BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF AIRBORNE WIND ENERGY RESEARCH AND WIND SPEED ANALYSIS

This article describes the contribution of researchers around the world about Airborne wind energy and Wind Speed analysis from 1945 to 2018. Airborne wind energy systems are devices that extract electricity from the wind stream and convert it into electricity. With the purpose of analyzing airborne wind energy systems, understand the wind, and the methods used to analyze wind speed, this research used a bibliometric approach. To analyze the scientific publications in this field of research, the Web of Science database was used with documents indexed by the Science Citation Index Extended, Social Sciences Citation Index and Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science. It was possible to verify the main authors, research institutions, journals and countries that publish on the subject, the most cited documents and collaboration networks. It was identified that the first scientific publication on wind speed analysis occurred in 1984 by the authors Tuller, S.E. and Brett, A.C. The results indicate that the USA, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Peoples R China, Ireland, Scotland and the Brazil are the leading countries in the research on Airborne wind energy and Wind Speed analysis. The most productive author, journal, and research institution are Lorenzo Fagiano, Proceedings of the American Control Conference and the American Control Conference, both with 18 articles published and the research institution was Katholieke University Leuven. It was also possible to identify the main methods used by the authors to analyze wind speed.