As of March/April 2023, the following papers received enough citations to place them in the top 1% of the academic field of engineering based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year (data from Essential Science Indicators on Web of Science).

1. “Sustainable Solutions for Green Financing and Investment in Renewable Energy Projects”
   by Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary and Naoyuki Yoshino
   Energies 2020, 13(4), 788; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13040788
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/4/788
   Citations: 169

2. “Digitization, Digital Twins, Blockchain, and Industry 4.0 as Elements of Management Process in Enterprises in the Energy Sector”
   by Piotr F. Borowski
   Energies 2021, 14(7), 1885; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14071885
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/7/1885
   Citations: 111

3. “Impact on Electricity Consumption and Market Pricing of Energy and Ancillary Services during Pandemic of COVID-19 in Italy”
   by Emilio Ghiani, Marco Galici, Mario Mureddu and Fabrizio Pilo
   Energies 2020, 13(13), 3357; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13133357
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/13/3357
   Citations: 106

4. “Do Environment-Related Policy Instruments and Technologies Facilitate Renewable Energy Generation? Exploring the Contextual Evidence from Developed Economies”
   by Umer Shahzad, Magdalena Radulescu, Syed Rahim, Cem Isik, Zahid Yousaf and Stefan Alexandru Ionescu
   Energies 2021, 14(3), 690; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14030690
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/3/690
   Citations: 100

5. “An Advanced Machine Learning Based Energy Management of Renewable Microgrids Considering Hybrid Electric Vehicles' Charging Demand”
   by Tianze Lan, Kittisak Jermsittiparsert, Sara T. Alrashood, Mostafa Rezaei, Loiy Al-Ghussain and Mohamed A. Mohamed
   Energies 2021, 14(3), 569; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14030569
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/3/569
   Citations: 90

6. “Do Perceived Risk, Perception of Self-Efficacy, and Openness to Technology Matter for Solar PV Adoption? An Application of the Extended Theory of Planned Behavior”
   by Arifa Tanveer, Shihong Zeng, Muhammad Irfan and Rui Peng
   Energies 2021, 14(16), 5008; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14165008
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/16/5008
   Citations: 88

7. “Exploring the Relationship between Renewable Energy Sources and Economic Growth. The Case of SAARC Countries”
   by Qiucheng Li, Jacob Cherian, Malik Shahzad Shabbir, Muhammad Safdar Sial, Jing Li, Ioana Mester and Alina Badulescu
   Energies 2021, 14(3), 520; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14030520
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/3/520
   Citations: 78

8. “Deep-Learning Forecasting Method for Electric Power Load via Attention-Based Encoder-Decoder with Bayesian Optimization”
   by Xue-Bo Jin, Wei-Zhen Zheng, Jian-Lei Kong, Xiao-Yi Wang, Yu-Ting Bai, Ting-Li Su and Seng Lin
   Energies 2021, 14(6), 1596; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14061596
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/6/1596
   Citations: 76

9. “Energy-Efficient Clustering Scheme for Flying Ad-Hoc Networks Using an Optimized LEACH Protocol”
   by Salil Bharany, Sandeep Sharma, Sumit Badotra, Osamah Ibrahim Khalaf, Youseef Alotaibi, Saleh Alghamdi and Fawaz Alassery
   Energies 2021, 14(19), 6016; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14196016
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/19/6016
   Citations: 70

10. “Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Based on the State of Health Estimation for Lithium-Ion Batteries”
    by Dezhi Li, Dongfang Yang, Liwei Li, Licheng Wang and Kai Wang
    Energies 2022, 15(18), 6665; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15186665
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/18/6665
    Citations: 70