Ouch. Systematic review finds that of 561 degrowth studies, large majority are "opinions rather than analysis", very few use modelling, use ad-hoc and subjective policy advice and lack policy evaluation, and few studies adopt a system-wide perspective. Doesn't make them wrong - but need to step up.

Reviewing studies of degrowth: Are claims matched by data, methods and policy analysis?

In the last decade many publications have appeared on degrowth as a strategy to confront environmental and social problems. We undertake a systematic …

I’m taking this with a huge grain of salt given the inclusion criteria of “keywords in the title.” There appear to be a number of articles that don’t meet their inclusion criteria and do what this review says is absent in the literature.