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Energy for Sustainable Development
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Energy for Sustainable Development

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 495 23 23 10

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 148
Documents by Best Scientists*: 160
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 90
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.219
Impact Factor: 4.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Energy for Sustainable Development?

Energy for Sustainable Development focuses on Electricity, Waste management, Renewable energy, Economic growth and Environmental economics. Electricity research featured in it incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Electricity generation, Mains electricity, Photovoltaic system and Grid. Issues in Waste management were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Biomass, Combustion and Environmental engineering.

The Renewable energy study featured in it draws connections with the study of Wind power. The studies in Economic growth featured incorporate elements of Rural area, Government, Natural resource economics and Sustainability. Energy policy, Greenhouse gas and Sustainable development are some topics wherein Natural resource economics research discussed in it have an impact.

The work on Environmental economics addressed in it expands to the thematically related Efficient energy use. Rural electrification is a key component of Electrification research discussed in the journal. The study on Stove presented is investigated in conjunction with research in Indoor air quality.

  • Electricity (16.54%)
  • Waste management (14.71%)
  • Renewable energy (13.79%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Energy storage for mitigating the variability of renewable electricity sources: An updated review (686 citations)
  • History and future of domestic biogas plants in the developing world (405 citations)
  • A review of life-cycle analysis studies on liquid biofuel systems for the transport sector (261 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Energy for Sustainable Development:

The published papers focus on Economic growth, Electricity, Waste management, Biomass and Natural resource economics. The published papers explore research in Rural electrification and overlapping concepts in Photovoltaic system to expand the discourse in Economic growth. The journal publications explore topics in Electricity which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Electricity generation, Mains electricity, Environmental economics and Renewable energy.

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

  • Law
  • China
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The aim of Energy for Sustainable Development is to expand the discussion of research in Electricity, Renewable energy, Photovoltaic system, Environmental economics and Grid. The works on Electricity deal in particular with Rural electrification. In addition to Renewable energy research, Energy for Sustainable Development aims to explore topics under Electricity generation, Subsidy and Coal.

The journal explores issues in Environmental economics which can be linked to other research areas like Peak demand, Household income, Efficient energy use and Energy consumption. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Grid, it also covered topics in Variable (computer science) and Electrification. Some problems in Agricultural economics that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Quality (business), Rural area, Logit, Developing country and Liquefied petroleum gas.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Data investigation of installed and output power densities of onshore and offshore wind turbines worldwide (15 citations)
  • The role of regulatory, market and governance risk for electricity access investment in sub-Saharan Africa (4 citations)
  • Performance evaluation and analysis of grid-tied large scale PV plant in Algeria (4 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 for Sustainable Development (based on the number of publications) are:

  • José Goldemberg (32 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Amulya K.N. Reddy (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Kirk R. Smith (19 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Eric D. Larson (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Johannes Urpelainen (15 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 4 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 Energy for Sustainable Development (based on the number of publications) are:

  • National Autonomous University of Mexico (30 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of California, Berkeley (28 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • University of São Paulo (26 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Indian Institute of Science (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Columbia University (22 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as 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, 8.43% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 9.21% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.89% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 18.42% of all publications and 64.47% 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

  • Data investigation of installed and output power densities of onshore and offshore wind turbines worldwide

    Peter Enevoldsen;Mark Z. Jacobson

    (2021)
    97 Citations
  • The role of regulatory, market and governance risk for electricity access investment in sub-Saharan Africa

    Giacomo Falchetta;Anteneh G. Dagnachew;Anteneh G. Dagnachew;Andries F. Hof;Andries F. Hof;David J. Milne

    (2021)
    59 Citations
  • A green expansion: China's role in the global deployment and transfer of solar photovoltaic technology

    Margaret M. Jackson;Joanna I. Lewis;Xiliang Zhang

    (2021)
    59 Citations
  • The influence of energy policy on charcoal consumption in urban households in Tanzania

    Nike Doggart;Remidius Ruhinduka;Charles K. Meshack;Romanus C. Ishengoma

    (2020)
    56 Citations
  • Hydropower under climate uncertainty: Characterizing the usable capacity of Brazilian, Colombian and Peruvian power plants under climate scenarios

    Ana Lucia Caceres;Paulina Jaramillo;H. Scott Matthews;Constantine Samaras

    (2021)
    35 Citations
  • Incorporating high-resolution demand and techno-economic optimization to evaluate micro-grids into the Open Source Spatial Electrification Tool (OnSSET)

    J.G. Peña Balderrama;J.G. Peña Balderrama;S. Balderrama Subieta;S. Balderrama Subieta;F. Lombardi;N. Stevanato

    (2020)
    27 Citations
  • Predicting initial electricity demand in off-grid Tanzanian communities using customer survey data and machine learning models

    Andrew Allee;Nathaniel J. Williams;Alexander Davis;Paulina Jaramillo

    (2021)
    19 Citations
  • Assessment of small-scale biogas digesters and its impact on the household cooking sector in India: Environmental-resource-economic analysis

    (2022)
    17 Citations
  • The dilemma and potential development of biodiesel in China - In view of production capacity and policy

    (2023)
    16 Citations
  • Scaling up the electricity access and addressing best strategies for a sustainable operation of an existing solar PV mini-grid: A case study of Mavumira village in Mozambique

    (2022)
    12 Citations

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