["Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nTracking of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7) still relies mainly on household access rates and installed capacity, while policy and climate‐aligned investment debates increasingly demand evidence on health, welfare, and emissions outcomes. Here, we analyze more than 1200 peer‐reviewed studies on clean cooking and electricity access using computational topic modeling to identify core focus themes that span health, gendered time use, welfare, climate, affordability, and finance. Only about 57.6% the analyzed publications explicitly quantify impacts beyond access, and only one theme—health and household air pollution—meets stringent criteria for mobilizing climate‐finance, with consistent estimates of exposure, disease burden, and emissions. Categorizing these findings yields three main literature groups: access‐centered studies, socio‐economic impact studies, and a smaller multi‐dimensional group linking health and climate outcomes. Clean cooking studies concentrate on health, gender, and affordability, whereas electricity studies emphasize productive uses, reliability, and system design; climate‐ and affordability‐oriented topics gained prominence after 2015, but finance remains marginal. Embedding standardized impact and cost metrics in future access studies would transform a larger share of this literature into actionable evidence for investors, shifting SDG 7 monitoring from counting connections to measuring who benefits, by how much, and with which social and climate benefits.\n"]