According to the latest updated data from Essential Science Indicators (ESI), Professor Zhao Rui, head of the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, is the first author of the paper: "For the sustainable performance of the carbon reduction labeling policies under an evolutionary game simulation "The number of citations ranked among the top 1% of economics and business disciplines in the world, and was included in ESI Highly Cited Papers. The paper was published in the SSCI index journal "TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE (IF=4.04)".

This paper proposes an evolutionary game model that explores the response of enterprises to the implementation of low-carbon emission reduction label incentive policies, and uses system dynamics to simulate and analyze the established game model to identify the optimal incentive policy to guide low-carbon production and consumption. Taking air-conditioning companies as an example to conduct empirical research, the results show that consumer subsidies and tax incentives for companies will have a positive impact on the implementation of emission reductions. Finally, the paper also discusses the dilemma and limitations of game analysis, and gives the next research direction on this.

"ESI Highly Cited Papers" refer to papers that have been cited in the top 1% of the world’s citations compared to other SCI or SSCI papers published in the same year and in the same discipline. Such papers usually have a higher impact in the corresponding research field. The research results have received a lot of attention from academia; they are also one of the key indicators in the evaluation index system of discipline construction.

This paper is the third highly cited ESI paper by Professor Rui Zhao and the fifth highly cited ESI paper published by the faculty of the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering. In recent years, with the care and support of schools and colleges, the number and quality of papers published by teachers and students of the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering has increased year by year, which also reflects the efforts of environmental disciplines in education, teaching, scientific research, and talent training. It demonstrates the development potential and motivation of environmental disciplines, and at the same time contributes a modest force to the discipline construction of our school.