A Scientometric Review of Solar Energy Research in Business Economics

Abstract

There has been a rapid growth for solar energy industry in recent years. The industry has increased its production and power capacity, getting more government subsidies and investment, and achieving lower production cost. The purpose of this study is to synthesize the available research of solar energy in business economics from 2000 to 2019 using scientometric method. This article investigates 968 publications with 26,873 sum of times cited retrieve from Web of Sciences on 17 th August 2020. The most prominent contributors are from United States, Germany, United Kingdom and China. The scientometric approach used in the present study has identified research clusters, authors, journals and keyword that had significant impacts on solar energy in business economics research. By adopting visualization and co-citation techniques, this study able to map the frontiers of the specialty, interconnections between publications in the corpus used, and the prominent research trend.