ACADEMIC ARTICLE

Roney Fraga Souza
Júlio Cesar de Carvalho Miranda
Jaim José da Silva Júnior
José Maria da Silveira

Biofuels, bioproducts & biorefining

This article presents and discusses the scientific production tied to the largest bioenergy research program carried out in Brazil in the period from 2008 to 2019, the Sa˜o Paulo Research Foundation Bioenergy Research Program (BIOEN-FAPESP). The material adopted was a list of BIOEN publications on the Web of Science (WoS) platform, identified by the ResearcherID H-6149-2012, containing over 1,000 articles. The methods applied in the study were based on the information specific to each article and consisted in the construction of networks considering, authors, countries, research subject, and direct citations. Communities were discriminated based on their network properties and their content was extracted using text mining techniques. We also obtained quantitative measures for BIOEN scientific output. The analysis found that BIOEN produced relevant knowledge, and contributed to the emergence of new research areas in the bioenergy sector. Overall, BIOEN was decisive for the advancement of bioenergy research in Brazil, and resulted in the overcoming of the knowledge base for ethanol production.

Full article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bbb.2441