Vol. 16 No. 2 (2025):
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Bibliometric Analysis of Decarbonization: Towards Energy Transition and Regional Resilience

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Ermelinda Toska
Department of Regional and Cross-Border Development, University of Western Macedonia, 50100 Kozani, Greece
Fotios Chatzitheodoridis
Department of Management Science and Technology, University of Western Macedonia, 50100 Kozani, Greece
Efstratios Loizou
Department of Management Science and Technology, University of Western Macedonia, 50100 Kozani, Greece
Achilleas Kontogeorgos
Department of Agriculture, International Hellenic University, 57400 Sindos - Thessaloniki, Greece
Network visualization of countries based on co-authorship analysis. Source: Authors, generated in VOSviewer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48088/ejg.e.tos.16.2.419.435
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Published 2025-12-22

Keywords

  • Energy transition,
  • decarbonization,
  • regional resilience,
  • bibliometric analysis,
  • Biblioshiny,
  • VOSviewer
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Toska, Ermelinda, Fotios Chatzitheodoridis, Efstratios Loizou, and Achilleas Kontogeorgos. 2025. “Bibliometric Analysis of Decarbonization: Towards Energy Transition and Regional Resilience”. European Journal of Geography 16 (2):419-35. https://doi.org/10.48088/ejg.e.tos.16.2.419.435.

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Received 2025-06-23
Accepted 2025-12-21
Published 2025-12-22

Abstract

Energy transition through decarbonization has become a cornerstone policy for a sustainable energy future. Enhancing regional resilience is a critical goal for the recovery of local systems from shocks and socio-economic disruptions caused by decarbonization policy. Investigating the consequences of energy transition in regions undergoing decarbonization with emphasis on regional resilience reveals a novel research area. The present study conducts a bibliometric analysis of 535 studies from Scopus published from 2010 to 2024, utilizing VOSviewer and R Studio’s Biblioshiny software for visualization. The data demonstrate publication trends, geographic distribution, collaborations networks, and keyword clusters. A significant geographic inequality emerges. High-income economies dominate the discourse, while low-income countries contribute marginally. Furthermore, the co-occurrence analysis identifies six keyword clusters. Moreover, the thematic evolution depicts the field’s transformation from an embryonic to a mature stage, strengthening core concepts of energy transition, decarbonization, and sustainability, while emerging specialized themes of renewable energy, just transition, and biomass. Finally, the analysis reveals a substantial gap: regional resilience remains underrepresented compared with decarbonization and energy transition, and constitutes a critical challenge for upcoming researchers.

Highlights:

  • The transition toward decarbonization generates challenges for coal-reliant regions.
  • Although “regional resilience” was a search criterion, it was absent from the keywords clusters.
  • Regional resilience represents a valuable trajectory for ongoing inquiry.
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