Absorption cooling systems: Bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Aim: This study aims to determine collaborations, authors, journals, keywords, and trending topics related to absorption cooling in science and engineering. Materials and methods: A PRISMA-based flowchart similar to the systematic method was used for bibliometric analysis. Web of Science (WoS) database was used to obtain data. Bibliometrix software and WoS analysis were used for data analysis. Result: 4552 articles were reached between 1980 and 2024 (22.07.2024). The articles have an annual growth rate of 11.16% from 1980. The article written by “Krause et al. 2016 [42]” is the most cited publication. The most used author’s keywords were “solar cooling,” while the most used keyword plus was “performance.” In recent years, “Energy storage density” and “4e analysis” have become trends in the author’s keywords and keywords plus, respectively. The most productive author in the field has been “DINCER I.”. According to the number of articles produced by the institutions, the most productive institution was “UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN”. The most effective journal in the field was found to be “Applied Thermal Engineering”. According to the countries’ annual publication output, “CHINA” ranked first. It has been observed that a significant part of the journals in the field are in the “Energy Fuels” and “Thermodynamics” WoS categories. Conclusions: Bibliometric data has been obtained to guide future researchers who will work on this issue.

Keywords

• Absorption cooling
• Absorption refrigeration
• Absorption chiller
• Bibliometric
• Scientometric

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