Carbon dioxide emissions: Who is responsible and who is actually doing research?

Abstract: During the past century, humans have increased atmospheric CO₂ concentration by at least a third, which is considered as the most important long-lived “forcing” of climate change. Scientists all over the world are responsible to do their best on offering practical solutions to reduce the effects of CO₂ on environment. This paper uses data envelopment analysis to measure the effects of researches accomplished by scientists from 30 countries which are representative of producing over 80% of CO₂ in the world. The study uses 10034 articles published in Scopus database from 1959 to March, 2019. The study uses the amount of CO₂ produced by each country as the input and total publications, h-index and I-10 as the output of the DEA model. The results indicate that despite the fact that China was responsible for producing nearly 30% of the CO₂, the scientists of this country contributed the least on carbon dioxide emissions. In addition, United Kingdom was responsible for about one percent of CO₂ emissions but the researchers of UK performed the best in terms of offering good quality studies.

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 Sadjadi, S. (2019). Carbon dioxide emissions: Who is responsible and who is actually doing research?.Current Chemistry Letters, 8(2), 117-120.

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