Detecting the research trends and evolution of energy resilience: a bibliometric analysis

The concept of resilience is widely used in many specific fields, such as energy. Energy resilience is receiving increasing scientific attention. In the long-term sustainable development of society, energy and resilience policies are the key strategies to achieve international development goals. This paper analyzes the existing energy resilience literature and presents the research hot spots and trends. After extracting 4887 articles from the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index databases, this paper takes the literature data during 1985–2021 through topic search using the keywords of energy resilience and applies bibliometrics to study the development traits of the field. The primary research purposes are to discover the knowledge framework of energy resilience, together with a review of integral development trends, elementary publication characteristics, and an analysis of related leading journals. Aside from analyzing the number of publications, citations, and cooperation types, this study identifies the most prolific researchers from the country-level, institution-level, and author-level in this area, thus providing a longitudinal overview of the dynamic research evolution of energy resilience and the knowledge spread locus in this domain.