[Objective/Significance] Climate change has become a major global challenge, and more than 130 countries and regions have proposed carbon neutrality targets. The academic literature on carbon neutrality and related topics has been accumulated for many years before countries explicitly put forward carbon neutrality targets. [Method/Process] In this paper, the research themes of SCI papers in the field of carbon neutrality from 2011-2021 were clustered and analyzed by the NMF theme modeling method, and eight theme clusters related to carbon neutral technologies were identified, including multi-energy integrated energy supply, geothermal utilization, biomass conversion, hybrid energy storage systems, hydrogen production and CO2 reduction, electric vehicles, carbon capture, and carbon sequestration. Based on the papers on the above topics, the bibliometrics method is used to analyze the research status and trends in the field of carbon neutrality, including countries and institutions with outstanding performance in each topic direction, the distribution and evolution of research topics, and the identification of hot and emerging research topics. [Results/Conclusions] It is found that integrated energy system, hybrid electric car, solar hydrogen production, lithium battery and energy management are the hot spots of academic research. China, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany are the countries with the largest accumulation of carbon neutral research. The academic impact and quality of output of central Asian and European institutions are relatively high.
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现有的关于碳中和领域的文献计量分析多数聚焦于碳中和的某一技术或者研究主题,或者即使从整体对碳中和的发展脉络进行深入分析,但仅限于一个角度或一种方法,如政策分析、主题分析[14]。为进一步分析和比较国内外碳中和研究进展,克服上述研究局限,本文基于Web of Science[15]数据库2011-2021年间各国发表的碳中和相关研究文献,采用文献计量学和知识图谱方法,应用分析软件和机器学习主题建模方法,聚焦碳中和的相关产业和技术,从研究主题的分布、主题演变趋势、热点和新兴研究主题的角度来分析碳中和领域的研究现状、趋势,并且利用文献计量的方式对各主题上表现突出的国家、机构、作者进行挖掘。本文有助于为专业领域的研究者提供碳中和技术领域的全景性分析和前沿趋势挖掘,对政策制定者制定相关政策措施具有重要的参考价值。
主题迭代检索的数据来自Web of Science平台SCI-Expanded数据库(SCI论文)。对论文的国别和学科种类未加限制。文献年份为2011-2021年,限制文献类型为article和review。最终数据的采集时间为2021-07-15。本文基于这27 064篇论文的题录信息作为分析数据集。
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