OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Energy Efficiency is 5. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Role of green finance in improving energy efficiency and renewable energy development	307
An extension of the theory of planned behavior to understand factors influencing Pakistani households’ energy-saving intentions and behavior: a mediated–moderated model	43
Promoting energy efficiency at household level: a literature review	31
Forecast of urban traffic carbon emission and analysis of influencing factors	30
Mind the Energy Performance Gap: testing the accuracy of building Energy Performance Certificates in Ireland	29
GIS-based urban energy modelling and energy efficiency scenarios using the energy performance certificate database	28
Techno-economic comparison of technology options for deep decarbonization and electrification of residential heating.	25
From using heat to using work: reconceptualising the zero carbon energy transition	25
Assessing the nexus mechanism between energy efficiency and green finance	21
Conceptualising the energy efficiency first principle: insights from theory and practice	20
Revisiting SDG-7 under energy efficiency vision 2050: the role of new economic models and mass digitalization in OECD	19
My company is green, so am I: the relationship between perceived environmental responsibility of organisations and government, environmental self-identity, and pro-environmental behaviours	19
Consumers’ preferences regarding energy efficiency: a qualitative analysis based on the household and services sectors in Spain	19
Factors affecting energy-efficiency investment in the hotel industry: survey results from Spain	18
Financial inclusion, renewable energy consumption, and inclusive growth: cross-country evidence	17
Research on China’s industrial green biased technological progress and its energy conservation and emission reduction effects	17
Measuring environmental-adjusted dynamic energy efficiency of China’s transportation sector: a four-stage NDDF-DEA approach	17
Energy efficiency in OECD and non-OECD countries: estimates and convergence	17
Overcoming the efficiency gap: energy management as a means for overcoming barriers to energy efficiency, empirical support in the case of Austrian large firms	17
Investigating pathways to a net-zero emissions building sector in the European Union: what role for the energy efficiency first principle?	16
Housing retrofit as an intervention in thermal comfort practices: Chinese and Dutch householder perspectives	15
Energy literacy: an overlooked concept to end users’ adoption of time-differentiated tariffs	15
The impact of energy efficiency and renewable energy on GDP growth: new evidence from RALS-EG cointegration test and QARDL technique	14
Design feasibility of a net-zero energy neighborhood in Qazvin	13
Energy poverty assessment in the Belt and Road Initiative countries: based on entropy weight-TOPSIS approach	13

Challenges and opportunities for improving energy efficiency in SMEs: learnings from seven European projects	12
Heat Roadmap Europe: strategic heating transition typology as a basis for policy recommendations	12
The asymmetric effect of economic policy uncertainty on energy consumption	12
Efficient energy labelling: the impact of information content and style on product choice	12
Toward China’s green growth through boosting energy transition: the role of energy efficiency	12
Energy saving intention and behavior under behavioral reasoning perspectives	12
From measuring fuel poverty to identification of fuel poor households: a case study in Greece	12
Energy efficiency and the role of energy-related financial literacy: evidence from the European residential sector	11
Smart metering in EU and the energy theft problem	11
Explaining green technology purchases by US and Canadian households: the role of pro-environmental lifestyles, values, and environmental concern	11
Purchase intention for energy-efficient equipment appliances: extending TPB with eco-labels, green trust, and environmental concern	10
Optimized data center site selection—mesoclimatic effects on data center energy consumption and costs	10
Dissecting subjective discount rates and investment literacy for energy-efficient investments	10
Quantifying the asymmetric and dependence structure between financial inclusion and energy efficiency: evidence from quantile methods	10
Forecasting smart home electricity consumption using VMD-Bi-GRU	10
Long-term performance of Passive House buildings	10
Saving energy in China’s industry with a focus on electricity: a review of opportunities, potentials and environmental benefits	10
Analysis of the drivers of CO2 emissions and ecological footprint growth in Australia	10
A choice experiment for testing the energy-efficiency mortgage as a tool for promoting sustainable finance	10
Selection of priority energy efficiency practices for industrial steam boilers by PROMETHEE decision model	9
Evolution and policy effect assessment for the spatial heterogeneity pattern of regional energy efficiency in China	9
Impacts of oil price uncertainty on energy efficiency, economy, and environment of Malaysia: stochastic approach and CGE model	9
How important is energy efficiency for Slovenian households? A case of homeowners and potential homebuyers and their willingness to invest in more efficient heating controls	9
Energy efficiency and China’s carbon emissions: evidence from non-parametric approaches	9
How the meanings of ‘home’ influence energy-consuming practices in domestic buildings	9
A dynamic analysis of industrial energy efficiency and the rebound effect: implications for carbon emissions and sustainability	9
Financial barriers to residential buildings’ energy efficiency in Iran	9
Systematic and data-driven literature review of the energy and indoor environmental performance of swimming facilities	9
Impact of energy efficiency and conservation programs on the national grid in some selected households in Ghana	8
Implementing large-scale heating infrastructures: experiences from successful planning of district heating and natural gas grids in Denmark, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands	8
Thirty years of climate mitigation: lessons from the 1989 options appraisal for the UK	8
Retrofit with Passive House components	8
Energy intensity efficiency and the effect of changes in GDP and CO2 emission	8
The role of energy efficiency and renewable energies to accelerate sustainable energy access — a perspective case study of Mozambique	8
Does economic complexity increase energy intensity?	8
Environmental regulation and energy efficiency: empirical evidence from the low-carbon city pilot program in China	8
Effectiveness and efficiency of the EU-supported energy efficiency measures for SMEs in Bulgaria in the period 2014–2020: programme design implications	8
Organizational and psychological measures for data center energy efficiency: barriers and mitigation strategies	8
Energy efficiency potentials in the EU industry: impacts of deep decarbonization technologies	8
Estimating residential electricity demand’s response to price policy and income dynamics in China	7
Efficiency of European oil companies: an empirical analysis	7
Energy-saving potential for centrifugal pump storage operation using optimized control schemes	7
Profitability comparison of active and passive energy efficiency improvements in public buildings	7
Real-time feedback on electricity consumption: evidence from a field experiment in Italy	7
How first comes energy efficiency? Assessing the energy efficiency first principle in the EU using a comprehensive indicator-based approach	7
How cost-efficient is energy efficiency in buildings? A comparison of building shell efficiency and heating system change in the European building stock	7
Water status in the Canary Islands related to energy requirements	7
Tales of creation: advocacy coalitions, beliefs and paths to policy change on the ‘energy efficiency first’ principle in EU	6
Facilitating ESCO market development through value co-creation: role of utility sector intermediaries	6
Experimental study of a geothermal earth-to-air heat exchanger in Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico	6

Impact of demand response on occupants’ thermal comfort in a leisure center	6
Energy efficiency behaviour in the built environment—an assessment of current evaluation practices in the Nordic countries	6
Energy service market evaluation by Bayesian belief network and SWOT analysis: case of Turkey	6
Interactions between market forces and regulatory interventions in the Italian market of white certificates	6
The efficiency improvement of induction motor with constant speed for belt drive mechanism	6
Energy conservation path of China iron and steel industry driven by relative policies	6
Study of the energy intensity by built areas in a medium-sized Spanish hospital	6
Not all homeowners are alike: a segmentation model based on a quantitative analysis of Dutch adopters of residential photovoltaics	6
Performance analysis of a simulated container data center subject to airflow resistance	6
Flexibility for whom? Householder and stakeholder perspectives on justice regarding the introduction of dynamic grid tariffs in Norway	6
Differentiated disadvantage: class, race, gender, and residential energy efficiency inequality in the United States	6
Energy poverty and the convergence hypothesis across EU member states	6
A model for the assessment of energy-efficient smart street lighting—a case study	6
Estimating implicit discount rate for energy efficiency investment using the contingent valuation method: a case study in South Korea	6
Reducing energy consumption in operation and demolition phases by integrating multi-objective optimization with LCA and BIM	5
Exploring the persistence and transience of energy poverty: evidence from a Greek household survey	5
Rational and efficient energy use programs in Non-Interconnected Zones in Colombia: a system dynamics analysis	5
Behavioral barriers to the use of renewable and energy-efficient technologies in residential buildings in Iran	5
Advancing the smart city objectives of electric demand management and new services to residents by home automation—learnings from a case	5
Green efficiency of natural gas and driving factors analysis: the role of the natural gas price in China	5
From practice to policy — exploring the travel and transformation of energy savings calculations and its implications for future energy transitions	5
Understanding the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on energy poverty in Spain	5
Advances in the energy efficiency of residential appliances in the US: A review	5
The long-run effect of financial development on carbon emissions in Kazakhstan	5
Techno-economic evaluation of industrial heat pump applications in US pulp and paper, textile, and automotive industries	5
Demand response in the retail electricity market	5
Overcoming barriers to direct current power: Lessons learned from four commercial building case studies	5
Implications of energy poverty and climate change in Italian regions	5
Design and fabrication of an intelligent management and control system to optimize energy consumption in indoor swimming pools	5
A systemic framework of energy efficiency in schools: experiences from six European countries	5
Electrification of industrial boilers in the USA: potentials, challenges, and policy implications	5
Natural gas based cogeneration system proposal to a textile industry: a financial assessment	5
Energy Efficiency First in the power sector: incentivising consumers and network companies	5