| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | What are we doing here? Analyzing fifteen years of energy scholarship and proposing a social science research agenda | Energy Research and Social Science | 2014 | 1,001 |
| 2 | Energy justice: A conceptual review | Energy Research and Social Science | 2016 | 971 |
| 3 | Promoting novelty, rigor, and style in energy social science: Towards codes of practice for appropriate methods and research design | Energy Research and Social Science | 2018 | 679 |
| 4 | A global perspective on domestic energy deprivation: Overcoming the energy poverty–fuel poverty binary | Energy Research and Social Science | 2015 | 621 |
| 5 | How long will it take? Conceptualizing the temporal dynamics of energy transitions | Energy Research and Social Science | 2016 | 608 |
| 6 | Political power and renewable energy futures: A critical review | Energy Research and Social Science | 2018 | 496 |
| 7 | Transforming power: Social science and the politics of energy choices | Energy Research and Social Science | 2014 | 387 |
| 8 | Rethinking the governance of energy infrastructure: Scale, decentralization and polycentrism | Energy Research and Social Science | 2014 | 349 |
| 9 | Integrating techno-economic, socio-technical and political perspectives on national energy transitions: A meta-theoretical framework | Energy Research and Social Science | 2018 | 331 |
| 10 | Energy democracy: Goals and policy instruments for sociotechnical transitions | Energy Research and Social Science | 2017 | 308 |
| 11 | What drives the development of community energy in Europe? The case of wind power cooperatives | Energy Research and Social Science | 2016 | 302 |
| 12 | Renewable energy cooperatives as gatekeepers or facilitators? Recent developments in Germany and a multidisciplinary research agenda | Energy Research and Social Science | 2015 | 299 |
| 13 | It starts at home? Climate policies targeting household consumption and behavioral decisions are key to low-carbon futures | Energy Research and Social Science | 2019 | 297 |
| 14 | Citizens’ willingness to participate in local renewable energy projects: The role of community and trust in Germany | Energy Research and Social Science | 2016 | 293 |
| 15 | Fuel poverty from the bottom-up: Characterising household energy vulnerability through the lived experience of the fuel poor | Energy Research and Social Science | 2015 | 291 |
| 16 | Energy transitions or additions? | Energy Research and Social Science | 2019 | 290 |
| 17 | Smart grids, smart users? The role of the user in demand side management | Energy Research and Social Science | 2014 | 277 |
| 18 | Thirty years of North American wind energy acceptance research: What have we learned? | Energy Research and Social Science | 2017 | 272 |
| 19 | Integrating social science in energy research | Energy Research and Social Science | 2015 | 271 |
| 20 | Decarbonizing Bitcoin: Law and policy choices for reducing the energy consumption of Blockchain technologies and digital currencies | Energy Research and Social Science | 2018 | 264 |
| 21 | Cascading risks: Understanding the 2021 winter blackout in Texas | Energy Research and Social Science | 2021 | 263 |
| 22 | Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research | Energy Research and Social Science | 2018 | 260 |
| 23 | Disruption and low-carbon system transformation: Progress and new challenges in socio-technical transitions research and the Multi-Level Perspective | Energy Research and Social Science | 2018 | 247 |
| 24 | Using stories, narratives, and storytelling in energy and climate change research | Energy Research and Social Science | 2017 | 246 |
| 25 | The political economy of car dependence: A systems of provision approach | Energy Research and Social Science | 2020 | 240 |
| 26 | Residential solar electricity adoption: What motivates, and what matters? A case study of early adopters | Energy Research and Social Science | 2014 | 231 |
| 27 | Typology of future clean energy communities: An exploratory structure, opportunities, and challenges | Energy Research and Social Science | 2018 | 230 |
| 28 | The emerging field of energy transitions: Progress, challenges, and opportunities | Energy Research and Social Science | 2014 | 224 |
| 29 | The politics of accelerating low-carbon transitions: Towards a new research agenda | Energy Research and Social Science | 2018 | 224 |
| 30 | Explaining interest in adopting residential solar photovoltaic systems in the United States: Toward an integration of behavioral theories | Energy Research and Social Science | 2017 | 222 |
| 31 | When pandemics impact economies and climate change: Exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on oil and electricity demand in China | Energy Research and Social Science | 2020 | 222 |
| 32 | Covid-19 and the politics of sustainable energy transitions | Energy Research and Social Science | 2020 | 221 |
| 33 | Governing for sustainable energy system change: Politics, contexts and contingency | Energy Research and Social Science | 2016 | 215 |
| 34 | An outlook on the global development of renewable and sustainable energy at the time of COVID-19 | Energy Research and Social Science | 2020 | 213 |
| 35 | The psychology of participation and interest in smart energy systems: Comparing the value-belief-norm theory and the value-identity-personal norm model | Energy Research and Social Science | 2016 | 206 |
| 36 | Reducing energy demand through low carbon innovation: A sociotechnical transitions perspective and thirteen research debates | Energy Research and Social Science | 2018 | 201 |
| 37 | Why do homeowners renovate energy efficiently? Contrasting perspectives and implications for policy | Energy Research and Social Science | 2015 | 199 |
| 38 | Analysis of the electricity demand trends amidst the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic | Energy Research and Social Science | 2020 | 199 |
| 39 | Policy packaging or policy patching? The development of complex energy efficiency policy mixes | Energy Research and Social Science | 2017 | 198 |
| 40 | Narrating expectations for the circular economy: Towards a common and contested European transition | Energy Research and Social Science | 2017 | 194 |
| 41 | Conceptual and empirical advances in analysing policy mixes for energy transitions | Energy Research and Social Science | 2017 | 194 |
| 42 | Ideology, capitalism, and climate: Explaining public views about climate change in the United States | Energy Research and Social Science | 2016 | 191 |
| 43 | Who are the victims of low-carbon transitions? Towards a political ecology of climate change mitigation | Energy Research and Social Science | 2021 | 189 |
| 44 | Individual and household interactions with energy systems: Toward integrated understanding | Energy Research and Social Science | 2014 | 187 |
| 45 | Setting energy justice apart from the crowd: Lessons from environmental and climate justice | Energy Research and Social Science | 2018 | 184 |
| 46 | Socio-energy systems design: A policy framework for energy transitions | Energy Research and Social Science | 2015 | 181 |
| 47 | Historical energy transitions: Speed, prices and system transformation | Energy Research and Social Science | 2016 | 177 |
| 48 | “Home is where the smart is”? Evaluating smart home research and approaches against the concept of home | Energy Research and Social Science | 2018 | 176 |
| 49 | Framing energy justice: perspectives from activism and advocacy | Energy Research and Social Science | 2016 | 175 |
| 50 | Towards a cross-paradigmatic framework of the social acceptance of energy systems | Energy Research and Social Science | 2015 | 174 |
