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Table 2 Highly abundant topics

From: Reflecting trends in the academic landscape of sustainable energy using probabilistic topic modeling

Topic no.

Abundance rank

Superordinate theme

Topic interpretation

Top 20 topic terms ordered by decreasing probability for each topic

57*

1

Electrical energy storage

Materials for electrochemical energy storage via batteries or supercapacitors

See Table 1

100

2

Urbanization

Cities, districts, and urban planning

city, urban, urban_area, urban_development, urban_planning, urbanization, urban_metabolism, urban_form, urban_sustainability, neighbourhood, district, sustainable_urban, density, urban_environment, urban_design, sustainable_urban_development, residential, scale, urban_ecosystem, spatial

276

3

Life cycle assessment

Environmental life cycle assessment with focus on carbon footprints

lca, environmental_impact, impact, life_cycle_assessment_lca, life_cycle, impact_category, life_cycle_assessment, emission, environmental_performance, stage, global_warming_potential, gwp, functional_unit, assess, environmental_burden, category, environmental, impact_assessment, perform, phase

242*

4

Chemical catalysis

Chemical catalysis for various types of reactions

See Table 1

90*

5

Modeling and optimization

Optimization models and algorithms for power systems operation and markets

See Table 1

30

6

Heating and cooling

Low temperature heating, cooling and efficiency technologies

heat, cool, heating, heat_pump, temperature, cooling, thermal, fluid, performance, heat_exchanger, heating_system, waste_heat, heat_recovery, absorption, air, heat_transfer, operate, low_temperature, cycle, condenser

125*

7

Sustainable building materials

Alternative blending or replacement materials for cement

See Table 1

  1. Topics equal to or above the 95% quantile regarding the cumulative sum of topic probability (quantile is based on topics with positive slope only); rank 1 indicates the topic with the highest cumulative sum; topic marked with an asterisk also belong to the topics with the strongest positive trend (see Table 1)