Global Trade Embodied CO2 Flows and Research Output, 2000-2021

Gizachew Gedefie's dataset integrates environmental extended MRIO data from the UNCTAD-Eora database with bibliometric analysis of 495 journal articles. It quantifies embodied CO2 flows in Global North-South trade from 2000 to 2021 and analyzes authorship patterns and citation influence from 2000 to 2025. The data links material carbon transfers with the geography of knowledge production to examine carbon colonialism.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in embodied carbon emissions in international trade based on MRIO data from 2000-2021.
• Mapping institutional collaboration and citation influence in carbon emissions research based on bibliometric analysis of 495 articles.
• Comparing material emission burdens with scholarly authority across Global North and South regions.
• Investigating sector-specific contributions to embodied carbon flows in export-oriented economies.

Strengths

• Integrates two distinct data dimensions: material carbon flows and epistemic bibliometric analysis.
• Covers a 22-year time range for trade emissions (2000-2021) and a 26-year range for research output (2000 2025).
• Based on 495 journal articles from the Web of Science Core Collection for the bibliometric component.
• Quantifies a 68.8% increase in the Global South's net exports of embodied carbon over the study period.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and institutional bias inherent to the source databases (UNCTAD-Eora, Web of Science).

Provenance

Source

UNCTAD-Eora database for MRIO data; Web of Science Core Collection for bibliometric data.

Collection Method

Integrated bibliometric-MRIO framework developed by the author.

Time Range

2000-2021 for embodied CO2 flows; 2000-2025 for bibliometric analysis.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-14 12:19:09; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global, with focus on Global North and Global South regions.