Characterization of the scientific output on lithium batteries through SciVal topic analysis
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Lithium Ion, Lithium-Ion Batteries, Chemical EngineeringAbstract
Introduction: in the context of the depletion of fossil fuels and the threat of climate change, countries are committed to a change in the energy paradigm, where lithium-ion batteries are at the technological frontier, and their production has become massive in the last decades.
Objective: to characterize the scientific production on lithium batteries through topic analysis of SciVal
Method: a bibliometric study on the scientific production published in Scopus regarding lithium batteries between 2017 and 2021. SciVal was used to analyze the conglomerate articles on “Lithium-ion Batteries; Lithium Ion; electrodes.” Indicators of production, citation, and collaboration were determined.
Result: 98 articles were published on this topic, where the most productive year in documents and citations was 2017 (%Ndoc=25,51 %; %Ncit=46,53). 65,3 % of the articles were registered in the "Materials Science" area and 51 % within the "Chemistry" area. 2 % of the articles were found in the 1 % of the most cited, and 27,5 % presented international collaboration. China (Ndoc=64), Japan (Ndoc=)20, and the United States (Ndoc=8) concentrated most of the scientific production. China Three Gorges University was the most productive institution (Ndoc=11).
Conclusions: the scientific production on lithium batteries was mainly concentrated in first quartile journals, with the articles responding to the areas of materials science and chemistry. There was a high rate of international collaboration, however, a low university-business collaboration
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