Soumen Rej

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. in Energy Economics (Pursuing),Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 2017-2022

M.Tech, Industrial Engineering & Management, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Kolkata 2014-2016

B.Tech, Electrical Engineering, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Kolkata 2010-2014

Career Graph:

• School of Business, GITAM (Deemed to be University), Visakhapatnam campus Jan 2022-March, 2022

Recent Publications:

• Rej, S., Nag, B. (2018). Does Socio-Economic Development Impact Energy Consumption? A Causality Test for India. Journal of Energy and Development, Vol.  44 No. 1, pp. 143-159. (Indexing: ABDC/ Scopus)
• Rej, S., Nag, B. (2021). Energy Crossroads and Prioritization of Energy Choices: Case of India. OPEC Energy Review, Vol.  45 No. 1, pp. 135-158. (Indexing: ABDC/ Scopus/ ESCI) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/opec.12201
• Rej, S., Nag, B. (2021). Land and clean energy trade-off: Estimating India’s future land requirement to fulfil INDC commitment. International Journal of Energy Sector Management, Vol. 15 No. 6, pp. 1104-1121. (Indexing: ABDC/Scopus/ ESCI/AJG) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJESM-12-2020-0006 
• Rej, S., Nag, B. (2022). Does educational progress impact energy consumption? A causality test for India. International Journal of Energy Sector Management, Vol. 16 No. 3, pp. 414-428. (Indexing: ABDC/ Scopus/ ESCI/AJG) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJESM-07-2020-0021     
• Bandyopadhyay, A. and Rej, S. (2021). Can Nuclear Energy fuel an Environmentally Sustainable Economic Growth? Revisiting the EKC hypothesis for India. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Vol. 28 No. 44, pp. 63065-63086. (Indexing: Scopus/SCI/SCIE, IF: 4.223) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-15220-7          
• Rej, S., Bandyopadhyay, A., Mahmood, H., Murshed, M., Mahmud, S. (2022). The role of liquefied petroleum gas in decarbonizing India: Fresh evidence from wavelet-partial wavelet coherence approach. Environmental Science and pollution Research. (Indexing: Scopus/SCI/SCIE, IF: 4.223) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-17471-w
• Rej, S., Bandyopadhyay, A., Murshed, M., Mahmood, H., Razzaq, A. (2022).  Pathways to decarbonisation in India: the role of environmentally-friendly tourism development. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. (Indexing: Scopus/SCI/SCIE, IF: 4.223) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-19239-2
• Awan, A., Abbasi, K., Rej, S., Bandyopadhyay, A., Lv, K. (2022). The Impact of Renewable energy, Internet Use and Foreign Direct Investment on Carbon Dioxide Emissions: A Method of Moments Quantile Analysis. Renewable Energy, Vol. 189, pp. 454-466. (Indexing: Scopus-Q1/ SCI, IF: 8.001) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2022.03.017
• Rej, S., Nag, B. (2022). Investigating the role of capital formation to achieve carbon neutrality in India. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. (Indexing: Scopus/SCI/SCIE, IF: 4.223) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-20109-0
• Hossain, E., Islam, S., Bandyopadhyay, A., Awan, A., Hossain, M.R., Rej, S. (2022). Mexico at the crossroads of natural resource dependence and COP26 pledge: Does technological innovation help? Resources Policy. (Indexing: ABDC-B/Scopus-Q1/AJG/SCI, IF: 5.634) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2022.102710
• Bandyopadhyay, A., Rej, S., Villanthenkodath, M.A., Mahalik, M.K. (2022). Heterogeneous role of nuclear energy in abatement of ecological footprint- Novel insights from quantile-on-qunatile regression. Journal of Cleaner Production. (Indexing: ABDC-A/Scopus-Q1/SCI, IF: 9.297) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132052

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Research interests:

• Energy Economics, Environmental Economics, Econometrics, Time series techniques