Papers on “environmental policy”
Research on “environmental 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. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “environmental policy” appeared in 1,005 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (722), finance (103) and management (81).
- 139 of them were published in 2025, against 71 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Lebanese American University (16), Xi'an Jiaotong University (14) and Wuhan University (11).
- The journals publishing most of them were Resources Policy (81), Energy Economics (55) and Finance research letters (26).
- The most-cited of them is “Social Norms and Pro-environmental Behavior: A Review of the Evidence” (Ecological Economics, 2017), with 958 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 55 | 66 | 52 | 64 | 56 | 70 | 101 | 110 | 80 | 68 |
| Finance | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 23 | 34 | 20 |
| Management | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 20 | 13 | 7 | 13 | 5 |
| Operations Research | 8 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 8 | 8 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Marketing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 71 | 77 | 62 | 81 | 79 | 104 | 130 | 156 | 139 | 106 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Resources Policy | 81 |
| 2 | Energy Economics | 55 |
| 3 | Finance research letters | 26 |
| 4 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 20 |
| 5 | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 18 |
| 6 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 17 |
| 7 | Ecological Economics | 16 |
| 8 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 16 |
| 9 | Economic Change and Restructuring | 16 |
| 10 | Environmental and Resource Economics | 15 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lebanese American University | 16 |
| 2 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 14 |
| 3 | Wuhan University | 11 |
| 4 | Central University of Finance and Economics | 9 |
| 5 | University of Pisa | 9 |
| 6 | Renmin University of China | 8 |
| 7 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 8 |
| 8 | University of International Business and Economics | 8 |
| 9 | Zhengzhou University | 8 |
| 10 | Jiangsu University | 7 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 274 |
| 2 | Italy | 54 |
| 3 | United States | 52 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 43 |
| 5 | France | 35 |
| 6 | Spain | 22 |
| 7 | Australia | 21 |
| 8 | Germany | 21 |
| 9 | India | 20 |
| 10 | Turkey | 19 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 90 |
| 2 | CO2 emissions | 73 |
| 3 | green innovation | 69 |
| 4 | sustainable development | 50 |
| 5 | economic growth | 49 |
| 6 | environmental degradation | 38 |
| 7 | environmental regulation | 34 |
| 8 | environmental sustainability | 30 |
| 9 | ecological footprint | 28 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 958 | 8.4 | Social Norms and Pro-environmental Behavior: A Review of the Evidence | Ecological Economics | 2017-05-04 | Katherine Farrow, Gilles Grolleau, Lisette Ibanez |
| 2 | 777 | 10.5 | The dynamic impact of natural resources, technological innovations and economic growth on ecological footprint: An advanced panel data estimation | Resources Policy | 2020-09-06 | Mahmood Ahmad, Ping Yu Jiang, Abdul Hannan Majeed et al. |
| 3 | 609 | 8.6 | How does fiscal decentralization affect CO2 emissions? The roles of institutions and human capital | Energy Economics | 2020-12-07 | Zeeshan Khan, Shahid Ali, Kangyin Y. Dong et al. |
| 4 | 518 | 6.6 | Economic complexity and the green economy | Research Policy | 2020-04-08 | Penny Mealy, Alexander Teytelboym |
| 5 | 503 | 4.4 | The impact of energy consumption and economic development on Ecological Footprint and CO2 emissions: Evidence from a Markov Switching Equilibrium Correction Model | Energy Economics | 2017-05-22 | Lanouar Charfeddine |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “environmental policy”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/environmental-policy
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note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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