Shuai Shao

15.6k total citations · 11 hit papers
153 papers, 12.8k citations indexed

About

Shuai Shao is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Shuai Shao has authored 153 papers receiving a total of 12.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 103 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 58 papers in Environmental Engineering and 43 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Shuai Shao's work include Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (86 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (58 papers) and Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (40 papers). Shuai Shao is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (86 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (58 papers) and Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (40 papers). Shuai Shao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Shuai Shao's co-authors include Lili Yang, Meiting Fan, Zhihua Tian, Dabo Guan, Zhenbing Yang, Jianghua Liu, Yong Geng, Yuli Shan, Zhu Liu and Le Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Shuai Shao

149 papers receiving 12.6k 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.

Heterogeneous green innovations and carbon emission performance: Evidence at China's city level

2021 672 citations Meiting Fan, Lili Yang et al. Energy Economics profile →
New provincial CO2 emission inventories in China based on apparent energy consumption data and updated emission factors

2016 498 citations Yuli Shan, Jianghua Liu et al. profile →
Methodology and applications of city level CO2 emission accounts in China

2017 474 citations Yuli Shan, Dabo Guan et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →
Structural decline in China’s CO2 emissions through transitions in industry and energy systems

2018 433 citations Dabo Guan, Yuli Shan et al. profile →
Environmental Regulation and Enterprise Innovation: A Review

2020 379 citations Shuai Shao, Lili Yang et al. profile →
High-speed rail and CO2 emissions in urban China: A spatial difference-in-differences approach

2021 363 citations Shuai Shao, Lili Yang et al. Energy Economics profile →
High speed rail and urban service industry agglomeration: Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta region

2017 334 citations Shuai Shao, Zhihua Tian et al. profile →
Impacts of air pollution and its spatial spillover effect on public health based on China's big data sample

2016 300 citations Shuai Shao, Zhihua Tian et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →
Can green credit policy improve environmental quality? Evidence from China

2021 255 citations Shuai Shao et al. Journal of Environmental Management profile →
Environmental non-governmental organizations and urban environmental governance: Evidence from China

2017 247 citations Shuai Shao et al. Journal of Environmental Management profile →
Is high natural resource dependence doomed to low carbon emission efficiency? Evidence from 283 cities in China

2022 132 citations Meiting Fan, Jianghua Liu et al. Energy Economics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shuai Shao China	63	9.0k	4.9k	3.1k	1.9k	1.3k	153	12.8k
Malin Song China	65	9.2k 1.0×	5.0k 1.0×	2.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	244	14.1k
Yu Hao China	79	14.5k 1.6×	4.6k 0.9×	5.1k 1.7×	2.2k 1.1×	2.8k 2.1×	289	19.6k
Peng Zhou China	75	12.6k 1.4×	9.2k 1.9×	4.7k 1.5×	873 0.5×	812 0.6×	275	19.6k
Yi‐Ming Wei China	89	14.6k 1.6×	10.1k 2.1×	7.4k 2.4×	1.9k 1.0×	834 0.6×	388	25.6k
Ying Fan China	66	9.6k 1.1×	4.3k 0.9×	4.9k 1.6×	783 0.4×	737 0.6×	293	14.5k
Yue‐Jun Zhang China	58	9.0k 1.0×	3.3k 0.7×	4.0k 1.3×	801 0.4×	820 0.6×	167	11.4k
Ruyin Long China	58	4.8k 0.5×	3.0k 0.6×	2.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	2.0k 1.6×	276	11.4k
Thomas Wiedmann Australia	65	6.5k 0.7×	11.2k 2.3×	3.4k 1.1×	1.2k 0.6×	702 0.5×	171	18.2k
Zhaohua Wang China	77	7.5k 0.8×	4.2k 0.9×	4.5k 1.5×	804 0.4×	2.1k 1.6×	290	17.0k
Bin Su Singapore	61	8.6k 0.9×	8.3k 1.7×	3.9k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	417 0.3×	218	12.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shuai Shao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shuai Shao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shuai Shao 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 Shuai Shao. Shuai Shao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xu, Juan, et al.. (2025). The impact of artificial intelligence on the energy transition: evidence from Chinese cities. World Development. 195. 107126–107126. 2 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.

Shao, Shuai, et al.. (2024). Carbon emission scenarios of China's construction industry using a system dynamics methodology – Based on life cycle thinking. Journal of Cleaner Production. 435. 140457–140457. 31 indexed citations

Huang, Beijia, et al.. (2024). How to achieve the synergic emission abatement of volatile organic compounds and carbon dioxide in China: Socio-economic drivers and prospective trends. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 108. 107593–107593. 5 indexed citations

Liu, Xiaokang, Shuai Shao, & Shengjun Shao. (2024). Landslide susceptibility zonation using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) in the Great Xi’an Region, China. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 2941–2941. 29 indexed citations

Han, Man Chung, et al.. (2024). Gardeniae Fructus oil alleviate depression-like behaviors via the microbiota-gut-brain axis in mice with chronic unpredictable mild stress. Food Science and Human Wellness. 14(5). 9250403–9250403. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhenhua, et al.. (2024). New energy policy and green technology innovation of new energy enterprises: Evidence from China. Energy Economics. 136. 107743–107743. 64 indexed citations

Li, Yanxian, Pan He, Yuli Shan, et al.. (2024). Reducing climate change impacts from the global food system through diet shifts. Nature Climate Change. 14(9). 943–953. 34 indexed citations

Xu, Lili, Kuishuang Feng, & Shuai Shao. (2024). Impacts of air pollution on child growth: Evidence from extensive data in Chinese counties. Global Environmental Change. 85. 102808–102808. 8 indexed citations

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Cui, Leilei, et al.. (2024). RESPONSE OF VEGETATION DYNAMICS TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN ACTIVITIES IN THE URBAN AGGLOMERATION OF THE YANGTZE RIVER MIDDLES REACHES, CHINA. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research. 22(1). 695–708.

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Jiang, Jingjing, Zhenzhong Zeng, Xin Yang, et al.. (2024). Carbon Abatement and Leakage in China’s Regional Carbon Emission Trading. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(40). 17661–17673. 6 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xi, Meiting Fan, Shuai Shao, Xiaoqian Song, & Hui Wang. (2023). Socioeconomic drivers and mitigating strategies of volatile organic compounds emissions in China's industrial sector. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 101. 107102–107102. 12 indexed citations

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Shao, Shuai, et al.. (2023). How do energy-saving policies improve environmental quality: Evidence from China’s Top 10,000 energy-consuming enterprises program. World Development. 175. 106466–106466. 23 indexed citations

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Shao, Shuai, et al.. (2023). Valuing high temperature's fiscal costs: Evidence from China. Economic Analysis and Policy. 81. 134–152. 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhenhua, Guoxing Zhang, Shuai Shao, et al.. (2023). The pollution control effect of the atmospheric environmental policy in autumn and winter: Evidence from the daily data of Chinese cities. Journal of Environmental Management. 343. 118164–118164. 50 indexed citations

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Shao, Shuai, Chang Wang, Yue Guo, et al.. (2021). Heterogeneous performances and consequences of China’s industrial environmental governance: clean production vs. end-of-pipe treatment. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 66(1). 143–168. 19 indexed citations

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Jiang, Jingjing, Shuai Shao, Nan Zhou, et al.. (2021). Two-Tier Synergic Governance of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Air Pollution in China’s Megacity, Shenzhen: Impact Evaluation and Policy Implication. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(11). 7225–7236. 57 indexed citations

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Wang, Daoping, Dabo Guan, Shupeng Zhu, et al.. (2020). Economic footprint of California wildfires in 2018. Nature Sustainability. 4(3). 252–260. 196 indexed citations

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Shan, Yuli, Dabo Guan, Jianghua Liu, et al.. (2016). CO<sub>2</sub> emissions inventory of Chinese cities. 22 indexed citations

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Shao, Shuai. (2010). Effects of Coal Resources Development on Economic Growth of Coal Cities in China:An Empirical Study Based on Resource Curse Theory. Cai-jing yanjiu. 1 indexed citations

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