| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Total factor carbon emission performance: A Malmquist index analysis | Energy Economics | 2010 | 583 |
| 2 | Efficiency and abatement costs of energy-related CO2 emissions in China: A slacks-based efficiency measure | Applied Energy | 2012 | 500 |
| 3 | Grey system model with the fractional order accumulation | Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation | 2013 | 434 |
| 4 | Discrete grey forecasting model and its optimization | Applied Mathematical Modelling | 2009 | 386 |
| 5 | Does environmental regulation affect energy efficiency in China's thermal power generation? Empirical evidence from a slacks-based DEA model | Energy Policy | 2014 | 350 |
| 6 | Industrial energy efficiency with CO2 emissions in China: A nonparametric analysis | Energy Policy | 2012 | 278 |
| 7 | Different types of environmental regulations and the heterogeneous influence on the environmental total factor productivity: Empirical analysis of China's industry | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2019 | 244 |
| 8 | Strategic renewable energy resources selection for Pakistan: Based on SWOT-Fuzzy AHP approach | Sustainable Cities and Society | 2020 | 241 |
| 9 | Driving forces of residential CO2 emissions in urban and rural China: An index decomposition analysis | Energy Policy | 2010 | 222 |
| 10 | Evaluating the strategies for sustainable energy planning in Pakistan: An integrated SWOT-AHP and Fuzzy-TOPSIS approach | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2019 | 210 |
| 11 | Forecasting China's electricity consumption using a new grey prediction model | Energy | 2018 | 207 |
| 12 | Total-factor carbon emission performance of the Chinese transportation industry: A bootstrapped non-radial Malmquist index analysis | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | 2015 | 206 |
| 13 | How information and communication technology drives carbon emissions: A sector-level analysis for China | Energy Economics | 2019 | 206 |
| 14 | Accounting frameworks for tracking energy efficiency trends | Energy Economics | 2010 | 199 |
| 15 | Reinforcing green competitive advantage through green production, creativity and green brand image: Implications for cleaner production in China | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2020 | 194 |
| 16 | Do environmental management systems help improve corporate sustainable development? Evidence from manufacturing companies in Pakistan | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2019 | 191 |
| 17 | How does emission trading reduce China's carbon intensity? An exploration using a decomposition and difference-in-differences approach | Science of the Total Environment | 2019 | 188 |
| 18 | Modeling economic performance of interprovincial CO2 emission reduction quota trading in China | Applied Energy | 2013 | 185 |
| 19 | Novel approach of Principal Component Analysis method to assess the national energy performance via Energy Trilemma Index | Energy Reports | 2019 | 183 |
| 20 | Decomposition of intensity of energy-related CO 2 emission in Chinese provinces using the LMDI method | Energy Policy | 2016 | 182 |
| 21 | Weighting and Aggregation in Composite Indicator Construction: a Multiplicative Optimization Approach | Social Indicators Research | 2010 | 176 |
| 22 | Assessing oil supply security of South Asia | Energy | 2018 | 176 |
| 23 | Developing low carbon economies: An aggregated composite index based on carbon emissions | Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments | 2019 | 172 |
| 24 | The policy outcomes of low-carbon city construction on urban green development: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment conducted in China | Sustainable Cities and Society | 2021 | 172 |
| 25 | Do energy technology innovations contribute to CO2 emissions abatement? A spatial perspective | Science of the Total Environment | 2020 | 168 |
| 26 | Does foreign direct investment drive environmental degradation in China? An empirical study based on air quality index from a spatial perspective | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2018 | 166 |
| 27 | Integrated effect of energy consumption, economic development, and population growth on CO2 based environmental degradation: a case of transport sector | Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 2019 | 166 |
| 28 | Trilemma assessment of energy intensity, efficiency, and environmental index: evidence from BRICS countries | Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 2020 | 160 |
| 29 | How do environmental regulation and foreign investment behavior affect green productivity growth in the industrial sector? An empirical test based on Chinese provincial panel data | Journal of Environmental Management | 2021 | 159 |
| 30 | Contributions to sector-level carbon intensity change: An integrated decomposition analysis | Energy Economics | 2018 | 154 |
| 31 | Forecasting number of ISO 14001 certifications of selected countries: application of even GM (1,1), DGM, and NDGM models | Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 2019 | 149 |
| 32 | Promoting online learners’ continuance intention: An integrated flow framework | Information and Management | 2016 | 147 |
| 33 | Scenario-based energy efficiency and productivity in China: A non-radial directional distance function analysis | Energy Economics | 2013 | 145 |
| 34 | Does CSR influence firm performance? A longitudinal study of SME sectors of Pakistan | Journal of Global Responsibility | 2019 | 144 |
| 35 | A hybrid model for carbon price forecasting using GARCH and long short-term memory network | Applied Energy | 2021 | 141 |
| 36 | Optimal path for controlling CO2 emissions in China: A perspective of efficiency analysis | Energy Economics | 2014 | 136 |
| 37 | Analysis of barriers to the adoption of cleaner energy technologies in Pakistan using Modified Delphi and Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2019 | 133 |
| 38 | Assessing the solar PV power project site selection in Pakistan: based on AHP-fuzzy VIKOR approach | Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 2019 | 131 |
| 39 | Regret theory-based group decision-making with multidimensional preference and incomplete weight information | Information Fusion | 2016 | 128 |
| 40 | Novel grey prediction model with nonlinear optimized time response method for forecasting of electricity consumption in China | Energy | 2017 | 127 |
| 41 | Empathy or perceived credibility? An empirical study on individual donation behavior in charitable crowdfunding | Internet Research | 2018 | 125 |
| 42 | Comparing MCDA Aggregation Methods in Constructing Composite Indicators Using the Shannon-Spearman Measure | Social Indicators Research | 2009 | 123 |
| 43 | Forecasting China’s energy demand and self-sufficiency rate by grey forecasting model and Markov model | International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems | 2015 | 123 |
| 44 | Optimal Stackelberg strategies for financing a supply chain through online peer-to-peer lending | European Journal of Operational Research | 2018 | 123 |
| 45 | Impact of product-design strategies on the operations of a closed-loop supply chain | Transportation Research, Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review | 2019 | 122 |
| 46 | Novel models of grey relational analysis based on visual angle of similarity and nearness | Grey Systems Theory and Application | 2011 | 121 |
| 47 | An empirical study of direct rebound effect for passenger transport in urban China | Energy Economics | 2012 | 121 |
| 48 | Analyzing influencing factors of green transformation in China’s manufacturing industry under environmental regulation: A structural equation model | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2020 | 120 |
| 49 | An approach to increase prediction precision of GM(1,1) model based on optimization of the initial condition | Expert Systems With Applications | 2010 | 113 |
| 50 | The GM models that x(n) be taken as initial value | Kybernetes | 2004 | 111 |
