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[Display omitted] • A comprehensive overview of NZEBs is conducted by using bibliometric techniques. • Hot research topics of NZEBs are identified through keyword co-occurrence analysis. • The research trend, key journals, publications, authors, and countries are analyzed by co-citation analysis. • The thematic evolutionary analysis of NZEBs was investigated using SciMAT tool. This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of three-decade research developments in the field of Net-Zero Energy Buildings (NZEBs) by using bibliometric analysis techniques. The specific objectives of this paper are to: (1) identify the most influential researchers, sources, and countries in this field; (2) identify the main thematic research focus areas and hot topics in the field; and (3) analyze the thematic evolution of NZEBs. VOSviewer software was used to realize the first two objectives while to meet the third objective, the SciMAT tool was employed to examine the thematic evolution of the field within three sub-periods (1995–2005; 2006–2015; 2016–2022). The results indicate that the main thematic areas of the field were initially limited to a few themes including 'environmental impact', 'green buildings', 'building materials', and 'fuel cells', and it expanded in the next periods by encompassing more themes. The results also showed that the field has now reached a certain level of consolidation by acknowledging the significance of three major themes: (1) buildings' energy conservation, (2) energy production and energy storage, and (3) methodological approach. Nevertheless, the evolutionary analysis points out that the field is still expanding with several themes newly emerged such as 'electric vehicles', 'zero-emission neighborhood' and 'smart buildings'. The findings offer a status-quo overview and critiques of research developments in NZEBs as well as emerging themes in the field that should be investigated by future studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Exploring the incentive mechanism and the decision-making behavior of stakeholders in green building supply market is conducive to promote its sustainable development. In practice, stakeholders in supply market will constantly adjust their strategies due to environmental changes, which make the entire interaction process complex. In order to investigate the dynamic evolution of the stakeholders' decision-making behavior, the study innovatively introduced public supervision and penalty mechanisms to construct a tripartite evolutionary game model including the government, supplier and developer. Then, the equilibrium and stability strategies of each game player were analyzed and the influence of initial strategy selection and different parameter changes on the players' decision-making was explored by simulation. The findings are as follow: (1) The decisions of supplier and developer have a significant mutual influence while the government's decision-making behavior is almost unaffected by either of them; (2) Excessive subsidies and penalty will prompt some game players to choose non-green behaviors so that appropriate subsidies and fines should be determined dynamically based on the game model; (3) High cost is the critical barrier to the supplier and developer entering green building market and the developer is more cost-sensitive than the supplier; (4) Interestingly, negative public supervision may lead to government's weak supervision, which should be paid attention to by the government. Finally, targeted countermeasures were put forward for green building development. The research results can be used as a reference for the government to improve incentive measures and decision support for stakeholders to adjust their strategies. • A tripartite evolutionary game model including the government, supplier, and developer was established innovatively. • The penalty mechanism was introduced to explore its inhibitory effect on free-riding behavior of the supplier. • Public supervision was innovatively introduced to discover its influence on government's decision-making behavior. • The mutual influence and evolution process of stakeholders' decision-making were revealed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]