| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Chinese CO2 emission flows have reversed since the global financial crisis | Nature Communications | 2017 | 678 |
| 2 | Stability and Bifurcation in a Delayed Holling-Tanner Predator-Prey System with Ratio-Dependent Functional Response | Journal of Applied Mathematics | 2012 | 536 |
| 3 | County-level CO2 emissions and sequestration in China during 1997–2017 | Scientific Data | 2020 | 430 |
| 4 | Public-private partnerships investment in energy as new determinant of CO2 emissions: The role of technological innovations in China | Energy Economics | 2020 | 374 |
| 5 | Environmental efficiency evaluation based on data envelopment analysis: A review | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | 2012 | 329 |
| 6 | Could environmental regulation and R&D tax incentives affect green product innovation? | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2020 | 290 |
| 7 | The mitigating effects of economic complexity and renewable energy on carbon emissions in developed countries | Sustainable Development | 2021 | 282 |
| 8 | Investigating the nexus between economic complexity, energy consumption and ecological footprint for the United States: New insights from quantile methods | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2021 | 259 |
| 9 | Technological challenges of green innovation and sustainable resource management with large scale data | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 2019 | 256 |
| 10 | Decomposition and decoupling analysis of CO2 emissions in OECD | Applied Energy | 2018 | 231 |
| 11 | The role of environmental technology for energy demand and energy efficiency: Evidence from OECD countries | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | 2022 | 214 |
| 12 | Does exports diversification and environmental innovation achieve carbon neutrality target of OECD economies? | Journal of Environmental Management | 2021 | 200 |
| 13 | Regional determinants of China’s consumption-based emissions in the economic transition | Environmental Research Letters | 2020 | 198 |
| 14 | Impact of green credit on high-efficiency utilization of energy in China considering environmental constraints | Energy Policy | 2021 | 198 |
| 15 | Exploring the role of green innovation and investment in energy for environmental quality: An empirical appraisal from provincial data of China | Journal of Environmental Management | 2021 | 186 |
| 16 | Bootstrap-DEA analysis of BRICS’ energy efficiency based on small sample data | Applied Energy | 2013 | 175 |
| 17 | Environmental performance evaluation with big data: theories and methods | Annals of Operations Research | 2018 | 175 |
| 18 | Environmental efficiency and economic growth of China: A Ray slack-based model analysis | European Journal of Operational Research | 2018 | 175 |
| 19 | Green technology progress and total factor productivity of resource-based enterprises: A perspective of technical compensation of environmental regulation | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 2022 | 172 |
| 20 | Investigating the spill overs and connectedness between financial globalization, high-tech industries and environmental footprints: Fresh evidence in context of China | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 2022 | 165 |
| 21 | How would big data support societal development and environmental sustainability? Insights and practices | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2017 | 158 |
| 22 | Impacts of environmental regulations on green economic growth in China: New guidelines regarding renewable energy and energy efficiency | Renewable Energy | 2022 | 152 |
| 23 | Environmental regulations, staff quality, green technology, R&D efficiency, and profit in manufacturing | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 2018 | 151 |
| 24 | The influence of increased population density in China on air pollution | Science of the Total Environment | 2020 | 149 |
| 25 | Effects of technological changes on China's carbon emissions | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 2020 | 145 |
| 26 | Export product diversification and CO2 emissions: Contextual evidences from developing and developed economies | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2020 | 143 |
| 27 | Macroeconomic uncertainty, high-level innovation, and urban green development performance in China | China Economic Review | 2019 | 141 |
| 28 | Investigating the role of globalization, and energy consumption for environmental externalities: Empirical evidence from developed and developing economies | Renewable Energy | 2022 | 141 |
| 29 | Do Environment-Related Policy Instruments and Technologies Facilitate Renewable Energy Generation? Exploring the Contextual Evidence from Developed Economies | Energies | 2021 | 140 |
| 30 | Does Export product diversification help to reduce energy demand: Exploring the contextual evidences from the newly industrialized countries | Energy | 2021 | 136 |
| 31 | Low-carbon production with low-carbon premium in cap-and-trade regulation | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2016 | 135 |
| 32 | Does export product quality and renewable energy induce carbon dioxide emissions: Evidence from leading complex and renewable energy economies | Renewable Energy | 2021 | 132 |
| 33 | Global value chains, technological progress, and environmental pollution: Inequality towards developing countries | Journal of Environmental Management | 2021 | 130 |
| 34 | Export product diversification and energy efficiency: Empirical evidence from OECD countries | Structural Change and Economic Dynamics | 2020 | 129 |
| 35 | Blockchain technology and enterprise operational capabilities: An empirical test | International Journal of Information Management | 2020 | 128 |
| 36 | The role of renewable energy and natural resources for sustainable agriculture in ASEAN countries: Do carbon emissions and deforestation affect agriculture productivity? | Resources Policy | 2022 | 124 |
| 37 | Impacts of government subsidies and environmental regulations on green process innovation: A nonlinear approach | Technology in Society | 2020 | 123 |
| 38 | Mitigate risks in perishable food supply chains: Learning from COVID-19 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 2021 | 123 |
| 39 | Asymmetric nexus between COVID-19 outbreak in the world and cryptocurrency market | International Review of Financial Analysis | 2021 | 122 |
| 40 | The evolution of renewable energy and its impact on carbon reduction in China | Energy | 2021 | 122 |
| 41 | The impact of environmental regulation on fossil energy consumption in China: Direct and indirect effects | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2017 | 121 |
| 42 | Renewable and nonrenewable energy consumption, trade and CO2 emissions in high emitter countries: does the income level matter? | Journal of Environmental Planning and Management | 2021 | 119 |
| 43 | Market competition, green technology progress and comparative advantages in China | Management Decision | 2018 | 118 |
| 44 | Driving factors of CO2 emissions and inequality characteristics in China: A combined decomposition approach | Energy Economics | 2019 | 115 |
| 45 | Unveiling the heterogeneous impacts of environmental taxes on energy consumption and energy intensity: Empirical evidence from OECD countries | Energy | 2021 | 114 |
| 46 | The challenges of entering the metaverse: An experiment on the effect of extended reality on workload | Information Systems Frontiers | 2022 | 113 |
| 47 | FDI, technology spillovers and green innovation in China: analysis based on Data Envelopment Analysis | Annals of Operations Research | 2015 | 110 |
| 48 | Political connections, financing constraints, and the optimization of innovation efficiency among China's private enterprises | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 2015 | 108 |
| 49 | The impact of fiscal decentralization on CO2 emissions in China | Energy | 2020 | 108 |
| 50 | Environmental efficiency and energy consumption of highway transportation systems in China | International Journal of Production Economics | 2016 | 107 |
