Green and Renewable Energy Innovations: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis

Grzegorz Mentel (), Anna Lewandowska, Justyna Berniak-Woźny and Waldemar Tarczyński
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Grzegorz Mentel: Department of Quantitative Methods, Rzeszow University of Technology, 35-959 Rzeszow, Poland
Anna Lewandowska: Department of Management, University of Information Technology and Management, 35-225 Rzeszów, Poland
Justyna Berniak-Woźny: Department of Management, University of Information Technology and Management, 35-225 Rzeszów, Poland
Waldemar Tarczyński: Department of Sustainable Finance and Capital Markets, Institute of Economics and Finance, University of Szczecin, 71-101 Szczecin, Poland

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 3, 1-21

Abstract: Taking into account factors such as unfavorable climate changes, shrinking fossil fuel resources, low energy efficiency, and the pace of population growth, the transformation towards green and renewable energy is one of the most important goals and challenges facing the world. The energy sector is the source of about 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions and energy-related emissions are reaching new record levels. For the energy transition to succeed, innovation at the level of technology, business processes and policies (local, national, and international) are necessary. Therefore, the aim of this article is to analyze the size, structure, and dynamics of research on innovations in the field of green and renewable energy in the last decade in order to identify the main topics and research trends in this field. The authors conducted a bibliometric review based on the PRISMA guidance together with visualization analysis based on the VOSviewer software. For this purpose, the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS CC) database was used, and based on defined inclusion criteria, the authors selected 1144 records for bibliographic analysis. The database was subjected to a performance analysis from the perspective of the number of publications per year, dominant countries, and journals. Further, science mapping was employed to analyze such features of the publications as co-citations, co-occurrences, and bibliometric coupling. Based on the results, gaps in green and renewable energy innovations were identified and issues for future research were defined and recommended.

Keywords: green energy; renewable energy; innovation; trends; bibliometric analysis (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: 2023
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