Xiaohua Sun

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 990 citations indexed

About

Xiaohua Sun is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaohua Sun has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 990 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 6 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xiaohua Sun's work include Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (10 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (5 papers) and Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure (5 papers). Xiaohua Sun is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (10 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (5 papers) and Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure (5 papers). Xiaohua Sun collaborates with scholars based in China and Australia. Xiaohua Sun's co-authors include Xu Guo, Wang Yun, Xiaoling Liu, Hui Zheng, Yuan Fang, Yun Wang, Yun Wang, Baocai Wang, Yun Wang and Лин Фу and has published in prestigious journals such as Energy Policy, Energy and Ecological Economics.

In The Last Decade

Xiaohua Sun

22 papers receiving 971 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.

  1. Environmental regulation and green productivity growth: Empirical evidence on the Porter Hypothesis from OECD industrial sectors
    2019 448 citations Wang Yun, Xiaohua Sun et al. Energy Policy profile →

Peers

Xiaohua Sun
Mingyue Selena Sheng New Zealand
Xiujie Tan China
Alexander Ryota Keeley Japan
Gürkan Kumbaroğlu Türkiye
Jafar Hussain China
Shucen Guo China
Philippe Barla Canada
Tiansen Liu China
Yunshu Tang China
Arthur van Benthem United States
Mingyue Selena Sheng New Zealand
Xiaohua Sun
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Countries citing papers authored by Xiaohua Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaohua Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaohua Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xiaohua Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xiaohua Sun 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 Xiaohua Sun. Xiaohua Sun 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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Liu, Xiaoling, et al.. (2024). Network effects from the provision of charging stations in the market diffusion of electric vehicles. Transportation Letters. 17(5). 881–894. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Yun, et al.. (2023). Investigating the deployment of initial public charging infrastructure: Planning-based VS market-based approaches. Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment. 119. 103755–103755. 14 indexed citations
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Wang, Yun, Yan Dong, & Xiaohua Sun. (2023). Can environmental regulations facilitate total-factor efficiencies in OECD countries? Energy-saving target VS emission-reduction target. International Journal of Green Energy. 20(13). 1488–1500. 11 indexed citations
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Zhang, Junnan, Xiaohua Sun, Yan Dong, Лин Фу, & Yaowei Zhang. (2022). The impact of servitization on manufacturing firms’ market power: empirical evidence from China. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing. 38(3). 609–621. 18 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaohua, et al.. (2022). The Impact of Resource Taxation on Resource Curse: Evidence from Chinese Resource Tax Policy. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaohua, et al.. (2021). Sources of greenhouse gas emission reductions in OECD countries: Composition or technique effects. Ecological Economics. 193. 107288–107288. 31 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaohua, Yuan Fang, & Wang Yun. (2021). Market power and R&D investment: the case of China. Industrial and Corporate Change. 30(6). 1499–1515. 6 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoling, et al.. (2021). Do policy incentives drive electric vehicle adoption? Evidence from China. Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice. 150. 49–62. 146 indexed citations
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Guo, Xu, Лин Фу, & Xiaohua Sun. (2021). Can Environmental Regulations Promote Greenhouse Gas Abatement in OECD Countries? Command-and-Control vs. Market-Based Policies. Sustainability. 13(12). 6913–6913. 34 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoling, et al.. (2020). The effects of demonstration projects on electric vehicle diffusion: An empirical study in China. Energy Policy. 139. 111322–111322. 37 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaohua, et al.. (2019). The impact of political connections on the efficiency of China's renewable energy firms. Energy Economics. 83. 467–474. 42 indexed citations
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Yun, Wang, Xiaohua Sun, & Xu Guo. (2019). Environmental regulation and green productivity growth: Empirical evidence on the Porter Hypothesis from OECD industrial sectors. Energy Policy. 132. 611–619. 448 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yun, Wang, et al.. (2019). To what extent do earnings affect the R&D decision of Chinese manufacturing firms?. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. 32(3). 349–362. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaohua, et al.. (2019). What determines the productivity growth? Evidence from Chinese renewable energy firms by using Bayesian stochastic frontier approach. Australian Economic Papers. 58(3). 280–293. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaohua, Xiaoling Liu, Yun Wang, & Yuan Fang. (2018). The effects of public subsidies on emerging industry: An agent-based model of the electric vehicle industry. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 140. 281–295. 97 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaohua, et al.. (2016). The influences of different R&D types on productivity growth in OECD countries. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. 28(6). 651–663. 16 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaohua, et al.. (2013). The Research of Environment Regulation on Enterprise Technological Innovation. Journal of Convergence Information Technology. 8(5). 326–335. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaohua & Wentao Guo. (2009). The Paths of Enterprises Independent Innovation Based on Products Upgrade. International Journal of Business and Management. 4(9). 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaohua. (2007). Empirical Research on the Stability of Capital Structure of Listed Companies. Huadong jingji guanli. 1 indexed citations

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