Bibliographic analysis: the trends of gendered sustainable energy studies

Abstract

Energy studies need to consider a gender perspective to encourage sustainable human development, since it is an inseperable part of human life. The awareness of gender issues within sustainable energy studies increases along with its acknowledgment within the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to identify the research trends of gender issue in sustainable energy studies. This paper utilizes bibliometric techniques on 379 publications related to gender and sustainable energy which are indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) database as of October 2021. The result shows the growing number of annual publications. This paper also analyzes the keyword co-occurrence to identify the common concept within the area of study. Furthermore, based on 18 most influential articles, this paper discovers four categories of research trend within the field. Finally, according to term co-occurrence analysis, this paper raises several emerging discourses within the field.