Wei Jia, Zhao Kai, Zhang Linling, Yang Ranran, Wang Muxi
School of Economics and Finance, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, China.
School of Public Finance and Taxation, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics, Nanjing, 210023, Jiangsu, China.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 Apr;28(15):18850-18869. doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-12908-8. Epub 2021 Feb 14.
This study proposes a bibliometric measure to visualize and analyze the research status and development trend of carbon offset based on 1,581 articles over the period 1900-2019. The main findings include (1) carbon offset research turned into a rapid growth after 2009; (2) environmental studies, environmental science, economics, and energy fuels are the top four research domains in publication; (3) Energy Policy, Ecological Economics and Science are the top three journals in terms of citation impact; (4) climate change, impact, emission, CO emission, and policy are shown to be the most frequently used keywords; (5) the top 10 cited articles cover the following five essential aspects: individual carbon offset behavior; forest and land carbon offset; transportation carbon offset; international trade carbon offset; and eco-system service-related carbon offset; (6) eight research hotspots were identified including forest carbon sequestration program, understanding carbon and uncertainty market, policy design, biomass development, Chinese province, increasing adoption, and ecosystem service commodification. These findings suggest that the carbon offset research has been evolved from the theoretical exploration at the early stage to a more diversified conversion of research outputs at the practical level in recent years. Interdisciplinary research towards individual and organizational carbon offset behaviors in a broader context of socio-economic development and cooperation among various agents is the emphasis and direction for future study.
本研究提出了一种文献计量方法，以可视化方式呈现并分析基于1900年至2019年期间的1581篇文章的碳抵消研究现状和发展趋势。主要研究结果包括：（1）碳抵消研究在2009年后进入快速增长阶段；（2）环境研究、环境科学、经济学和能源燃料是发文量排名前四的研究领域；（3）就引文影响力而言，《能源政策》《生态经济学》和《科学》是排名前三的期刊；（4）气候变化、影响、排放、碳排放和政策被证明是最常用的关键词；（5）被引频次最高的10篇文章涵盖以下五个重要方面：个人碳抵消行为；森林和土地碳抵消；交通碳抵消；国际贸易碳抵消；以及与生态系统服务相关的碳抵消；（6）确定了八个研究热点，包括森林碳固存计划、理解碳与不确定性市场、政策设计、生物质发展、中国省份、采用率提高和生态系统服务商品化。这些研究结果表明，近年来碳抵消研究已从早期的理论探索发展到实践层面研究成果的更多样化转变。在更广泛的社会经济发展背景下，针对个人和组织碳抵消行为的跨学科研究以及各行为主体之间的合作是未来研究的重点和方向。
