Analysis of Research Topics and Scientific Collaborations in Renewable Energy Using Community Detection

Alfredo Alcayde, Francisco G. Montoya, Raul Baños, Alberto-Jesús Perea-Moreno and Francisco Manzano-Agugliaro
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Alfredo Alcayde: Department of Engineering, University of Almeria, ceiA3, 04120 Almeria, Spain
Francisco G. Montoya: Department of Engineering, University of Almeria, ceiA3, 04120 Almeria, Spain
Raul Baños: Department of Engineering, University of Almeria, ceiA3, 04120 Almeria, Spain
Alberto-Jesús Perea-Moreno: Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Córdoba, ceiA3, Campus de Rabanales, 14071 Córdoba, Spain
Francisco Manzano-Agugliaro: Department of Engineering, University of Almeria, ceiA3, 04120 Almeria, Spain

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 12, 1-17

Abstract: Renewable energy is a key breakthrough to mitigate carbon emissions, to reduce global warming, and for the creation of sustainable societies. Renewable energy is a broad area that includes different technologies that are being continuously improved to increase their efficiency and reduce cost. Many papers have been published in the last decades dealing with renewable energy issues, which is why it becomes important to determine the main topics of research, the main publications devoted to publishing scientific papers about renewable energy, and how researchers collaborate in this discipline. With these aims in view, this paper presents an advanced method for analysing publications about renewable energy and scientific collaboration networks in this field. This method is based on automatically obtaining bibliographic data from scientific publications through the use of the Scopus Database API Interface, which are then analysed using community detection algorithms and graph visualization software. The results obtained show that it is possible to determine the main areas of research activity as well as to identify the structures of the collaboration network in the field of renewable energy.

Keywords: renewable energy; sustainability; research activity; scientific collaborations; complex networks; community detection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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