Energy Gauge: Who Exactly Is In Power?
Science Watch has revealed the most cited journals, authors and institutions in energy and fuels.
To identify highly cited energy research of recent years, Science Watch turned to the Energy & Fuel category in which journals are covered in the Science Citation Index of ISI Web of Knowledge. This population of 94 specialty journals produced roughly 100,000 papers indexed by Thomson Reuters between 1998 and 2008. From that body of research, Science Watch identified the most-cited institutions, authors, and journals.
The Journal of Power Research takes a strong lead in the most-cited journals, with more than twice the number of citations than its rivals. Sandia National Laboratories in the USA, with more than 4,100 citations to its 395 papers, leads the institutions ranked by total citations but not by impact: an honour that goes to Princeton University.
Despite this US domination of citations and impact, the most cited author in energy and fuels comes from Turkey. Ayhan Demirbas, from Karadeniz Tech. University, received 1,891 for his 245 papers published in the 10 years to 2008. A prolific output by itself is no guarantee of high citations: eight other authors also fielded more than 200 papers in this time period, but none of these garnered more than 15 total citations.
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