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Energy Efficiency
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Energy Efficiency

1570-646X

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/12053

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 808 7 7 3

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 76
Documents by Best Scientists*: 77
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 65
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.869
Impact Factor: 4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Energy Efficiency?

The journal is organized to address concerns in the fields of Efficient energy use, Sustainable development, Environmental economics, Energy consumption and Electricity. The work on Efficient energy use tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Energy conservation, Energy (signal processing), Greenhouse gas, Consumption (economics) and Renewable energy. It facilitates discussions on Sustainable development that incorporate concepts from other fields like Public economics, Natural resource economics, Energy policy, Marketing and Industrial organization.

Environmental economics research presented in it encompasses a variety of subjects, including Incentive, Environmental resource management, Operations management and Energy accounting. Some problems in Energy consumption that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Waste management and Environmental engineering.

  • Efficient energy use (88.99%)
  • Sustainable development (46.42%)
  • Environmental economics (28.87%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Feedback on household electricity consumption: a tool for saving energy? (1039 citations)
  • Industrial Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation (278 citations)
  • An energy efficient Swedish pulp and paper industry – exploring barriers to and driving forces for cost-effective energy efficiency investments (232 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Energy Efficiency:

The journal papers generally zeroe in on subjects such as Efficient energy use, Sustainable development, Environmental economics, Energy consumption and Energy conservation. The published articles address concerns in Efficient energy use which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Energy policy, Consumption (economics) and Greenhouse gas. While Environmental economics is the focus of the most cited publications, it also provides insights into the studies of Energy engineering, Electricity, Operations management, Environmental resource management and Investment (macroeconomics).

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

  • Statistics
  • Management
  • Mechanical engineering

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal focuses largely on the fields of Efficient energy use, Sustainable development, Energy consumption, Environmental economics and Electricity. The research on Efficient energy use featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Automotive engineering, Energy (signal processing), Greenhouse gas, Consumption (economics) and Renewable energy. The presented research on Sustainable development deals specifically with Public economics but it also addresses topics in Preference.

The research on Energy consumption tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Energy conservation, Environmental engineering, Payback period, Meaning (existential) and HVAC. The study of Environmental economics encompasses disciplines such as Investment (macroeconomics), as well as fields such as Interest rate, all of which overlap with one another. Topics in Electricity explored in Energy Efficiency were investigated in conjunction with research in Sample (statistics), Work (thermodynamics) and Architectural engineering.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Consumers’ preferences regarding energy efficiency: a qualitative analysis based on the household and services sectors in Spain (6 citations)
  • Promoting energy efficiency at household level: a literature review (5 citations)
  • Design feasibility of a net-zero energy neighborhood in Qazvin (3 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 Energy Efficiency (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ernst Worrell (14 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Rainer Stamminger (13 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Edward Vine (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Anibal T. de Almeida (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wolfgang Eichhammer (7 papers) absent at the last 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 Energy Efficiency (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (52 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Fraunhofer Society (24 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Utrecht University (23 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Linköping University (19 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Bonn (14 papers) published 1 paper at the last 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 2021 edition, 8.86% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 15.28% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.33% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.67% of all publications and 59.72% 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

  • The potential contribution of building codes to climate change response policies for the built environment

    Robert A. Enker;Gregory M. Morrison

    (2020)
    25 Citations
  • Selection of priority energy efficiency practices for industrial steam boilers by PROMETHEE decision model

    Yunus Emre Demirel;Elif Simsek;Emrah Ozturk;Mehmet Kitis

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • Real-time feedback on electricity consumption: evidence from a field experiment in Italy

    Giacomo Marangoni;Giacomo Marangoni;Massimo Tavoni;Massimo Tavoni

    (2021)
    10 Citations
  • Characteristics of the built environment in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East and related energy and climate policies

    (2024)
    3 Citations
  • Green productivity evolution under non-convex environmental technology

    (2023)
    1 Citations
  • Impact of energy efficiency policies on the air quality of a North African urban area: emission scenarios by the horizon 2030

    Dalila Belhout;Helder Relvas;Brahim Haddad;Rabah Kerbachi

    (2021)
    1 Citations
  • Local climate action from the middle-out: the social potential of craft guilds to facilitate low-carbon installations in Germany

    (2024)
    1 Citations

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