OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Energy Policy is 78. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of blending mandates on biofuel consumption, production, emission reductions and fuel prices	732
Low-capacity decentralized electricity systems limit the adoption of electronic appliances in rural Nepal	537
A game-theoretic approach to investigating the negative externalities between renewable and non-renewable energy suppliers under government sustainability goals: A case study of Iran	474
Compensation strategies for renewable energy curtailment in South Korea	416
How does China respond to the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism? An approach of global trade analysis	384
Estimating the long-run crude oil demand function of China: Some new evidence and policy options	376
Vulnerability of European electricity markets: A quantile connectedness approach	361
Willingness to accept a wind power plant: A survey study in the South of Italy	337
Unravelling electricity theft whistleblowing antecedents using the theory of planned behavior and norm activation model	284
Local energy transitions as process: How contract management problems stymie a city's sustainable transition to renewable energy	281
Meeting the costs of decarbonising industry – The potential effects on prices and competitiveness (a case study of the UK)	276
Impact of real-time pricing and residential load automation on distribution systems	255
Quantifying the cost savings of global solar PV and onshore wind markets	247
Do specialized courts matter? Environmental judiciary and corporate emissions in China	222
Would you prefer to rent rather than own your new heating system? Insights from a discrete choice experiment among owner-occupiers in the UK	219
Impact of socio-economic factors on local energetic retrofitting needs - A data analytics approach	217
An environmental justice analysis of distribution-level natural gas leaks in Massachusetts, USA	205
A new dawn for energy storage: An interdisciplinary legal and techno-economic analysis of the new EU legal framework	181
A critical evaluation of the 2022 greenhouse gas mitigation quota in Germany from an environmental economics and policy perspective	180
Climate change and economic development in Africa: A systematic review of energy transition modeling research	173
Flexible green hydrogen: The effect of relaxing simultaneity requirements on project design, economics, and power sector emissions	164
Evaluation of single-phase net metering to meet renewable energy targets: A case study from Pakistan	161
Do more efficient buildings lead to lower household energy consumption for cooling? Evidence from Guangzhou, China	160
Renewable origin, additionality, temporal and geographical correlation – eFuels production in Germany under the RED II regime	157
What is state capacity and how does it matter for energy transition?	156

Does reliable electricity mean lesser agricultural labor wages? Evidence from Indian villages	154
Does carbon financial market as an environmental regulation policy tool promote regional energy conservation and emission reduction? Empirical evidence from China	152
Too big to be ignored: How energy poverty undermines productive efficiency	151
How to finance green investments? The role of public debt	140
Using emissions trading schemes to reduce heterogeneous distortionary taxes: The case of recycling carbon auction revenues to support renewable energy	139
Modelling U.S. gasoline demand: A structural time series analysis with asymmetric price responses	138
Towards BitCO2, an individual consumption-based carbon emission reduction mechanism	138
The competitive disadvantages facing British assetless electricity retailers	129
The impact of urban form on residential electricity consumption: Panel data analyses of South Korean urban municipalities	127
Inflation and distributional impacts: Have mitigation policies been successful for vulnerable and energy poor households?	122
Assessing the potential for energy efficiency improvements in Latin America and Caribbean	118
A note on the effectiveness of the decline of the carbon intensity on carbon emissions	118
The rebound effect of decarbonization in China’s power sector under the carbon trading scheme	117
Climate policy options: A comparison of economic performance	115
Climate change policy discontinuity & Australia's 2016-2021 renewable investment supercycle	113
Can fusion energy be cost-competitive and commercially viable? An analysis of magnetically confined reactors	111
Enhancing the evaluation of Energy Investments by supplementing traditional discounted cash flow with Energy Return on Investment analysis	105
Concentration versus diversification: A spatial deployment approach to improve the economics of wind power	104
100% renewable electricity policies in U.S. cities: A mixed methods analysis of adoption and implementation	102
Factor price distortions, environmental regulation and innovation efficiency: An empirical study on China's power enterprises	101
Decarbonization strategies for Switzerland considering embedded greenhouse gas emissions in electricity imports	100
What are the challenges and opportunities in implementing Taiwan's aquavoltaics policy? A roadmap for achieving symbiosis between small-scale aquaculture and photovoltaics	99
Time, history and meaning-making in research on people's relations with renewable energy technologies (RETs) – A conceptual proposal	98
Environmental regulation and haze pollution: Neighbor-companion or neighbor-beggar?	97
Drivers of UK household energy expenditure: Promoting efficiency and curbing emissions	97
Dissecting household carbon and energy inequality: A decade's insight into regional disparities and urban-rural dynamics in China	96
The (Non) impact of the Spanish “Tax on the Sun” on photovoltaics prosumers uptake	96
Energy quota trading and energy vulnerability: China's energy quota trading pilot	96
Effect of consumer subsidies on coal mine efficiency and its transmission mechanism	96
A legal-economic framework of wholesale electricity markets: Assessing Australia's transition	95
Impacts of income poverty and high housing costs on fuel poverty in Egypt: An empirical modeling approach	95
Energy policy implications of carbon pricing scenarios for the Brazilian NDC implementation	94
Impact of government subsidies on total factor productivity of energy storage enterprises under dual-carbon targets	94
Exploring the determinants of the evolution of urban and rural household carbon footprints inequality in China	93
Factors that impact greenhouse gas emissions in Saudi Arabia: Decomposition analysis using LMDI	93
Coal communities and the U.S. energy transition: A policy corridors assessment	93
Empowering sustainability practices through energy transition for sustainable development goal 7: The role of energy patents and natural resources among European Union economies through advanced panel	93
Geopolitical risk and environmental degradation in BRICS: Aggregation bias and policy inference	92
Energy citizenship: Accounting for the heterogeneity of human behaviours within energy transition	91
What causes energy and transport poverty in Ireland? Analysing demographic, economic, and social dynamics, and policy implications	90
“Hidden price”: Energy conservation and emission reduction targets and employment growth	90
Subsidisation cost analysis of renewable energy deployment: A case study on the Italian feed-in tariff programme for photovoltaics	90
Analyzing the carbon pricing-leakage nexus through structural gravity estimation	89
The source of wind power producers’ market power	89
Making hay while the sun shines: Energy security pathway for Africa	89
Evolving a policy framework discovering the dynamic association between determinants of oil consumption in India	86
Liquidity costs on intraday power markets: Continuous trading versus auctions	86
Capacity subscription grid tariff efficiency and the impact of uncertainty on the subscribed level	83
The socio-economic impacts of energy policy reform through the lens of the power sector – Does cross-sectional dependence matter?	82
Getting to India's electric vehicle targets cost-effectively: To subsidize or not, and how?	82

Fighting the wrong battle? A critical assessment of arguments against nodal electricity prices in the European debate	80
How do energy efficiency measures affect the risk of summertime overheating and cold discomfort? Evidence from English homes	79
Green innovation and carbon emission performance: The role of digital economy	78
Enhancing energy security and efficiency through a regional integration policy: The case of the Southern Cone	78
When indicators fail electricity policies: Pitfalls of the EU's retail energy market Barrier Index	78
Putting off the coal in Europe: Socio-economic trade-offs across the European regions	78