Xiumei Sun

660 total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 524 citations indexed

About

Xiumei Sun is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiumei Sun has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 524 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 12 papers in Environmental Engineering and 6 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Xiumei Sun's work include Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (17 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (12 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (6 papers). Xiumei Sun is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (17 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (12 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (6 papers). Xiumei Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Jordan and Azerbaijan. Xiumei Sun's co-authors include Mahmood Ahmad, Xueyang Wang, Haotian Zhang, Chaokai Xue, Jiawei Chen, Bin Su, Yan Song, Ming Zhang, Caifeng Bi and Jun Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Xiumei Sun

19 papers receiving 517 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.

Energy transition, ecological governance, globalization, and environmental sustainability: Insights from the top ten emitting countries

2024 57 citations Xueyang Wang, Xiumei Sun et al. Energy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiumei Sun China	12	398	203	134	77	52	19	524
Jingru Pang China	11	390 1.0×	152 0.7×	146 1.1×	92 1.2×	67 1.3×	17	518
Zihan Xie China	9	385 1.0×	197 1.0×	173 1.3×	77 1.0×	36 0.7×	21	568
Xinyu Yang China	12	372 0.9×	182 0.9×	125 0.9×	69 0.9×	41 0.8×	34	554
Ao Sun China	3	363 0.9×	186 0.9×	110 0.8×	49 0.6×	26 0.5×	10	446
Haiqian Ke China	11	420 1.1×	142 0.7×	104 0.8×	44 0.6×	66 1.3×	18	506
Shijie Li China	10	385 1.0×	176 0.9×	167 1.2×	51 0.7×	25 0.5×	16	473
Stanimira Milcheva United Kingdom	12	580 1.5×	214 1.1×	83 0.6×	63 0.8×	29 0.6×	44	734
Yefei Sun China	9	337 0.8×	204 1.0×	155 1.2×	72 0.9×	35 0.7×	16	552
Guanglei Yang China	13	337 0.8×	193 1.0×	166 1.2×	43 0.6×	61 1.2×	23	515
Liting Fang China	9	400 1.0×	152 0.7×	162 1.2×	50 0.6×	46 0.9×	18	533

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiumei Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiumei Sun

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

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19 of 19 papers shown

Wang, Xueyang, et al.. (2025). Government ecological concern and its impact on synergistic pollution and carbon reduction: Evidence from China. Gondwana Research. 141. 180–194. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Xueyang, et al.. (2024). Digital inclusive finance and energy poverty: Empirical evidence from China. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 211. 115308–115308. 7 indexed citations

Wang, Xueyang, Xiumei Sun, Mahmood Ahmad, & Jiawei Chen. (2024). Energy transition, ecological governance, globalization, and environmental sustainability: Insights from the top ten emitting countries. Energy. 292. 130551–130551. 57 indexed citations breakdown →

Sun, Xiumei, Xueyang Wang, Mahmood Ahmad, & Jiawei Chen. (2024). Contributing to SDG7: Assessing the role of geopolitical risk, environmental degradation, technological progress, and environmental taxes. Journal of Cleaner Production. 443. 141185–141185. 29 indexed citations

Wang, Xueyang, Xiumei Sun, Mahmood Ahmad, & Haotian Zhang. (2023). Does low carbon energy transition impede air pollution? Evidence from China's coal-to-gas policy. Resources Policy. 83. 103723–103723. 28 indexed citations

Zhang, Hui, et al.. (2023). Disparities in energy efficiency and its determinants in Chinese cities: From the perspective of heterogeneity. Energy. 289. 129959–129959. 12 indexed citations

Han, Dongri, Yan Su, & Xiumei Sun. (2023). Research on the air pollution reduction effect of winter clean heating policy. Urban Climate. 53. 101760–101760. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Sai, et al.. (2023). Input Efficiency Measurement and Improvement Strategies of New Infrastructure under High-Quality Development. Systems. 11(5). 243–243. 7 indexed citations

Sun, Xiumei, et al.. (2023). Heterogeneous impacts of carbon emission trading on green innovation: Firm-level in China. Energy & Environment. 35(7). 3504–3529. 13 indexed citations

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Wang, Xueyang, Xiumei Sun, Haotian Zhang, & Chaokai Xue. (2022). Does green financial reform pilot policy promote green technology innovation? Empirical evidence from China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29(51). 77283–77299. 35 indexed citations

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Zhang, Haotian, Xiumei Sun, Caifeng Bi, Mahmood Ahmad, & Jun Wang. (2022). Can sustainable development policy reduce carbon emissions? Empirical evidence from resource-based cities in China. The Science of The Total Environment. 838(Pt 3). 156341–156341. 71 indexed citations

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Wang, Xueyang, et al.. (2022). Digital Economy Development and Urban Green Innovation CA-Pability: Based on Panel Data of 274 Prefecture-Level Cities in China. Sustainability. 14(5). 2921–2921. 53 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiumei, et al.. (2022). Towards Sustainable Development: A Study of Cross-Regional Collaborative Carbon Emission Reduction in China. Sustainability. 14(15). 9624–9624. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Haotian, Xiumei Sun, Mahmood Ahmad, Ying Lu, & Chaokai Xue. (2022). A Step Towards a Green Future: Does Sustainable Development Policy Reduce Energy Consumption in Resource-Based Cities of China?. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 10. 9 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiumei, et al.. (2022). Winning the Blue Sky Defense War: Assessing Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Based on Synthetic Control Method. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(16). 10211–10211. 6 indexed citations

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Wang, Xueyang, Xiumei Sun, Haotian Zhang, & Mahmood Ahmad. (2022). Digital Economy and Environmental Quality: Insights from the Spatial Durbin Model. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(23). 16094–16094. 16 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiumei, Haotian Zhang, Mahmood Ahmad, & Chaokai Xue. (2021). Analysis of influencing factors of carbon emissions in resource-based cities in the Yellow River basin under carbon neutrality target. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29(16). 23847–23860. 66 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hui, Xiumei Sun, & Wenwen Wang. (2017). Study on the spatial and temporal differentiation and influencing factors of carbon emissions in Shandong province. Natural Hazards. 87(2). 973–988. 21 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ming, Yan Song, Bin Su, & Xiumei Sun. (2015). Decomposing the decoupling indicator between the economic growth and energy consumption in China. Energy Efficiency. 8(6). 1231–1239. 80 indexed citations

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