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Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues

Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues is a research topic within Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Science Explorer counts 6k research works in it since 1952. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the global impact of gas flaring, with a specific emphasis on black carbon emissions, environmental and health effects, flare gas recovery technologies, and the economic and sustainability implications. The research encompasses diverse aspects such as greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, and the challenges and opportunities related to gas flaring in Nigeria.

  • Gas Flaring
  • Black Carbon Emissions
  • Flare Gas Recovery
  • Environmental Impact
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  • Air Pollution
  • Nigeria
  • Economic Evaluation
  • Health Effects
  • Sustainability
Research works
6k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
610
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+31%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Nigeria
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues

Which countries lead Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues research?

By volume, Nigeria and China publish the most (623 and 168 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Nigeria 623 works
  2. 2 China 168 works
  3. 3 United States 168 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 145 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 75 works
  6. 6 Russia 66 works
  7. 7 India 58 works
  8. 8 Iran 40 works
  9. 9 Malaysia 35 works
  10. 10 Iraq 29 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.

Nigeria: 44.2%China: 11.9%United States: 11.9%Indonesia: 10.3%6 others listed: 21.6%44%largest
Nigeria623 · 44.2%China168 · 11.9%United States168 · 11.9%Indonesia145 · 10.3%6 others listed304 · 21.6%

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

Which institutions lead Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Port Harcourt publishes the most Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues research, followed by Rivers State University and University of Nigeria.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of Port HarcourtNigeria 61 works
  2. 2 Rivers State UniversityNigeria 45 works
  3. 3 University of NigeriaNigeria 21 works
  4. 4 Delta State UniversityNigeria 20 works
  5. 5 Nnamdi Azikiwe UniversityNigeria 16 works
  6. 6 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 15 works
  7. 7 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 13 works
  8. 8 Lead City UniversityNigeria 13 works
  9. 9 University of AbujaNigeria 13 works
  10. 10 Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues include Philippe Ciais, Markku Kulmala and Douglas R. Worsnop.

  1. 1 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  2. 2 Markku Kulmala Finland 145k citations
  3. 3 Douglas R. Worsnop United States 117k citations
  4. 4 İbrahim Dinçer Canada 111k 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 Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues?

The most cited paper in Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues is "Review on multi-criteria decision analysis aid in sustainable energy decision-making" (Jiangjiang Wang, Youyin Jing, Chunfa Zhang et al., 2009), with 2,354 citations. Next come "A review on the classification, characterisation, synthesis of nanoparticles and their application" (1,046) and "A fluidized-bed combustion process with inherent CO2 separation; application of chemical-looping combustion" (1,031).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Review on multi-criteria decision analysis aid in sustainable energy decision-making Jiangjiang Wang, Youyin Jing, Chunfa Zhang et al. · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 4 Jul 2009 2,354
2 A review on the classification, characterisation, synthesis of nanoparticles and their application Anu Mary Ealias, Manickam Puratchiveeran Saravanakumar · IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering Conference paperOpen access Nov 2017 1,046
3 A fluidized-bed combustion process with inherent CO2 separation; application of chemical-looping combustion Anders Lyngfelt, Bo G Leckner, Tobias Mattisson · Chemical Engineering Science May 2001 1,031
4 A Fifteen Year Record of Global Natural Gas Flaring Derived from Satellite Data Christopher D. Elvidge, Daniel C. Ziskin, Kimberly Baugh et al. · Energies Open access 7 Aug 2009 936
5 Analysis of Fossil Fuel Energy Consumption and Environmental Impacts in European Countries Florinda Figueiredo Martins, Carlos Felgueiras, Miroslava Farkas Smitkova et al. · Energies Open access 13 Mar 2019 911
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues research done?

The largest centres of Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues research in 2022-now are Port Harcourt (Nigeria), Beijing (China), Abuja (Nigeria) and Ibadan (Nigeria). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Port Harcourt, Abuja and Owerri.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Port HarcourtNigeria 106 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 43 works
  3. 3 AbujaNigeria 38 works
  4. 4 IbadanNigeria 34 works
  5. 5 JakartaIndonesia 29 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 29 works
  7. 7 Ado-EkitiNigeria 24 works
  8. 8 LagosNigeria 22 works
  9. 9 OwerriNigeria 22 works
  10. 10 TehranIran 21 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Port HarcourtNG · 105.9 works141×
  2. AbujaNG · 38.0 works67×
  3. OwerriNG · 22.1 works64×
  4. UyoNG · 20.1 works61×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues?

Among universities, judged by research, Afe Babalola University, University of Nigeria and University of Port Harcourt 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.

0%10%20%mean 6.05%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Afe Babalola Univers…University of NigeriaUniversity of Port H…Rivers State Univers…
above the meannear itbelow it

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.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Afe Babalola UniversityNigeria 68.018.2%62.1×8 +179.2%
2University of NigeriaNigeria 59.17.3%48.6×21 +37.5%
3University of Port HarcourtNigeria 56.14.8%215.4×61 +2.3%
4Rivers State UniversityNigeria 49.73.1%158.2×45 +8.3%
5Delta State UniversityNigeria 45.64.3%96.1×20 +151.5%
6University of AbujaNigeria 44.16.6%103.4×13 +215.0%
7Niger Delta UniversityNigeria 43.43.8%168.4×12 +51.5%
8University of IbadanNigeria 39.56.5%21.8×10 -16.9%
9Akwa Ibom State UniversityNigeria 38.84.1%121.5×12 +336.4%
10University of BeninNigeria 37.71.8%48.6×9 +32.6%

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 Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues, country by country

Is Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues.

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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 Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0063% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues0.0089% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues 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%Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues11.3% in 2025200020102020

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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