Energy efficiency (EE) is an evolving research aspect for researchers, businesses, and policymakers for its undeniable role in meeting increasing energy demand, reducing CO₂ emissions, and tackling climate change. This paper provides a review of the current state of EE research by mapping the research landscape in business and economics to understand the socioeconomic dimensions within these research areas. To identify key information, we examine the trends and characteristics of 2935 relevant scientific publications over a 30-year period from 1990 to 2019 in the Social Science Citation Index of the Web of Science database using bibliometric analysis with a R language package called ‘bibliometrix’. Our analysis shows an increasing trend in publications from 2006 onwards; the period remarkably coincides with the implementation phase of the Kyoto protocol in 2005. Accordingly, we observe that EE research has a strong association with issues like CO₂ emissions, climate change, sustainability, and the growing importance of these issues in recent years. Thus, our findings provide crucial understandings by incorporating a wide array of scientific outputs in response to calls for greater theoretical clarification of EE research. These findings provide insights into the current state of the art of, and identify crucial areas for future, research. Hence, our research assists in formulating environmentally sustainable policies to tackle the adverse effects of CO₂ emissions and related climate change through providing critical grasps on the scholarly development related to EE.

能源效率（EE）是研究人员，企业和政策制定者不断发展的研究方向，因为它在满足不断增长的能源需求，减少CO ₂方面具有不可否认的作用。排放和应对气候变化。本文通过绘制商业和经济学领域的研究概况，以了解这些研究领域内的社会经济维度，从而对EE研究的现状进行了回顾。为了识别关键信息，我们使用R称为'bibliometrix'的R语言包对文献计量学进行了分析，从1990年至2019年的30年期间，在Web of Science数据库的社会科学引文索引中研究了2935种相关科学出版物的趋势和特征。 。我们的分析表明，从2006年开始，出版物的数量呈增长趋势。这一时期明显与2005年《京都议定书》的实施阶段相吻合。因此，我们观察到，EE研究与诸如CO _2之类的问题有很强的联系。排放，气候变化，可持续性，以及近年来这些问题的重要性日益增加。因此，我们的发现通过结合广泛的科学成果来回应人们对EE研究的更多理论澄清的要求，从而提供了至关重要的理解。这些发现提供了对当前技术水平的洞察力，并确定了未来研究的关键领域。因此，我们的研究通过对与EE相关的学术发展提供关键性的掌握，从而协助制定环境可持续的政策，以解决CO ₂排放和相关的气候变化的不利影响。