| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Chinese CO2 emission flows have reversed since the global financial crisis | Nature Communications | 2017 | 678 |
| 2 | Near-real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions reveals the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic | Nature Communications | 2020 | 420 |
| 3 | Unequal household carbon footprints in China | Nature Climate Change | 2017 | 345 |
| 4 | The crude oil market and the gold market: Evidence for cointegration, causality and price discovery | Resources Policy | 2010 | 304 |
| 5 | Globalization and carbon emissions: Is there any role of agriculture value-added, financial development, and natural resource rent in the aftermath of COP21? | Journal of Environmental Management | 2020 | 278 |
| 6 | Energy consumption, economic expansion, and CO2 emission in the UK: The role of economic policy uncertainty | Science of the Total Environment | 2020 | 252 |
| 7 | Exploring the effect of industrial structure adjustment on interprovincial green development efficiency in China: A novel integrated approach | Energy Policy | 2019 | 243 |
| 8 | How does internet development affect energy-saving and emission reduction? Evidence from China | Energy Economics | 2021 | 233 |
| 9 | Industry 4.0 and the circular economy: A literature review and recommendations for future research | Business Strategy and the Environment | 2021 | 232 |
| 10 | How does financial risk affect global CO2 emissions? The role of technological innovation | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 2021 | 230 |
| 11 | How does energy consumption affect China's urbanization? New evidence from dynamic threshold panel models | Energy Policy | 2019 | 226 |
| 12 | Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China | Nature Sustainability | 2020 | 224 |
| 13 | The dynamic relationship between environmental pollution, economic development and public health: Evidence from China | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2017 | 222 |
| 14 | How do energy consumption and environmental regulation affect carbon emissions in China? New evidence from a dynamic threshold panel model | Resources Policy | 2020 | 218 |
| 15 | Pattern changes in determinants of Chinese emissions | Environmental Research Letters | 2017 | 217 |
| 16 | How can China reach its CO2 intensity reduction targets by 2020? A regional allocation based on equity and development | Energy Policy | 2011 | 216 |
| 17 | Regional allocation of CO2 emissions allowance over provinces in China by 2020 | Energy Policy | 2013 | 213 |
| 18 | Short term electricity load forecasting using a hybrid model | Energy | 2018 | 212 |
| 19 | A novel hybrid method for crude oil price forecasting | Energy Economics | 2015 | 207 |
| 20 | Potential of energy savings and CO2 emission reduction in China’s iron and steel industry | Applied Energy | 2018 | 202 |
| 21 | Forecasting carbon price using empirical mode decomposition and evolutionary least squares support vector regression | Applied Energy | 2017 | 200 |
| 22 | The impact of government policy on preference for NEVs: The evidence from China | Energy Policy | 2013 | 197 |
| 23 | Potential impact of (CET) carbon emissions trading on China’s power sector: A perspective from different allowance allocation options | Energy | 2010 | 188 |
| 24 | Impacts of urbanization on carbon emissions: An empirical analysis from OECD countries | Energy Policy | 2021 | 183 |
| 25 | The dynamic links between CO2 emissions, energy consumption and economic development in the countries along “the Belt and Road” | Science of the Total Environment | 2018 | 182 |
| 26 | Does outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) affect the home country’s environmental quality? The case of China | Structural Change and Economic Dynamics | 2020 | 173 |
| 27 | A proposed global layout of carbon capture and storage in line with a 2 °C climate target | Nature Climate Change | 2021 | 169 |
| 28 | Reexamining the relationships among urbanization, industrial structure, and environmental pollution in China—New evidence using the dynamic threshold panel model | Energy Reports | 2020 | 162 |
| 29 | How harmful is air pollution to economic development? New evidence from PM2.5 concentrations of Chinese cities | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2018 | 159 |
| 30 | Provincial allocation of carbon emission reduction targets in China: An approach based on improved fuzzy cluster and Shapley value decomposition | Energy Policy | 2014 | 156 |
| 31 | The environmental consequences of domestic and foreign investment: Evidence from China | Energy Policy | 2017 | 156 |
| 32 | Take responsibility for electronic-waste disposal | Nature | 2016 | 155 |
| 33 | A novel multiscale nonlinear ensemble leaning paradigm for carbon price forecasting | Energy Economics | 2018 | 155 |
| 34 | Shooting two hawks with one arrow: Could China's emission trading scheme promote green development efficiency and regional carbon equality? | Energy Economics | 2021 | 153 |
| 35 | Energy poor or fuel poor: What are the differences? | Energy Policy | 2014 | 152 |
| 36 | Does the Environmental Kuznets Curve for coal consumption in China exist? New evidence from spatial econometric analysis | Energy | 2016 | 144 |
| 37 | Distributional effects of carbon taxation | Applied Energy | 2016 | 137 |
| 38 | The effect of technological factors on China's carbon intensity: New evidence from a panel threshold model | Energy Policy | 2018 | 136 |
| 39 | Exploring the effect of carbon trading mechanism on China's green development efficiency: A novel integrated approach | Energy Economics | 2020 | 135 |
| 40 | Energy systems for climate change mitigation: A systematic review | Applied Energy | 2020 | 135 |
| 41 | Does low-carbon energy transition mitigate energy poverty? The case of natural gas for China | Energy Economics | 2021 | 135 |
| 42 | China’s farewell to coal: A forecast of coal consumption through 2020 | Energy Policy | 2015 | 134 |
| 43 | How do FDI and technical innovation affect environmental quality? Evidence from China | Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 2020 | 129 |
| 44 | Impact of renewable energy consumption, financial development and natural resources on environmental degradation in OECD countries with dynamic panel data | Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 2022 | 123 |
| 45 | Has the development of FDI and foreign trade contributed to China’s CO2 emissions? An empirical study with provincial panel data | Natural Hazards | 2015 | 122 |
| 46 | Time-frequency causality and connectedness between international prices of energy, food, industry, agriculture and metals | Energy Economics | 2020 | 122 |
| 47 | Information Sharing in an Online Marketplace with Co‐opetitive Sellers | Production and Operations Management | 2021 | 122 |
| 48 | On the convergence in China's provincial per capita energy consumption: New evidence from a spatial econometric analysis | Energy Economics | 2017 | 121 |
| 49 | Distributional impacts of taxing carbon in China: Results from the CEEPA model | Applied Energy | 2012 | 118 |
| 50 | The financial development-environmental degradation nexus in the United Arab Emirates: the importance of growth, globalization and structural breaks | Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 2020 | 114 |
