Papers on “renewable energy”
Research on “renewable energy” 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 “renewable energy” appeared in 1,265 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (974), management (102) and finance (72).
- 178 of them were published in 2025, against 86 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Lebanese American University (21), Azerbaijan State University of Economics (12) and Near East University (12).
- The journals publishing most of them were Resources Policy (147), Energy Policy (97) and Energy Economics (86).
- The most-cited of them is “CO2 emissions, economic and population growth, and renewable energy: Empirical evidence across regions” (Energy Economics, 2018), with 695 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 75 | 85 | 64 | 67 | 76 | 85 | 153 | 155 | 122 | 92 |
| Management | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 9 | 11 | 17 | 16 | 16 |
| Finance | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 19 | 19 |
| Operations Research | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 4 |
| AI | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 6 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 86 | 100 | 74 | 77 | 106 | 111 | 187 | 208 | 178 | 138 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Resources Policy | 147 |
| 2 | Energy Policy | 97 |
| 3 | Energy Economics | 86 |
| 4 | Utilities Policy | 30 |
| 5 | Economic Change and Restructuring | 30 |
| 6 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 20 |
| 7 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 15 |
| 8 | Mineral Economics | 12 |
| 9 | Finance research letters | 11 |
| 10 | Research in International Business and Finance | 10 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lebanese American University | 21 |
| 2 | Azerbaijan State University of Economics | 12 |
| 3 | Near East University | 12 |
| 4 | Qingdao University | 12 |
| 5 | Ural Federal University | 11 |
| 6 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 10 |
| 7 | City University of Macau | 10 |
| 8 | Wuhan University | 10 |
| 9 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 10 |
| 10 | Xiamen University | 10 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 271 |
| 2 | United States | 63 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 58 |
| 4 | India | 49 |
| 5 | Saudi Arabia | 49 |
| 6 | France | 47 |
| 7 | Turkey | 45 |
| 8 | Italy | 42 |
| 9 | Pakistan | 42 |
| 10 | Germany | 38 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CO2 emissions | 142 |
| 2 | energy transition | 134 |
| 3 | economic growth | 109 |
| 4 | sustainable development | 71 |
| 5 | China | 65 |
| 6 | green finance | 58 |
| 7 | environmental sustainability | 48 |
| 8 | energy efficiency | 45 |
| 9 | wind energy | 42 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “renewable energy”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/renewable-energy
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