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. 10.5% 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
In the world top 10%: 2.1k
Top-10% rate: 10.5%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +46%
Largest producer: China

Global Energy Security and Policy

Which countries lead Global Energy Security and Policy research?

By volume, China and Russia publish the most (735 and 645 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 China 735 works
2 Russia 645 works
3 United States 498 works
4 Türkiye 450 works
5 United Kingdom 257 works
6 Germany 210 works
7 Poland 203 works
8 Indonesia 166 works
9 France 155 works
10 India 154 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.

China735 · 21.2%Russia645 · 18.6%United States498 · 14.3%Türkiye450 · 13.0%6 others listed1,145 · 33.0%

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

Which institutions lead Global Energy Security and Policy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Global Energy Security and Policy research, followed by Moscow State Institute of International Relations and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 155 works
2 Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 45 works
3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 43 works
4 Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania 35 works
5 Azerbaijan State University of EconomicsAzerbaijan 31 works
6 Armenian State University of EconomicsArmenia 29 works
7 Financial UniversityRussia 27 works
8 Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaRussia 21 works
9 Yerevan State UniversityArmenia 21 works
10 Al-Farabi Kazakh National UniversityKazakhstan 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Global Energy Security and Policy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Global Energy Security and Policy include Philippe Ciais.

1 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Global Energy Security and Policy?

The most cited paper in Global Energy Security and Policy is "Hydrogen futures: toward a sustainable energy system" (Steve Dunn, 2002), with 1,518 citations. Next come "Energy justice: Conceptual insights and practical applications" (1,408) and "Energy Resources and Global Development" (973).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Hydrogen futures: toward a sustainable energy system Steve Dunn · International Journal of Hydrogen Energy	Mar 2002	1,518
2	Energy justice: Conceptual insights and practical applications Benjamin Kenneth Sovacool, Michael H. Dworkin · Applied Energy	28 Jan 2015	1,408
3	Energy Resources and Global Development Jeffrey Chow, Raymond J. Kopp, Paul R. Portney · Science	28 Nov 2003	973
4	Indicators for energy security Bert Kruyt, Detlef Peter van Vuuren, H.J.M. de Vries et al. · Energy Policy	15 Mar 2009	972
5	Research on the Impact of Geopolitical Instability on Russian Trade Pavel Talamanov · International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (IJISRT) Open access	3 Aug 2024	959

All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Global Energy Security and Policy research done?

The largest centres of Global Energy Security and Policy research in 2022-now 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-now

1 MoscowRussia 398 works
2 BeijingChina 188 works
3 BakuAzerbaijan 128 works
4 IstanbulTürkiye 100 works
5 YerevanArmenia 85 works
6 LondonUnited Kingdom 81 works
7 AnkaraTürkiye 70 works
8 BucharestRomania 70 works
9 AlmatyKazakhstan 66 works
10 ShanghaiChina 62 works

Where it is the local speciality

YerevanAM · 85.3 works30×
BakuAZ · 127.9 works25×
IrkutskRU · 42.8 works19×
ChisinauMD · 24.3 works11×
AlmatyKZ · 65.8 works11×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Global Energy Security and Policy than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Global Energy Security and Policy?

Among universities, judged by research, Griffith University, Silesian University of Technology and Azerbaijan State 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.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Griffith UniversityAustralia	62.4	48.4%	4.1×	10	+488.3%
2	Silesian University of TechnologyPoland	60.5	36.5%	9.3×	13	+84.1%
3	Azerbaijan State University of EconomicsAzerbaijan	55.4	8.0%	102.4×	31	+177.8%
4	Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia	51.2	0.5%	47.6×	45	+70.7%
5	Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania	48.6	1.4%	38.5×	36	+214.8%
6	Ural Federal UniversityRussia	46.9	20.0%	10.5×	17	+21.9%
7	Hamad bin Khalifa UniversityQatar	45.1	18.9%	13.2×	8	+189.0%
8	Southwest Petroleum UniversityChina	42.9	9.1%	10.2×	18	+1205.1%
9	Armenian State University of EconomicsArmenia	42.4	0.0%	138.8×	29	+515.4%
10	Xiamen UniversityChina	42.3	32.7%	2.0×	9	+320.5%
11	Qatar UniversityQatar	42.2	17.4%	6.5×	10	+86.0%
12	Tsinghua UniversityChina	41.5	21.2%	1.1×	14	+98.8%
13	Al-Farabi Kazakh National UniversityKazakhstan	41.2	1.6%	20.5×	21	+69.6%
14	Comenius University BratislavaSlovakia	41.0	17.1%	8.4×	9	+94.5%
15	Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway	40.4	13.3%	3.5×	11	+157.7%
16	National Technical University of AthensGreece	40.0	19.1%	6.3×	9	+62.1%
17	Dalian Maritime UniversityChina	39.6	28.8%	4.1×	8	+285.0%
18	Moscow State UniversityTajikistan	38.6	4.3%	7.5×	11	+75.3%
19	Yerevan State UniversityArmenia	38.5	0.1%	34.2×	21	+562.5%
20	Renmin University of ChinaChina	38.5	9.8%	7.9×	14	+194.1%
21	University of SzczecinPoland	37.8	16.8%	12.3×	10	+28.3%
22	Financial UniversityRussia	37.5	2.5%	22.4×	27	-12.4%
23	Plekhanov Russian University of EconomicsRussia	37.5	1.8%	27.8×	19	+17.7%
24	L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National UniversityKazakhstan	37.5	2.9%	20.2×	17	+171.9%
25	University of JohannesburgSouth Africa	37.3	11.1%	4.0×	14	+399.5%
26	Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina	36.9	29.1%	1.0×	10	+47.7%
27	SGH Warsaw School of EconomicsPoland	35.8	7.7%	37.5×	13	+159.3%
28	Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary	35.4	1.9%	8.4×	14	+126.2%
29	Columbia UniversityUnited States	35.0	22.8%	1.5×	9	+126.3%
30	Baku State UniversityAzerbaijan	34.4	0.0%	43.6×	17	+207.0%
31	National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia	34.3	7.4%	8.7×	19	-13.7%
32	Technical University of DenmarkDenmark	34.2	19.0%	4.1×	12	+2.0%
33	Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign MinistryRussia	33.9	0.5%	157.3×	17	+121.4%
34	University of GroningenNetherlands	33.4	6.8%	3.0×	11	+17.7%
35	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	33.2	7.4%	1.5×	12	+18.1%
36	North China Electric Power UniversityChina	32.6	12.8%	4.0×	15	-14.0%
37	Weatherford CollegeUnited States	32.3	9.4%	1.9×	14	+180.0%
38	University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom	32.2	6.6%	2.7×	11	+317.6%
39	Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark	32.1	4.5%	12.7×	11	+498.6%
40	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom	32.1	13.6%	1.4×	10	+109.8%
41	Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaRussia	31.1	2.0%	12.2×	21	-14.6%
42	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	26.5	11.3%	1.0×	8	+123.0%
43	Instituto Superior de Ciencias Sociais e Relações InternacionaisAngola	25.6	0.0%	312.4×	9	+30.9%

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 Global Energy Security and Policy, country by country

Is Global Energy Security and Policy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 46% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Global Energy Security and Policy.

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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 Global Energy Security and Policy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

Fractional works of Global Energy Security and Policy 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.

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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Which countries lead Global Energy Security and Policy research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Global Energy Security and Policy research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Global Energy Security and Policy?

What are the most cited papers in Global Energy Security and Policy?

Where is Global Energy Security and Policy research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Global Energy Security and Policy?

Is Global Energy Security and Policy research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion