Energy Research in Malaysia: A Bibliometric Analysis

Muhammad Hanif Othman; Hafizah  Hammad Ahmad Khan; Rosmaiza  Abdul Ghani

This study reports on the bibliometric analysis of energy research in Malaysia from 1994 to 2022 (28 years) from the Elsevier Scopus database. Through bibliographical analysis of 1,207 Scopus-indexed documents, the review found that this is very recent literature, with over 93% of the relevant documents published since 2010. The contributions of institutional energy publications by affiliation showed that Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UiTM) had the highest number of publications. Meanwhile, the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews published the most significant number of publications related to energy research. To the best of the researchers’ knowledge, this is the first bibliometric study to analyze energy research in Malaysia.

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To Cite this Article: Othman, M. H., Khan, H. H. A., & Ghani, R. A. (2023). Energy Research in Malaysia: A Bibliometric Analysis. International Journal of Academic Research in Economics and Management and Sciences, 12(1), 228–241.

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