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10 September 2023
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Abstract
Keywords:
Introduction
Materials and Methods
- Identification of the main research areas in the publications of the Journal of Energy Research & Social Sciences for 2019-2023 based on the clustering of their bibliometric records.
- Identification of the main topics of publications related to social issues in energy research based on co-occurrence keyword clustering.
- Composition of definitions of the main terms on the subject on the basis of the texts of the publications under consideration.
- Identifying in combination with which informative phrases these terms most often appear in the text of article abstracts.
Results and Discussion
General characteristics of the sample of bibliometric records
Identification of the main research areas in the publications of the Journal of Energy Research & Social Sciences for 2019-2023 based on the clustering of their bibliometric records
Conclusion
Future prospects for the study
Conflicts of Interest
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| AKWs | TLS | Occ |
|---|---|---|
| socio-technical system | 59 | 12 |
| renewable energy | 40 | 8 |
| energy democracy | 21 | 5 |
| sustainability transitions | 21 | 5 |
| science and technology studies | 20 | 4 |
| community energy | 19 | 4 |
| energy governance | 14 | 3 |
| energy poverty | 11 | 2 |
| sustainability | 11 | 2 |
| upscaling | 11 | 2 |
| co-production | 10 | 2 |
| actor-network theory | 9 | 2 |
| energy community | 9 | 2 |
| science technology and society | 9 | 2 |
| social justice | 8 | 2 |
| social science | 8 | 2 |
| chile | 6 | 1 |
| cookstoves | 6 | 1 |
| data and evidence | 6 | 1 |
| dominant design | 6 | 1 |
| AKWs | TLS | Occ |
|---|---|---|
| energy justice | 69 | 16 |
| multilevel perspective | 22 | 5 |
| energy | 17 | 3 |
| transition | 15 | 3 |
| energy futures | 14 | 3 |
| germany | 12 | 2 |
| disruption | 10 | 2 |
| japan | 10 | 2 |
| hydrogen | 9 | 2 |
| place attachment | 9 | 2 |
| social practices | 9 | 2 |
| socio-technical | 9 | 2 |
| socio-technical regime | 9 | 2 |
| china | 8 | 2 |
| action research | 7 | 1 |
| diversity | 7 | 1 |
| identity | 7 | 1 |
| justice | 7 | 1 |
| social psychology | 7 | 1 |
| asia | 5 | 1 |
| AKWs | TLS | Occ |
|---|---|---|
| energy policy | 34 | 7 |
| social acceptance | 25 | 5 |
| just transition | 20 | 4 |
| climate change | 16 | 3 |
| scale | 14 | 3 |
| climate justice | 11 | 2 |
| climate mitigation | 10 | 2 |
| climate policy | 10 | 2 |
| industrial decarbonization | 10 | 2 |
| environmental justice | 9 | 2 |
| indigenous communities | 9 | 2 |
| socio-technical energy system | 9 | 2 |
| inclusive transition policies | 7 | 1 |
| inequality | 7 | 1 |
| low-carbon transitions | 7 | 1 |
| social outcomes | 7 | 1 |
| coal mining | 6 | 1 |
| contested transition | 6 | 1 |
| "powder river basin, wyoming" | 6 | 1 |
| capability approach | 5 | 1 |
| AKWs | TLS | Occ |
|---|---|---|
| energy transition | 115 | 23 |
| socio-technical imaginary | 58 | 12 |
| socio-technical transition | 46 | 10 |
| poland | 12 | 2 |
| airquality | 6 | 1 |
| co-benefits | 6 | 1 |
| energy social sciences and humanities | 6 | 1 |
| households | 6 | 1 |
| sociology of energy | 6 | 1 |
| sociology of the future | 6 | 1 |
| solid fuels | 6 | 1 |
| agency | 5 | 1 |
| coal | 5 | 1 |
| coalscape | 5 | 1 |
| copenhagen | 5 | 1 |
| district heating | 5 | 1 |
| domestic biogas | 5 | 1 |
| energy dependence | 5 | 1 |
| energy models | 5 | 1 |
| energy plans | 5 | 1 |
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