Kerui Du

7.9k total citations · 6 hit papers
68 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Kerui Du is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Kerui Du has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 32 papers in Environmental Engineering and 26 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Kerui Du's work include Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (53 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (31 papers) and Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (25 papers). Kerui Du is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (53 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (31 papers) and Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (25 papers). Kerui Du collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Kerui Du's co-authors include Boqiang Lin, Zheming Yan, Jianglong Li, Xiaoling Ouyang, Xin Yao, Yuanyuan Cheng, Pengzhen Li, Qiong Li, Yu Ying and Ke Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal of Cleaner Production and Applied Energy.

In The Last Decade

Kerui Du

64 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Environmental regulation, green technology innovation, and industrial structure upgrading: The road to the green transformation of Chinese cities

2021 879 citations Kerui Du, Yuanyuan Cheng et al. Energy Economics profile →
Do green technology innovations contribute to carbon dioxide emission reduction? Empirical evidence from patent data

2019 748 citations Kerui Du, Zheming Yan et al. profile →
Towards a green world: How do green technology innovations affect total-factor carbon productivity

2019 678 citations Kerui Du, Jianglong Li Energy Policy profile →
How does environmental regulation promote technological innovations in the industrial sector? Evidence from Chinese provincial panel data

2020 492 citations Xiaoling Ouyang, Kerui Du et al. Energy Policy profile →
Environmental tax reform and greenwashing: Evidence from Chinese listed companies

2023 115 citations Shuo Hu, Ailun Wang et al. Energy Economics profile →
How does environmental regulation promote green technology innovation? Evidence from China's total emission control policy

2024 90 citations Zheming Yan, Kerui Du et al. Ecological Economics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kerui Du China	36	5.4k	2.3k	2.0k	1.3k	825	68	6.4k
Chuanwang Sun China	47	5.4k 1.0×	2.3k 1.0×	2.3k 1.2×	809 0.6×	749 0.9×	166	7.8k
Xingle Long China	36	4.2k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	825 0.7×	514 0.6×	56	5.8k
Xunpeng Shi Australia	48	4.8k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	2.3k 1.2×	599 0.5×	598 0.7×	215	7.4k
Malin Song China	33	3.0k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	720 0.6×	876 1.1×	106	5.2k
Feng Dong China	43	4.3k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	712 0.6×	368 0.4×	122	6.2k
Asif Razzaq China	58	7.6k 1.4×	1.9k 0.8×	3.1k 1.5×	1.4k 1.1×	1.4k 1.7×	110	9.7k
Umer Shahzad China	47	6.7k 1.2×	1.8k 0.8×	3.1k 1.6×	716 0.6×	681 0.8×	115	8.4k
Karen Palmer United States	36	4.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	2.8k 1.4×	1.6k 1.3×	1.6k 1.9×	145	7.8k
Xiaohang Ren China	47	6.3k 1.2×	941 0.4×	2.3k 1.1×	868 0.7×	955 1.2×	174	7.5k
Xiucheng Dong China	44	5.4k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	3.0k 1.5×	452 0.4×	335 0.4×	138	7.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kerui Du

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20 of 20 papers shown

Huang, Yujie, et al.. (2025). From awareness to action: The role of ESG committees in driving corporate ambidextrous green innovation. Energy Economics. 150. 108835–108835.

Chen, Yan, Kerui Du, Ruiqi Sun, & Tiantian Wang. (2025). Can strict environmental regulation reduce firm cost stickiness? Evidence from the new environmental protection law in China. Energy Economics. 142. 108218–108218. 6 indexed citations

Yan, Zheming, Yutong Lin, Kerui Du, & Shuai Shao. (2025). The impact of strict environmental regulations on firms heterogeneous choices of pollutant abatement technology. International Review of Financial Analysis. 107. 104601–104601.

Du, Kerui, et al.. (2025). A command to fit spatial stochastic frontier models with inefficiency spillovers. The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata. 25(1). 189–211.

Du, Kerui, et al.. (2025). The unintended consequence of trade liberalization: Input tariff reduction and firm energy rebound effect in China. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 237. 107116–107116.

Du, Kerui, et al.. (2024). Outbound tourism and outward foreign direct investment. Annals of Tourism Research. 105. 103713–103713. 1 indexed citations

Du, Kerui, et al.. (2024). Impact of CSR on stock return resilience during the 2020 public health emergency: Evidence from the Chinese financial market. International Review of Financial Analysis. 96. 103702–103702. 2 indexed citations

Du, Kerui, et al.. (2024). Assessing the impact of environmental regulations on environmental performance in Chinese cities: A spatial Stochastic Frontier Model with endogeneity analysis. Environmental Research. 255. 119123–119123. 4 indexed citations

Du, Kerui, et al.. (2024). Traveling as a means to escape air pollution: Evidence from pollution information disclosure in China. Tourism Economics. 31(5). 861–883. 1 indexed citations

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Du, Kerui, Luis Orea, & Inmaculada Álvarez Ayuso. (2024). Fitting spatial stochastic frontier models in Stata. The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata. 24(3). 402–426. 2 indexed citations

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Tan, Ruipeng, et al.. (2024). Energy rebound effect in China: Measurement based on a variable coefficient production function. Ecological Economics. 230. 108496–108496. 2 indexed citations

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Yan, Zheming, Zicheng Zhou, & Kerui Du. (2023). How does environmental regulatory stringency affect energy consumption? Evidence from Chinese firms. Energy Economics. 118. 106503–106503. 58 indexed citations

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Cheng, Yuanyuan, Kerui Du, & Xin Yao. (2023). Restructuring and relocation of polluting industries under air pollution control: Evidence from industrial investment flows between Chinese cities. China Economic Review. 83. 102099–102099. 13 indexed citations

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Hu, Shuo, Ailun Wang, & Kerui Du. (2023). Environmental tax reform and greenwashing: Evidence from Chinese listed companies. Energy Economics. 124. 106873–106873. 115 indexed citations breakdown →

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Du, Kerui, et al.. (2021). Drivers of the development of global climate-change-mitigation technology: a patent-based decomposition analysis. Frontiers in Energy. 15(2). 487–498. 3 indexed citations

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Bai, Caiquan, et al.. (2020). Understanding spatial-temporal evolution of renewable energy technology innovation in China: Evidence from convergence analysis. Energy Policy. 143. 111570–111570. 94 indexed citations

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Li, Jianglong, Hongxun Liu, & Kerui Du. (2019). Does market-oriented reform increase energy rebound effect? Evidence from China's regional development. China Economic Review. 56. 101304–101304. 96 indexed citations

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Ouyang, Xiaoling, et al.. (2017). Does government transparency contribute to improved eco-efficiency performance? An empirical study of 262 cities in China. Energy Policy. 110. 79–89. 79 indexed citations

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Xie, Chunping, Kerui Du, Yingru Zhao, & Nigel P. Brandon. (2016). Possibilities of coal–gas substitution in East Asia: A comparison among China, Japan and South Korea. Natural Gas Industry B. 3(4). 387–397. 7 indexed citations

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Du, Kerui & Boqiang Lin. (2015). Understanding the rapid growth of China's energy consumption: A comprehensive decomposition framework. Energy. 90. 570–577. 110 indexed citations

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