Fifty years of Energy Policy: A bibliometric overview

Journal article, 2023

Energy Policy is a 50-year-old peer-reviewed international journal in the field of energy and environmental studies. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, this paper presents a retrospective overview of the journal during the period 1973–2022 by using a bibliometric approach. Based on bibliometric data from Web of Science, the results indicate that the annual publication volume of Energy Policy is approximately 600 articles, with an average of 41.42 citations and a total of 323 articles that have been cited at least 200 times. The United States and its institutions (such as the United States Department of Energy) are the greatest publishing units. In addition, the results of the science mapping indicate that Energy Policy has covered a vast array of topics, such as the effects of climate change, technological innovations and diffusion, economic development, and social equity, etc. We also provide expectations for the future directions of the journal to help interested authors writing for Energy Policy as their target journal.