New Energy and Sustainable Development: A Scientometric Analysis

Abstract

New energy has become a focus of public and scientific scrutiny for the sustainable development. This paper reviews related literature of new energy involving sustainable development, and studies the evolution of emerging trends by a scientometric analysis to evaluate all relevant academic publications. The literature summary is conducted and the publication trend of the related literature is revealed. Research fields of new energy and sustainable development related articles are discussed, and then literature distributions involving journals and countries are analysed. A scientometric analysis for new energy and sustainable development involves a precise observation of new energy development trends, providing new research ideas that could be extended to other fields about sustainable development.