Biooils

Abstract

Crude oil-based fuels, such as diesel fuels, have been primary sources of energy and fuels. However, significant public concerns about the sustainability, price fluctuations, and adverse environmental impact of biooils have emerged since the 1970s. Thus, biooils have emerged as an alternative to crude oils in recent decades. However, for the efficient progression of the research in this field, it is necessary to develop efficient incentive structures for the primary stakeholders and to inform these stakeholders about the research. Scientometric analysis offers ways to evaluate the research in a respective field. This method has been used to evaluate the research in a number of fields. However, there has been no scientometric study of this field. This chapter presents a study of the scientometric evaluation of the research in this field using two datasets. The first dataset includes the 100-most-cited papers (n = 100 sample papers) whilst the second set includes population papers (n = over 20,000 population papers) published between 1980 and 2019. The data on the indices, document types, authors, institutions, funding bodies, source titles, ‘Web of Science’ subject categories, key words, research fronts, and citation impact are presented and discussed.