Bibliometric and visualized analysis of emergy research

Abstract

A bibliometric approach, along with Citespace software, was used to quantitatively and visually evaluate global scientific research on emergy from 1996 to 2014. 637 publications - in accordance with the search criteria from the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-Expanded) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) of the Web of Science database - were statistically analyzed. The assessments on document type and language, publication year, authorship, subject categories and journals, countries/territories and institutions, most-frequently cited publications and author keywords were conducted with respect to seven categories. The amount of emergy publications per year has sharply increased in ..