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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The carbon footprint of the empty Castilla-La Mancha	567
Policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Another case of “resource curse”?	487
Short-run marginal emission factors neglect impactful phenomena and are unsuitable for assessing the power sector emissions impacts of hydrogen electrolysis	427
Capacity subscription grid tariff efficiency and the impact of uncertainty on the subscribed level	313
Market perspective on climate actions and clean energy transition	313
How to finance green investments? The role of public debt	274
Comparative analysis of UK net-zero scenarios: The role of energy demand reduction	250
Do consumers concern about energy saving in purchasing energy-efficient home appliances? Evidence from online e-commerce review	210
Local energy transitions as process: How contract management problems stymie a city's sustainable transition to renewable energy	205
A targeted approach to energy burden reduction measures: Comparing the effects of energy storage, rooftop solar, weatherization, and energy efficiency upgrades	201
How media discourse constructs the role of new energy policies in addressing energy challenges: A comparative analysis of China and the U.S.	195
Is the single-buyer model a barrier to clean energy deployment? Empirical evidence on decarbonization and renewable energy supply in emerging and developing countries	188
Multi-objective optimization for customized solar business models considering technical-economic-environmental performance: A NSGA-II integrated TOPSIS method	179
Will the European Union’s emission trading system drive industrial steam electrification?	172
Upholding household agency in climate mitigation and socio-technical energy transition in Ethiopia	160
Enterprise decision-making in energy use rights trading market: A theoretical and simulation study	155
The winds of change? Attitudes toward wind projects and their electoral implications in Texas	154
Targeted finance and the adoption of solar irrigation by smallholder and women farmers	153
Time, history and meaning-making in research on people's relations with renewable energy technologies (RETs) – A conceptual proposal	153
Energy sector in Ecuador for public lighting: Current status	151
How policy has shaped the emerging solar photovoltaic installation industry	151
Policy implications of spatially differentiated renewable energy promotion: A multi-level scenario analysis of onshore wind auctioning in Germany	144
Economic value of the development of nuclear power plant decommissioning technology in South Korea	140
Policy options to mitigate the fiscal impact of road transport decarbonization: Application to Costa Rica	137
Is on-property heat and greywater recovery a sustainable option? A quantitative and qualitative assessment up to 2050	137

Editorial Board	134
The source of wind power producers’ market power	134
Reducing US biofuels requirements mitigates short-term impacts of global population and income growth on agricultural environmental outcomes	133
Opportunities for the German gas grid by using synthetic fuels from an energy system perspective	129
How an energy policy prevents child migration: A natural experiment of the coal-to-gas policy in China	127
Greener together: The impact of China's mixed-ownership reform on firm carbon emissions	127
The effectiveness of building retrofits under a subsidy scheme: Empirical evidence from Switzerland	126
Novel quota and tax regime design approach for green transition: A case study on Switzerland's aviation industry	124
Cooking fuel types and the health effects: A field study in China	116
Policy legacies and energy transitions: Greening policies under sectoral reforms in Argentina and Chile	114
Heating demand as an energy performance indicator: A case study of buildings built under the passive house standard in Spain	113
CO2 emissions abatement costs and drivers for Indian thermal power industry	112
Can fusion energy be cost-competitive and commercially viable? An analysis of magnetically confined reactors	111
Energy poverty in the European Union. The art of kaleidoscopic measurement	109
Ultra-low emission standards and corporate production performance: Evidence from Chinese thermal power companies	108
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	107
Evaluating the accessibility of on-street household electric vehicle charging stations in London: Policy insights from equity analysis across emission zones	104
Post-connection electricity demand and pricing in newly electrified households: Insights from a large-scale dataset in Rwanda	103
Implementation cost of net zero electricity system: Analysis based on Korean national target	103
The rebound effect of decarbonization in China’s power sector under the carbon trading scheme	102
Impact of government subsidies on the innovation performance of the photovoltaic industry: Based on the moderating effect of carbon trading prices	101
Bridging the low-carbon technology gap? Assessing energy initiatives for the Global South	98
Evidence of households' demand flexibility in response to variable hourly electricity prices – Results from a comprehensive field experiment in Norway	97
Decarbonizing the energy supply one pandemic at a time	96
Is air pollution a government failure or a market failure? Global evidence from a multi-dimensional analysis	96
Climate policy accelerates structural changes in energy employment	95
What is state capacity and how does it matter for energy transition?	93
How does falling incumbent profitability affect energy policy discourse? The discursive construction of nuclear phaseouts and insufficient capacity as a threat in Sweden	92
Quantifying the electric service panel capacities of California's residential buildings	91
Energy policy implications of carbon pricing scenarios for the Brazilian NDC implementation	91
Climate change policy discontinuity & Australia's 2016-2021 renewable investment supercycle	91
Carbon emission efficiency of thermal power generation in China: Empirical evidence from the micro-perspective of power plants	90
Friends with benefits: How income and peer diffusion combine to create an inequality “trap” in the uptake of low-carbon technologies	90
Dynamic scenario simulations of carbon emission peak in China's city-scale urban residential building sector through 2050	89
Energy consumption and income of the poor in rural China: Inference for poverty measures	89
The cost of undisturbed landscapes	87
The power of institutional innovation in the urban carbon unlocking: A study on collaborative empowerment of digital policy and new energy policy	86
The impact of monetary policy on climate change through the mediation of sectoral renewable energy consumption	86
Exploring the links between energy poverty and international migration: Evidence from developing countries	85
Projecting the fuel efficiency of conventional vehicles: CAFE regulations, gasoline taxes and autonomous technical change	85
From 30- to 5-minute settlement rule in the NEM: An early evaluation	85
Exploring policy support for wind power development from a balancing perspective - A study of dynamic strategies based on evolutionary game	84
Fuel efficiency, power trading, and emissions leakage from driving electric vehicles: Evidence from Chinese provinces	81
Can government supervision ensure compliance by photovoltaic enterprises? An evolutionary game analysis	80
Electricity generation portfolios in Mexico: Environmental, economic, and policy implications	80
The false optimism of electrification: why universal electricity access has not delivered urban energy transformation in South Africa	80
Financial inclusion, mental health, and energy poverty: Evidence from China	80
Crude oil footprint in the rapidly changing world and implications from their income and price elasticities	79
Before dinner: The health value of gaseous fuels	79
Editorial Board	79

Future outlook and influencing factors analysis of natural gas consumption in Bangladesh: An economic and policy perspectives	78
Assessing import dependencies in the accelerating energy transition: A structural gravity model analysis	78
Tracking the drivers of global greenhouse gas emissions with spillover effects in the post-financial crisis era	77
The unequal impacts of extremely high temperatures on households’ adaptive behaviors: Empirical evidence from fine-grained electricity consumption data	77