Abstract
This paper aims to identify a bibliometric profile, presenting the results of research and debates in social media on renewable energy sources (RES). It analyses current scientific publications (2019–2021) and tweets posted in July 2021 by international Twitter users. The subject of the study is an analysis of key words in articles, the results of research, and the content of tweets (hashtags #renewables) related to renewable energy (RE) as well as an assessment of the morphology of content and the degree of its differentiation in the analysed data resources. The conducted analysis facilitates an assessment of similarities of key words in scientific papers and the content of debates in social media—on Twitter, a global platform. In its methodological dimension, the work is based on a bibliometric analysis (articles in both bases) and the analysis of Twitter data. This methodological approach allows for identifying the main trend, profile, and bibliometric characteristics of scientific papers representing two streams of information: articles in bases and the content (hashtags) of authentic and unguided international debates on Twitter. The focus on this platform results from a great popularity of social media as a platform for social debate, expressing comments and opinions and providing an opportunity to gain understanding of social, cultural, and environmental issues related to renewable energy sources from the perspective of social media participants. The objective of the paper and the proposed methodological approach relates to a knowledge gap in the area of renewable energy, and, more specifically, climate change and sustainable development.
Highlights
The results indicated that scientific centres most frequently affiliating research on “renewable energy” included Denmark’s Aalborg
The results indicate that issues related to renewable energy are widely discussed in scientific publications as well as in social media
They relate to the concentration on publications in social sciences and no attention was given to other disciplines
Summary
It relates to offering an answer to the following questions: to what extent is the issue of renewable energy reflected in scientific research studies published in Scopus and. Seeking a specific product of various streams of information: the co-occurrence, similarity, or differentiation of the content of key words in the abstracts of scientific papers on renewable energy and the categories of tweets in RE hashtags is an interesting and significant issue in its cognitive aspect. It points to the significance of RES in solving problems related to climate change.
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