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Table 3 Cold topics with the strongest negative trend

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

Topic no.

Slope rank

Superordinate theme

Topic interpretation

Top 20 topic terms ordered by decreasing probability for each topic

254

300

Sustainable development

Global developments of humanity and natural resource use

world, earth, environment, natural_resource, human, future, global, sustainable_development, resource, energy_resource, man, population, planet, nature, humanity, today, problem, life, population_growth, future_generation

280

291

 

Development in Asiaa

sustainable_development, promote, japan, environmental_protection, put, forward, comprehensive, progress, economic_development, promotion, utilization, japanese, coordination, government, national, realize, establishment, protection, country, developmental

51

299

Agriculture

Production of food crops and the extent of using agrochemicals

agricultural, agriculture, crop, farmer, farm, farming, organic, input, agricultural_production, food, cultivation, pesticide, productivity, crop_production, production_system, agricultural_system, fertilizer, farming_system, intensive, agroecosystem

104

298

International cooperation

International technology transfer and financial support mechanisms

country, access, promote, policy, international, support, government, incentive, mechanism, priority, market, technology_transfer, clean_development_mechanism, institution, lack, domestic, finance, encourage, provision, experience

252

297

Rural areas

Livelihood and development of rural communities

rural, village, poor, rural_area, livelihood, people, local, traditional, income, district, settlement, poverty, region, area, rural_development, access, indigenous, situation, population, rural_community

225

296

Nuclear energy

Potentials and risks of nuclear power

nuclear, nuclear_power, nuclear_energy, safety, future, japan, nuclear_power_plant, korea, risk, disaster, energy_source, electricity, fossil_fuel, option, korean, plan, safeguard, today, energy_mix, century

10

289

Nuclear energy

Nuclear energy technology

reactor, fuel, fuel_cycle, core, fusion, uranium, fast_reactor, spend, advanced, safety, plutonium, nuclear_energy, reprocess, cycle, neutron, thorium, nuclear, nuclear_fuel, lwr, nuclear_fuel_cycle

207

295

Population

Quality of life in the context of population growth

population, people, live, world, life, grow, century, billion, planet, today, society, billion_people, poverty, living, quality_life, health, decade, bring, old, global

31

294

Welfare

Welfare effects of economic growth and green growth

economy, economic, growth, employment, economic_growth, gdp, economic_activity, job, welfare, income, economics, wealth, decoupling, country, social, industrial, labor, green_growth, natural_resource, create

161

293

Human environment systems

Relationship between human activities and ecosystems

human, natural, ecosystem, nature, ecological, biological, human_activity, relationship, organism, biophysical, matter, theory, natural_capital, life, resilience, human_society, biosphere, natural_environment, regenerative, environment

185

292

International economic relations

International trade with a focus on the USA and Asia

country, trade, domestic, export, import, international, world, global, cooperation, economic_development, asia, usa, asian, developed_country, nation, economy, foreign, commodity, international_trade, trading

221

290

Regulation

Legislation and institutional authority

regulation, law, regulatory, government, legal, institutional, institution, international, rule, political, act, public, legislation, policy, protection, authority, state, reform, effort, national

85

288

Turkish energy system

Potentials and resources of the Turkish energy system

turkey, renewable_energy_source, fossil_fuel, country, energy_demand, import, renewable_energy, energy_source, renewable_energy_resource, domestic, grow, world, energy_supply, energy_resource, potential, rapidly, turkish, renewable_source, renewable, supply

49

287

Energy markets

Restructuring of electricity markets and competition

market, industry, competition, reform, producer, sale, competitive, electricity_market, competitiveness, restructuring, create, price, sell, revenue, trading, promote, demand, enter, expansion, government

217

286

Forestry

Forest management for biomass production

forest, wood, forestry, timber, harvest, forest_biomass, forest_management, harvesting, management, wood_product, log, deforestation, finland, forest_resource, woody_biomass, fire, manage, forest_ecosystem, forest_product, conservation

  1. Topics equal to or below the 5% quantile regarding the slope of the linear models; rank 300 indicates the topic with the strongest negative trend
  2. aThe top topic terms refer to Japan, however, examining the abstracts associated with the topic showed that the topic addresses the geographical context of Japan including, e.g,. China