Weijian Du

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Weijian Du is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Weijian Du has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 11 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 9 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Weijian Du's work include Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (28 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (10 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (9 papers). Weijian Du is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (28 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (10 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (9 papers). Weijian Du collaborates with scholars based in China. Weijian Du's co-authors include Mengjie Li, Songlin Tang, Faming Wang, Zhaohua Wang, Jiang Lin, Ke Li, Cheng Cheng, Cheng Cheng, Wei Li and Cheng Cheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Energy and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Weijian Du

31 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Assessing the impact of environmental regulation on pollution abatement and collaborative emissions reduction: Micro-evidence from Chinese industrial enterprises

2020 260 citations Weijian Du, Mengjie Li profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Weijian Du China	14	917	265	223	212	178	37	1.1k
Huanxiu Guo China	11	831 0.9×	267 1.0×	193 0.9×	156 0.7×	170 1.0×	18	1.1k
Cunyi Yang China	20	1.1k 1.2×	229 0.9×	240 1.1×	244 1.2×	220 1.2×	38	1.4k
Jianhua Cao China	11	899 1.0×	319 1.2×	337 1.5×	217 1.0×	277 1.6×	20	1.2k
Yunxia Guo China	14	970 1.1×	281 1.1×	238 1.1×	269 1.3×	210 1.2×	21	1.3k
Yuan Yi‐jun China	11	1.2k 1.3×	386 1.5×	364 1.6×	243 1.1×	296 1.7×	22	1.4k
Jianhong Cao China	15	959 1.0×	197 0.7×	183 0.8×	248 1.2×	93 0.5×	23	1.1k
Xianchun Liao China	17	789 0.9×	242 0.9×	253 1.1×	206 1.0×	161 0.9×	33	1.1k
Jingbo Cui China	14	723 0.8×	265 1.0×	197 0.9×	237 1.1×	199 1.1×	25	883
Hongtao Chen China	13	680 0.7×	173 0.7×	156 0.7×	207 1.0×	176 1.0×	27	960
An Pan China	12	633 0.7×	226 0.9×	100 0.4×	190 0.9×	122 0.7×	29	862

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weijian Du

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20 of 20 papers shown

Du, Weijian, Cheng Cheng, & Mengjie Li. (2025). Can listed company digitization reduce the risk of export failure? Evidence from multisource heterogeneous data in China. International Review of Economics & Finance. 103. 104573–104573.

Du, Weijian, Cheng Cheng, & Mengjie Li. (2025). From Manufacturing to Smart Manufacturing: Enterprise Digitalization and Export Product Quality. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. 1–13.

Li, Mengjie, et al.. (2025). Artificial intelligence and firm green innovation: empirical evidence from the application of robots in China. Economic Analysis and Policy. 87. 2239–2253.

Li, Mengjie, et al.. (2025). Digital infrastructure investment and carbon emissions reduction based on the Broadband China policy. Utilities Policy. 95. 101964–101964. 2 indexed citations

Li, Mengjie, et al.. (2025). The world is different because of you: Global warming, technological progress and economic development. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. 74. 202–211. 2 indexed citations

Du, Weijian & Mengjie Li. (2025). Corporations’ digital attitude and digital technology innovation: Are the heart and mouth in agreement or not?. Finance research letters. 75. 106910–106910. 5 indexed citations

Du, Weijian, et al.. (2025). Can digitalization promote cities' low-carbon development: Insights from local and neighboring regions. Energy Strategy Reviews. 58. 101680–101680. 3 indexed citations

Li, Mengjie & Weijian Du. (2025). Like snow in the sun: Government's environmental attention and the withdrawal of polluting firms. Sustainable Futures. 9. 100452–100452.

Du, Weijian, Mengjie Li, & Zhaohua Wang. (2024). The inferiors imitate the superiors: the government’s low-carbon concerns and the renewable energy technology of firms. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 11(1). 6 indexed citations

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Li, Mengjie, et al.. (2024). Enterprises go out and cause pollution but stay: impact of FDI on carbon emissions. Applied Economics Letters. 32(14). 2045–2049. 3 indexed citations

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Du, Weijian, et al.. (2023). A clean road to international trade: Environmental regulations and the cleanliness of export enterprises. Heliyon. 9(11). e21180–e21180. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Mengjie, et al.. (2023). Can Firms Achieve Collaborative Governance of Airborne Pollution and Greenhouse Gases? Evidence from Chinese Industrial Sector. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Du, Weijian, et al.. (2023). The Power of Belief: Religious Traditions and Rent-Seeking of Polluting Enterprises in China. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Mengjie, et al.. (2023). How Does Export Behavior Affect CarbonEmissions? Multivariate Heterogeneous DataBased on Chinese Enterprises. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies. 32(4). 3653–3662. 1 indexed citations

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Du, Weijian, Mengjie Li, & Zhaohua Wang. (2022). Open the black box of energy conservation: Carbon reduction policies and energy efficiency of microcosmic firms in China. Energy Strategy Reviews. 44. 100989–100989. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Mengjie & Weijian Du. (2022). Opening the black box of capacity governance: Environmental regulation and capacity utilization of microcosmic firms in China. Economic Modelling. 108. 105766–105766. 26 indexed citations

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Li, Mengjie & Weijian Du. (2021). The impact of environmental regulation on the employment of enterprises: an empirical analysis based on scale and structure effects. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29(15). 21705–21716. 9 indexed citations

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Du, Weijian & Mengjie Li. (2021). The impact of land resource mismatch and land marketization on pollution emissions of industrial enterprises in China. Journal of Environmental Management. 299. 113565–113565. 122 indexed citations

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Du, Weijian, Faming Wang, & Mengjie Li. (2020). Effects of environmental regulation on capacity utilization: Evidence from energy enterprises in China. Ecological Indicators. 113. 106217–106217. 71 indexed citations

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Du, Weijian, Mengjie Li, & Faming Wang. (2020). Role of rent-seeking or technological progress in maintaining the monopoly power of energy enterprises: An empirical analysis based on micro-data from China. Energy. 202. 117763–117763. 47 indexed citations

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