Applicability and Trend of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Bioenergy Research between 1991–2021: A Bibliometric Analysis

Yi Cheng; Chuzhi Zhao; Pradeep Neupane; Bradley Benjamin; Jiawei Wang; Tongsheng Zhang

doi:10.3390/en16031235

Applicability and Trend of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Bioenergy Research between 1991–2021: A Bibliometric Analysis

Yi Cheng, Chuzhi Zhao, Pradeep Neupane, Bradley Benjamin, Jiawei Wang, Tongsheng Zhang

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Abstract

The bibliometric analysis investigated the impact of publications on trends in the literature and bioenergy research using artificial intelligence (AI) from 1991 to 2021. In this study, 1721 publications were extracted from the Web of Science, and an analysis of the countries, authorship, institutions, journals, and keywords was visualised. In the recent decades, this field has entered an outbreak phase. India was the most productive country in this area, followed by China, Iran, and the US. It also noted several notable differences between trends and subjects in developed and developing countries. The former led this field at the initial stage and later attached importance to using AI for research feedstock and impact assessment. Developing countries encouraged the advancement of this area and emphasised the feedstock usage of phase treatment and process optimisation. In addition, a co-authorship and institutes study revealed that authors and institutes in distant regions rarely collaborated. The journal analysis shows strong links between Energy, Fuel, and Energy Conversion and Management. Machine learning is by far the most common application of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in bioenergy research, with 53% of the articles using it. In these AI-related publications, the keyword artificial neural network (ANN) appeared most frequently in the articles.

Original language	English
Article number	1235
Number of pages	15
Journal	Energies
Volume	16
Issue number	3
Early online date	23 Jan 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/en16031235
Publication status	Published - Feb 2023

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The research was funded by The European Research Executive Agency (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, No. 101025906) and Guangdong Science and Technology Program (No. 2021A0505030008).

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ANN
artificial intelligence
bibliometric analysis
bioenergy
web of science

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