Shulei Cheng

2.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
36 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Shulei Cheng is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Shulei Cheng has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 16 papers in Environmental Engineering and 13 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Shulei Cheng's work include Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (21 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (15 papers) and Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (13 papers). Shulei Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (21 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (15 papers) and Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (13 papers). Shulei Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Australia. Shulei Cheng's co-authors include Jiandong Chen, Malin Song, Ming Gao, Wenxuan Hou, Xin Liu, Yuli Shan, Yu Liu, Wei Fan, Gengyuan Liu and Fanxin Meng and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Shulei Cheng

33 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

County-level CO2 emissions and sequestration in China during 1997–2017

2020 641 citations Jiandong Chen, Ming Gao et al. Scientific Data profile →
Global 1 km × 1 km gridded revised real gross domestic product and electricity consumption during 1992–2019 based on calibrated nighttime light data

2022 305 citations Jiandong Chen, Ming Gao et al. Scientific Data profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shulei Cheng China	22	1.4k	847	587	452	426	36	2.2k
Ya Wu China	22	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	290 0.5×	374 0.8×	435 1.0×	42	2.3k
Changjian Wang China	22	824 0.6×	741 0.9×	498 0.8×	367 0.8×	259 0.6×	65	1.7k
Sanmang Wu China	28	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	251 0.4×	481 1.1×	351 0.8×	84	2.2k
Bolin Yu China	22	1.3k 0.9×	834 1.0×	307 0.5×	380 0.8×	451 1.1×	29	1.9k
Yuyao Ye China	17	716 0.5×	534 0.6×	537 0.9×	356 0.8×	166 0.4×	57	1.5k
Rong Wu China	19	646 0.5×	389 0.5×	382 0.7×	274 0.6×	204 0.5×	67	1.5k
Hongqiang Jiang China	20	844 0.6×	732 0.9×	254 0.4×	398 0.9×	163 0.4×	84	1.6k
Hongou Zhang China	22	846 0.6×	703 0.8×	913 1.6×	491 1.1×	155 0.4×	94	2.1k
Longwu Liang China	19	705 0.5×	498 0.6×	733 1.2×	513 1.1×	99 0.2×	40	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Shulei Cheng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shulei Cheng

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shulei Cheng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shulei Cheng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shulei Cheng 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 Shulei Cheng. Shulei Cheng 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

Cheng, Shulei, Yumeng Wu, Kexin Wang, Jiandong Chen, & Liyuan Deng. (2025). The role of green fiscal stimulus policy in enhancing the synergistic performance of air pollution control and carbon mitigation: evidence from 281 cities in China. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 12(1).

Cheng, Shulei, Kexin Wang, Yongtao Chen, & Fanxin Meng. (2025). Temporal-spatial decomposition and multi-scenario prediction analysis of energy poverty in China. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 219. 115815–115815.

Fan, Wei, et al.. (2025). How do health shocks affect household energy poverty?. Energy Economics. 150. 108884–108884.

Cheng, Shulei, et al.. (2024). Climate policy uncertainty influences carbon emissions in the semiconductor industry. International Journal of Production Economics. 278. 109436–109436. 12 indexed citations

Wei, Tianyu, et al.. (2024). The impact of public demands on local environmental governance performance: Evidence from civil environmental complaints placed on leaders at different government levels in China. Journal of Environmental Management. 360. 121216–121216. 14 indexed citations

Cheng, Shasha, et al.. (2024). Does sub-provincial fiscal decentralization reform improve energy transition? Evidence from a county-level quasi-natural experiment in China. Journal of Cleaner Production. 481. 144156–144156. 4 indexed citations

Cheng, Shulei, et al.. (2024). Do new-type urbanisation pilots narrow urban household carbon emission differences between cities? A temporal-spatial within-between decomposition analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production. 467. 142937–142937. 6 indexed citations

Cheng, Shulei, et al.. (2023). Does financial market participation eradicate household energy poverty?. Energy Economics. 122. 106687–106687. 34 indexed citations

Cheng, Shulei, Yu Yu, Fanxin Meng, et al.. (2023). Potential benefits of public–private partnerships to improve the efficiency of urban wastewater treatment. npj Clean Water. 6(1). 13–13. 16 indexed citations

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Wei, Tianyu, et al.. (2023). How does early-life famine experience influence household energy transition?. Heliyon. 9(12). e22708–e22708. 2 indexed citations

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Yu, Jie, et al.. (2023). Horizontal ecological compensation policy and water pollution governance: Evidence from cross-border cooperation in China. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 105. 107367–107367. 42 indexed citations

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Cheng, Shulei, Kexin Wang, Fanxin Meng, Gengyuan Liu, & Jiafu An. (2023). The unanticipated role of fiscal environmental expenditure in accelerating household carbon emissions: Evidence from China. Energy Policy. 185. 113962–113962. 22 indexed citations

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Chen, Jiandong, Ming Gao, Shulei Cheng, et al.. (2022). Global 1 km × 1 km gridded revised real gross domestic product and electricity consumption during 1992–2019 based on calibrated nighttime light data. Scientific Data. 9(1). 202–202. 305 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Jiandong, Jialu Liu, Jie Qi, et al.. (2022). City- and county-level spatio-temporal energy consumption and efficiency datasets for China from 1997 to 2017. Scientific Data. 9(1). 101–101. 73 indexed citations

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Chen, Jiandong, Ming Gao, Shulei Cheng, et al.. (2022). Evaluation and drivers of global low-carbon economies based on satellite data. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 9(1). 14 indexed citations

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Chen, Jiandong, Ming Gao, Shulei Cheng, et al.. (2020). County-level CO2 emissions and sequestration in China during 1997–2017. Scientific Data. 7(1). 391–391. 641 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Jiandong, Shulei Cheng, & Malin Song. (2017). Estimating policy pressure for China's cultivated land use protection based on an extended index. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Parts A/B/C. 101. 21–34. 26 indexed citations

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Chen, Jiandong, Shulei Cheng, Malin Song, & Jia Wang. (2016). Interregional differences of coal carbon dioxide emissions in China. Energy Policy. 96. 1–13. 80 indexed citations

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Chen, Jiandong, Shulei Cheng, Malin Song, & Yinyin Wu. (2016). A carbon emissions reduction index: Integrating the volume and allocation of regional emissions. Applied Energy. 184. 1154–1164. 58 indexed citations

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Qu, Hui‐Ying, Yongmin Liu, & Shulei Cheng. (2014). Weighted Differentiation Composition Operator from Logarithmic Bloch Spaces to Zygmund-Type Spaces. Abstract and Applied Analysis. 2014. 1–14. 7 indexed citations

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