TY - JOUR
T1 - Citation-based systematic literature review of energy-growth nexus
T2 - An overview of the field and content analysis of the top 50 influential papers
AU - Ahmad, Nisar
AU - Aghdam, Reza Fathollah Zadeh
AU - Butt, Irfan
AU - Naveed, Amjad
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Sultan Qaboos University internal grant project No. IG/EPS/ECOF/18/02 and IG/EPS/ECOF/18/05 . We would like to thank the Assistant Dean for Post Graduate Studies for facilitating this research.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by Sultan Qaboos University internal grant project No. IG/EPS/ECOF/18/02 and IG/EPS/ECOF/18/05. We would like to thank the Assistant Dean for Post Graduate Studies for facilitating this research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2020/2
Y1 - 2020/2
N2 - This study is a systematic survey of literature on the energy-growth nexus, which has been carried out with a view to identifying the leading sources of knowledge in the forms of the most influential journals, authors, and papers. This study not only recognizes and classifies the well-known methodologies used in the energy-growth nexus analysis but also reveals intriguing content-based findings, with quantitative measures for the top 50 papers ranked according to the highest average citations per year. This survey is unique in that the process of selecting articles is entirely objective, allowing the research community's opinions to take the lead in the process rather than any subjective judgments of the authors. In this way, we examine 1041 peer-reviewed articles that specifically focused on the energy-growth nexus. We found that, as of the end of 2017, with 200 articles, Energy Policy is the leading journal publishing on this area while Energy Economics, with a total of 25,352 citation counts, holds the highest impact on this field of research. In addition, the most frequently cited article by the scholastic community in terms of average citations per year has been a literature survey conducted by Ozturk (2010). Our study's main conclusion, based on a thorough content analysis, is that the nexus results of previous studies are generally inconclusive, with conflicting policy implications. This is not helpful and to a large extent is due to a lack of an appropriate theory. This, we contend, is essentially a methodological weakness and could be addressed by incorporating an appropriate testable economic/environmental theory.
AB - This study is a systematic survey of literature on the energy-growth nexus, which has been carried out with a view to identifying the leading sources of knowledge in the forms of the most influential journals, authors, and papers. This study not only recognizes and classifies the well-known methodologies used in the energy-growth nexus analysis but also reveals intriguing content-based findings, with quantitative measures for the top 50 papers ranked according to the highest average citations per year. This survey is unique in that the process of selecting articles is entirely objective, allowing the research community's opinions to take the lead in the process rather than any subjective judgments of the authors. In this way, we examine 1041 peer-reviewed articles that specifically focused on the energy-growth nexus. We found that, as of the end of 2017, with 200 articles, Energy Policy is the leading journal publishing on this area while Energy Economics, with a total of 25,352 citation counts, holds the highest impact on this field of research. In addition, the most frequently cited article by the scholastic community in terms of average citations per year has been a literature survey conducted by Ozturk (2010). Our study's main conclusion, based on a thorough content analysis, is that the nexus results of previous studies are generally inconclusive, with conflicting policy implications. This is not helpful and to a large extent is due to a lack of an appropriate theory. This, we contend, is essentially a methodological weakness and could be addressed by incorporating an appropriate testable economic/environmental theory.
KW - Citation analysis
KW - Content analysis
KW - Economic growth
KW - Energy consumption
KW - Nexus
KW - Systematic literature survey
KW - FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT
KW - ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION
KW - GOOGLE-SCHOLAR
KW - CO2 EMISSIONS
KW - CARBON EMISSIONS
KW - CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP
KW - PANEL COINTEGRATION
KW - INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE
KW - ECONOMIC-GROWTH
KW - ERROR-CORRECTION
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U2 - 10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104642
DO - 10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104642
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85077809166
SN - 0140-9883
VL - 86
JO - Energy Economics
JF - Energy Economics
M1 - 104642
ER -