OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Energy Efficiency is 6. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Role of green finance in improving energy efficiency and renewable energy development	237
Promoting environmentally sustainable consumption behavior: an empirical evaluation of purchase intention of energy-efficient appliances	46
Total factor energy efficiency and economic development in Africa	40
An extension of the goal-framing theory to predict consumer’s sustainable behavior for home appliances	33
An extension of the theory of planned behavior to understand factors influencing Pakistani households’ energy-saving intentions and behavior: a mediated–moderated model	32
Forecast of urban traffic carbon emission and analysis of influencing factors	28
GIS-based urban energy modelling and energy efficiency scenarios using the energy performance certificate database	26
Promoting energy efficiency at household level: a literature review	25
A deep learning approach for anomaly detection and prediction in power consumption data	22
Building energy modeling at neighborhood scale	22
Mind the Energy Performance Gap: testing the accuracy of building Energy Performance Certificates in Ireland	21
Techno-economic comparison of technology options for deep decarbonization and electrification of residential heating.	20
Energy efficient route planning for electric vehicles with special consideration of the topography and battery lifetime	19
Measuring eco-efficiency and its convergence: empirical analysis from China	18
Consumers’ preferences regarding energy efficiency: a qualitative analysis based on the household and services sectors in Spain	17
Assessing the nexus mechanism between energy efficiency and green finance	17
From using heat to using work: reconceptualising the zero carbon energy transition	16
High velocity seawater air-conditioning with thermal energy storage and its operation with intermittent renewable energies	16
The potential contribution of building codes to climate change response policies for the built environment	16
Factors affecting energy-efficiency investment in the hotel industry: survey results from Spain	15
Housing retrofit as an intervention in thermal comfort practices: Chinese and Dutch householder perspectives	15
Lightening the load: quantifying the potential for energy-efficient lighting to reduce peaks in electricity demand	15
A global level analysis of environmental energy efficiency: an application of data envelopment analysis	15
My company is green, so am I: the relationship between perceived environmental responsibility of organisations and government, environmental self-identity, and pro-environmental behaviours	15
Research on China’s industrial green biased technological progress and its energy conservation and emission reduction effects	15

Conceptualising the energy efficiency first principle: insights from theory and practice	14
Measuring environmental-adjusted dynamic energy efficiency of China’s transportation sector: a four-stage NDDF-DEA approach	14
Dynamic simulation model and empirical validation for estimating thermal energy demand in indoor swimming pools	13
Overcoming the efficiency gap: energy management as a means for overcoming barriers to energy efficiency, empirical support in the case of Austrian large firms	13
Fostering investment in resource efficiency actions: the case of European SMEs	13
Energy efficiency in OECD and non-OECD countries: estimates and convergence	12
Financial inclusion, renewable energy consumption, and inclusive growth: cross-country evidence	12
How do companies certified to ISO 50001 and ISO 14001 perform in LEED and BREEAM assessments?	12
Design feasibility of a net-zero energy neighborhood in Qazvin	11
From measuring fuel poverty to identification of fuel poor households: a case study in Greece	11
Efficient energy labelling: the impact of information content and style on product choice	11
Potential for energy efficiency improvement and greenhouse gas mitigation in Canada’s iron and steel industry	11
The impact of energy efficiency and renewable energy on GDP growth: new evidence from RALS-EG cointegration test and QARDL technique	10
Dissecting subjective discount rates and investment literacy for energy-efficient investments	10
Energy literacy: an overlooked concept to end users’ adoption of time-differentiated tariffs	10
Airline energy efficiency measures using a network range-adjusted measure with unified natural and managerial disposability	10
Modelling energy demand response using long short-term memory neural networks	10
Market segmentation and energy efficiency—an empirical study based on China’s provincial panel data	9
Energy poverty assessment in the Belt and Road Initiative countries: based on entropy weight-TOPSIS approach	9
Explaining green technology purchases by US and Canadian households: the role of pro-environmental lifestyles, values, and environmental concern	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
A developed short-term electricity price and load forecasting method based on data processing, support vector machine, and virus colony search	9
Energy efficiency and the role of energy-related financial literacy: evidence from the European residential sector	9
Heat Roadmap Europe: strategic heating transition typology as a basis for policy recommendations	9
The asymmetric effect of economic policy uncertainty on energy consumption	9
How the meanings of ‘home’ influence energy-consuming practices in domestic buildings	9
Understanding latent demand for hybrid and plug-in electric vehicles using large-scale longitudinal survey data of US new vehicle buyers	8
Detailed energy efficiency strategies for converting an existing office building to NZEB: a case study in the Pacific Northwest	8
Smart metering in EU and the energy theft problem	8
Challenges and opportunities for improving energy efficiency in SMEs: learnings from seven European projects	8
Quantifying the asymmetric and dependence structure between financial inclusion and energy efficiency: evidence from quantile methods	8
A choice experiment for testing the energy-efficiency mortgage as a tool for promoting sustainable finance	8
Effects on primary energy use, greenhouse gas emissions and related costs from improving energy end-use efficiency in the electrolysis in primary aluminium production	8
Evolution and policy effect assessment for the spatial heterogeneity pattern of regional energy efficiency 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
Impacts of oil price uncertainty on energy efficiency, economy, and environment of Malaysia: stochastic approach and CGE model	8
Optimized data center site selection—mesoclimatic effects on data center energy consumption and costs	7
Impact of energy efficiency and conservation programs on the national grid in some selected households in Ghana	7
The strategic use of auctioning revenues to foster energy efficiency: status quo and potential within the European Union Emissions Trading System	7
Energy saving intention and behavior under behavioral reasoning perspectives	7
The evaluation of fired clay brick production in terms of energy efficiency: a case study in Turkey	7
A dynamic analysis of industrial energy efficiency and the rebound effect: implications for carbon emissions and sustainability	7
Analysis of the drivers of CO2 emissions and ecological footprint growth in Australia	7
Analysing of the impacts of the revision of Ecodesign and Energy Label Regulations for household dishwashers by using a stock model	7
Implementing large-scale heating infrastructures: experiences from successful planning of district heating and natural gas grids in Denmark, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands	7
Thirty years of climate mitigation: lessons from the 1989 options appraisal for the UK	7
Saving energy in China’s industry with a focus on electricity: a review of opportunities, potentials and environmental benefits	7
Retrofit with Passive House components	7
Long-term performance of Passive House buildings	7
Overcoming barriers to direct current power: Lessons learned from four commercial building case studies	7

Energy-saving potential for centrifugal pump storage operation using optimized control schemes	7
Forecasting residential electricity consumption: a bottom-up approach for Brazil by region	6
Revisiting SDG-7 under energy efficiency vision 2050: the role of new economic models and mass digitalization in OECD	6
Agency and capacity in the planning and design phase of building renovations	6
Toward China’s green growth through boosting energy transition: the role of energy efficiency	6
Real-time feedback on electricity consumption: evidence from a field experiment in Italy	6
Estimating residential electricity demand’s response to price policy and income dynamics in China	6
Investigating pathways to a net-zero emissions building sector in the European Union: what role for the energy efficiency first principle?	6
Energy efficiency behaviour in the built environment—an assessment of current evaluation practices in the Nordic countries	6
The role of energy efficiency and renewable energies to accelerate sustainable energy access — a perspective case study of Mozambique	6
Purchase intention for energy-efficient equipment appliances: extending TPB with eco-labels, green trust, and environmental concern	6
Energy conservation path of China iron and steel industry driven by relative policies	6
Energy efficiency and China’s carbon emissions: evidence from non-parametric approaches	6
Sectoral convergence in energy consumption from developing country perspective: The case of Turkey	6