Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Solar hydrogen Generation Literature From 2001 to 2014

Abstract

Solar hydrogen generation is one of the new topics in the field of
renewable energy. Recently, the rate of investigation about hydrogen
generation is growing dramatically in many countries. Many studies have
been done about hydrogen generation from natural resources such as wind,
solar, coal etc. In this work we evaluated global scientific production
of solar hydrogen generation papers from 2001 to 2014 in any journal of
all the subject categories of the Science Citation Index compiled by
Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), Philadelphia, USA. Solar
hydrogen generation was used as keywords to search the parts of titles,
abstracts, or keywords. The published output analysis showed that
hydrogen generation from the sun research steadily increased over the
past 14 years and the annual paper production in 2013 was about three
times 2010-paper production. The number of papers considered in this
research is 141 which have been published from 2001 to this date. There
are clear distinctions among author keywords used in publications from
the five most high-publishing countries such as USA, China, Australia,
Germany and India in solar hydrogen studies. In order to evaluate this
work quantitative and qualitative analysis methods were used to the
development of global scientific production in a specific research
field. The analytical results eventually provide several key findings
and consider the overview hydrogen production according to the solar
hydrogen generation.

Suggested Citation

Mohammadreza Maghami, Shahin Navabi Asl, Mohamad ismail Rezadad, Nader
Ale Ebrahim, and Chandima Gomes. "Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
of Solar hydrogen Generation Literature From 2001 to 2014"Scientometrics (2015).








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"Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Solar hydrogen Generation Lit" by Mohammadreza Maghami, et al.