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Energy, Sustainability and Society
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Energy, Sustainability and Society

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 1162 9 10 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 24
Documents by Best Scientists*: 27
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 47
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.21
Impact Factor: 5.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Energy, Sustainability and Society?

The aim of Energy, Sustainability and Society is to expand the discussion of research in Sustainable development, Energy economics, Environmental economics, Renewable energy and Sustainability. The study of Sustainable development encompasses disciplines such as Natural resource economics, as well as fields such as Agriculture, all of which overlap with one another. It deals with Energy economics in conjunction with Energy consumption and similar fields in Consumption (economics).

Energy, Sustainability and Society facilitates discussions on Environmental economics that incorporate concepts from other fields like Energy engineering, Efficient energy use, Renewable energy credit, Energy policy and Photovoltaic system. Energy, Sustainability and Society concentrates on Energy policy topics that focus on Energy subsidies and Feed-in tariff. The research on Renewable energy featured in it combines topics in other fields like Electricity generation, Wind power and Biogas.

The Biogas works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Agronomy, Energy crop, Digestate, Anaerobic digestion and Biomass. It held discussions to help close the divide between two different fields of study: Sustainability and Legislation. The journal blends together research topics in Agricultural economics and Energy source.

  • Sustainable development (55.80%)
  • Energy economics (35.08%)
  • Environmental economics (32.32%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Energy and sustainable development in Nigeria: the way forward (217 citations)
  • Methanation of CO2 - storage of renewable energy in a gas distribution system (160 citations)
  • The institutional space of community initiatives for renewable energy: a comparative case study of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark (126 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Energy, Sustainability and Society:

The published papers explore disciplines such as Energy economics, Sustainable development, Renewable energy, Environmental economics and Energy policy. The most cited papers hold forums on Energy economics that merge themes from other disciplines such as Agricultural economics, Climate change mitigation, Energy supply, Energy transition and Industrial organization. The most cited publications explore issues in Sustainable development which can be linked to other research areas like Economic growth, Production (economics), Corporate governance, Natural resource economics and Electricity retailing.

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

  • Ecology
  • Agriculture
  • Sustainability

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The discussions in Energy, Sustainability and Society mainly cover the fields of Sustainable development, Sustainability, Environmental economics, Renewable energy and Natural resource economics. The concepts on Sustainable development presented in Energy, Sustainability and Society can also apply to other research fields, including Bioenergy, Energy consumption, Corporate governance, Sociotechnical system and Biogas. The presented research on Sustainability deals specifically with Resource (biology) but it also addresses topics in Environmental planning.

It focuses on Environmental economics but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Order (exchange), Greenhouse gas, Developing country, Energy policy and Photovoltaic system. Energy, Sustainability and Society discusses concepts in Distributed generation under Renewable energy and how they intertwine with disciplines like Pearl, West africa and Spar. The subject of Population growth, which is connected to the field of Urban agglomeration, Urbanization, Goods and services and Granger causality, serves as the foundation of the Natural resource economics research featured in it.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Sustainable forest biomass: a review of current residue harvesting guidelines (7 citations)
  • Multilevel governance energy planning and policy: a view on local energy initiatives (5 citations)
  • Combining the worlds of energy systems and material flow analysis: a review (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, Sustainability and Society (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Daniela Thrän (15 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Andreas Zehnsdorf (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Inge Stupak (8 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Lucie Moeller (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gernot Stoeglehner (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, Sustainability and Society (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ (27 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Twente (17 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Graz University of Technology (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Stuttgart (12 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • International Institute of Minnesota (8 papers) published 2 papers 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, 8.33% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 39.39% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 3.03% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 6.06% of all publications and 51.52% 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

  • Combining the worlds of energy systems and material flow analysis: a review

    Felix Kullmann;Peter Markewitz;Detlef Stolten;Detlef Stolten;Martin Robinius

    (2021)
    42 Citations
  • Sustainable energy recovery from thermal processes: a review

    (2022)
    30 Citations
  • Mapping emergent public engagement in societal transitions: a scoping review

    (2022)
    21 Citations
  • Thermodynamic and ecological preselection of synthetic fuel intermediates from biogas at farm sites

    Ralf Peters;Maximilian Decker;Lea Eggemann;Steffen Schemme

    (2020)
    14 Citations
  • The value of community technology workers for LPG use: A pilot in Shirati, Tanzania

    (2022)
    11 Citations
  • Evaluation of the preference for and viability of clean cookstove adoption in rural Tanzania

    (2023)
    6 Citations
  • Performance comparison of three prototype biomass stoves with traditional and Mirt stoves for baking Injera

    (2024)
    5 Citations
  • The role of City Climate Networks in Promoting Citizen Participation in Municipalities: A Critical Multi-Case Analysis

    (2024)
    1 Citations
  • Solar-assisted poultry production in small-scale farms: a case study in the Bekaa semi-arid region, Lebanon

    (2024)
    1 Citations
  • Sustainability performance of rural municipalities in Germany

    (2023)
    1 Citations

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