Global Energy Security and Policy
Global Energy Security and Policy is a research topic within General Energy. Science Explorer counts 20k research works in it since 1951. 17.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers explores the complex and multifaceted topic of energy security, with a focus on the supply, demand, and sustainability of energy resources. It delves into issues such as renewable energy deployment, geopolitical implications, global governance, climate change concerns, supply diversity, policy evaluation, and energy system resilience.
- Energy Security
- Renewable Energy
- Geopolitics
- Sustainability
- Natural Gas
- Global Governance
- Climate Change
- Supply Diversity
- Policy Evaluation
- Energy Resilience
- Research works
- 20k fractional, since 1951
- In the world top 10%
- 3.4k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 17.1% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +47% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Global Energy Security and Policy research?
By volume, Russia and China publish the most (616 and 612 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Russia 616 works
- 2 China 612 works
- 3 United States 437 works
- 4 Türkiye 415 works
- 5 United Kingdom 224 works
- 6 Poland 190 works
- 7 Germany 187 works
- 8 Indonesia 150 works
- 9 France 143 works
- 10 Ukraine 128 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Global Energy Security and Policy research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Moscow State Institute of International Relations publishes the most Global Energy Security and Policy research, followed by Bucharest University of Economic Studies and Melentiev Energy Systems Institute.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 41 works
- 2 Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania 34 works
- 3 Melentiev Energy Systems InstituteRussia 31 works
- 4 Azerbaijan State University of EconomicsAzerbaijan 29 works
- 5 Institute of World Economy and International RelationsRussia 29 works
- 6 Armenian State University of EconomicsArmenia 28 works
- 7 Financial UniversityRussia 26 works
- 8 Yerevan State UniversityArmenia 20 works
- 9 Al-Farabi Kazakh National UniversityKazakhstan 20 works
- 10 Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaRussia 20 works
Who are the leading researchers in Global Energy Security and Policy?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Global Energy Security and Policy include William Diebold and Benjamin K. Sovacool.
- 1 William Diebold United States 3.8k citations
- 2 Benjamin K. Sovacool Denmark 2.9k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Global Energy Security and Policy research done?
The largest centres of Global Energy Security and Policy research in 2022–2025 are Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), Baku (Azerbaijan) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Yerevan, Baku and Irkutsk.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- YerevanAM · 82.4 works33×
- BakuAZ · 114.7 works27×
- IrkutskRU · 41.8 works20×
- ChisinauMD · 23.1 works12×
- AlmatyKZ · 60.0 works11×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Global Energy Security and Policy than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Global Energy Security and Policy?
Among universities, judged by research, Azerbaijan State University of Economics, Ural Federal University and Corvinus University of Budapest 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Azerbaijan State University of EconomicsAzerbaijan | 70.9 | 26.5% | 93.6× | 29 | — |
| 2 | Ural Federal UniversityRussia | 70.2 | 26.9% | 9.8× | 16 | +295.1% |
| 3 | Corvinus University of BudapestHungary | 67.8 | 33.2% | 16.1× | 8 | +567.8% |
| 4 | Silesian University of TechnologyPoland | 64.2 | 39.5% | 8.6× | 12 | — |
| 5 | Comenius University BratislavaSlovakia | 62.5 | 32.1% | 8.0× | 9 | +308.3% |
| 6 | Al-Farabi Kazakh National UniversityKazakhstan | 61.1 | 8.7% | 19.7× | 20 | +228.7% |
| 7 | Financial UniversityRussia | 59.1 | 5.3% | 21.2× | 26 | +674.7% |
| 8 | Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania | 58.8 | 7.8% | 36.2× | 34 | +107.3% |
| 9 | Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia | 58.5 | 5.1% | 42.5× | 41 | +103.8% |
| 10 | Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaRussia | 58.3 | 15.5% | 11.0× | 20 | +97.2% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Global Energy Security and Policy research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 47% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Global Energy Security and Policy.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
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.