Ziyuan Sun

680 total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 540 citations indexed

About

Ziyuan Sun is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Ziyuan Sun has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 540 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 4 papers in Strategy and Management and 4 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Ziyuan Sun's work include Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (13 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (4 papers) and Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (3 papers). Ziyuan Sun is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (13 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (4 papers) and Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (3 papers). Ziyuan Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Ziyuan Sun's co-authors include Feng Dong, Wei Wang, Ruyin Long, Xiaoyun Zhang, Shengnan Zhang, Fengzhi Wu, Wenjiao Wang, Yue Wang, Shengnan Zhang and Yiqiang Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Business Research.

In The Last Decade

Ziyuan Sun

18 papers receiving 533 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. The impact of environmental uncertainty on ESG performance: Emotional vs. rational
    2023 98 citations Wei Wang, Ziyuan Sun et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ziyuan Sun China 10 328 117 114 110 108 19 540
Weifen Lin China 13 535 1.6× 74 0.6× 111 1.0× 142 1.3× 125 1.2× 22 707
Shuke Fu China 14 365 1.1× 49 0.4× 146 1.3× 92 0.8× 132 1.2× 27 560
Zhongguo Lin China 8 498 1.5× 171 1.5× 67 0.6× 83 0.8× 147 1.4× 19 657
Changfei Nie China 11 460 1.4× 53 0.5× 69 0.6× 105 1.0× 99 0.9× 31 608
Chaofan Chen China 11 453 1.4× 68 0.6× 67 0.6× 104 0.9× 176 1.6× 18 572
Maogang Tang China 11 413 1.3× 48 0.4× 109 1.0× 130 1.2× 94 0.9× 19 552
Jiahong Qin China 10 466 1.4× 57 0.5× 112 1.0× 140 1.3× 154 1.4× 14 748

Countries citing papers authored by Ziyuan Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ziyuan Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ziyuan Sun

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

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Li, Zimeng, Songbai Hong, Ziyuan Sun, et al.. (2025). Turning point of direct N2O emissions in China’s croplands dominated by reduced fertilizer usage since 2015. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 388. 109655–109655. 5 indexed citations
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Sun, Ziyuan, et al.. (2025). Not all voices are equal: stakeholder environmental pressures and corporate green innovation strategies. Journal of Business Research. 202. 115793–115793. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Ziyuan, et al.. (2025). Interactive power: individual investor climate activism and corporate climate risk disclosure. Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal. 16(6). 1717–1748.
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Sun, Ziyuan, et al.. (2024). Does urban civilization improve corporate environmental performance? A quasi-natural experiment from China. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 69(1). 103–123. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Wei, et al.. (2024). Can carbon emission trading improve corporate sustainability? An analysis of green path and value transformation effect of pilot policy. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy. 27(3). 1505–1520. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yan, Ziyuan Sun, & Yiqiang Zhou. (2023). Green merger and acquisition and green technology innovation: Stimulating quantity or quality?. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 103. 107265–107265. 36 indexed citations
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Wang, Wei, et al.. (2023). Can digital policy improve corporate sustainability? Empirical evidence from China's national comprehensive big data pilot zones. Telecommunications Policy. 47(9). 102617–102617. 41 indexed citations
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Wang, Wei, et al.. (2023). The impact of environmental uncertainty on ESG performance: Emotional vs. rational. Journal of Cleaner Production. 397. 136528–136528. 98 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Ziyuan, et al.. (2021). Economic Policy Uncertainty, Environmental Regulation, and Green Innovation—An Empirical Study Based on Chinese High-Tech Enterprises. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(18). 9503–9503. 47 indexed citations
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Sun, Ziyuan, et al.. (2021). Evolutionary game analysis of coal enterprise resource integration under government regulation. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29(5). 7127–7152. 15 indexed citations
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Yang, Jingyuan, et al.. (2021). Impact of Monetary Policy Uncertainty on R&D Investment Smoothing Behavior of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Enterprises: Empirical Research Based on a Threshold Regression Model. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(21). 11560–11560. 7 indexed citations
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Dong, Feng, Xiaojie Zhang, Yajie Liu, et al.. (2020). Economic policy choice of governing haze pollution: evidence from global 74 countries. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(8). 9430–9447. 10 indexed citations
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Dong, Feng, Yuling Pan, Xiaojie Zhang, & Ziyuan Sun. (2020). How to Evaluate Provincial Ecological Civilization Construction? The Case of Jiangsu Province, China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(15). 5334–5334. 42 indexed citations
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Sun, Ziyuan, Yanli Li, Man Wang, et al.. (2019). How does vertical integration promote innovation corporate social responsibility (ICSR) in the coal industry? A multiple-step multiple mediator model. PLoS ONE. 14(6). e0217250–e0217250. 9 indexed citations
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Dong, Feng, Jingyun Li, Kun Li, et al.. (2019). Causal chain of haze decoupling efforts and its action mechanism: Evidence from 30 provinces in China. Journal of Cleaner Production. 245. 118889–118889. 41 indexed citations
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Sun, Ziyuan, et al.. (2019). How Can We Improve the Transformation Success Rate of Research Results in the Pharmaceutical Industry? The Game Theoretic Model of Technology Transfer Subjects. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16(9). 1588–1588. 5 indexed citations
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Dong, Feng, Jingyun Li, Shengnan Zhang, Yue Wang, & Ziyuan Sun. (2019). Sensitivity analysis and spatial-temporal heterogeneity of CO2 emission intensity: Evidence from China. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 150. 104398–104398. 36 indexed citations
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Dong, Feng, Shengnan Zhang, Ruyin Long, Xiaoyun Zhang, & Ziyuan Sun. (2019). Determinants of haze pollution: An analysis from the perspective of spatiotemporal heterogeneity. Journal of Cleaner Production. 222. 768–783. 138 indexed citations

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