İlhan Öztürk

48.1k total citations · 37 hit papers
354 papers, 38.6k citations indexed

About

İlhan Öztürk is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, İlhan Öztürk has authored 354 papers receiving a total of 38.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 310 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 212 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 111 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in İlhan Öztürk's work include Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (284 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (206 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (111 papers). İlhan Öztürk is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (284 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (206 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (111 papers). İlhan Öztürk collaborates with scholars based in Türkiye, Taiwan and United Arab Emirates. İlhan Öztürk's co-authors include Usama Al‐mulali, Ali Acaravcı, Sana Ullah, Arshian Sharif, Sakiru Adebola Solarin, Alper Aslan, Mohammad Salahuddin, Nicholas Apergis, Muhammad Shahbaz and Behnaz Saboori and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

İlhan Öztürk

342 papers receiving 37.4k 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.

  1. A literature survey on energy–growth nexus
    2009 1.3k citations İlhan Öztürk profile →
  2. The effect of renewable energy consumption on economic growth: Evidence from top 38 countries
    2015 1.1k citations İlhan Öztürk et al. profile →
  3. The long-run and causal analysis of energy, growth, openness and financial development on carbon emissions in Turkey
    2012 1.0k citations İlhan Öztürk, Ali Acaravcı profile →
  4. CO2 emissions, energy consumption and economic growth in Turkey
    2010 878 citations İlhan Öztürk, Ali Acaravcı Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews profile →
  5. Testing Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis in Asian countries
    2014 835 citations İlhan Öztürk et al. profile →
  6. On the relationship between energy consumption, CO2 emissions and economic growth in Europe
    2010 792 citations Ali Acaravcı, İlhan Öztürk Energy profile →
  7. Testing environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis: The role of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption and trade in OECD countries
    2015 767 citations Mehdi Ben Jebli, Slim Ben Youssef et al. profile →
  8. Investigating the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis in Vietnam
    2014 692 citations Usama Al‐mulali, İlhan Öztürk et al. profile →
  9. Revisiting the role of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on Turkey’s ecological footprint: Evidence from Quantile ARDL approach
    2020 667 citations Arshian Sharif, İlhan Öztürk et al. profile →
  10. The effects of electricity consumption, economic growth, financial development and foreign direct investment on CO2 emissions in Kuwait
    2017 634 citations İlhan Öztürk et al. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews profile →
  11. The dynamic relationship of renewable and nonrenewable energy consumption with carbon emission: A global study with the application of heterogeneous panel estimations
    2018 614 citations Arshian Sharif, İlhan Öztürk et al. Renewable Energy profile →
  12. The effect of energy consumption, urbanization, trade openness, industrial output, and the political stability on the environmental degradation in the MENA (Middle East and North African) region
    2015 593 citations Usama Al‐mulali, İlhan Öztürk Energy profile →
  13. Relationships among carbon emissions, economic growth, energy consumption and population growth: Testing Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis for Brazil, China, India and Indonesia
    2016 593 citations İlhan Öztürk et al. profile →
  14. The influence of economic growth, urbanization, trade openness, financial development, and renewable energy on pollution in Europe
    2015 586 citations Usama Al‐mulali, İlhan Öztürk et al. profile →
  15. Causal relationship between CO2 emissions, real GDP, energy consumption, financial development, trade openness, and urbanization in Tunisia
    2015 536 citations İlhan Öztürk et al. Environmental Science and Pollution Research profile →
  16. Investigating the pollution haven hypothesis in Ghana: An empirical investigation
    2017 523 citations Sakiru Adebola Solarin, Usama Al‐mulali et al. Energy profile →
  17. Renewable and non-renewable energy consumption and economic growth relationship revisited: Evidence from G7 countries
    2012 518 citations İlhan Öztürk, Alper Aslan et al. profile →
  18. Investigating the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis: the role of tourism and ecological footprint
    2015 444 citations İlhan Öztürk, Usama Al‐mulali et al. Environmental Science and Pollution Research profile →
  19. The impacts of globalization, financial development, government expenditures, and institutional quality on CO2 emissions in the presence of environmental Kuznets curve
    2020 404 citations İlhan Öztürk et al. Environmental Science and Pollution Research profile →
  20. Modeling the dynamic linkage between financial development, energy innovation, and environmental quality: Does globalization matter?
    2020 400 citations İlhan Öztürk, Festus Víctor Bekun et al. profile →
  21. The influence of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption and real income on CO2 emissions in the USA: evidence from structural break tests
    2017 377 citations İlhan Öztürk et al. Environmental Science and Pollution Research profile →
  22. Does digital financial inclusion matter for economic growth and environmental sustainability in OBRI economies? An empirical analysis
    2022 335 citations İlhan Öztürk, Sana Ullah profile →
  23. Investigating the validity of the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis in Cambodia
    2015 332 citations İlhan Öztürk, Usama Al‐mulali profile →
  24. Dynamic association between ICT, renewable energy, economic complexity and ecological footprint: Is there any difference between E-7 (developing) and G-7 (developed) countries?
    2022 271 citations Muhammad Usman, İlhan Öztürk et al. profile →
  25. Does ICT have symmetric or asymmetric effects on CO2 emissions? Evidence from selected Asian economies
    2021 257 citations İlhan Öztürk, Sana Ullah et al. profile →
  26. Examining the direct and indirect effects of financial development on CO2 emissions for 88 developing countries
    2021 239 citations İlhan Öztürk et al. Journal of Environmental Management profile →
  27. Do technological innovations have symmetric or asymmetric effects on environmental quality? Evidence from Pakistan
    2021 230 citations Sana Ullah, İlhan Öztürk et al. profile →
  28. Facilitating renewable energy transition, ecological innovations and stringent environmental policies to improve ecological sustainability: Evidence from MM-QR method
    2022 211 citations Sahar Afshan, İlhan Öztürk et al. Renewable Energy profile →
  29. Globalization and CO2 emissions in the presence of EKC: A global panel data analysis
    2022 208 citations İlhan Öztürk et al. Gondwana Research profile →
  30. Asymmetric influence of digital finance, and renewable energy technology innovation on green growth in China
    2022 202 citations Asif Razzaq, Arshian Sharif et al. Renewable Energy profile →
  31. Do technology and renewable energy contribute to energy efficiency and carbon neutrality? Evidence from top ten manufacturing countries
    2023 177 citations İlhan Öztürk et al. profile →
  32. Pollution Haven or Halo? How European countries leverage FDI, energy, and human capital to alleviate their ecological footprint
    2023 160 citations Najia Saqib, İlhan Öztürk et al. Gondwana Research profile →
  33. Harnessing the synergistic impacts of environmental innovations, financial development, green growth, and ecological footprint through the lens of SDGs policies for countries exhibiting high ecological footprints
    2023 131 citations Najia Saqib, Muhammad Usman et al. profile →
  34. On the criticality of renewable energy to sustainable development: Do green financial development, technological innovation, and economic complexity matter for China?
    2022 129 citations Ridwan Lanre Ibrahim, Usama Al‐mulali et al. Renewable Energy profile →
  35. The role of renewable energy investment in tackling climate change concerns: Environmental policies for achieving SDG‐13
    2023 97 citations İlhan Öztürk et al. profile →
  36. Natural resources, financial technologies, and digitalization: The role of institutional quality and human capital in selected OECD economies
    2023 84 citations Asif Razzaq, İlhan Öztürk et al. Resources Policy profile →
  37. The key to sustainability: In-depth investigation of environmental quality in G20 countries through the lens of renewable energy, economic complexity and geopolitical risk resilience
    2024 54 citations İlhan Öztürk et al. Journal of Environmental Management profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
İlhan Öztürk Türkiye 103 33.3k 21.5k 10.2k 10.1k 2.4k 354 38.6k
Muhammad Shahbaz Pakistan 118 39.4k 1.2× 21.9k 1.0× 9.9k 1.0× 10.1k 1.0× 2.9k 1.2× 553 46.4k
Boqiang Lin China 110 31.1k 0.9× 16.4k 0.8× 5.3k 0.5× 15.6k 1.5× 2.7k 1.1× 883 44.5k
Chien‐Chiang Lee China 94 23.4k 0.7× 7.7k 0.4× 2.8k 0.3× 3.5k 0.3× 2.6k 1.1× 549 29.5k
Nicholas Apergis Greece 69 17.8k 0.5× 10.3k 0.5× 5.1k 0.5× 3.8k 0.4× 600 0.2× 452 20.5k
Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo Cyprus 78 14.2k 0.4× 8.4k 0.4× 3.5k 0.3× 4.8k 0.5× 957 0.4× 279 16.4k
Festus Víctor Bekun Türkiye 64 12.5k 0.4× 7.3k 0.3× 3.4k 0.3× 4.0k 0.4× 884 0.4× 256 14.8k
Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie Norway 60 11.6k 0.3× 7.4k 0.3× 4.4k 0.4× 4.3k 0.4× 766 0.3× 167 17.3k
Arshian Sharif Malaysia 73 13.2k 0.4× 6.2k 0.3× 2.4k 0.2× 3.2k 0.3× 2.1k 0.9× 225 16.8k
Daniel Balsalobre‐Lorente Spain 65 12.5k 0.4× 6.5k 0.3× 2.7k 0.3× 4.0k 0.4× 1.1k 0.5× 205 14.7k
Yu Hao China 79 14.5k 0.4× 5.1k 0.2× 2.2k 0.2× 4.6k 0.5× 2.8k 1.2× 289 19.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of İlhan Öztürk

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of İlhan Öztürk. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of İlhan Öztürk based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with İlhan Öztürk. İlhan Öztürk is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Usman, Ahmed, et al.. (2025). ICT-driven urbanization and energy security risk: Empirical evidence from Group 7 and Emerging 7 economies. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 112. 107809–107809. 2 indexed citations
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Sohail, Muhammad Tayyab, et al.. (2025). Energy justice, digital infrastructure, and sustainable development: A global analysis. Energy. 319. 134999–134999. 7 indexed citations
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Albaity, Mohamed, et al.. (2024). Unleashing sustainability in uncertain times: Can we leverage economic complexity, uncertainty, and remittances to combat environmental degradation?. Journal of Environmental Management. 359. 121094–121094. 8 indexed citations
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Škare, Marinko, et al.. (2024). Energy as the new frontier: Dynamic panel data analysis revealing energy's transformative role in economic growth and technological progress. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 200. 123175–123175. 7 indexed citations
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Saqib, Najia, et al.. (2024). Enhancing sustainable energy: Mineral exports, financial development, and foreign investment can build a greener future?. Resources Policy. 97. 105249–105249. 7 indexed citations
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Chandio, Abbas Ali, et al.. (2024). Does fiscal expenditure matter for agricultural development? Examining the impact of technological progress on food production. Review of Development Economics. 28(4). 1774–1802. 6 indexed citations
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Rehman, Abdul, Hengyun Ma, İlhan Öztürk, et al.. (2023). The enigma of environmental sustainability and carbonization: Assessing the connection between coal and oil rents, natural resources, and environmental quality. Gondwana Research. 128. 1–13. 16 indexed citations
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Ofori, Elvis Kwame, et al.. (2023). Synthesizing the role of technological innovation on sustainable development and climate action: Does governance play a role in sub-Saharan Africa?. Environmental Development. 47. 100900–100900. 14 indexed citations
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Mallek, Ray Saadaoui, et al.. (2023). Infrastructure development and poverty eradication in sub-Saharan Africa; Its effect and transmission channels. Cities. 144. 104658–104658. 19 indexed citations
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Yang, Fan, et al.. (2023). Assessing the effects of internet technology use on rural households' cooking energy consumption: Evidence from China. Energy. 284. 128726–128726. 22 indexed citations
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Razzaq, Asif, Arshian Sharif, İlhan Öztürk, & Sahar Afshan. (2023). Dynamic and threshold effects of energy transition and environmental governance on green growth in COP26 framework. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 179. 113296–113296. 105 indexed citations
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Su, Lijuan, Fayyaz Ahmad, İlhan Öztürk, et al.. (2023). Environmental Regulations and Chinese Energy Sustainability: Mediating Role of Green Technology Innovations in Chinese Provinces. Sustainability. 15(11). 8950–8950. 6 indexed citations
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Ibrahim, Ridwan Lanre, Usama Al‐mulali, İlhan Öztürk, Kazeem Bello Ajide, & Lukman Raimi. (2022). On the criticality of renewable energy to sustainable development: Do green financial development, technological innovation, and economic complexity matter for China?. Renewable Energy. 199. 262–277. 129 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tarazkar, Mohammad Hassan, et al.. (2020). The impact of age structure on carbon emission in the Middle East: the panel autoregressive distributed lag approach. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(26). 33722–33734. 52 indexed citations
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Öztürk, İlhan, Usama Al‐mulali, & Sakiru Adebola Solarin. (2019). The control of corruption and energy efficiency relationship: an empirical note. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 26(17). 17277–17283. 64 indexed citations
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Jebli, Mehdi Ben, Slim Ben Youssef, & İlhan Öztürk. (2015). The Role of Renewable Energy Consumption and Trade: Environmental Kuznets Curve Analysis for Sub‐Saharan Africa Countries. African Development Review. 27(3). 288–300. 185 indexed citations
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Öztürk, İlhan, et al.. (2014). An Examination of Fisher Effect for Selected New EU Member States. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6 indexed citations
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Acaravcı, Ali & İlhan Öztürk. (2012). FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, EXPORT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM NEW EU COUNTRIES. Romanian Journal of Economic Forecasting. 52–67. 90 indexed citations
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Öztürk, İlhan & Ali Acaravcı. (2008). The Demand for Money in Transition Economies. Romanian Journal of Economic Forecasting. 5(2). 35–43. 7 indexed citations
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Öztürk, İlhan. (2007). FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT - GROWTH NEXUS: A REVIEW OF THE RECENT LITERATURE. SSRN Electronic Journal. 57 indexed citations

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