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Mapping the knowledge development and trend of household energy consumption

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Household energy consumption has been one of the most critical factors to climate change. We conducted bibliometric research on household energy consumption by using CiteSpace and HistCite. The Web of Science was used to identify and visualize the evolution of paper citation diagram, the collaboration network, the cocitation network and emerging trends by mapping the knowledge domain of 2984 academic publications between 2011 and 2018 related to household energy consumption. The results showed that the number of academic articles published in the field of household energy consumption and carbon emissions was on the rise, but the number of highly cited articles decreased. The most productive authors and institutions in this subject are in Australia, the USA, China, Britain and Germany. Much of the research has focused on electricity consumption and heat supply, while there have been few studies on other subdomains in the area of energy consumption. The impact of greenhouse gases produced by energy consumption on the environment was the focus of this study. Here, we present an in-depth analysis of household energy consumption and carbon emission research to better understand global trends and hot topics in this field which have emerged over the last few years.

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The research is sponsored by the grants of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71734001), the Humanity and Social Science Youth foundation of Ministry of Education of China (No. 18YJC630019; 18XJC630007), the Key projects of scientific research plan of Department of Education of Shaanxi Province (No.20JT038), the Shaanxi Science and Technology Plan Project (No.2019ZDLSF06-07)

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Hu, Z., Wang, M. & Cheng, Z. Mapping the knowledge development and trend of household energy consumption. Environ Dev Sustain 24, 6053–6071 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01727-z

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