Yongping Sun

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Yongping Sun is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Yongping Sun has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 10 papers in Environmental Engineering and 7 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Yongping Sun's work include Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (21 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (10 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (9 papers). Yongping Sun is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (21 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (10 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (9 papers). Yongping Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Singapore. Yongping Sun's co-authors include Xunpeng Shi, Keying Wang, Meng Wu, Ao Sun, Ping Zhang, Qin Ye, Shuai Shao, Pei Yu, Xiaoling Zhang and Zhi Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Cleaner Production and Applied Energy.

In The Last Decade

Yongping Sun

35 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Resource abundance, industrial structure, and regional carbon emissions efficiency in China

2019 404 citations Keying Wang, Yongping Sun et al. Resources Policy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yongping Sun China	19	1.4k	625	490	222	190	38	1.9k
Jinhua Cheng China	21	1.4k 1.0×	531 0.8×	596 1.2×	96 0.4×	152 0.8×	52	2.0k
Qinglong Shao China	21	1.7k 1.2×	595 1.0×	598 1.2×	174 0.8×	287 1.5×	45	2.3k
Jijian Zhang China	26	1.8k 1.3×	804 1.3×	796 1.6×	291 1.3×	245 1.3×	59	2.7k
Muhammad Nasir Malik Pakistan	14	1.7k 1.2×	595 1.0×	817 1.7×	131 0.6×	167 0.9×	32	2.1k
Pablo Ponce Ecuador	25	1.4k 1.0×	442 0.7×	765 1.6×	327 1.5×	169 0.9×	41	2.1k
Yantuan Yu China	18	1.5k 1.0×	626 1.0×	341 0.7×	127 0.6×	166 0.9×	44	1.8k
Shaozhou Qi China	28	1.9k 1.4×	748 1.2×	697 1.4×	312 1.4×	324 1.7×	60	2.4k
Jianbai Huang China	29	2.1k 1.5×	777 1.2×	604 1.2×	270 1.2×	174 0.9×	76	2.8k
Oana M. Driha Spain	16	1.6k 1.1×	485 0.8×	759 1.5×	150 0.7×	167 0.9×	25	2.0k
Jinjun Xue China	25	1.3k 0.9×	922 1.5×	583 1.2×	196 0.9×	122 0.6×	56	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Yongping Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yongping Sun

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yongping Sun. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yongping Sun. The network helps show where Yongping Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yongping Sun

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

Sun, Yongping, et al.. (2025). From environment to finance: a multifactor synergy analysis to unlock the code of tourism revenue growth. International Review of Economics & Finance. 103. 104394–104394.

Yu, Pei, et al.. (2025). The effect of Clean Development Mechanism on energy transition and its spillovers: Evidence from Chinese cities. Energy Economics. 151. 108966–108966.

Jin, Yi, Sinuo Liu, Yongping Sun, & Jie Fang. (2024). Energy transition and housing market bubbles: Evidence from prefecture cities in China. Energy Economics. 133. 107485–107485. 8 indexed citations

Peng, Lei, et al.. (2024). Association of oxidative balance score with Helicobacter pylori infection and mortality among US population. European Journal of Nutrition. 63(7). 2499–2509. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Pei, et al.. (2023). How do the designs of emission trading system affect the value of covered firms—A quasi-natural experiment based on China. Energy Economics. 126. 106944–106944. 12 indexed citations

Meng, Bo, Yu Liu, Yuning Gao, et al.. (2023). Developing countries’ responsibilities for CO2 emissions in value chains are larger and growing faster than those of developed countries. One Earth. 6(2). 167–181. 61 indexed citations

Sun, Yongping, et al.. (2023). The impact of Fintech on the nexus between household debt and financial crises: A global perspective. Economic Modelling. 130. 106589–106589. 8 indexed citations

Sun, Yongping, et al.. (2023). Expansion of social networks and household carbon emissions: Evidence from household survey in China. Energy Policy. 174. 113460–113460. 39 indexed citations

Li, Chengming, et al.. (2023). How does digital infrastructure break the resource curse of cities? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China. Resources Policy. 86. 104302–104302. 27 indexed citations

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Yu, Pei, et al.. (2023). Evaluation and analysis of leading position in hydrogen fuel cell vehicle innovation network and the influential factors: a case of patent citations in China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30(18). 53339–53354. 4 indexed citations

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Sun, Yongping, Jie Xiao, Yi Li, et al.. (2023). Synergetic strategy to fabricate superhydrophobic wood by MTMS for improving dimensional stability, durability and self-cleaning ability. Materials Letters. 343. 134348–134348. 12 indexed citations

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Shen, Yifan, Xunpeng Shi, Zhibo Zhao, et al.. (2023). A dataset of low-carbon energy transition index for Chinese cities 2003–2019. Scientific Data. 10(1). 906–906. 28 indexed citations

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Shen, Yifan, Xunpeng Shi, Zhibo Zhao, Yongping Sun, & Yuli Shan. (2022). Measuring the low-carbon energy transition in Chinese cities. iScience. 26(1). 105803–105803. 66 indexed citations

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Yu, Pei, et al.. (2021). Does emission trading system achieve the win-win of carbon emission reduction and financial performance improvement? —Evidence from Chinese A-share listed firms in industrial sector. Journal of Cleaner Production. 333. 130121–130121. 104 indexed citations

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Ye, Qin, et al.. (2021). Financial innovation, information screening and industries’ green innovation — Industry-level evidence from the OECD. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 171. 120998–120998. 97 indexed citations

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Cui, Jingbo, et al.. (2020). Can CDM projects trigger host countries’ innovation in renewable energy? Evidence of firm-level dataset from China. Energy Policy. 139. 111349–111349. 36 indexed citations

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Sun, Yongping, Jinghan Zhang, Xu Chen, et al.. (2020). Effectiveness of Gentle Human Touch for Pain Control During Examination for Retinopathy of Pre-maturity: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Frontiers in Pediatrics. 8. 608378–608378. 12 indexed citations

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Sun, Yongping, et al.. (2016). Bearing Capacity and Temperature Rise Characteristics Analysis of Herringbone Groove Hydrodynamic Lubricating Bearing. 5 indexed citations

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Sun, Yongping. (2010). Estimating Value and Strategy of Travel Exploitation of Nanning Traditional Villages. Resource Development & Market. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Yongping. (2007). Integrated management of Holcocerus hippophaecolus in Liaoning Province. Senlin bingchong tongxun. 1 indexed citations

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