Renewable Energies in the Agricultural Sector: A Perspective Analysis of the Last Three Years

Quetzalcoatl Hernandez-Escobedo (), David Muñoz-Rodríguez, Alejandro Vargas-Casillas, José Manuel Juárez Lopez, Pilar Aparicio-Martínez, María Pilar Martínez-Jiménez and Alberto-Jesus Perea-Moreno ()
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Quetzalcoatl Hernandez-Escobedo: Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Unidad Juriquilla, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Queretaro 76210, Mexico
David Muñoz-Rodríguez: Departamento de Física Aplicada, Radiología y Medicina Física, Campus Universitario de Rabanales, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain
Alejandro Vargas-Casillas: Engineering Institute Campus Juriquilla, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Queretaro 76210, Mexico
José Manuel Juárez Lopez: Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Unidad Juriquilla, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Queretaro 76210, Mexico
Pilar Aparicio-Martínez: Departamento de Enfermería, Farmacología y Fisioterapia, Campus de Menéndez Pidal, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain
María Pilar Martínez-Jiménez: Departamento de Física Aplicada, Radiología y Medicina Física, Campus Universitario de Rabanales, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain
Alberto-Jesus Perea-Moreno: Departamento de Física Aplicada, Radiología y Medicina Física, Campus Universitario de Rabanales, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain

Energies, 2022, vol. 16, issue 1, 1-17

Abstract: Renewable energy arises as a tool for the supply of energy to the agriculture sector. Currently, there is a growing concern for the environment. This circumstance has led to technological progress in energy use in relation to natural resources and their availability for all productive sectors, including agriculture. The main objective of this work is to perform analysis from a bibliometric point of view and to analyze scientific advances in renewable energy and agriculture worldwide that have occurred in the last three years (2019–2021). The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the last three years on the topic in order to contribute to the international scientific community, specifically towards collaboration between authors, institutions, and countries. A keyword analysis using community detection was applied to detect the five main clusters of this research and was largely dedicated to the following topics: renewable energy technologies in agriculture, bioenergy, sustainable agriculture, biomass energy, and the environmental impact of agriculture. The main countries found to be conducting research on renewable energy and agriculture include India, China, the United States, Italy, the United Kingdom, Poland, Indonesia, Germany, the Russian Federation, and Spain; the most important institutions conducting research in this area include the Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China, the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers at the National Research University in Uzbekistan, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the Grupo de Investigação em Engenharia e Computação Inteligente para a Inovação e o Desenvolvimento in Portugal. These results may contribute to the identification of new research needs and therefore to the development of future directions of research on renewable energies in the agricultural sector.

Keywords: renewable energy; agriculture; Scopus; bibliometric; sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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