**Appendix A**

The search protocol is dated, which is a study limiter. The Scopus database updates its article base quite frequently, making it impossible to replicate and analyze all the papers in it.

On the Scopus (https://www.scopus.com), accessed on 21 May 2021, search page, which has restricted access, requiring a login, we researched the three keywords used in our research (Renewable Energy, Economic Growth and Economic Development), obtaining a total of 2836 documents. Articles published in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, Physics and Astronomy, Immunology and Microbiology, Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, Arts and Humanities, Psychology, Health Professions and Veterinary was not taken into consideration. Below can be seen the final research protocol, which resulted in a sample of 291 documents, which later went through another screening stage that culminated in the 199 articles analyzed in this study.

**Table A1.** Search Protocol.

TITLE-ABS-KEY (RENEWABLE AND ENERGY, AND ECONOMIC AND GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC) AND PUBYEAR > 2007 AND (LIMIT-TO (OA, "all")) AND (EXCLUDE (SUBJAREA, "ENGI") OR EXCLUDE (SUBJAREA, "EART") OR EXCLUDE (SUBJAREA, "AGRI") OR EXCLUDE (SUBJAREA, "MATH") OR EXCLUDE (SUBJAREA, "BIOC") OR EXCLUDE (SUBJAREA, "MATE") OR EXCLUDE (SUBJAREA, "COMP") OR EXCLUDE (SUBJAREA, "CENG") OR EXCLUDE (SUBJAREA, "MEDI") OR EXCLUDE (SUBJAREA, "MULT") OR EXCLUDE (SUBJAREA, "PHYS") OR EXCLUDE (SUBJAREA, "CHEM") OR EXCLUDE (SUBJAREA, "IMMU") OR EXCLUDE (SUBJAREA, "ARTS") OR EXCLUDE (SUBJAREA, "DECI") OR EXCLUDE (SUBJAREA, "HEAL") OR EXCLUDE (SUBJAREA, "PHAR") OR EXCLUDE (SUBJAREA, "PSYC") OR EXCLUDE (SUBJAREA, "VETE")) AND (LIMIT-TO (DOCTYPE, "AR")) AND (LIMIT-TO (LANGUAGE, "ENGLISH"))
