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Applied Energy
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Applied Energy

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 3 1017 2378 119

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 2630
Documents by Best Scientists*: 4439
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 84
SCIMAGO H-index: 323
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.902
Impact Factor: 11

Overview

Top Research Topics at Applied Energy?

The foci of the journal are Waste management, Renewable energy, Electricity, Automotive engineering and Process engineering. The studies on Waste management discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Biomass, Combustion and Environmental engineering. It facilitates discussions on Renewable energy that incorporate concepts from other fields like Wind power, Energy storage, Electricity generation, Photovoltaic system and Environmental economics.

  • Waste management (11.27%)
  • Renewable energy (11.07%)
  • Electricity (8.62%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A review of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells: Technology, applications,and needs on fundamental research (2081 citations)
  • Overview of current development in electrical energy storage technologies and the application potential in power system operation (1889 citations)
  • A review on biodiesel production using catalyzed transesterification (1710 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Applied Energy:

Waste management, Renewable energy, Automotive engineering, Electricity and Environmental engineering are the main subjects of interest in the most cited publications. The journal publications deal with Waste management in conjunction with Process engineering and similar fields in Mechanical engineering. The most cited articles hold forums on Renewable energy that merge themes from other disciplines such as Electricity generation, Wind power, Environmental economics and Energy storage.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Mechanical engineering
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Applied Energy is mainly concerned with subjects like Electricity, Renewable energy, Energy (signal processing), Automotive engineering and Electricity generation. The close relationship between Greenhouse gas and Environmental engineering and Production (economics) is one of the points of interest dissected in Electricity research. Topics in Renewable energy were tackled in line with various other fields like Process engineering, Reliability engineering, Hydropower and Solar energy.

The tackled Reliability engineering research is interrelated with Power (physics) which concerns subjects like Photovoltaic system. In Applied Energy, Wind power and Efficient energy use are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Energy (signal processing) research. Studies on Automotive engineering discussed in the journal link to the field of Energy consumption.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Interval forecasting system for electricity load based on data pre-processing strategy and multi-objective optimization algorithm (1 citations)
  • Analysis of the tilt and azimuth angles of photovoltaic systems in non-ideal positions for urban applications (1 citations)
  • A review of nickel-rich layered oxide cathodes: synthetic strategies, structural characteristics, failure mechanism, improvement approaches and prospects (1 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Applied Energy (based on the number of publications) are:

  • S.D. Probert (374 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jinyue Yan (163 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 8 less than at the previous edition,
  • Ashwani K. Gupta (79 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ramiz Babus'Haq (73 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Hongxing Yang (72 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 7 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Applied Energy (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Tsinghua University (560 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 45 less than at the previous edition,
  • Cranfield University (491 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (490 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 18 less than at the previous edition,
  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University (331 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 33 less than at the previous edition,
  • Tianjin University (319 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 22 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2022 edition, 27.10% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 17.70% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.31% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 21.24% of all publications and 55.75% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Embodied GHG emissions of buildings – The hidden challenge for effective climate change mitigation

    Martin Röck;Marcella Ruschi Mendes Saade;Maria Balouktsi;Freja Nygaard Rasmussen

    (2020)
    997 Citations
  • Technologies and policies to decarbonize global industry: Review and assessment of mitigation drivers through 2070

    Jeffrey Rissman;Chris Bataille;Eric Masanet;Nate Aden

    (2020)
    935 Citations
  • Impacts of COVID-19 on Energy Demand and Consumption: Challenges, Lessons and Emerging Opportunities

    Peng Jiang;Yee Van Fan;Jiří Jaromír Klemeš

    (2021)
    512 Citations
  • Reinforcement learning for building controls: The opportunities and challenges

    Zhe Wang;Tianzhen Hong

    (2020)
    492 Citations
  • Building thermal load prediction through shallow machine learning and deep learning

    Zhe Wang;Tianzhen Hong;Mary Ann Piette

    (2020)
    441 Citations
  • Water gas shift reaction for hydrogen production and carbon dioxide capture: A review

    Wei Hsin Chen;Chia Yang Chen

    (2020)
    434 Citations
  • Current status of CO2 chemical absorption research applied to CCS: Towards full deployment at industrial scale

    F. Vega;F.M. Baena-Moreno;Luz M. Gallego Fernández;E. Portillo

    (2020)
    397 Citations
  • Improving the energy discharging performance of a latent heat storage (LHS) unit using fractal-tree-shaped fins

    Chengbin Zhang;Jie Li;Yongping Chen;Yongping Chen

    (2020)
    360 Citations
  • Working-fluid selection and thermoeconomic optimisation of a combined cycle cogeneration dual-loop organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system for solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) waste-heat recovery

    Mohammad Ali Emadi;Nazanin Chitgar;Oyeniyi A. Oyewunmi;Christos N. Markides

    (2020)
    355 Citations
  • 5G network-based Internet of Things for demand response in smart grid: A survey on application potential

    Hongxun Hui;Yi Ding;Qingxin Shi;Fangxing Li

    (2020)
    344 Citations

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