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Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) technologies are receiving considerable interest due to their promising properties of achieving high-efficient and clean energy generation from a variety of fuels. Notwithstanding, the collaborative roles among researchers, institutions and countries in the development of SOFC technologies cannot be ignored. Accordingly, a bibliometric analysis was employed in this work to evaluate the global trends in SOFC research in terms of the numbers of output (number of publications) through scientific collaboration among authors and countries. A total of 14,330 publications including research articles and paper proceedings from 2000 to 2019 were obtained in the Web of Science database, with 90 countries actively contributing to SOFC research. Among these countries, China (3,164) had the strongest participation in terms of number of publications followed by the U.S.A. (2,566), Japan (1,387), South Korea (1,099) and Germany (777). The Asian continent had the highest percentage (45.77%) followed by Europe (30.85%) and North America (19.21%), while Africa had the least participation (0.59%). Additionally, the strongest partnership was seen between USA-China followed by China-Australia, USA-S.Korea, China-Sweden, and China-Japan. This study presents the likely factors influencing the active involvement of some countries and why others have low productivity in published SOFC research. |
