| 2 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 28 |
| 3 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 22 |
| 4 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 22 |
| 5 | Research in International Business and Finance | 20 |
| 6 | Resources Policy | 19 |
| 7 | International Journal of Production Economics | 19 |
| 8 | Energy Economics | 18 |
| 9 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 13 |
| 10 | Ecological Economics | 13 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Central University of Finance and Economics | 9 |
| 2 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 9 |
| 3 | NEOMA Business School | 9 |
| 4 | University of Turin | 8 |
| 5 | Xiamen University | 8 |
| 6 | University of Science and Technology of China | 7 |
| 7 | Capital University of Economics and Business | 6 |
| 8 | China University of Geosciences | 6 |
| 9 | Chongqing University | 6 |
| 10 | Durham University | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 232 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 76 |
| 3 | France | 49 |
| 4 | Italy | 44 |
| 5 | United States | 43 |
| 6 | Spain | 28 |
| 7 | Australia | 21 |
| 8 | India | 18 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 16 |
| 10 | Saudi Arabia | 16 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | social performance | 96 |
| 2 | corporate governance | 94 |
| 3 | green innovation | 61 |
| 4 | ESG performance | 59 |
| 5 | Chinese listed companies | 55 |
| 6 | China | 37 |
| 7 | financial performance | 37 |
| 8 | economic performance | 35 |
| 9 | corporate sustainability | 32 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “environmental performance”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/environmental-performance
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