The study of household carbon emissions (HCEs) has become one of the most important topics in sustainability research due to the growing awareness of its significances in responding to global warming. This paper aims to identify the trends and characteristics of HCEs research for the period 1993–2019 through the bibliometric analysis approach. The impacts of most productive journals, countries, institutions and authors are evaluated by citation analysis, while the co-authorship network between various countries, institutions as well as the co-occurrence among different keywords are presented. The results of this paper provide a detailed picture on HCEs-related articles from 1993 to 2019. Both the number of publications on HCEs and the cooperation among countries and institutions have increased during the period. Keyword analysis suggests that the revelation of current status of HCEs and corresponding influencing factors are the main lines of HCEs research, and the prediction of HCEs should become the focus of future research. The valuable results obtained from this study can help the academic professionals keep informed of the latest developments in the HCEs-related field.

由于人们日益认识到家庭碳排放在应对全球变暖中的重要性，因此其研究已成为可持续性研究中最重要的主题之一。本文旨在通过文献计量分析方法确定1993-2019年间HCEs研究的趋势和特征。通过引用分析评估大多数生产性期刊，国家，机构和作者的影响，同时介绍了不同国家，机构之间的共同作者网络以及不同关键词之间的共现。本文的结果详细介绍了1993年至2019年与HCEs相关的文章。在此期间，有关HCEs的出版物数量以及国家和机构之间的合作都在增加。关键词分析表明，HCEs的现状及相关影响因素的揭示是HCEs研究的主要方向，对HCEs的预测应成为未来研究的重点。从这项研究中获得的有价值的结果可以帮助学术专业人士及时了解HCEs相关领域的最新发展。