Energy Research & Social Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Energy Research & Social Science is 18. 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 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Cascading risks: Understanding the 2021 winter blackout in Texas239
The political economy of car dependence: A systems of provision approach228
When pandemics impact economies and climate change: Exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on oil and electricity demand in China211
Covid-19 and the politics of sustainable energy transitions209
An outlook on the global development of renewable and sustainable energy at the time of COVID-19209
Analysis of the electricity demand trends amidst the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic194
Who are the victims of low-carbon transitions? Towards a political ecology of climate change mitigation181
Renewable energy for whom? A global systematic review of the environmental justice implications of renewable energy technologies158
Of renewable energy, energy democracy, and sustainable development: A roadmap to accelerate the energy transition in developing countries158
The impact of different COVID-19 containment measures on electricity consumption in Europe157
What opportunities could the COVID-19 outbreak offer for sustainability transitions research on electricity and mobility?155
Just transition: A conceptual review153
Analysis of mobility trends during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic: Exploring the impacts on global aviation and travel in selected cities153
Industrial decarbonization via hydrogen: A critical and systematic review of developments, socio-technical systems and policy options152
The limits of energy sufficiency: A review of the evidence for rebound effects and negative spillovers from behavioural change148
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research148
Heat pumps and our low-carbon future: A comprehensive review139
Research on the social acceptance of renewable energy technologies: Past, present and future129
Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology129
The misallocation of climate research funding126
The new oil? The geopolitics and international governance of hydrogen117
Coronavirus comes home? Energy use, home energy management, and the social-psychological factors of COVID-19114
Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there111
What drives home solar PV uptake? Subsidies, peer effects and visibility in Sweden109
The Green New Deal in the United States: What it is and how to pay for it107
Sociotechnical matters: Reviewing and integrating science and technology studies with energy social science105
Integrating solar energy with agriculture: Industry perspectives on the market, community, and socio-political dimensions of agrivoltaics103
The role of energy democracy and energy citizenship for participatory energy transitions: A comprehensive review99
Emergency measures to protect energy consumers during the Covid-19 pandemic: A global review and critical analysis95
Energy democracy as a process, an outcome and a goal: A conceptual review94
Demand-side solutions for climate mitigation: Bottom-up drivers of household energy behavior change in the Netherlands and Spain89
The energy crises revealed by COVID: Intersections of Indigeneity, inequity, and health87
COVID-19 energy sector responses in Africa: A review of preliminary government interventions87
The interaction between humans and buildings for energy efficiency: A critical review86
People in transitions: Energy citizenship, prosumerism and social movements in Europe85
A historical turning point? Early evidence on how the Russia-Ukraine war changes public support for clean energy policies82
European energy politics after Ukraine: The road ahead81
What is prosumerism for? Exploring the normative dimensions of decentralised energy transitions81
Motivations, barriers and risks of smart home adoption: From systematic literature review to conceptual framework78
Do renewable energy communities deliver energy justice? Exploring insights from 71 European cases78
Russia's war on Ukraine, European energy policy responses & implications for sustainable transformations77
Community energy meets smart grids: Reviewing goals, structure, and roles in Virtual Power Plants in Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands76
Decarbonizing the iron and steel industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options75
Grand Narratives for sustainable mobility: A conceptual review75
Is peer-to-peer electricity trading empowering users? Evidence on motivations and roles in a prosumer business model trial in Australia73
Unpacking the right-populist threat to climate action: Poland's pro-governmental media on energy transition and climate change72
Beyond the EVent horizon: Battery waste, recycling, and sustainability in the United Kingdom electric vehicle transition71
Just energy transitions to low carbon economies: A review of the concept and its effects on labour and income71
Just transitions: Histories and futures in a post-COVID world71
Is bio-energy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) feasible? The contested authority of integrated assessment modeling70
Intersectionality and energy transitions: A review of gender, social equity and low-carbon energy69
A just transition for whom? Politics, contestation, and social identity in the disruption of coal in the Powder River Basin69
Energy poverty goes south? Understanding the costs of energy poverty with the index of vulnerable homes in Spain68
Toward feminist energy systems: Why adding women and solar panels is not enough✰68
Rethinking the future low-carbon city: Carbon neutrality, green design, and sustainability tensions in the making of Masdar City68
The good, the bad and the ugly: An overview of the sustainability of blockchain technology67
“We cannot stop cooking”: Stove stacking, seasonality and the risky practices of household cookstove transitions in Nigeria66
Towards a new social science research agenda for hydrogen transitions: Social practices, energy justice, and place attachment65
Three sides to every story: Gender perspectives in energy transition pathways in Canada, Kenya and Spain65
What are sources of carbon lock-in in energy-intensive industry? A case study into Dutch chemicals production65
Happier with less? Members of European environmental grassroots initiatives reconcile lower carbon footprints with higher life satisfaction and income increases65
Financing renewable energy development: Insights from 55 countries65
Expanding the scope and implications of energy research: A guide to key themes and concepts from the Social Sciences and Humanities64
Towards impactful energy justice research: Transforming the power of academic engagement63
A crude future? COVID-19s challenges for oil demand, supply and prices63
Biofuels, environmental sustainability, and food security: A review of 51 countries62
Barriers to onshore wind energy implementation: A systematic review62
Energy justice from the bottom up: A capability approach to community acceptance of wind energy in Mexico62
Energy transitions from the cradle to the grave: A meta-theoretical framework integrating responsible innovation, social practices, and energy justice61
What prevents us from taking low-carbon actions? A comprehensive review of influencing factors affecting low-carbon behaviors61
Guides or gatekeepers? Incumbent-oriented transition intermediaries in a low-carbon era61
Revisiting carbon lock-in in energy systems: Explaining the perpetuation of coal power in Japan60
SDGs in action: A novel framework for assessing energy projects against the sustainable development goals60
A meta-analysis of residential PV adoption: the important role of perceived benefits, intentions and antecedents in solar energy acceptance60
Canada's Green New Deal: Forging the socio-political foundations of climate resilient infrastructure?59
Reviewing the opportunities, challenges, and future directions for the digitalization of energy59
Distributional disparities in residential rooftop solar potential and penetration in four cities in the United States59
Blockchain, climate damage, and death: Policy interventions to reduce the carbon emissions, mortality, and net-zero implications of non-fungible tokens and Bitcoin59
The political economy of national climate policy: Architectures of constraint and a typology of countries59
Scale, history and justice in community wind energy: An empirical review58
Destined for decline? Examining nuclear energy from a technological innovation systems perspective58
Extreme energy poverty in the urban peripheries of Romania and Israel: Policy, planning and infrastructure56
Why hate carbon taxes? Machine learning evidence on the roles of personal responsibility, trust, revenue recycling, and other factors across 23 European countries56
When renewable energy, empowerment, and entrepreneurship connect: Measuring energy policy effectiveness in 230 countries56
Rethinking community empowerment in the energy transformation: A critical review of the definitions, drivers and outcomes55
Beyond instrumentalism: Broadening the understanding of social innovation in socio-technical energy systems55
Energy justice within, between and beyond European community energy initiatives: A review55
Pulling up the carbon ladder? Decarbonization, dependence, and third-country risks from the European carbon border adjustment mechanism54
Invisible energy poverty? Analysing housing costs in Central and Eastern Europe53
Is green a Pan-African colour? Mapping African renewable energy policies and transitions in 34 countries53
Bitcoin’s energy consumption is underestimated: A market dynamics approach51
Proximities of energy justice: contesting community energy and austerity in England50
Model-based policymaking or policy-based modelling? How energy models and energy policy interact50
Governing the dark side of renewable energy: A typology of global displacements50
Being forced to skimp on energy needs: A new look at energy poverty in Greece49
Challenging social norms to recraft practices: A Living Lab approach to reducing household energy use in eight European countries49
Faring well in offshore wind power siting? Trust, engagement and process fairness in the United States49
Energy poverty in developing countries: A review of the concept and its measurements49
Just electrification: Imagining the justice dimensions of energy access and addressing energy poverty49
White knights, or horsemen of the apocalypse? Prospects for Big Oil to align emissions with a 1.5 °C pathway49
Effective policies to overcome barriers in the development of smart cities49
Identifying double energy vulnerability: A systematic and narrative review of groups at-risk of energy and transport poverty in the global north49
COVID-19 and the academy: It is time for going digital48
The COVID-19 crisis deepens the gulf between leaders and laggards in the global energy transition48
What do consumers think of smart charging? Perceptions among actual and potential plug-in electric vehicle adopters in the United Kingdom47
Blending new and old in sustainability transitions: Technological alignment between fossil fuels and biofuels in Norwegian coastal shipping47
Actors, objectives, context: A framework of the political economy of energy and climate policy applied to India, Indonesia, and Vietnam47
When East meets West: Understanding residents’ home energy management system adoption intention and willingness to pay in Japan and the United States47
Transferring awareness into action: A meta-analysis of the behavioral drivers of energy transitions in Germany, Austria, Finland, Morocco, Jordan and Iran47
What's next for the European coal heartland? Exploring the future of coal as presented in German, Polish and Czech press47
Advancing local energy transitions: A global review of government instruments supporting community energy46
The energy futures we want: A research and policy agenda for energy transitions46
Making demand side response happen: A review of barriers in commercial and public organisations46
The hidden costs of energy and mobility: A global meta-analysis and research synthesis of electricity and transport externalities46
Mitigating inequality with emissions? Exploring energy justice and financing transitions to low carbon energy in Indonesia46
The troubled path to ending darkness: Energy injustice encounters in Malawi’s off-grid solar market45
Unlocking the value of digitalization for the European energy transition: A typology of innovative business models45
From consultation toward co-production in science and policy: A critical systematic review of participatory climate and energy initiatives45
Co-production in the wind energy sector: A systematic literature review of public engagement beyond invited stakeholder participation44
Reconciliation through renewable energy? A survey of Indigenous communities, involvement, and peoples in Canada44
To eat and not to heat? Energy poverty and income inequality in Italian regions43
Double energy vulnerability: Spatial intersections of domestic and transport energy poverty in England43
Are rapid and inclusive energy and climate transitions oxymorons? Towards principles of responsible acceleration43
The innovation and industry dynamics of technology phase-out in sustainability transitions: Insights from diversifying petroleum technology suppliers in Norway43
A framework for ‘right to energy’ to meet UN SDG7: Policy implications to meet basic human energy needs, eradicate energy poverty, enhance energy justice, and uphold energy democracy43
Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains43
Addressing gender in energy studies42
Climate-friendly but socially rejected energy-transition pathways: The integration of techno-economic and socio-technical approaches in the Nordic-Baltic region42
Oil, fisheries and coastal communities: A review of impacts on the environment, livelihoods, space and governance41
Banking on coal? Drivers of demand for Chinese overseas investments in coal in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Vietnam41
Reframing policy for the energy efficiency challenge: Insights from housing retrofits in the United Kingdom41
Promoting the polluters? The competing objectives of energy efficiency, pollutant emissions, and economic performance in Chinese municipalities41
Green New Deal proposals: Comparing emerging transformational climate policies at multiple scales41
Towards a bioenergy transition in Italy? Exploring regional stakeholder perspectives towards the Gela and Porto Marghera biorefineries41
How governments, universities, and companies contribute to renewable energy development? A municipal innovation policy perspective of the triple helix41
Energy justice discourses in citizen deliberations on systems flexibility in the United Kingdom: Vulnerability, compensation and empowerment41
Dueling metaphors, fueling futures: “Bridge fuel” visions of coal and natural gas in the United States41
Validity of energy social research during and after COVID-19: challenges, considerations, and responses40
The desirability of transitions in demand: Incorporating behavioural and societal transformations into energy modelling40
Decarbonizing the oil refining industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options40
Mixed feelings on wind energy: Affective imagery and local concern driving social acceptance in Switzerland40
Clean cooking for all? A critical review of behavior, stakeholder engagement, and adoption for the global diffusion of improved cookstoves40
Desirable or debatable? Putting Africa's decentralised solar energy futures in context39
Is demand side response a woman's work? Domestic labour and electricity shifting in low income homes in the United Kingdom39
European island imaginaries: Examining the actors, innovations, and renewable energy transitions of 8 islands39
Will consumers really pay for green electricity? Comparing stated and revealed preferences for residential programs in the United States39
Can electric vehicle drivers be persuaded to eco-drive? A field study of feedback, gamification and financial rewards in Germany39
The Jevons paradox unravelled: A multi-level typology of rebound effects and mechanisms39
Conceptualising restorative justice in the energy Transition: Changing the perspectives of fossil fuels38
Implications of poorly designed climate policy on energy poverty: Global reflections on the current surge in energy prices38
More alike than different: Profiles of high-income and low-income rooftop solar adopters in the United States38
Which policy mixes are best for decarbonising passenger cars? Simulating interactions among taxes, subsidies and regulations for the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, China, and India38
Towards a theory of just transition: A neo-Gramscian understanding of how to shift development pathways to zero poverty and zero carbon37
Eskom and the rise of renewables: Regime-resistance, crisis and the strategy of incumbency in South Africa's electricity system37
Caste, class and gender in determining access to energy: A critical review of LPG adoption in India37
A typology for unpacking the diversity of social innovation in energy transitions37
Interplay between low-carbon energy transitions and national security: An analysis of policy integration and coherence in Estonia, Finland and Scotland37
What do energy modellers know? An ethnography of epistemic values and knowledge models36
China's imaginary of ecological civilization: A resonance between the state-led discourse and sociocultural dynamics36
Enabling the transition to a fossil-free steel sector: The conditions for technology transfer for hydrogen-based steelmaking in Europe36
Smart technology needs smarter management: Disentangling the dynamics of digitalism in the governance of shared solar energy in Australia36
Indigenous environmental defenders and the legacy of Macli-ing Dulag: Anti-dam dissent, assassinations, and protests in the making of Philippine energyscape36
The political economy of air pollution: Local development, sustainability, and political incentives in China36
Residential energy use and energy-saving of older adults: A case from Japan, the fastest-aging country36
Localizing the energy transition: Town-level political and socio-economic drivers of clean energy in the United States35
Energy poverty in the COVID-19 era: Mapping global responses in light of momentum for the right to energy35
The energy injustice of hydropower: Development, resettlement, and social exclusion at the Hongjiang and Wanmipo hydropower stations in China35
Hot stuff: Research and policy principles for heat decarbonisation through smart electrification35
What is the quality of participatory renewable energy planning in Europe? A comparative analysis of innovative practices in 25 projects35
Solar electricity cultures: Household adoption dynamics and energy policy in Switzerland34
Decarbonising the refinery sector: A socio-technical analysis of advanced biofuels, green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage developments in Sweden34
Which households are energy insecure? An empirical analysis of race, housing conditions, and energy burdens in the United States34
Engaging men and women in energy production in Norway and the United Kingdom: The significance of social practices and gender relations34
Political ecologies of the post-mining landscape: Activism, resistance, and legal struggles over Kalimantan's coal mines34
Individuals, collectives, and energy transition: Analysing the motivators and barriers of European decarbonisation33
Rethinking the Multi-level Perspective for energy transitions: From regime life-cycle to explanatory typology of transition pathways33
Low-carbon lock-in? Exploring transformative innovation policy and offshore wind energy pathways in the Netherlands33
Race and the politics of energy transitions33
When controversies cascade: Analysing the dynamics of public engagement and conflict in the Netherlands and Switzerland through “controversy spillover”33
Of jobs, skills, and values: Exploring rural household energy use and solar photovoltaics in poverty alleviation areas in China33
COVID-19 and energy access: An opportunity or a challenge for the African continent?33
Beyond technology: A research agenda for social sciences and humanities research on renewable energy in Europe33
Liquefied natural gas expansion plans in Germany: The risk of gas lock-in under energy transitions33
Racial inequity in household energy efficiency and carbon emissions in the United States: An emissions paradox33
Does natural gas fuel civil war? Rethinking energy security, international relations, and fossil-fuel conflict33
From the geopolitics of oil and gas to the geopolitics of the energy transition: Is there a role for European supermajors?32
Beyond the beach: Tradeoffs in tourism and recreation at the first offshore wind farm in the United States32
Digitalisation, sustainable industrialisation and digital rebound – Asking the right questions for a strategic research agenda32
Distorting the view of our climate future: The misuse and abuse of climate pathways and scenarios32
In the light of what we cannot see: Exploring the interconnections between gender and electricity access32
It’s all about community: On the interplay of social capital, social needs, and environmental concern in sustainable community action32
Energy transition in Brazil: Is there a role for multilevel governance in a centralized energy regime?32
Political economy of just transition: Disparate impact of coal mine closure on state-owned and private coal workers in Inner Mongolia, China32
Which plug-in electric vehicle policies are best? A multi-criteria evaluation framework applied to Canada32
Young, poor, and sick: The public health threat of energy poverty for children in Ireland32
Synthesizing value sensitive design, responsible research and innovation, and energy justice: A conceptual review32
Lost (and found) in Transition: Expert stakeholder insights on low-carbon energy transitions in Spain32
Nudging and boosting for equity? Towards a behavioural economics of energy justice32
The rise of solar home systems in sub-Saharan Africa: Examining gender, class, and sustainability32
Regime resistance and accommodation: Toward a neo-Gramscian perspective on energy transitions31
Policy, politics and materiality across scales: A framework for understanding local government sustainable energy capacity applied in England31
State versus market in China's low-carbon energy transition: An institutional perspective31
The global energy transition and place attachment in coal mining communities: Implications for heavily industrialized landscapes31
Farmers vs. lakers: Agriculture, amenity, and community in predicting opposition to United States wind energy development31
Changing climate for populists? Examining the influence of radical-right political parties on low-carbon energy transitions in Western Europe31
Who is marginalized in energy justice? Amplifying community leader perspectives of energy transitions in Ghana31
The persistence of high energy burdens: A bibliometric analysis of vulnerability, poverty, and exclusion in the United States31
What really drives the deployment of renewable energy? A global assessment of 118 countries31
How will COVID-19 impact renewable energy in India? Exploring challenges, lessons and emerging opportunities31
Energy transitions in a time of intersecting precarities: From reductive environmentalism to antiracist praxis31
When energy justice encounters authoritarian environmentalism: The case of clean heating energy transitions in rural China31
Energy citizenship in the Netherlands: The complexities of public engagement in a large-scale energy transition31
Climate change strategic narratives in the United Kingdom: Emergency, Extinction, Effectiveness31
What about citizens? A literature review of citizen engagement in sustainability transitions research30
Car sharing and transformations in households travel patterns: Insights from emerging proto-practices in Norway30
Empowering energy citizenship among the energy poor30
Green hope or red herring? Examining consumer perceptions of peer-to-peer energy trading in the United Kingdom30
Public opinion on nuclear energy and nuclear weapons: The attitudinal nexus in the United States30
Sharing the burden: Shifts in family time use, agency and gender dynamics after introduction of new cookstoves in rural Kenya30
World wars and the age of oil: Exploring directionality in deep energy transitions30
A pollution paradox? The political economy of environmental inspection and air pollution in China30
Act locally, transition globally: Grassroots resilience, local politics, and five municipalities in the United States with 100% renewable electricity30
Why do low-income urban dwellers reject energy technologies? Exploring the socio-cultural acceptance of solar adoption in Mumbai and Cape Town30
Beyond states: Harnessing sub-national actors for the deep decarbonisation of cities, regions, and businesses29
Can authoritarian regimes achieve just energy transition? Evidence from China’s solar photovoltaic poverty alleviation initiative29
The (in)justices of smart local energy systems: A systematic review, integrated framework, and future research agenda29
Who wants to get involved? Determining citizen willingness to participate in German renewable energy cooperatives29
A critical review of energy democracy: A failure to deliver justice?29
Women’s work is never done: Lifting the gendered burden of firewood collection and household energy use in Kenya29
The ineffectiveness of efficiency: The paradoxical effects of state policy on energy consumption in the United States29
Energy profiles among urban elite households in Mozambique: Explaining the persistence of charcoal in urban areas29
From cheap ethane to a plastic planet: Regulating an industrial global production network29
Growing community energy initiatives from the bottom up: Simulating the role of behavioural attitudes and leadership in the Netherlands29
What drives the solar energy transition? The effect of policies, incentives and behavior in a cross-country comparison29
The less you burn, the more we earn: The role of social and political trust on energy-saving behaviour in Europe29
A framework for assessing the impact of private climate governance28
Assessing co-creation in strategic planning for urban energy transitions28
Transforming innovation for decarbonisation? Insights from combining complex systems and social practice perspectives28
Making shipping more carbon-friendly? Exploring ship energy efficiency management plans in legislation and practice28
Policy uncertainty and renewable energy: Exploring the implications for global energy transitions, energy security, and environmental risk management28
Of impacts, agents, and functions: An interdisciplinary meta-review of smart home energy management systems research28
Moving beyond opportunity narratives in COVID-19 green recoveries: A comparative analysis of public investment plans in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom28
The critical role of trust in experiencing and coping with energy poverty: Evidence from across Europe28
Conflicts between economic and low-carbon reorientation processes: Insights from a contextual analysis of evolving company strategies in the United Kingdom petrochemical industry (1970–2021)28
New clean energy communities in polycentric settings: Four avenues for future research28
The dark side of energy poverty: Who is underconsuming in Spain and why?28
Social identity in the energy transition: an analysis of the “Stop Adani Convoy” to explore social-political conflict in Australia28
Burdened by renewable energy? A multi-scalar analysis of distributional justice and wind energy in the United States28
Keep it local and bird-friendly: Exploring the social acceptance of wind energy in Switzerland, Estonia, and Ukraine28
Exploring the re-emergence of industrial policy: Perceptions regarding low-carbon energy transitions in Germany, the United Kingdom and Denmark28
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