Scientific metric analysis of the prospectivity of scientific and technological directions to limit greenhouse gas emissions

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the prospects of scientific and technological areas for limiting greenhouse gas emissions using scientometric analysis based on publications in the international database Web of Science and patents in the international database Derwent Innovation in the thematic area “Air”. The aim of the study is to identify potentially the most promising technologies for limiting greenhouse gas emissions and the possible use of such technologies to achieve the Strategic Development Goal 13 by implementing National Task 13.1 “Limit greenhouse gas emissions in the economy”. The results of scientometric analysis of the international database of Web of Science publications and the database of patents Derwent Innovation in the thematic area of “Air” on potentially the most promising scientific and technological areas are presented. There are also proposed the results of a comparative analysis of generalized and specified potentially promising technological areas for limiting greenhouse gas emissions. It is concluded that the results of scientometric analysis of the Web of Science publication database and the Derwent Innovation patent database made it possible to identify technological directions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which are potentially the most promising for achieving SDG 13 by implementing national task 13.1 “Limit greenhouse gas emissions in the economy”