Energy Exploration and Exploitation

Top Research Topics at Energy Exploration & Exploitation?

The journal mainly tackles studies in Geochemistry, Coal, Structural basin, Petroleum engineering and Economy. The work on Geochemistry tackled in it brings together disciplines like Oil shale, Natural gas, Source rock, Hydrocarbon and China. The journal connects research in Coal with the related topic of Mineralogy.

The presentations focused mostly on Structural basin in an attempt to further explore topics in Paleontology. The study on Economy presented in Energy Exploration & Exploitation intersects with the topics under Natural resource economics. Coal mining and Mining engineering are closely related fields of research discussed in the journal.

• Geochemistry (16.13%)
• Coal (13.32%)
• Structural basin (12.54%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• The Global Environment (277 citations)
• Relationships between Heating Value and Lignin, Moisture, Ash and Extractive Contents of Biomass Fuels (135 citations)
• Global Energy Perspectives to 2050 and Beyond (133 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Energy Exploration & Exploitation:

The most cited articles are mainly concerned with subjects like Coal, Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Waste management and Structural basin. While the journal publications focused on Geochemistry, they were also able to explore topics like Paleontology, Oil shale, Natural gas, Source rock and Geomorphology. The most cited publications with studies in Waste management featured incorporate elements of Biodiesel, Biomass and Petroleum.

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

• Statistics
• China
• Carbon dioxide

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal focuses largely on the fields of Geochemistry, Structural basin, Petroleum engineering, Renewable energy and Coal mining. Topics in Geochemistry were tackled in line with various other fields like Organic matter, Hydrocarbon and China. Energy Exploration & Exploitation holds forums on Structural basin that merges themes from other disciplines such as Oil shale, Petrology and Diagenesis.

While work presented in it provided substantial information on Renewable energy, it also covered topics in Electricity generation, Wind power, Natural resource economics and Energy (signal processing). Energy Exploration & Exploitation explores studies in Coal mining as part of the wider topic of Coal. Most of the works presented in it deals with Coal but it intersects with the subject of Fracture (geology).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Pore structure and adsorption hysteresis of the middle Jurassic Xishanyao shale formation in the Southern Junggar Basin, northwest China: (13 citations)
• Do renewable energy sources improve clean environmental-economic growth? Empirical investigation from South Asian economies: (11 citations)
• Enhancing governance for environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa: (8 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.

Top authors and change over time

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

• Ian Lerche (62 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Ian Lerche (27 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Ayhan Demirbas (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Mustafa Balat (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Gilbert Jenkins (17 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.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

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

• PetroChina (145 papers) published 19 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
• China University of Mining and Technology (113 papers) published 12 papers at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
• China University of Petroleum (95 papers) published 17 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
• China University of Geosciences (Beijing) (62 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
• Sinopec (61 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 4 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 2021 edition, 7.91% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 47.66% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 4.69% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 8.59% of all publications and 39.06% 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.