Decai Tang

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
102 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Decai Tang is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Decai Tang has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 27 papers in Environmental Engineering and 17 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Decai Tang's work include Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (55 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (27 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (15 papers). Decai Tang is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (55 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (27 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (15 papers). Decai Tang collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Japan. Decai Tang's co-authors include Valentina Boamah, Brandon J. Bethel, Qian Zhang, Jiannan Li, Yan Zhang, Jianqun Zhang, Bright Obuobi, Hao Xu, Bowen Li and Gibbson Adu‐Gyamfi and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Energy and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Decai Tang

93 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The influence of industrial structure transformation on urban resilience based on 110 prefecture-level cities in the Yangtze River

2023 96 citations Decai Tang, Valentina Boamah et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Decai Tang China	21	814	302	140	132	131	102	1.2k
Jichuan Sheng China	21	877 1.1×	378 1.3×	178 1.3×	136 1.0×	330 2.5×	63	1.6k
Baodong Cheng China	16	603 0.7×	291 1.0×	122 0.9×	83 0.6×	222 1.7×	61	1.0k
Minzhe Du China	22	878 1.1×	327 1.1×	277 2.0×	105 0.8×	107 0.8×	41	1.4k
Thomas Stephen Ramsey China	19	451 0.6×	191 0.6×	96 0.7×	106 0.8×	120 0.9×	50	1.1k
Juntao Du China	15	1.2k 1.4×	240 0.8×	276 2.0×	253 1.9×	109 0.8×	26	1.4k
Xiangnan Song China	16	435 0.5×	414 1.4×	161 1.1×	85 0.6×	94 0.7×	28	1.3k
Ke-Liang Wang China	21	1.1k 1.3×	439 1.5×	245 1.8×	172 1.3×	144 1.1×	43	1.4k
Cheng-lin Miao China	10	811 1.0×	284 0.9×	180 1.3×	302 2.3×	108 0.8×	10	1.2k
Jianlin Wang China	18	795 1.0×	424 1.4×	353 2.5×	92 0.7×	97 0.7×	46	1.3k
Jianhong Cao China	15	959 1.2×	197 0.7×	248 1.8×	183 1.4×	79 0.6×	23	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Decai Tang

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tang, Decai, et al.. (2025). The Dual Impact and Spatial Spillover Effects of the Digital Economy on Urban–Rural Integration. Sustainability. 17(2). 545–545. 3 indexed citations

Tang, Decai, Xiang Cai, Emmanuel Nketiah, et al.. (2023). Separate your waste: A comprehensive conceptual framework investigating residents' intention to adopt household waste separation. Sustainable Production and Consumption. 39. 216–229. 32 indexed citations

Sheng, Xin, et al.. (2023). The severity of foreign direct investment components on China's carbon productivity. Journal of Cleaner Production. 424. 138929–138929. 10 indexed citations

Zhang, Qian, Rong Wang, Decai Tang, & Valentina Boamah. (2023). The role and transmission mechanism of forest resource abundance on low-carbon economic development in the Yangtze River Delta region: Insights from the COP26 targets. Resources Policy. 85. 103944–103944. 12 indexed citations

Boamah, Valentina, Decai Tang, Qian Zhang, & Jianqun Zhang. (2023). Do FDI Inflows into African Countries Impact Their CO2 Emission Levels?. Sustainability. 15(4). 3131–3131. 19 indexed citations

Zhou, Rongrong, et al.. (2023). Improvement of Agricultural Supply Quality in China: Evidence from Jiangsu Province. Sustainability. 15(14). 11418–11418. 3 indexed citations

Obuobi, Bright, et al.. (2023). The Influence of Rule of Law on Government’s Sustainable Economic Management: Evidence from China. Sustainability. 15(15). 11690–11690. 1 indexed citations

Tang, Decai, et al.. (2023). Impact of Digital Finance on Green Technology Innovation: The Mediating Effect of Financial Constraints. Sustainability. 15(4). 3393–3393. 41 indexed citations

Tang, Meili, et al.. (2022). Influence of Green Finance on Ecological Environment Quality in Yangtze River Delta. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(17). 10692–10692. 6 indexed citations

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Tang, Decai, et al.. (2022). Influencing Factors on the Household-Waste-Classification Behavior of Urban Residents: A Case Study in Shanghai. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(11). 6528–6528. 25 indexed citations

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Tang, Yu, et al.. (2022). The Carbon Emissions Effect of China’s OFDI on Countries along the “Belt and Road”. Sustainability. 14(20). 13609–13609. 5 indexed citations

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Tang, Decai, et al.. (2022). Simulation of China’s Carbon Emission based on Influencing Factors. Energies. 15(9). 3272–3272. 59 indexed citations

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Tang, Decai, et al.. (2022). An Investigation of the Transmission Mechanism of Executive Compensation Control to the Operating Performance of State-Owned Listed Companies. Sustainability. 14(10). 5819–5819. 1 indexed citations

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Tang, Decai & Brandon J. Bethel. (2021). Yangtze River Economic Belt environmental remediation efficiency based on an input-output optimization analysis. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(13). 16734–16743. 6 indexed citations

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Tang, Decai, et al.. (2021). The Impact of the Opening of Producer Services on the International Competitiveness of Manufacturing Industry. Sustainability. 13(20). 11224–11224. 14 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qian, Decai Tang, & Brandon J. Bethel. (2021). Impact of Urbanization on the Environmental Regulation Efficiency in the Yangtze River Basin Based on the Empirical Analysis of Spatial Econometrics. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(17). 9105–9105. 8 indexed citations

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Tang, Decai, Luxia Wang, & Brandon J. Bethel. (2021). An Evaluation of the Yangtze River Economic Belt Manufacturing Industry Level of Intelligentization and Influencing Factors: Evidence from China. Sustainability. 13(16). 8913–8913. 10 indexed citations

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Tang, Decai, et al.. (2021). Incentivizing Innovation: The Causal Role of Government Subsidies on Lithium-Ion Battery Research and Development. Sustainability. 13(15). 8309–8309. 14 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qian, Decai Tang, & Brandon J. Bethel. (2021). Yangtze River Basin Environmental Regulation Efficiency Based on the Empirical Analysis of 97 Cities from 2005 to 2016. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(11). 5697–5697. 8 indexed citations

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Tang, Decai, et al.. (2019). Relevance Analysis of Sustainable Development of China’s Yangtze River Economic Belt Based on Spatial Structure. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16(17). 3076–3076. 17 indexed citations

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