Recep Ulucak

8.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
62 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Recep Ulucak is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Recep Ulucak has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 27 papers in Environmental Engineering and 21 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Recep Ulucak's work include Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (48 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (27 papers) and Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (21 papers). Recep Ulucak is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (48 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (27 papers) and Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (21 papers). Recep Ulucak collaborates with scholars based in Türkiye, China and Saudi Arabia. Recep Ulucak's co-authors include Danish Khan, Faik Bilgili, Salah Ud‐Din Khan, Eyüp Doğan, Emrah Koçak, Burcu Özcan, Mehmet Akif Destek, Yacouba Kassouri, Zübeyde Şentürk Ulucak and Cem Işık 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

Recep Ulucak

60 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

Determinants of the ecological footprint: Role of renewab... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2019 2018 2018 2020 2020 250 500 750
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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. Determinants of the ecological footprint: Role of renewable energy, natural resources, and urbanization
    2019 893 citations Danish Khan, Recep Ulucak et al. profile →
  2. A reinvestigation of EKC model by ecological footprint measurement for high, middle and low income countries
    2018 581 citations Recep Ulucak, Faik Bilgili profile →
  3. Analyzing the environmental Kuznets curve for the EU countries: the role of ecological footprint
    2018 423 citations Mehmet Akif Destek, Recep Ulucak et al. Environmental Science and Pollution Research profile →
  4. The use of ecological footprint in estimating the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis for BRICST by considering cross-section dependence and heterogeneity
    2020 366 citations Eyüp Doğan, Recep Ulucak et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
  5. How do environmental technologies affect green growth? Evidence from BRICS economies
    2020 364 citations Danish Khan, Recep Ulucak The Science of The Total Environment profile →
  6. The impact of tourism developments on CO2 emissions: An advanced panel data estimation
    2019 266 citations Emrah Koçak, Recep Ulucak et al. profile →
  7. The role of natural resources abundance and dependence in achieving environmental sustainability: Evidence from resource‐based economies
    2020 229 citations Recep Ulucak, Danish Khan et al. Sustainable Development profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Recep Ulucak Türkiye 36 6.1k 3.0k 2.7k 1.3k 557 62 6.9k
Muhammad Wasif Zafar China 37 5.9k 1.0× 3.2k 1.1× 2.0k 0.7× 1.6k 1.2× 506 0.9× 69 7.0k
Sakiru Adebola Solarin Malaysia 42 5.9k 1.0× 3.4k 1.1× 2.1k 0.8× 1.4k 1.1× 352 0.6× 169 6.9k
Irfan Khan China 47 6.0k 1.0× 3.5k 1.1× 1.8k 0.7× 1.9k 1.4× 481 0.9× 87 7.9k
Atif Jahanger China 46 5.4k 0.9× 2.7k 0.9× 1.7k 0.6× 1.2k 0.9× 537 1.0× 90 6.3k
Muhammad Tariq Majeed Pakistan 45 4.9k 0.8× 2.6k 0.9× 1.3k 0.5× 1.2k 0.9× 445 0.8× 191 6.1k
Umer Shahzad China 47 6.7k 1.1× 3.1k 1.0× 1.8k 0.6× 1.3k 1.0× 716 1.3× 115 8.4k
Mehmet Akif Destek Türkiye 36 5.3k 0.9× 2.9k 1.0× 2.1k 0.8× 1.5k 1.1× 348 0.6× 113 6.0k
Zahoor Ahmed China 51 8.3k 1.4× 4.3k 1.4× 3.2k 1.2× 1.7k 1.3× 779 1.4× 135 9.7k
Xunpeng Shi Australia 48 4.8k 0.8× 2.3k 0.8× 1.9k 0.7× 979 0.7× 599 1.1× 215 7.4k
Muhammad Usman China 54 8.0k 1.3× 4.2k 1.4× 2.6k 1.0× 1.9k 1.4× 803 1.4× 145 9.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Recep Ulucak

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Recep Ulucak

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Recep Ulucak. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Recep Ulucak 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 Recep Ulucak. Recep Ulucak 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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Ulucak, Zübeyde Şentürk, et al.. (2025). Understanding barriers to agricultural technology adoption: Evidence from U.S. agribusiness firms. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 224. 124448–124448.
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Ulucak, Recep, et al.. (2025). Awareness, perceived importance, and implementation of circular economy principles: Insights from Turkish construction sector. Journal of Environmental Management. 387. 125834–125834. 2 indexed citations
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Khan, Danish, Recep Ulucak, & Muhammad Awais Baloch. (2023). An empirical approach to the nexus between natural resources and environmental pollution: Do economic policy and environmental-related technologies make any difference?. Resources Policy. 81. 103361–103361. 100 indexed citations
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Yılancı, Veli, Recep Ulucak, Yaoqi Zhang, & Valeria Andreoni. (2022). The role of affluence, urbanization, and human capital for sustainable forest management in China: Robust findings from a new method of Fourier cointegration. Sustainable Development. 31(2). 812–824. 27 indexed citations
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Li, Nan, Recep Ulucak, & Danish Khan. (2022). Turning points for environmental sustainability: the potential role of income inequality, human capital, and globalization. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29(27). 40878–40892. 22 indexed citations
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Yılancı, Veli, Recep Ulucak, & Önder Özgür. (2021). Insights for a sustainable environment: analysing the persistence of policy shocks to ecological footprints of Mediterranean countries. Spatial Economic Analysis. 17(1). 47–66. 18 indexed citations
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Chishti, Muhammad Zubair, et al.. (2021). The asymmetric associations between foreign direct investment inflows, terrorism, CO2 emissions, and economic growth: a tale of two shocks. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(48). 69253–69271. 56 indexed citations
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Ulucak, Recep, et al.. (2021). A STIRPAT-based investigation on the role of economic growth, urbanization, and energy consumption in shaping a sustainable environment in the Mediterranean region. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(39). 55290–55301. 33 indexed citations
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Rehman, Abdul, Hengyun Ma, İlhan Öztürk, & Recep Ulucak. (2021). Sustainable development and pollution: the effects of CO2 emission on population growth, food production, economic development, and energy consumption in Pakistan. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29(12). 17319–17330. 166 indexed citations
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İlkay, Salih Çağrı, et al.. (2021). Technology spillovers and sustainable environment: Evidence from time-series analyses with Fourier extension. Journal of Environmental Management. 294. 113033–113033. 40 indexed citations
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Murshed, Muntasir, Recep Ulucak, Vishal Dagar, et al.. (2021). Mitigating energy production-based carbon dioxide emissions in Argentina: the roles of renewable energy and economic globalization. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29(12). 16939–16958. 92 indexed citations
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Rehman, Abdul, Recep Ulucak, Muntasir Murshed, Hengyun Ma, & Cem Işık. (2021). Carbonization and atmospheric pollution in China: The asymmetric impacts of forests, livestock production, and economic progress on CO2 emissions. Journal of Environmental Management. 294. 113059–113059. 97 indexed citations
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Shabbir, Malik Shahzad, et al.. (2020). Nexus between willingness to pay for renewable energy sources: evidence from Turkey. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(3). 2972–2986. 69 indexed citations
14.
Khan, Danish & Recep Ulucak. (2020). How do environmental technologies affect green growth? Evidence from BRICS economies. The Science of The Total Environment. 712. 136504–136504. 364 indexed citations breakdown →
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Doğan, Eyüp, Recep Ulucak, Emrah Koçak, & Cem Işık. (2020). The use of ecological footprint in estimating the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis for BRICST by considering cross-section dependence and heterogeneity. The Science of The Total Environment. 723. 138063–138063. 366 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ulucak, Recep, Danish Khan, & Nan Li. (2019). The nexus between economic globalization and human development in Asian countries: an empirical investigation. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 27(3). 2622–2629. 25 indexed citations
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Destek, Mehmet Akif, Recep Ulucak, & Eyüp Doğan. (2018). Analyzing the Environmental Kuznets Curve for the EU countries: The role of ecological footprint. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Munich University). 1 indexed citations
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Bilgili, Faik & Recep Ulucak. (2018). Is there deterministic, stochastic, and/or club convergence in ecological footprint indicator among G20 countries?. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 25(35). 35404–35419. 106 indexed citations
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Ulucak, Recep. (2017). ÖLÇEK, KOMPOZİSYON VE TEKNİK ETKİLERİN KİRLİLİK DÜZEYİNDEKİ ROLÜ: AB ÜLKELERİ İÇİN AMPİRİK BİR UYGULAMA. International Journal of Management Economics and Business. 13(5). 756–769. 1 indexed citations
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Ulucak, Recep & Zübeyde Şentürk Ulucak. (2014). Kamu harcamaları ve ekonomik büyüme arasındaki nedensellik: Türkiye örneği. International Journal of Management Economics and Business. 10(23). 81–98. 1 indexed citations

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