Papers on “greenhouse gas emissions”
Research on “greenhouse gas emissions” 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 “greenhouse gas emissions” appeared in 1,165 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (715), operations research (244) and finance (64).
- 133 of them were published in 2025, against 110 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (10), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (8) and Curtin University (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Energy Economics (45), Energy Policy (39) and Ecological Economics (34).
- The most-cited of them is “The effects of board characteristics and sustainable compensation policy on carbon performance of UK firms” (The British Accounting Review, 2017), with 748 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 82 | 63 | 60 | 62 | 64 | 72 | 74 | 92 | 72 | 74 |
| Operations Research | 17 | 13 | 19 | 24 | 15 | 25 | 28 | 37 | 30 | 36 |
| Finance | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 11 | 17 |
| Management | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 10 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Accounting | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 110 | 81 | 87 | 96 | 102 | 122 | 124 | 166 | 133 | 144 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Energy Economics | 45 |
| 2 | Energy Policy | 39 |
| 3 | Ecological Economics | 34 |
| 4 | Resources Policy | 28 |
| 5 | Annals of Operations Research | 23 |
| 6 | Transport Policy | 23 |
| 7 | Land Use Policy | 18 |
| 8 | Research in Transportation Business & Management | 16 |
| 9 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 15 |
| 10 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 13 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 10 |
| 2 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 8 |
| 3 | Curtin University | 7 |
| 4 | Lebanese American University | 7 |
| 5 | Tsinghua University | 7 |
| 6 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 7 |
| 7 | ETH Zurich | 6 |
| 8 | National University of Singapore | 6 |
| 9 | Shanghai University | 6 |
| 10 | University of Tehran | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 126 |
| 2 | United States | 87 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 62 |
| 4 | Germany | 48 |
| 5 | France | 45 |
| 6 | Italy | 40 |
| 7 | Australia | 37 |
| 8 | India | 34 |
| 9 | Canada | 33 |
| 10 | Spain | 29 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | climate change mitigation | 49 |
| 2 | CO2 emissions | 38 |
| 3 | climate policy | 36 |
| 4 | China | 30 |
| 5 | carbon pricing | 29 |
| 6 | economic growth | 29 |
| 7 | renewable energy | 28 |
| 8 | climate change | 27 |
| 9 | carbon tax | 24 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “greenhouse gas emissions”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/greenhouse-gas-emissions
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