A comparative bibliometric analysis of five major energy journals

IF 14.2 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Energy Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-13 DOI:10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108899

Muhammad Anas , Elie Bouri , Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad

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Abstract

This bibliometric review compares Energy Economics (EE), a leading journal on the economics and finance of energy, with four major journals of the field, namely Energy Policy (EP), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM), Resource and Energy Economics (REE), and The Energy Journal (TEJ), over last 25 years. It first identifies publication trends showing that the citations per article have been declining in all five journals. Secondly, the prominence of Chinese authors and institutions is noted for EE and EP, whereas U.S. based authors and institutions are dominant in the rest of the energy journals under study. Thirdly, an analysis based on keyword co-occurrence and bibliographic coupling reveals that EE's central themes are related to energy market dynamics, economic growth, and the energy-environment nexus. These themes are shared with TEJ and EP, though the focus of EP is more regulatory and policy oriented, whereas JEEM and REE emphasize ecological economics, biodiversity, and energy conservation. We suggest that these energy journals should expand their coverage to socio-technical transition to foster efforts directed towards achieving both energy and economic sustainability.

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五种主要能源期刊的比较文献计量分析

这篇文献计量学综述比较了能源经济学和金融领域的主要期刊《能源经济学》（EE）与该领域的四种主要期刊，即《能源政策》（EP）、《环境经济与管理》（JEEM）、《资源与能源经济学》（REE）和《能源杂志》（TEJ）在过去25年的发展。它首先确定了出版趋势，表明所有五种期刊的每篇文章的引用都在下降。其次，中国作者和机构的突出表现在EE和EP上，而美国的作者和机构在研究的其他能源期刊上占主导地位。第三，基于关键词共现和文献耦合的分析表明，能源效率研究的中心主题与能源市场动态、经济增长和能源环境关系有关。这些主题与TEJ和EP有共同之处，尽管EP更侧重于监管和政策导向，而JEEM和REE则强调生态经济、生物多样性和节能。我们建议这些能源期刊应扩大其对社会技术转型的报道，以促进实现能源和经济可持续性的努力。

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来源期刊

Energy Economics ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

18.60

自引率

12.50%

发文量

524

期刊介绍： Energy Economics is a field journal that focuses on energy economics and energy finance. It covers various themes including the exploitation, conversion, and use of energy, markets for energy commodities and derivatives, regulation and taxation, forecasting, environment and climate, international trade, development, and monetary policy. The journal welcomes contributions that utilize diverse methods such as experiments, surveys, econometrics, decomposition, simulation models, equilibrium models, optimization models, and analytical models. It publishes a combination of papers employing different methods to explore a wide range of topics. The journal's replication policy encourages the submission of replication studies, wherein researchers reproduce and extend the key results of original studies while explaining any differences. Energy Economics is indexed and abstracted in several databases including Environmental Abstracts, Fuel and Energy Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, GEOBASE, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Economic Literature, INSPEC, and more.