According to the latest statistics from ESI, Professor Sun Huaping of our school published a paper "Institutional quality, green innovation and energy efficiency" (doi: 10.1016/j.enpol. 2019.111002) in Energy Policy (SCI/SSCI, IF=5.042) in December 2019, which was selected as ESI 0.1% hot papers in the field of "Social Sciences".

ESI is currently the basic analysis and evaluation tool for measuring scientific research performance and tracking scientific development trends in the world. ESI is divided into 22 subject areas. ESI Hot Paper refers to the papers published in a certain ESI subject area in the past two years, and the number of citations in the past two months has entered the top 0.1% of the world.

Professor Sun Huaping’s team has long been committed to related research on industrial green and low-carbon transformation and global value chain upgrading. Currently, the team is advancing related research on international green innovation models, energy structure transformation and regional carbon regulation.