Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL DETAILS
BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Danish is an Associate Professor at the Taylor's Business School, Department of marketing and management, Taylor's University, Malaysia. He has 10 years of research experience and has authored approximately 90 publications in high-impact international journals, including Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Energy, Renewable Energy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Gondwana Research, Sustainable Development, Business Strategy and the Environment, Journal of Environmental Management, Sustainable Cities and Society, Resources Policy, and Energy Economics.


His primary research interests lie in resource economics, ESG, SDG's, the green and circular economy. Over the years, he has received several prestigious accolades, including the Best Student Award from the Chinese Scholarship Council (2018) and the Outstanding Research Award from Thomson. He has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in 2021 and 2022 and has been listed as a Chinese Highly Cited Researcher by ScienceDirect for the past two years. In 2024, he was ranked among the top 1,000 scientists worldwide by Stanford University & Elsevier.


AREAS OF EXPERTISE
(Area)
  • Environmental Economics (Sustainable development goals; Green economy; Circular economy; ESG; Carbon inequality; Green financing; econometric modeling;)
PUBLICATIONS
(Title of publication in APA style)
Article in Journals
2025
  • Hassan, S. T., Danish, D., & Gong, B. (2025). China’s blueprint for a sustainable energy future: Analyzing the factors behind the climate change and globalized knowledge-based technological policies. Energy, 316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2025.134550 (ISI-Indexed)
2024
  • Cheng, L., Danish, Mahmood, N., & Qiu, Y. (2024). Towards a greener economy: the quest for nuclear energy technology budgeting. Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 103356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2024.103356 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Hassan, S. T., Danish, Awais Baloch, M., Bui, Q., & Hashim Khan, N. (2024). The heterogeneous impact of geopolitical risk and environment-related innovations on greenhouse gas emissions: The role of nuclear and renewable energy in the circular economy. Gondwana Research, 127, 144–155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2023.08.016 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Chun, J., Qiu, Y., & Danish, D. (2024). Can green finance be helpful in shifting from resource curse to resource blessing in China? Evidence from Markov switching equilibrium model. Natural Resources Forum. https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-8947.12436 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Ulucak, R., Danish, D., Zhang, Y., Chen, R., Qiu, Y., 2024. Income Inequality, Economic Complexity, and Renewable Energy Impacts in Controlling Consumption-Based Carbon Emissions. Eval Rev 48. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841X231173766 (ISI-Indexed)
2023
  • Özcan, B., Danish, D., Temiz, M., 2023. Re-visiting resource curse hypothesis in China through the lens of human capital and globalization. J Environ Manage 338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117685 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Baloch, M. A., Danish, & Ulucak, Z. S. (2023). Understanding the role of green finance and renewable energy consumption for sustainable development in ACI economies. Climatic Change, 176(11). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03627-9 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Danish, Ulucak, R., & Baloch, M. A. (2023). An empirical approach to the nexus between natural resources and environmental pollution: Do economic policy and environmental-related technologies make any difference? Resources Policy, 81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2023.103361 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Zhang, Y., Danish, & Khan, S. U. D. (2023). The role of energy poverty in the linkage between natural resources and economic performance: Resource curse or resource blessing? Resources Policy, 85(PB), 103838. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2023.103838 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Danish, D. (2023). Nexus between biomass energy consumption and environment in OECD countries: a panel data analysis. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, 13(3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-020-01256-1 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Sustainable economic development across globe: The dynamics between technology, digital trade and economic performance. (ISI-Indexed)
  • Danish, D., Hassan, S.T., 2023. Investigating the interaction effect of urbanization and natural resources on environmental sustainability in Pakistan. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-022-04497-x (ISI-Indexed)
  • Danish, Baloch, M.A., Zhang, J.W., 2023. Analyzing environmental impact assessment of income inequality, globalization, and growth in sub-Saharan African countries. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 30, 29598–29609. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-24084-4 (SCOPUS-Indexed)
2022
  • Ximei, L., Latif, Z., Danish, Latif, S., & waraa, K. ul. (2022). Estimating the impact of information technology on economic growth in south Asian countries: The silver lining of education. Information Development, 02666669221100426. https://doi.org/10.1177/02666669221100426 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Ozcan, B., Danish, & Temiz, M. (2022). An empirical investigation between renewable energy consumption, globalization and human capital: A dynamic auto-regressive distributive lag simulation. Renewable Energy, 193, 195–203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2022.05.016 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Danish, & Ulucak, R. (2022). Analyzing energy innovation-emissions nexus in China: A novel dynamic simulation method. Energy, 244, 123010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2021.123010 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Baloch, M. A., & Danish. (2022). CO2 emissions in BRICS countries: what role can environmental regulation and financial development play? Climatic Change, 172(1–2), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-022-03362-7 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Baloch, M. A., & Danish. (2022). The nexus between renewable energy, income inequality, and consumption-based CO2 emissions: An empirical investigation. Sustainable Development, March, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2315 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Hassan, S. T., Khan, D., Zhu, B., & Batool, B. (2022). Is public service transportation increase environmental contamination in China? The role of nuclear energy consumption and technological change. Energy, 238, 121890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2021.121890 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Danish, Ulucak, R., & Erdogan, S. (2022). The effect of nuclear energy on the environment in the context of globalization: Consumption vs production-based CO2 emissions. Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 54(4), 1312–1320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2021.10.030 (ISI-Indexed)
2021
  • Danish, Ozcan, B., Ulucak, R., 2021. An empirical investigation of nuclear energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) emission in India: Bridging IPAT and EKC hypotheses. Nuclear Engineering and Technology 53, 2056–2065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2020.12.008 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Danish, & Ulucak, R. (2021). Renewable energy, technological innovation and the environment: A novel dynamic auto-regressive distributive lag simulation. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 150(June), 111433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111433 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Ozcan, B., Khan, D., & Bozoklu, S. (2021). Dynamics of ecological balance in OECD countries: Sustainable or unsustainable? Sustainable Production and Consumption, 26, 638–647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2020.12.014 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Danish, Ud-Din Khan, S., & Ahmad, A. (2021). Testing the pollution haven hypothesis on the pathway of sustainable development: Accounting the role of nuclear energy consumption. Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 53(8), 2746–2752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2021.02.008 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Danish, & Recep Ulucak. (2021). A revisit to the relationship between financial development and energy consumption: Is globalization paramount? Energy, 135907. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2021.120337 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Erdoǧan, S., Çakar, N.D., Ulucak, R., Danish, D., Kassouri, Y., 2021. The role of natural resources abundance and dependence in achieving environmental sustainability: Evidence from resource-based economies. Sustainable Development 29. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2137 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Baloch, M.A., Ozturk, I.T., Victor Bekun, F.V., Danish, D., 2021. Modeling the dynamic linkage between financial development, energy innovation, and environmental quality: Does globalization matter? Bus Strategy Environ 30. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2615 (ISI-Indexed)
2020
  • Ulucak, R., Danish, & Ozcan, B. (2020). Relationship between energy consumption and environmental sustainability in OECD countries: The role of natural resources rents. Resources Policy, 69(March), 101803. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2020.101803 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Danish, Ulucak, R., & Khan, S. U. D. (2020). Relationship between energy intensity and CO2 emissions: Does economic policy matter? Sustainable Development, 28(5), 1457–1464. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2098 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Danish, & Ulucak, R. (2020). The pathway toward pollution mitigation: Does institutional quality make a difference? Business Strategy and the Environment, 29(8), 3571–3583. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2597 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Hassan, S. T., Danish, Salah-Ud-Din khan, Awais Baloch, M., & Tarar, Z. H. (2020). Is nuclear energy a better alternative for mitigating CO2 emissions in BRICS countries? An empirical analysis. Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 52(12), 2969–2974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2020.05.016 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Baloch, M. A., Danish, Khan, S. U.-D., Ulucak, Z. Ş., & Ahmad, A. (2020). Analyzing the relationship between poverty, income inequality, and CO2 emission in Sub-Saharan African countries. Science of The Total Environment, 740, 139867. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139867 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Baloch, M. A., Danish, Khan, S. U.-D., & Ulucak, Z. Ş. (2020). Poverty and vulnerability of environmental degradation in Sub-Saharan African countries: what causes what? Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 54, 143–149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2020.04.007 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Ulucak, R., Danish, & Khan, S. U. (2020). Does information and communication technology affect CO2 mitigation under the pathway of sustainable development during the mode of globalization? Sustainable Development, 28(4), 857–867. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2041 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Danish, Ulucak, R., Khan, S. U. D., Baloch, M. A., & Li, N. (2020). Mitigation pathways toward sustainable development: Is there any trade-off between environmental regulation and carbon emissions reduction? Sustainable Development, 2020, 28(4), pp. 813–822. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2032 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Danish. (2020). Moving toward sustainable development: The relationship between water productivity, natural resource rent, international trade, and carbon dioxide emissions. Sustainable Development, 28(4), 540–549. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2007 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Mahmood, N., Danish, Wang, Z., & Zhang, B. (2020). The role of nuclear energy in the correction of environmental pollution: Evidence from Pakistan. Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 52(6), 1327–1333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2019.11.027 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Danish, & Ulucak, R. (2020). How do environmental technologies affect green growth? Evidence from BRICS economies. Science of the Total Environment, 712, 136504. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.136504 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Danish, & Ulucak, R. (2020b). Linking biomass energy and CO2 emissions in China using dynamic Autoregressive-Distributed Lag simulations. Journal of Cleaner Production, 250, 119533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119533 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Danish, Ulucak, R., & Khan, S. U.-D. (2020). Determinants of the ecological footprint: Role of renewable energy, natural resources, and urbanization. Sustainable Cities and Society, 54, 101996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2019.101996 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Hassan, S. T., Danish, Khan, S. U. D., Xia, E., & Fatima, H. (2020). Role of institutions in correcting environmental pollution: An empirical investigation. Sustainable Cities and Society, 53(September 2019), 101901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2019.101901 (ISI-Indexed)
  • Danish, Zhang, J. W., Hassan, S. T., & Iqbal, K. (2020). Toward achieving environmental sustainability target in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries: The role of real income, research and development, and transport infrastructure. Sustainable Development, 2020, 28(1), pp. 83–90. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.1973 (ISI-Indexed)
AWARDS AND STEWARDSHIP
(Name of Award/Stewardship),(Award Category),(Awarding Institution),(Year Awarded),(Type of Award)
  • Recognized among top 1000 scientists of the world, Education, Stanford University, Stanford, 2024 (Top Cited Researcher)
  • Recognized among top 2% scientists of the world, Education, Stanford University, Stanford, 2023 (Top Cited Researcher)
  • Recognized among top 2% scientists of the world, Education, Stanford University, Stanford, 2022 (Top Cited Researcher)
  • Recognized among 1% High Cited Researcher , Education, Clarivate Analytics , 2022 (Top Cited Researcher)
  • Recognized among top 2% scientists of the world, Education, Stanford University, Stanford, 2021 (Top Cited Researcher)
  • Recognized among 1% High Cited Researcher, Education, Clarivate Analytics , 2021 (Top Cited Researcher)
  • Recognized among top 2% scientists of the world, Education, Stanford University, Stanford, 2020 (Top Cited Researcher)
  • Best International student award, Education, Beijing Institute of Technology, China, 2018 (Fellowship)