OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Energy Policy is 77. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The carbon footprint of the empty Castilla-La Mancha	578
Policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Another case of “resource curse”?	500
Short-run marginal emission factors neglect impactful phenomena and are unsuitable for assessing the power sector emissions impacts of hydrogen electrolysis	430
Market perspective on climate actions and clean energy transition	323
The effectiveness of building retrofits under a subsidy scheme: Empirical evidence from Switzerland	281
Time, history and meaning-making in research on people's relations with renewable energy technologies (RETs) – A conceptual proposal	257
Is the single-buyer model a barrier to clean energy deployment? Empirical evidence on decarbonization and renewable energy supply in emerging and developing countries	221
Upholding household agency in climate mitigation and socio-technical energy transition in Ethiopia	210
Ultra-low emission standards and corporate production performance: Evidence from Chinese thermal power companies	200
How media discourse constructs the role of new energy policies in addressing energy challenges: A comparative analysis of China and the U.S.	180
Targeted finance and the adoption of solar irrigation by smallholder and women farmers	176
Multi-objective optimization for customized solar business models considering technical-economic-environmental performance: A NSGA-II integrated TOPSIS method	164
Will the European Union’s emission trading system drive industrial steam electrification?	162
The winds of change? Attitudes toward wind projects and their electoral implications in Texas	160
Policy implications of spatially differentiated renewable energy promotion: A multi-level scenario analysis of onshore wind auctioning in Germany	160
Editorial Board	157
Economic value of the development of nuclear power plant decommissioning technology in South Korea	155
Is on-property heat and greywater recovery a sustainable option? A quantitative and qualitative assessment up to 2050	153
Capacity subscription grid tariff efficiency and the impact of uncertainty on the subscribed level	146
Novel quota and tax regime design approach for green transition: A case study on Switzerland's aviation industry	145
Energy sector in Ecuador for public lighting: Current status	139
How to finance green investments? The role of public debt	137
Implementation cost of net zero electricity system: Analysis based on Korean national target	137
Opportunities for the German gas grid by using synthetic fuels from an energy system perspective	136
How does falling incumbent profitability affect energy policy discourse? The discursive construction of nuclear phaseouts and insufficient capacity as a threat in Sweden	129

Policy options to mitigate the fiscal impact of road transport decarbonization: Application to Costa Rica	129
Energy policy implications of carbon pricing scenarios for the Brazilian NDC implementation	128
How policy has shaped the emerging solar photovoltaic installation industry	127
Heating demand as an energy performance indicator: A case study of buildings built under the passive house standard in Spain	117
Enterprise decision-making in energy use rights trading market: A theoretical and simulation study	116
A targeted approach to energy burden reduction measures: Comparing the effects of energy storage, rooftop solar, weatherization, and energy efficiency upgrades	116
Energy savings potential and life cycle costs of deep energy retrofits in buildings with and without habitable style loft attic conversions: A case study of Irelands residential sector	113
Decarbonizing the energy supply one pandemic at a time	111
Evaluating the accessibility of on-street household electric vehicle charging stations in London: Policy insights from equity analysis across emission zones	109
Energy poverty in the European Union. The art of kaleidoscopic measurement	108
Energy consumption and income of the poor in rural China: Inference for poverty measures	107
What is state capacity and how does it matter for energy transition?	106
Impact of government subsidies on the innovation performance of the photovoltaic industry: Based on the moderating effect of carbon trading prices	106
Policy legacies and energy transitions: Greening policies under sectoral reforms in Argentina and Chile	104
Reducing US biofuels requirements mitigates short-term impacts of global population and income growth on agricultural environmental outcomes	104
Friends with benefits: How income and peer diffusion combine to create an inequality “trap” in the uptake of low-carbon technologies	104
The source of wind power producers’ market power	104
The impact of monetary policy on climate change through the mediation of sectoral renewable energy consumption	101
How an energy policy prevents child migration: A natural experiment of the coal-to-gas policy in China	101
Climate change policy discontinuity & Australia's 2016-2021 renewable investment supercycle	98
Local energy transitions as process: How contract management problems stymie a city's sustainable transition to renewable energy	97
Comparative analysis of UK net-zero scenarios: The role of energy demand reduction	96
The rebound effect of decarbonization in China’s power sector under the carbon trading scheme	96
Bridging the low-carbon technology gap? Assessing energy initiatives for the Global South	95
Carbon emission efficiency of thermal power generation in China: Empirical evidence from the micro-perspective of power plants	95
Cooking fuel types and the health effects: A field study in China	94
Can fusion energy be cost-competitive and commercially viable? An analysis of magnetically confined reactors	92
Is air pollution a government failure or a market failure? Global evidence from a multi-dimensional analysis	92
Post-connection electricity demand and pricing in newly electrified households: Insights from a large-scale dataset in Rwanda	91
Do consumers concern about energy saving in purchasing energy-efficient home appliances? Evidence from online e-commerce review	91
The cost of undisturbed landscapes	91
Evidence of households' demand flexibility in response to variable hourly electricity prices – Results from a comprehensive field experiment in Norway	89
Climate policy accelerates structural changes in energy employment	89
CO2 emissions abatement costs and drivers for Indian thermal power industry	88
Dynamic scenario simulations of carbon emission peak in China's city-scale urban residential building sector through 2050	87
Quantifying the electric service panel capacities of California's residential buildings	87
Greener together: The impact of China's mixed-ownership reform on firm carbon emissions	86
Exploring the links between energy poverty and international migration: Evidence from developing countries	86
Fuel efficiency, power trading, and emissions leakage from driving electric vehicles: Evidence from Chinese provinces	84
Electricity generation portfolios in Mexico: Environmental, economic, and policy implications	83
Projecting the fuel efficiency of conventional vehicles: CAFE regulations, gasoline taxes and autonomous technical change	83
‘Luctor et emergo’, how a community energy initiative survived the changing policy and technology landscape of the Dutch energy system?	82
Perceptions of accountability and trust in the regulatory governance of wood burning stove sustainability: Survey evidence from the post-Brexit UK	82
Crude oil footprint in the rapidly changing world and implications from their income and price elasticities	81
Exploring policy support for wind power development from a balancing perspective - A study of dynamic strategies based on evolutionary game	81
Editorial Board	80
The unequal impacts of extremely high temperatures on households’ adaptive behaviors: Empirical evidence from fine-grained electricity consumption data	79
Assessing import dependencies in the accelerating energy transition: A structural gravity model analysis	79
Future outlook and influencing factors analysis of natural gas consumption in Bangladesh: An economic and policy perspectives	79
Closer economic distance makes positive carbon-related attitude: Evidence from the mechanism of sentiment tendency in worldwide news coverage of India	78

An ex-ante evaluation of the French car feebate	78
Tracking the drivers of global greenhouse gas emissions with spillover effects in the post-financial crisis era	78