SDG 13: Climate action
Papers in the tracked journals on UN Sustainable Development Goal 13, Climate action. OpenAlex assigns a paper to each UN Sustainable Development Goal that its classifier scores above 0.4 from the paper's text; a paper can belong to several goals or to none. Also as Markdown.
← All 17 goals · SDG 1 · SDG 2 · SDG 3 · SDG 4 · SDG 5 · SDG 6 · SDG 7 · SDG 8 · SDG 9 · SDG 10 · SDG 11 · SDG 12 · SDG 13 · SDG 14 · SDG 15 · SDG 16 · SDG 17
Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), SDG 13 (Climate action) was addressed by 23,680 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (13,969), finance (3,336) and operations research (2,939).
- It is #4 of the 17 goals by papers from 2023 to 2025 (10,404).
- 4,291 of them were published in 2025, against 1,285 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Xiamen University (209), Lebanese American University (199) and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (189).
- The journals publishing most of them were Energy Economics (1,735), Energy Policy (1,417) and Finance research letters (795).
- The most-cited of them is “Do Investors Care about Carbon Risk?” (Journal of Financial Economics, 2019), with 3,369 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 1,024 | 1,130 | 1,044 | 1,081 | 1,167 | 1,326 | 1,450 | 1,841 | 2,041 | 1,865 |
| Finance | 18 | 24 | 20 | 38 | 105 | 165 | 326 | 713 | 1,098 | 829 |
| Operations Research | 154 | 156 | 137 | 160 | 212 | 277 | 357 | 423 | 544 | 519 |
| Management | 43 | 41 | 61 | 83 | 145 | 223 | 211 | 246 | 249 | 261 |
| AI | 16 | 30 | 23 | 32 | 65 | 141 | 158 | 194 | 252 | 230 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 13 | 11 | 18 | 26 | 32 | 19 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 28 |
| Accounting | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 36 | 35 | 46 |
| Information Systems | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 19 | 15 | 23 |
| Marketing | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 28 | 14 | 19 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 13 |
| Statistics | 5 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 10 |
| Higher Education and Research | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| All categories | 1,285 | 1,404 | 1,324 | 1,465 | 1,761 | 2,187 | 2,570 | 3,543 | 4,291 | 3,850 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Energy Economics | 1,735 |
| 2 | Energy Policy | 1,417 |
| 3 | Finance research letters | 795 |
| 4 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 649 |
| 5 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 509 |
| 6 | Ecological Economics | 483 |
| 7 | Expert Systems with Applications | 383 |
| 8 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 380 |
| 9 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 369 |
| 10 | Utilities Policy | 316 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Xiamen University | 209 |
| 2 | Lebanese American University | 199 |
| 3 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | 189 |
| 4 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 189 |
| 5 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 175 |
| 6 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 174 |
| 7 | Renmin University of China | 172 |
| 8 | University of International Business and Economics | 163 |
| 9 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 156 |
| 10 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 153 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 6,291 |
| 2 | United States | 1,646 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 1,386 |
| 4 | France | 892 |
| 5 | Germany | 810 |
| 6 | Australia | 789 |
| 7 | Italy | 785 |
| 8 | India | 612 |
| 9 | Spain | 496 |
| 10 | Turkey | 405 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 1,517 |
| 2 | CO2 emissions | 1,414 |
| 3 | green innovation | 847 |
| 4 | energy transition | 756 |
| 5 | environmental regulation | 675 |
| 6 | green finance | 665 |
| 7 | Chinese listed companies | 634 |
| 8 | climate risk | 626 |
| 9 | climate policy | 598 |
| 10 | climate change | 576 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). SDG 13: Climate action. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/13-climate-action
@misc{scholar4ai-sdgs-13-climate-action,
author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {SDG 13: Climate action},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/13-climate-action}},
urldate = {2026-10-31},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}