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Energy Research and Social Science
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Energy Research and Social Science

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 269 44 76 27

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 315
Documents by Best Scientists*: 481
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 13
SCIMAGO H-index: 129
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.53
Impact Factor: N/A

Overview

Top Research Topics at Energy research and social science?

The objective of the journal is to combine knowledge in the areas of Renewable energy, Politics, Environmental economics, Energy transition and Electricity. Wind power, Fossil fuel and Natural resource economics are some topics wherein Renewable energy research discussed in the journal have an impact. The Politics works featured in Energy research and social science incorporate elements from Energy policy, Political economy, Economic system and Corporate governance.

The study on Energy policy presented in Energy research and social science intersects with subjects under the field of Public economics. The work on Environmental economics tackled in it brings together disciplines like Consumption (economics) and Efficient energy use. Efficient energy use and Energy consumption are closely related fields of research discussed in it.

  • Renewable energy (14.94%)
  • Politics (13.90%)
  • Environmental economics (11.60%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • What are we doing here? Analyzing fifteen years of energy scholarship and proposing a social science research agenda (796 citations)
  • Energy justice : a conceptual review (475 citations)
  • How long will it take? Conceptualizing the temporal dynamics of energy transitions (368 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Energy research and social science:

The most cited papers mainly deal with areas of study such as Renewable energy, Politics, Electricity, Environmental economics and Energy transition. The journal papers with studies in Renewable energy featured incorporate elements of Economic growth, Environmental resource management, Natural resource economics, Fossil fuel and Economic system. The published articles deal with Politics in conjunction with Sociotechnical system and similar fields in Management science.

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 research and social science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Benjamin K. Sovacool (35 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Chien-fei Chen (15 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Ray Galvin (14 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Linda Steg (13 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • Darrick Evensen (13 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more 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 research and social science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Sussex (89 papers) published 17 papers at the last edition, 8 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Leeds (41 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
  • Aarhus University (36 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Edinburgh (36 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • ETH Zurich (35 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 9 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, 7.14% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 16.13% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.69% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 19.35% of all publications and 56.82% 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

  • Cascading risks: Understanding the 2021 winter blackout in Texas

    Joshua W. Busby;Kyri Baker;Morgan D. Bazilian;Alex Q. Gilbert

    (2021)
    532 Citations
  • An outlook on the global development of renewable and sustainable energy at the time of COVID-19

    Seyed Ehsan Hosseini

    (2020)
    298 Citations
  • Integrating solar energy with agriculture: Industry perspectives on the market, community, and socio-political dimensions of agrivoltaics

    Alexis S. Pascaris;Chelsea Schelly;Laurie Burnham;Joshua M. Pearce;Joshua M. Pearce

    (2021)
    179 Citations
  • Demand-side solutions for climate mitigation: Bottom-up drivers of household energy behavior change in the Netherlands and Spain

    Leila Niamir;Olga Ivanova;Tatiana Filatova;Alexey Voinov

    (2020)
    160 Citations
  • What is prosumerism for? Exploring the normative dimensions of decentralised energy transitions

    Donal Brown;Donal Brown;Stephen Hall;Mark E. Davis

    (2020)
    133 Citations
  • The energy crises revealed by COVID: Intersections of Indigeneity, inequity, and health

    Kathleen Brosemer;Chelsea Schelly;Valoree Gagnon;Kristin L. Arola

    (2020)
    110 Citations
  • Happier with less? Members of European environmental grassroots initiatives reconcile lower carbon footprints with higher life satisfaction and income increases

    Gibran Vita;Gibran Vita;Gibran Vita;Diana Ivanova;Diana Ivanova;Adina Dumitru;Ricardo García-Mira

    (2020)
    93 Citations
  • From the geopolitics of oil and gas to the geopolitics of the energy transition: Is there a role for European supermajors?

    (2022)
    92 Citations
  • Effective Policies to Overcome Barriers in the Development of Smart Cities

    Armin Razmjoo;Poul Alberg Ostergaard;Mouloud Denai;Meysam Majidi Nezhad

    (2021)
    87 Citations
  • Navigating through an energy crisis: Challenges and progress towards electricity decarbonisation, reliability, and affordability in Italy

    (2023)
    70 Citations

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