Papers on “environmental sustainability”
Research on “environmental sustainability” 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 sustainability” appeared in 1,185 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (573), management (200) and operations research (151).
- 183 of them were published in 2025, against 46 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Lebanese American University (21), Azerbaijan State University of Economics (16) and King Saud University (16).
- The journals publishing most of them were Resources Policy (196), Technological Forecasting and Social Change (35) and Finance research letters (27).
- The most-cited of them is “Circular Economy: The Concept and its Limitations” (Ecological Economics, 2017), with 3,955 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 19 | 15 | 15 | 26 | 25 | 64 | 134 | 160 | 69 | 46 |
| Management | 15 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 20 | 21 | 25 | 36 | 38 | 26 |
| Operations Research | 7 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 14 | 17 | 22 | 21 | 25 | 18 |
| Finance | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 30 | 32 | 19 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 9 |
| Marketing | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| AI | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| Accounting | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| All categories | 46 | 35 | 42 | 58 | 80 | 121 | 208 | 282 | 183 | 130 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Resources Policy | 196 |
| 2 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 35 |
| 3 | Finance research letters | 27 |
| 4 | Energy Economics | 25 |
| 5 | Economic Change and Restructuring | 23 |
| 6 | Ecological Economics | 19 |
| 7 | Energy Policy | 18 |
| 8 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 15 |
| 9 | Journal of Innovation & Knowledge | 14 |
| 10 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 13 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lebanese American University | 21 |
| 2 | Azerbaijan State University of Economics | 16 |
| 3 | King Saud University | 16 |
| 4 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 16 |
| 5 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 12 |
| 6 | Tashkent State University of Economics | 12 |
| 7 | İstanbul Nişantaşı Üniversitesi | 11 |
| 8 | Gulf University for Science & Technology | 10 |
| 9 | Wuhan University | 10 |
| 10 | ILMA University | 9 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 322 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 91 |
| 3 | Pakistan | 78 |
| 4 | Italy | 65 |
| 5 | United States | 61 |
| 6 | Turkey | 54 |
| 7 | Australia | 52 |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia | 52 |
| 9 | France | 49 |
| 10 | India | 49 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CO2 emissions | 143 |
| 2 | economic growth | 111 |
| 3 | social sustainability | 89 |
| 4 | sustainable development | 78 |
| 5 | China | 75 |
| 6 | ecological footprint | 61 |
| 7 | green finance | 60 |
| 8 | natural resources | 60 |
| 9 | economic sustainability | 58 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,955 | 35.4 | Circular Economy: The Concept and its Limitations | Ecological Economics | 2017-07-12 | Jaana Korhonen, Antero Honkasalo, Jyri Seppälä |
| 2 | 1,202 | 15.3 | Artificial intelligence for sustainability: Challenges, opportunities, and a research agenda | International Journal of Information Management | 2020-04-20 | Rohit Nishant, Mike Kennedy, Jacqueline Corbett |
| 3 | 753 | 9.0 | Artificial intelligence and sustainable development | The International Journal of Management Education | 2019-11-03 | Margaret A. Goralski, Tay Keong Tan |
| 4 | 666 | 6.0 | Innovative and sustainable business models in the fashion industry: Entrepreneurial drivers, opportunities, and challenges | Business Horizons | 2017-08-18 | Bruna Villa Todeschini, Marcelo Nogueira Cortimiglia, Daniela Callegaro-de-Menezes et al. |
| 5 | 633 | 5.4 | ICT and environmental sustainability: A global perspective | Telematics and Informatics | 2017-01-10 | Dolores Añón Higón, Roya Gholami, Farid Shirazi |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “environmental sustainability”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/environmental-sustainability
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