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The paper reports the developments and citation patterns over three time periods of research on Renewable Energy generation and Wind Power 1995–2011 in EU, Spain, Germany and Denmark. Analyses are based on Web of Science and incorporate journal articles as well as conference proceeding papers. Scientometric indicators include publication collaboration ratios, top-player distribution as well as citedness and correspondence analyses of citing publications, relative citation impact, distributions of top-cited as well as top-citing institutions and publication sources and cluster analysis of citing title terms to map knowledge export areas. Findings show an increase in citation impact for Renewable Energy and Wind Power research albeit hampered by scarcely cited conference papers. Although EU maintains its global top position in producing Renewable Energy and Wind Power research the developments of EU and German world shares as well as citation impact are negative during the most recent 7 year period. During the same time the citation impact of Spain and Denmark increase and place both nations among the top-ranking countries in Wind Power research. Spain is the only EU country that increases its world production share from 2000. China is currently ranked three after EU and USA in research output, however with a very low citation impact. Spain, Denmark and Germany each demonstrates distinct collaboration patterns and publication source and citation distribution profiles. More than half the citations to EU Wind Power research are EU-self citations. An expected intensified EU collaboration in the Wind Energy field does not come about. The most productive research institutions in Denmark and Spain are also the most cited ones.
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Analyses of patents and other indicators of technical innovation and developments are published in later publications.
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This research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under the project CSO2010-21759-C02-01 titled “Análisis de las capacidades científicas y tecnológicas de la eco-economía en España a partir de indicadores cuantitativos y cualitativos de I + D + i “(Analysis of scientific and technological capacities of Eco-economy in Spain, throughout I + D + i quantitative and qualitative indicators), and by Carlos III University of Madrid-Banco de Santander Chairs of Excellence Program for 2011/2012 academic year.
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Appendix: Retrieval profiles SAPIENS
Appendix: Retrieval profiles SAPIENS
Block A: Renewable Energy Generation
Renewable Energy Sub-field: # 2 7,104 TS = (“renew* energ*” OR “alternative energ*” OR “green energ*” OR “energy polic*”) AND PY = (2005–2009)
Refined by: Document Type = (ARTICLE OR PROCEEDINGS PAPER OR REVIEW)
Databases = SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, CPCI-S, CPCI-SSH Timespan = 1995–2011
Lemmatization = On.
Wind Power sub-field: # 5 7,018 TS = (”wind power” OR “wind turbine*” OR “wind energy*” OR “wind farm*” OR “wind generation” OR “wind systems”) AND PY = (2005–2009)
Refined by: Document Type = (PROCEEDINGS PAPER OR ARTICLE OR REVIEW) AND [excluding] Web of Science Categories = (ASTRONOMY ASTROPHYSICS)
Databases = SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, CPCI-S, CPCI-SSH Timespan = 1995–2011
Lemmatization = On
Solar Energy sub-field: # 8 26,585 TS = (“solar energy*” OR “solar radiation” OR “solar cell*” OR “solar photovoltaic*” OR “solar power” OR “solar heat*” OR “solar plant*” OR “solar concentrate*” OR “solar thermal” OR “solar collect*” OR “solar technolog*”) AND PY = (2005–2009)Refined by: Document Type = (ARTICLE OR PROCEEDINGS PAPER OR REVIEW) AND [excluding] Web of Science Categories = (HORTICULTURE OR PLANT SCIENCES OR FORESTRY)Databases = SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, CPCI-S, CPCI-SSH Timespan = 1995–2011Lemmatization = On
Geothermal Energy sub-field: # 10 2,615 TS = geothermal AND PY = (2005–2009)
Refined by: Document Type = (ARTICLE OR PROCEEDINGS PAPER OR REVIEW)
Databases = SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, CPCI-S, CPCI-SSH Timespan = 1995–2011
Lemmatization = On
Ocean Wave Power Energy sub-field: # 14 1,554 TS = (“wave power” OR “wave energy*” OR “wave convers*” OR “marine energy” OR “ocean energy”) AND PY = (2005–2009)
Refined by: Document Type = (ARTICLE OR PROCEEDINGS PAPER OR REVIEW) AND [excluding] Web of Science Categories = (ASTRONOMY ASTROPHYSICS OR REMOTE SENSING OR PHYSICS APPLIED OR PHYSICS FLUIDS PLASMAS OR NANOSCIENCE NANOTECHNOLOGY OR OPTICS OR CLINICAL NEUROLOGY OR MATERIALS SCIENCE COATINGS FILMS OR TELECOMMUNICATIONS OR ACOUSTICS OR CHEMISTRY PHYSICAL OR PHYSICS CONDENSED MATTER OR RADIOLOGY NUCLEAR MEDICINE MEDICAL IMAGING OR PHYSICS PARTICLES FIELDS) AND [excluding] Web of Science Categories = (HEMATOLOGY OR IMAGING SCIENCE PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY OR ENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL OR TOXICOLOGY OR BIOLOGY OR BIOPHYSICS OR CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE OR PHYSIOLOGY OR CARDIAC CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS OR FORESTRY OR GASTROENTEROLOGY HEPATOLOGY OR ENGINEERING AEROSPACE OR HORTICULTURE OR MEDICINE GENERAL INTERNAL OR PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE OR MEDICINE RESEARCH EXPERIMENTAL OR UROLOGY NEPHROLOGY OR PHARMACOLOGY PHARMACY OR ELECTROCHEMISTRY OR PSYCHIATRY OR REHABILITATION OR NEUROSCIENCES OR SPECTROSCOPY)
Databases = SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, CPCI-S, CPCI-SSH Timespan = 1995–2011
Lemmatization = On
Topics to be excluded from “Ocean Wave Power Energy” sub-field:
# 15 414,737 TS = (“micro wave*” OR microwave* OR electromagnetic OR laser* OR quantum OR radio) AND PY = (2005–2009)
Databases = SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, CPCI-S, CPCI-SSH Timespan = 1995–2011
Lemmatization = On.
Ocean Wave Power Energy sub-field—final: # 16 1,444 #14 NOT #15.
Renewable Energy Generation Block: # 17 41,797 #16 OR #10 OR #8 OR #5 OR #2.
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Sanz-Casado, E., Garcia-Zorita, J.C., Serrano-López, A.E. et al. Renewable energy research 1995–2009: a case study of wind power research in EU, Spain, Germany and Denmark. Scientometrics 95, 197–224 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-012-0825-3
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