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Renewable Energy
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Renewable Energy

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 9 899 1851 100
Environmental Sciences 70 195 298 48

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 2442
Documents by Best Scientists*: 3633
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 63
SCIMAGO H-index: 270
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.08
Impact Factor: 9.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Renewable Energy?

The journal covers a variety of subjects, including Renewable energy, Wind power, Photovoltaic system, Turbine and Meteorology. Renewable energy research featured in it incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Environmental engineering, Electricity, Natural resource economics, Electricity generation and Environmental economics. The work on Wind power tackled in Renewable Energy brings together disciplines like Wind speed and Control theory.

The concepts on Photovoltaic system presented in it can also apply to other research fields, including Automotive engineering and Solar energy. Turbine research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Marine engineering, Mechanics and Power (physics). The Mechanics study tackling the subject of Heat transfer is the focus of it.

  • Renewable energy (16.60%)
  • Wind power (12.18%)
  • Photovoltaic system (10.03%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Renewable Power-to-Gas: A technological and economic review (1195 citations)
  • Bioethanol production from agricultural wastes: An overview (1034 citations)
  • Biodiesel production from oleaginous microorganisms (936 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Renewable Energy:

The published articles are organized to address concerns in the fields of Renewable energy, Wind power, Photovoltaic system, Waste management and Meteorology. The journal publications hold forums on Renewable energy that merge themes from other disciplines such as Electricity generation, Environmental economics, Environmental engineering and Electricity. The journal papers focus on Wind power but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Turbine, Wind speed, Simulation and Control theory.

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

  • Composite material
  • Statistics
  • Mechanical engineering

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal mostly deals with topics like Renewable energy, Turbine, Photovoltaic system, Mechanics and Environmental economics. The research on Renewable energy tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Power (physics), Fossil fuel, Natural resource economics and Process engineering. Renewable Energy holds forums on Turbine that merges themes from other disciplines such as Wind power, Wake, Rotor (electric) and Turbulence.

The Photovoltaic system study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Automotive engineering. It is focused mainly on Mechanics, particularly Heat transfer. Most of the works presented in Renewable Energy deals with Environmental economics but it intersects with the subject of Energy storage.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Effects analysis on heat dissipation characteristics of lithium-ion battery thermal management system under the synergism of phase change material and liquid cooling method (2 citations)
  • Energy consumption of the wood size reduction processes with employment of a low-power machines with various cutting mechanisms (2 citations)
  • Two-stage anaerobic digestion with direct electric stimulation of methanogenesis: The effect of a physical barrier to retain biomass on the surface of a carbon cloth-based biocathode (1 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 Renewable Energy (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Luisa F. Cabeza (48 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Soteris A. Kalogirou (45 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • C. Guedes Soares (38 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Kamaruzzaman Sopian (37 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • 十月 戸井 (32 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 Renewable Energy (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (225 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 26 less than at the previous edition,
  • Tsinghua University (177 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 24 less than at the previous edition,
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University (159 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 16 less than at the previous edition,
  • North China Electric Power University (157 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 33 less than at the previous edition,
  • Xi'an Jiaotong University (124 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 16 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 2022 edition, 5.22% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 12.60% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.30% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 11.81% of all publications and 69.29% 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

  • Sustainable development using renewable energy technology

    Poul Alberg Østergaard;Neven Duic;Younes Noorollahi;Hrvoje Mikulcic;Hrvoje Mikulcic

    (2020)
    690 Citations
  • A Technical analysis investigating energy sustainability utilizing reliable renewable energy sources to reduce CO2 emissions in a high potential area

    Armin Razmjoo;L Gakenia Kaigutha;Vaziri rad;M. Marzband;M. Marzband

    (2021)
    491 Citations
  • Solar and wind power generation systems with pumped hydro storage: Review and future perspectives

    Muhammad Shahzad Javed;Tao Ma;Jakub Jurasz;Muhammad Yasir Amin

    (2020)
    447 Citations
  • Thermal energy storage technologies for concentrated solar power – A review from a materials perspective

    A. Palacios;C. Barreneche;C. Barreneche;M.E. Navarro;Y. Ding

    (2020)
    443 Citations
  • Short-term global horizontal irradiance forecasting based on a hybrid CNN-LSTM model with spatiotemporal correlations

    Haixiang Zang;Ling Liu;Li Sun;Lilin Cheng

    (2020)
    354 Citations
  • Social arrangements, technical designs and impacts of energy communities: A review

    Vladimir Z. Gjorgievski;Snezana Cundeva;George E. Georghiou

    (2021)
    329 Citations
  • Sustainability indicators for renewable energy systems using multi-criteria decision-making model and extended SWARA/ARAS hybrid method

    Chaouki Ghenai;Mona Albawab;Maamar Bettayeb;Maamar Bettayeb

    (2020)
    327 Citations
  • Optimized sizing of a standalone PV-wind-hydropower station with pumped-storage installation hybrid energy system

    Xiao Xu;Weihao Hu;Di Cao;Qi Huang

    (2020)
    317 Citations
  • Assessment of the role of renewable energy consumption and trade policy on environmental degradation using innovation accounting: Evidence from the US

    Ojonugwa Usman;Andrew Adewale Alola;Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie

    (2020)
    264 Citations
  • A comprehensive review on recent biological innovations to improve biogas production, Part 1: Upstream strategies

    Meisam Tabatabaei;Mortaza Aghbashlo;Elena Valijanian;Hamed Kazemi Shariat Panahi

    (2020)
    252 Citations

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