ABSTRACT
Crude oils have been primary sources of energy and fuels, such as petrodiesel. However, significant public concerns about the sustainability, price fluctuations, and adverse environmental impact of crude oils have emerged since the 1970s. Thus, biooils and biooil-based biodiesel fuels have emerged as alternatives to crude oils and crude oil-based petrodiesel fuels in recent decades. Despite these developments, petrodiesel fuels have still been a major source of energy and fuels. However, for the efficient progression of the research on petrodiesel fuels, it is necessary to develop efficient incentive structures for the primary stakeholders and to inform these stakeholders about the research. However, there has been no current scientometric study of this field. This chapter presents a study on the scientometric evaluation of the research on petrodiesel fuels using two datasets. The first dataset includes the 100-most-cited papers (n = 100 sample papers) whilst the second set includes population papers (n = over 16,000 population papers) published between 1980 and 2019. The data on the indices, document types, authors, institutions, funding bodies, source titles, ‘Web of Science’ subject categories, keywords, research fronts, and citation impact are presented and discussed.
