The Most Influential Countries in Publications of Seaweed to Biofuels

摘要

Seaweed or macroalgal fuel is an important solution as a substitute for fossil fuel. Several studies being conducted on macroalgal search the industrialization to the development of the sector. The purpose of this work is to analyze the most productive and influential countries in biofuels of macroalgal, using the comparative between Web of Science and Scopus data base. The results indicate that the 6 leading countries produce more than 50% of total publications. South Korea, China, USA, India, England and Ireland are the most productive and influential ones, because they account for the most publications with a high number of citations and high h-index. The size of literature of seaweed to biofuels showed a noticeable increase in the past decade, the growth was a result of collaborative works between countries and policies government than searched for the energetic transition. Latin American countries which are best placed in the ranking of 30 publications of macroalgae for biofuels are: Brazil and Chile. The collaborative research is predominant in macroalgae global research. The USA headed the article ranking of countries with the highest h-index. Both databases differ in data volume due to a scope and indexing policies that each database follows.