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Energy and Environmental Sustainability

Energy and Environmental Sustainability is a research topic within Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Science Explorer counts 1.4k research works in it since 1975. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the analysis of innovative strategies for energy investments, with a particular emphasis on renewable energy, sustainable development, and green supply chain management. The research employs fuzzy decision-making models and hybrid modeling approaches to evaluate global indicators, financial development, and innovation strategies in the energy industry.

  • Renewable Energy
  • Investment Strategies
  • Sustainable Development
  • Fuzzy Decision Making
  • Global Indicators
  • Green Supply Chain Management
  • Financial Development
  • Innovation Strategies
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Hybrid Modeling
Research works
1.4k
fractional, since 1975
In the world top 10%
149
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+91%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
48% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Energy and Environmental Sustainability

Which countries lead Energy and Environmental Sustainability research?

By volume, Russia and Türkiye publish the most (322 and 82 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 322 works
  2. 2 Türkiye 82 works
  3. 3 China 49 works
  4. 4 India 39 works
  5. 5 Kazakhstan 37 works
  6. 6 Ukraine 35 works
  7. 7 Azerbaijan 33 works
  8. 8 Uzbekistan 27 works
  9. 9 United States 27 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 21 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Russia: 47.9%Türkiye: 12.1%China: 7.3%India: 5.9%6 others listed: 26.9%48%largest
Russia322 · 47.9%Türkiye82 · 12.1%China49 · 7.3%India39 · 5.9%6 others listed181 · 26.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Energy and Environmental Sustainability research?

By volume in 2022-now, Istanbul Medipol University publishes the most Energy and Environmental Sustainability research, followed by Financial University and Russian Academy of Sciences.

What are the most cited papers in Energy and Environmental Sustainability?

The most cited paper in Energy and Environmental Sustainability is "Prospects for the production of green hydrogen: Review of countries with high potential" (Vladimir Anatolevich Panchenko, Yu. V. Daus, А.A. Kovalev et al., 2022), with 367 citations. Next come "Prioritization of renewable energy alternatives by using an integrated fuzzy MCDM model: A real case application for Turkey" (313) and "Optimization solar site selection by fuzzy logic model and weighted linear combination method in arid and semi-arid region: A case study Isfahan-IRAN" (264).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Prospects for the production of green hydrogen: Review of countries with high potential Vladimir Anatolevich Panchenko, Yu. V. Daus, А.A. Kovalev et al. · International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 28 Oct 2022 367
2 Prioritization of renewable energy alternatives by using an integrated fuzzy MCDM model: A real case application for Turkey Murat Çolak, İ̇hsan Kaya · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2 Jun 2017 313
3 Optimization solar site selection by fuzzy logic model and weighted linear combination method in arid and semi-arid region: A case study Isfahan-IRAN Mahmood Zoghi, Amir Houshang Ehsani, Mahdis Sadat et al. · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 31 Jul 2015 264
4 Inventive problem-solving map of innovative carbon emission strategies for solar energy-based transportation investment projects Gang Kou, Serhat Yüksel, Hasan Dınçer · Applied Energy Open access 14 Feb 2022 251
5 A novel approach to extended fuzzy TOPSIS based on new divergence measures for renewable energy sources selection Pratibha Rani, Arunodaya Raj Mishra, Abbas Mardani et al. · Journal of Cleaner Production 5 Feb 2020 211
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Energy and Environmental Sustainability research done?

The largest centres of Energy and Environmental Sustainability research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Istanbul (Türkiye), Baku (Azerbaijan) and Saint Petersburg (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Baku.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 136 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 44 works
  3. 3 BakuAzerbaijan 22 works
  4. 4 Saint PetersburgRussia 20 works
  5. 5 Kazan’Russia 17 works
  6. 6 TashkentUzbekistan 16 works
  7. 7 AlmatyKazakhstan 15 works
  8. 8 YekaterinburgRussia 12 works
  9. 9 Rostov-on-DonRussia 8 works
  10. 10 Nur-SultanKazakhstan 8 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BakuAZ · 22.5 works31×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Energy and Environmental Sustainability than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Energy and Environmental Sustainability?

Among universities, judged by research, Istanbul Medipol University, Financial University and Plekhanov Russian University of Economics score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Istanbul Medipol UniversityTürkiye 90.032.7%239.0×29 +135.8%
2Financial UniversityRussia 42.211.8%131.4×23 +25.8%
3Plekhanov Russian University of EconomicsRussia 13.95.5%122.2×12 +98.7%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Energy and Environmental Sustainability, country by country

Is Energy and Environmental Sustainability research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 91% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Energy and Environmental Sustainability.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Energy and Environmental Sustainability as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0017% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Energy and Environmental Sustainability over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Energy and Environmental Sustainability10.6% in 20252020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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