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Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy
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Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

1941-7012

Published by: American Institute of Physics

https://aip.scitation.org/journal/rse

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 466 61 101 17
Environmental Sciences 489 29 36 10

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 168
Documents by Best Scientists*: 197
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 8
SCIMAGO H-index: 65
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.517
Impact Factor: 1.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy?

The foci of Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy are Wind power, Photovoltaic system, Renewable energy, Turbine and Control theory. The studies on Wind power discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Wind speed, Meteorology and Electric power system. Photovoltaic system research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Power (physics), Maximum power point tracking, Automotive engineering, Solar energy and Electronic engineering.

While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on Renewable energy, it also covered topics in Electricity generation, Natural resource economics, Environmental economics and Environmental engineering. Issues in Turbine were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Marine engineering and Mechanics, Wake, Aerodynamics. More specifically, the research on Control theory in it is related to Control theory.

  • Wind power (16.27%)
  • Photovoltaic system (14.97%)
  • Renewable energy (14.54%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Dewatering of microalgal cultures: A major bottleneck to algae-based fuels (856 citations)
  • Nanofluid-based direct absorption solar collector (580 citations)
  • Potential order-of-magnitude enhancement of wind farm power density via counter-rotating vertical-axis wind turbine arrays (330 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy:

The main points discussed in the journal articles deal with Wind power, Photovoltaic system, Renewable energy, Turbine and Meteorology. The most cited papers with studies in Wind power featured incorporate elements of Wind speed and Power station. The most cited articles facilitate discussions on Renewable energy that incorporate concepts from other fields like Natural resource economics, Environmental engineering and Solar energy.

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

  • Statistics
  • Oxygen
  • Mechanical engineering

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy primarily focuses on research topics in Wind power, Turbine, Photovoltaic system, Mechanics and Electricity generation. The Wind power works featured in it incorporate elements from Control theory, Electric power system, Wind speed, Meteorology and Grid. The tackled Control theory research is interrelated with Power (physics) which concerns subjects like Upstream (networking).

In the journal, Aerodynamics, Marine engineering, Wind direction, Wake and Rotor (electric) are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Turbine research. The journal facilitates discussions on Photovoltaic system that incorporate concepts from other fields like Automotive engineering and Solar energy. Electricity generation research presented in it encompasses a variety of subjects, including Power station, Process engineering, Renewable energy and Energy storage.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Clustering sparse sensor placement identification and deep learning based forecasting for wind turbine wakes (6 citations)
  • Dynamic economic dispatch problem in hybrid wind based power systems using oppositional based chaotic grasshopper optimization algorithm (5 citations)
  • Validation of the 5-min irradiance from the National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB) (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 Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Dazhi Yang (15 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Raúl Bayoán Cal (15 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • John A. Turner (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Behrooz Vahidi (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • P. Craig Taylor (12 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 Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (based on the number of publications) are:

  • North China Electric Power University (44 papers) published 11 papers at the last edition, 7 more than at the previous edition,
  • Tianjin University (25 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (25 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University (24 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Hohai University (21 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, 13.38% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 23.58% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.20% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.63% of all publications and 49.59% 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

  • Choice of clear-sky model in solar forecasting

    Dazhi Yang

    (2020)
    97 Citations
  • Effect of low-level jet height on wind farm performance

    Srinidhi Nagarada Gadde;Richard Johannes Antonius Maria Stevens

    (2021)
    61 Citations
  • Renewable energy performance evaluation studies using the data envelopment analysis (DEA): A systematic review

    Fairuz Suzana Mohd Chachuli;Norasikin Ahmad Ludin;Sohif Mat;Kamaruzzaman Sopian

    (2020)
    46 Citations
  • Comparison of modular analytical wake models to the Lillgrund wind plant

    Nicholas Hamilton;Christopher J. Bay;Paul Fleming;Jennifer King

    (2020)
    41 Citations
  • PV power output prediction from sky images using convolutional neural network: The comparison of sky-condition-specific sub-models and an end-to-end model

    Yuhao Nie;Yuchi Sun;Yuanlei Chen;Rachel Orsini

    (2020)
    36 Citations
  • Validation of the 5-min irradiance from the National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB)

    Dazhi Yang

    (2021)
    35 Citations
  • A review of tidal energy - resource, feedbacks, and environmental interactions

    Simon P. Neill;Kevin A. Haas;Jérôme Thiébot;Zhaoqing Yang

    (2021)
    34 Citations
  • Ensemble model output statistics as a probabilistic site-adaptation tool for satellite-derived and reanalysis solar irradiance

    Dazhi Yang

    (2020)
    33 Citations
  • Evaluation of the potential for wake steering for U.S. land-based wind power plants

    D. Bensason;E. Simley;O. Roberts;P. Fleming

    (2021)
    31 Citations

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